Director: XIA Jifeng

Art Director: ZUO Jing

Independent Film Archive, Iberia (IFAI): ZHANG Yaxuan

Guest Curator: Carol Yinghua LU

Curators: BAO Dong, SUN Dongdong, SU Wenxiang

Advisory Committee: Sunjung Kim, Nav Haq, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Consuelo Ciscar Casabán

 

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Born in 1969. Executive director of the International Art & Culture Foundation (IAC) of Spain, director of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, and Editor-in-chief of Art & Investment and Contemporary Art & Investment magazines. As an avant-garde writer and poet, he started writing poetry in 1986, participated in '89 Chinese Experimental Poetry Exhibition, and published poetry anthologies Learning to Write, Words of Sentiment, etc. He turned to novels in 1994 and published the fiction collection The Young Sinner. His novel writing with almost one million words in length portrays the avant-garde exploration of the possibilities for existence and art. In the year 2000, he began to be involved in contemporary art criticism and since then he has been committing himself to the development of contemporary art by reviewing the changes in contemporary art world in light of the literary trends he experienced. 

 

 

Zuo Jing

Born in Nov., 1970. Art director of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, and the vice editor-in-chief of Art & Investment and Contemporary Art & Investment magazines. In the late 1990s, he started to work in the contemporary art field. In 2002, he was involved in initiating the first triennial of Chinese art—the 1st Triennial of Chinese Art Exhibition (now changed to Nanjing Triennial). He used to be the executive director of RCM Museum in Nanjing, China. As an art educator, he teaches documentary and contemporary art in university; as a promoter of independent films, he used to be the curator of China Independent Film Festival and Exchange Week of Chinese Documents. He has curated many contemporary art exhibitions, including the "Archeology of the Future": the Second Triennial of Chinese Art, the opening exhibition of RCM Art Museum "Poetic Realism: A ReInterpretation of Jiangnan", etc. Recently, he's also being invited to curate exhibitions in art centers and museums in Austria and Spain.

 

 

Born in Hebei, graduated from Art Department in Beijing Normal University in 2000. Now she is the director of Iberlia Independent Film Archive. She has been working on promotion of Chinese indepedent film since graduation, especially focusing on the filmmakers of young generation. As film critic, She has been a conlumnist for some art magazines; co-published All about DV; Jia Zhangke's films: Trilogy of My Hometown; She was also one of the writers of Film + book series; As film curator, from the 1rt Unrestricted Images Festival in 2001, she has organised and participated in some independent film festivals in different cities at home and abroad. In recent two years, She developed some produciton work of documentary, like A Disappearance Foretold and Bing'ai.

 

 

Beijing-based independent curator and art writer. The co-editor of Art & Investment and Contemporary Art & Investment magazines. She is a frequent contributor to a number of international art magazines including Frieze, Contemporary, and Today Art. Her texts on contemporary art have appeared in many art catalogues, books and magazines. As a graduate of the "Critical Studies" program at the Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden, she was the China researcher for Asia Art Archive from 2005 to 2007. Her curatorial work includes "The Temperament of Detail" in Red Mansion Foundation, London, "Foreign Objects" in the Project Space of Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, "The Weight of Reality" in Marella Gallery, Beijing, and two independent projects in ARCO'06 and ARCO'07, Madrid. She has co-instructed the 2007 summer course of BA and MA art and architecture students from the California College of Art and acted as the art consultant for the Olympic Museum Lausanne on a major exhibition about China.

 

 

Bao Dong

Born in Oct.,1979. Curator, and the head of curatorial department of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art. Currently works and lives in Beijing, China. He was postgraduated from Art History Dept., Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2006. During 2006 and 2007, he worked as a teacher at the Institute of Movie & Television Media and Communications, Chongqing Normal University. In Sep., 2006, he co-founded H2 Art Space in Chongqing 501 Art base as Academic Director. In 2007, he was academic supervisor at Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art. He was involved in contemporary art world since 2002. As independent critic and curator, he mainly works in art history studies, criticism and exhibition curating.

