LIU Ding

LIU Ding is an artist and a curator based in Beijing. His artistic and curatorial practice focuses on multiple viewpoints and modes of description, exploring a trajectory of discursive thoughts that connect the historical and the contemporary. His work seeks to broaden possibilities for a more complex understanding of the historical narrative of subjectivity in Chinese art.

Liu Ding has participated in biennales including Busan Biennale (2018), Yinchuan Biennale (2018), Istanbul Biennial (2015), Asia Pacific Triennial (2015), Prospect 3 New Orleans (2014), Shanghai Biennale (2014), Taipei Biennial (2012), Chinese Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennial (2009), Media City Seoul (2008) and Guangzhou Triennale (2005). Since 2018, Liu Ding has been teaching exhibition display as a visiting professor in NABA Milan.

His work has been shown at numerous major art institutions, including M+ Museum (2025); Gwangju Museum of Art (2024); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2020); MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna (2019); The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2018); Museum Fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (2018); 4A, Sydney (2017); Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern (2016); Guandu Museum of Art, Taipei (2016); Para Site, Hong Kong (2016); Red Brick Museum, Beijing (2016); Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2016/2012); Museum Bonnefanten, Maastricht (2015) ; MOMA PS1, New York (2015); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2015); Tate Modern, London (2013/2012); Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2012); Times Museum, Guangzhou (2012/2011); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2011); Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2008); PasquArt, Biel (2008); Arnolfini, Bristol (2008); Turner Contemporary, Kent (2008); São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo (2008); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2007); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai (2006); Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco (2006); Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2006); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2006), and so on.

Carol Yinghua LU

Carol Yinghua LU is an art historian and a curator. She holds a Doctorate in art history from University of Melbourne. She is the director of Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. She was the artistic director and senior curator of OCAT, Shenzhen (2012–2015), guest curator at Museion, Bolzano (2013) and the China researcher for Asia Art Archive (2005–2007). She has contributed to artist monologues, catalogues as well as a number of art journals, including e-flux journal, frieze, the Exhibitionist, Yishu, Flash Art, Contemporary, and so on. She was a contributing editor for frieze magazine (2008–2018), chief editor for Chinese edition of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (2012–2013), co-founder and co-editor of Contemporary Art and Investment magazine (2007-2010). She received Yishu Awards for Critical Writing and Curating on Contemporary Chinese Art (2016).

She was a recipient of the ARIAH (Association of Research Institute in Art History) East Asia Fellowship (2017) and visiting fellow in the Asia-Pacific Fellowship Programme at the Tate Research Centre (2013). She was the co-artistic director of Gwangju Biennale (2012).

She has acted as a jury member for Hyundai Blue Prize Art + Tech (2022, 2021), Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (2022–2019), The Choi Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art (2022, 2021), Gallery Weekend Beijing Prize for Best Exhibition (2022, 2020–2017), Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona Video Art Award Production (2024–2020), abC Art Book Award (2021), Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2019), Hugo Boss Asia (2019), International Award for Art Criticism (2014), the Future Generation Art Prize (2012), and the Golden Lion Award at Venice Biennale (2011).