The Executive Director of CIGE, Ms. Wang Yihan introduced this event. The expectations for CIGE 2006 are much greater than the last two years. Although it is the first time that Marlborough Gallery and Gallery Kukje will participate; both of them have booked eight booths in the exhibition. This illustrates the fact that it is not an exploratory participation for overseas galleries. Foreign exhibitors come well prepared and have more confidence with China Art Market and CIGE.

　　These top-level galleries will exhibit artworks by world renowned artists in 2006 CIGE, such as Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani, and Chinese artists Cai Guoqiang, Xu Bin, Fang Lijun, Liu Xiaodong, Wang Du and so on..

　　During the exhibition of CIGE, there will be a forum for two days. The speakers are five international curators and five international collectors, especially the five famous curators. These include the director of the Korean pavilion in Venice Biennale and curator of Gwangju Biennale Sunjing Kim; Ex-curator of Tokyo pavilion in Paris Museum and curator of Centre Pompidou Jerohe San; the international senior art observer and critic and the author of “Art Now” Uta Grosenick; the editor and publisher of “Asian Art City” Takahiko Honda; and the curator of China National Museum of Fine Arts Fan Di’an.

　　CIGE focus its work on inviting and serving VIP guest this year. The Chinese famous sculpture and construction artist Mr. Zhong Song designed a VIP Room with modern style in the exhibition hall. All the VIP guest of CIGE could enjoy the good service and have a rest in VIP Room. The first day is the pre-exhibition of CIGE, which is only opened to VIP. The most formal activity of CIGE will be its VIP return banquet in China World Hotel in the evening from 20:00 to 22:30 on April12. There will be around 500 VIP guests, include international collectors, ambassadors in China, official governors and social celebrities.

　　Marlborough Gallery
　　Founded in London in 1946, Marlborough Gallery is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading contemporary art dealers. Initially embracing a new generation of post-World War II artists including Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and Ben Nicholson, the gallery was soon selling masterpieces of the late 19th century including bronzes and paintings.

　　Marlborough Gallery has represented such seminal artists as Jacques Lipchitz, David Smith, Robert Motherwell, Phillip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, and the estates of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Today Marlborough continues to expand internationally with major new galleries in Madrid, Monte Carlo, and Santiago to compliment its long-established outposts in New York (two galleries) and London.
As the first time Marlborough gallery participate in 2006 CIGE, it has booked eight booths, it will bring artworks of both Chinese artists’ such as Wang Keping, TieYing, Yun Gee, and foreign artists’ such as Fernando Botero, Manolo Valdés. More important is they will also bring the estate of Chen Yifei (1946-2005)’s “Tibetan Man” and “Trois Femmes à la Fontaine” of Pablo Picasso’s (1881-1973).

　　Kukje Gallery
　　Since opening in 1982, Kukje Gallery has been at the forefront in representing the most current and significant tendencies in Korean and international contemporary art. The gallery has established itself as a leading venue for showing works by major international figures such as Alexander Calder, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, Ghada Amer, Candida H?fer and Bill Viola. Its exhibitions provide the rare opportunity for Korean art audiences to view the works of world-renowned contemporary artists without going abroad. Kukje Gallery also plays an important role in promoting Korean artists. The gallery has an unmatched reputation for introducing artists such as Lee Bul, Chun Kwang-Young and Cho Duck-Hyun to domestic and international audiences through its exhibition program and its participation in art fairs and exhibitions worldwide.

　　Kukje Gallery is one of the two galleries who booked eight booths in 2006 CIGE. It will bring artworks of Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeo Yeondoo Jung, Kwang-Young Chun, Lee Bul.

　　Galleria Continua
　　Galleria Continua was founded by Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi and Maurizio Rigillo in 1990 with the intention, evident in the name, to give continuity to contemporary art in a landscape rich with the signs of ancient Italian art.

　　Its new centre in Beijing is the result of the desire to show western contemporary artists in an area where they are still scarcely visible and largely unknown. Through this new channel of communication Galleria Continua would like to initiate a dialogue between East and West, bringing two different cultural and operating models together, each filled with stimulating prospects.

