"Beijing will write history as the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will connect Chinese people with the world, realize the vision of 300 million people participating in ice and snow sports, and change the history of winter sports forever. As China welcomes its best winter athletes, the world will see China's passion. ”
On October 18, 2021, IOC President Thomas Bach delivered a speech at the successful collection of tinder at the Ancient Olympia Site in Greece at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
On October 27th, at the important node of the 100-day countdown to the opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, the 2021 Beijing International Photography Week "Charming Ice and Snow - Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Cultural Image Theme Exhibition" with the theme of "Images Help the Cultural Dissemination of the Winter Olympics, Science and Technology Promotes the Sharing of the Heritage of the Winter Olympics" was launched at the China Millennium Monument. The classic moments focusing on the Winter Olympic Arena, the lens pictures recording the development of ice and snow sports in New China, and the precious historical images from the first Athens Olympic Games in 1896 decorated the place as a cultural video space for the Winter Olympics, presenting a feast of light and shadow for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Jiang Xiaoyu, chief planner of the exhibition, former executive vice chairman of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and vice president of the Beijing Olympic City Development Promotion Association, Yang Yuanyi, executive chairman of the Beijing International Photography Week and president of the China Art Photography Society, John Herisurakis, general secretary-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic for Overseas Greeks and Public Diplomacy, and George Iliopoulos, Greek Ambassador to China, delivered speeches.
Jiang Xiaoyu, chief planner of the exhibition, former executive vice chairman of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and vice president of the Beijing Olympic City Development Promotion Association, delivered a speech
Yang Yuanyi, Executive Chairman of Beijing International Photography Week and President of China Art Photography Society, delivered a speech
Ambassador of Greece to China George Ilhopoulos delivered a speech
John Herisulakis, General Secretary-General for Greeks and Public Diplomacy Abroad of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, delivered a video message
"Charming Ice and Snow - Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Cultural Image Theme Exhibition" is hosted by the Beijing Olympic City Development Promotion Association, the Beijing International Photography Week 2021 Organizing Committee, the Embassy of Greece in China, and supported by the Cultural Activities Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee.
The exhibition aims to focus on the "new scene of sports culture" brought about by the new pattern, new technology and new formats spawned by the "post-epidemic era", and to lead the new heritage, new concept and new spirit advocated by the "post-Olympic era" to promote development, highlight the concept of combining culture and science and technology, and show the world the new vision and new style of the development of the cultural undertakings of the Winter Olympics. At the same time, through the borderless artistic language of "photography", the significance of building a bridge between cultural exchanges and dialogue among civilizations, witnessing the passion and efforts of the people of all countries in the world to spread the "Olympic spirit", and confirming the positive role played by the modern Olympic Games in promoting the cause of peace, friendship and progress of mankind over the past century.
The theme exhibition includes three parts: "Entering the Winter Olympics: Science and Technology Ignite the Beauty of Ice and Snow Sports", "Realizing Dreams of Ice and Snow: Images Writing 70 Years of New China's Ice and Snow Sports" and "1896 Olympic Photographers - Blessings from greece, the hometown of the Olympics", with a total of more than 100 wonderful works.
"Into the Winter Olympics: Technology Ignites the Beauty of Ice and Snow Sports" brings together the wonderful moments of the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games taken by world-renowned sports photographers. These works combine aesthetics and scientific and technological power, with shocking visual images and intuitive picture language, focusing on the charming ice and snow projects. Through these works, the audience can not only feel the beauty of the sports competition of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic events, but also understand the winter Olympic games and popularize the knowledge of the Winter Olympic Games.
"Realizing Dreams of Ice and Snow: 70 Years of Ice and Snow Sports in New China through high-definition restoration of precious old photos and old documentaries, reproduces the classic moments of the development of ice and snow sports in New China, and shows the enthusiasm of the Chinese people to carry out mass ice and snow sports and their expectations for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"Olympic Photographer's 1896 - Blessings from Greece, the Hometown of the Olympics", shows the many precious images taken by the famous photographer Albert Meyer (1857-1924) as the official photographer of the first Olympic Games at the same time as the rise of the modern Olympic Games, and truly records and freezes many wonderful moments such as the International Committee, the Ceremony of the Games, and the struggle of athletes at the first Olympic Games.
As the treasures of the Benaki Museum in Greece, these precious historical images have traveled through a hundred years of time and space, crossed the ocean, come to China for the first time, shared the beauty of Olympic culture with Chinese friends, and offered good wishes from greece, the olympic hometown, for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Exhibition site
The China Millennium Monument, where the exhibition is held, has been the home of Beijing Olympic cultural activities since the celebration of "Beijing's Successful Bid for the Olympic Games" held on July 13, 2001, and has a strong Olympic cultural gene. With the holding of the "Charming Ice and Snow - Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Cultural Image Theme Exhibition", the city's cultural hall of the China Millennium Monument will use images as a medium to engrave another brilliant moment in the annals of history of the "City of the Two Olympics".
As one of the organizers of the event, Beijing International Photography Week has always taken the attributes of photography as the academic foothold for many years, organically combined video culture with the social development of the new era, and created a large number of high-quality video art content products with distinctive characteristics and popular with the public. "Charming Ice and Snow - Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Cultural Image Theme Exhibition" is a brand exhibition activity launched by Beijing International Photography Week this year, during which a number of academic forums related to the Winter Olympics and sports photography will be arranged.
The theme exhibition was also supported by the General Secretariat of Greek Overseas And Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, the China Millennium Monument Art Museum, the Benaki Museum (Greece), the People's Pictorial, and the Beijing Monthly News Magazine.
"Realizing Dreams of Ice and Snow: Images Write 70 Years of Ice and Snow Sports in New China" and "Into the Winter Olympics: Science and Technology Ignite the Beauty of Ice and Snow Sports" will last from now until November 13. "Olympic Photographer's 1896 – Blessings from the Olympic Homeland of Greece" runs from now until November 30.
"Building Dreams with One Heart to the Future", in another 100 days, the Beijing Winter Olympic Games will soon open, Beijing, the "City of The Two Olympics", will bloom again, and a wonderful, extraordinary and outstanding Olympic event is beckoning to us! Let's cheer for the Winter Olympics together and move forward together into the future!
Charm Ice and Snow ---- Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Cultural Video Theme Exhibition
Organizers
Beijing Olympic City Development Promotion Association
Beijing International Photography Week 2021 Organizing Committee
Embassy of Greece in Beijing
Supporting agencies
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
Organizing Committee Cultural Activities Department
Exhibition time
October 27-November 13: "Realizing the Dream of Ice and Snow: Images Write 70 Years of Ice and Snow Sports in New China", "Into the Winter Olympics: Science and Technology Ignite the Beauty of Ice and Snow Sports"
October 27 - November 30: "Olympic Photographer's 1896 – Blessings from greece, the homeland of the Olympics"
Exhibition venue
China Millennium Monument
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