Chinese dissident artist's exhibit opens in Warsaw despite pressure from China

Badiucao during at a news conference ahead of the opening of a new exhibition in Warsaw, Poland. The museum faced demands from the Chinese embassy not to open the exhibition, which is highly critical of China's human rights record. Photo: AP

An exhibition by a provocative Chinese artist that criticises the country's human rights record opened at a Polish state-run museum on Friday despite pressure from the Chinese Embassy to cancel it.

The director of the Center for Contemporary Art in the capital, Warsaw, said the No. 2 diplomat at the Chinese Embassy in Warsaw visited his museum demanding the cancellation of the exhibition by the artist, who goes by the name Badiucao.