 

 

Born in Nov., 1977. Curator, art writer, and vice director of curatorial department of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art. Currently works and lives in Beijing, China. In 2005, he postgraduated from Art History Department of Nanjing Art Institute, in History of Foreign Art. During 2005 and 2007, he worked as director assistant for Nanjing Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, preparing the space for the first event and working in curatorial section. He took part in organizing the First Chinese Art Triennial Exhibition and was invited to Young Critics Forum of Spring Art Salon Shanghai. He was actively involved in Chinese contemporary art scene since 2001. 

 

 

Born in Oct.,1979. Curator of the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art. During 2002 and 2007, he worked for Nanjing Shenghua Art Center, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art and later Zendai MoMA. His curatorial work includes "920 Kg" (2005), "Conversation 10 + 10" (2006),  "Brain-quake: Li Xiaosong Solo Exhibition" (2007) and "Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artists" (2007). Also as an artist he works across different media including video, installation, etc. He has participated in exhibitions as "The Second Triennial of Chinese Art" and "Asian Traffic".

 

 

Sunjung Kim is a Seoul-based independent curator. Through the 1990's, she played a pivotal role in globalization of Korean contemporary art. As the chief curator of Artsonje Center (1993-2004), she curated important Korean artists’ exhibitions such as Lee Bul, Choi Jeong-Hwa, and Do-Ho Suh, and also made exhibitions with international artists such as Tobias Rehberger and Tatsuo Miyajima. She was the commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2005. In 2007, she presented the exhibition Tomorrow, featuring 32 international artists, and along with this exhibition, she started the annual contemporary art festival "Platform Seoul." In 2008, she will curate several exhibitions including "Platform Seoul 2008," which will be open on October 24th, and work with Minouk Lim for her solo show.

 

 

Nav Haq is the curator at Arnolfini in Bristol, England. He curated the 3rd Contour Biennial for Video Art, Belgium, in summer 2007, and is also presently a Guest Editor at Book Works, London, for whom he has edited a short series of artists’ books. Up until recently he was the curator at Gasworks in London. Haq is also the co-curator of the ongoing exhibition and research project Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie with Tirdad Zolghadr, investigating the subject of class hegemony in contemporary art. He developed his curatorial approach through professional experiences at organisations including the Whitechapel Gallery, London, Kunstverein Munich, and Spike Island, Bristol. Haq has contributed to numerous international art journals including Art Review, Bidoun and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

 

 

Gunnar B. Kvaran

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1955. PH.D. in Art History from lUniversité de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1986. Director of The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway since 2001. Recently curated exhibitions: China Power Station Part I-II-III (co-curated together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton-Jones); Richard Prince, "Canaries in the Coal Mine", 2007; Tom Sachs - Survey: America-Modernism-Fashion, 2006; Charles Ray: "Black and White" 2006, Uncertain States of America, (co-curated together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum) 2005; Yoko Ono: Horizontal Memories, 2005; Jeff Koons: Retrospective, 2004; Olafur Eliasson - Color Memory and Other Informal Shadows, 2004; Jeff Wall - Tableaux, 2004; Matthew Barney - Cremaster Cycle, 2003. Currently works on an exhibition of Andy Warhol entitled "Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol" and Indian Contemporary Art .

 

 

Born in 1945 in Pincaya (Valencia) and has a broad professional background in the promotion and management of cultural and artistic activities. Currently she is the Director of MODERN ART INSTITUTE OF VALENCIA (IVAM ). As Director of IVAM she has promoted the IVAM´s international relations, improved the diffusion with the magazine Cuadernos del IVAM, and curated many exhibitions as "Antonhy Caro", "Photography at IVAM´s Collection", "Mare Nostrum", "Dali and the Quijote" and "Espacio, tiempo, espectador-New media and installations at IVAM´s Collection". Her distinguished trajectory has been awarded with many international and national prizes like: Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel La Católica, from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Cultural Merit Distinction from the Engineering Faculty of Mexico D. F, amongst others. Her achievements includes the creation and foundation of the "Consortium of Museums of the Region of Valencia", the "World Encounter of Arts" (a forum for discussion, under the auspices of UNESCO), "the Valencia Biennal", and the "Latinamerican Dialogues".