　　They will bring the artworks of Chen zhen’s “Field of Synergy” and so on.

　　Galerie Christian Nagel
　　Galerie Christian Nagel was established in Cologne in 1990, it represented the artists of the specific concepts and attitudes. In January 2002, it opened a branch gallery at the Rosa Luxembourg place in Berlin. It participated with important exhibition and forum all over the world, i.e. the Biennale Venice, the sculpture project cathedral, Carnegie Pittsburgh as well as numerous single and group exhibitions in museums and art associations. It also participates in the following fairs: Armory Show, Basel, Basel Miami Beach and so on.

　　In 2006 CIGE, it will bring the artworks such as Cornelius Quabeck’s “Phunga”; Ingeborg Gabriel’s “Ohne Titel”; Lutz Braun’s “Perrum” and so on.

　　Galerie URS MEILE and CAAW
　　Galerie URS MEILE (founded 1992) is dealing with the promotion and mediation of high quality contemporary art. The gallery established artist form China and Europe.

　　Galerie URS MEILE and CAAW- Chinese Art Archives & Warehouse – Beijing, China, (founded 1993) formed a partnership in 2003. With this collaboration an important pool for high quality contemporary art from China came into being.

　　In January 2006 the Galerie URS MEILE opened up its own gallery premises in Beijing as an addition to the existing CAAW exhibition spaces. Under the artistic direction of Ai Weiwei, the CAAW is showing the latest tendencies in Chinese contemporary art as well as international group exhibitions and events.

　　The artworks they will exhibit are “Untitled (nurse-autumn)” by Wang Xingwei, “Water no.1” by Meng Huang, “Qingling Young Pioneers” by Li Songsong, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” by Ai Weiwei and so on.

　　SHANGHART Gallery
　　ShanghART was established in 1996 in Shanghai with the aim is to identify, support and promote the people which are at the core of the artistic creativity in China. With ten years of experience in the middle of the artistic development here, ShanghART’s expertise on contemporary Chinese art, the scope and quality of the artists represented by the gallery is unrivaled.

　　Out of the many artists active in China today, ShanghART has over the years selected and established long term working relationships with many of the most innovative and significant figures. ShanghART represents now artists from all the different generations active in China today and covers all possible media.

　　Many of the best artists from all over China choose to work with ShanghART. They include Zeng Fanzhi, Wang Guangyi, Zhao Bandi and Wang Yousheng from Beijing, Wei Guangqing from Wuhan, Tang Guo from Nanjing and Geng Jianyi based in Hangzhou etc. In 2006 CIGE, artworks such as Zhou Tiehai’s “Coronation of the Virgin”, Zeng Fanzhi’s “The Death of republic of soldiers”, Yang Fudong’s “Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo forest” and Tang Maohong’s “Orchid Finger” etc.

　　Eslite Gallery
　　Founded in Taipei, 1989, Eslite is one of the few leading galleries dedicated to the promotion of modern and contemporary art in Taiwan. Esilite Gallery represents over 15 Chinese artists internationally, including those from local Taiwan, China, the United States, France, Germany, etc. The long-term goal of Eslite Gallery is to broaden its scope from the present focus on art of Taiwan and China to a de facto international gallery representing major contemporary artists from all over the world.

　　The exhibited artworks for 2006 CIGE of Eslite will be Michael Lin’s “The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu”; Tsui Kuang Yu’s “Eighteen Copper Guardians in Shao-Lin Temple and Penetration: The Perceptive”; Liu Xiao Dong’s “The Valley of Daemon II” and so on.

　　Galerie Laurent Godin
　　Galerie Laurent Godin is created in September 2005, the gallery's program focuses on both the French and international contemporary art scene.

　　It is Keen to transcend medium-related questions and to mix different generations, the gallery represents artists from multiple horizons that use painting, photography and animated images as well as installations or sculpture.

　　In the exhibition, they will bring Wang Du’s “Missile”, “Le Baiser”; Gérard Traquandi’s “BIGH 0205 and XXLH 0705 (Telemark)”; Corinne Marchetti’s “J’ai une vie très glamour, ce qui n’exclut pas le drame” and “Heureux-Joyeux” and so on.