Abstract: Harvey David's historical-geographical materialism provides a unique viewpoint for understanding and interpreting the spatial experience and expression in artistic creation. According to this theory, the meaning of space is always in a constant flux, and its complexity is not determined by the concept itself but depends on changes in the historical condition of human material production and the context. In the experience of space, physical space reflects the characteristics of human production and materials and is always accompanied by personal psychological experience and historical imagination. The artistic expression of space, which often becomes the intermediary between the social and historical conditions and the spatial experience, is also a kind of the fixed and materialized form of the spatial experience. Postmodernism in contemporary Western art actually reveals the historical-geographical condition of the late capitalism.

Key words: spatial experience, artistic expression, David Harvey, historical-geographical materialism, postmodernism