Exactly ten years after the Erlangen International Comic Salon presented the comprehensive exhibition “Manhua – Comic im China von heute” on modern Chinese comics, it turns its attention to the Far East once again. With works by Peter Chen (b.1984), Dick Ng (b.1988), Ryan Xie (b.1993) and Zhen Yu (b.1992), the exhibition has selected a group of young, viral artists – all of whom hail from the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region’s twin city of Shenzhen. Living in this southern Chinese megacity, they work as comic artists, illustrators and designers and draw inspiration from the everyday urban life of the city’s many million inhabitants. Michael Jordan, an Erlangen-based comic artist and printmaker who spent several weeks in Shenzhen in early 2017 as part of an artists’ exchange programme, made a number of contacts there and selected the artists for the exhibition.

An exhibition by Erlangen International Comic Salon in cooperation with Erlangen's Office for International Relations and with the support of the Konfuzius-Institute Nuremberg-Erlangen