Yang Fudong (Artist)

Yang Fudong (b. 1971, Beijing; lives and works in Shanghai) graduated from the Department of Oil Painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions and galleries worldwide, including “Endless Peaks” (ShanghART, Shanghai, 2020); “Dawn Breaking” (Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, 2018); “Moving Mountains” (Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, 2016); “Twin Tracks: Yang Fudong Solo Exhibition” (Yuz Museum, Shanghai, 2015); “The Light That I Feel” (SALT, Sandhornoya, 2014); “Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013” (Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, 2013); “The Works of Yang Fudong: Quote Out of Context” (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, 2012); “Yang Fudong: One Half of August” (Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, 2011); “Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest and Other Stories” (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2010); “Dawn Mist, Separation Faith: Yang Fudong’s Solo Exhibition” (Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, 2009); “Yang Fudong: The General’s Smile” (Hara Museum, Tokyo, 2008); “Yang Fudong: Don’t Worry, It Will Be Better…” (Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2005); “Yang Fudong” (Castello di Rivoli Museo d’arte contemporanea, Turin, 2005); and “Five Films” (The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2004).

Additionally, his works have been featured in major international exhibitions at venues including Suzhou Museum, Suzhou (2019); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2017); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2016); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013); Tate Liverpool (2007); Tate Modern, London (2004); and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2003). Yang’s works have also been included in the Lyon Biennale (2013); Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013); the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010); the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial (2006); FACT Liverpool Biennial (2004); the 50th Venice Biennale (2003); Documenta 11 (2002); the 4th Shanghai Biennale (2002); and the 7th Istanbul Biennial (2001), among others.

Ute Meta Bauer (Professor, School of Art, Design, and Media NTU)

Ute Meta Bauer is a Professor at Nanyang Technological University, where she serves as Chair of the MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices, and Acting Director and Principal Research Fellow at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA). At the NTU CCA, she curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions, including “Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts” (2014/2015), and co-curated with Khim Ong on the artist’s first solo exhibition in the Southeast Asia. In recent years, her work as curator and educator has focused on climates, habitats, And environments. Her curatorial practice spans contemporary art, film, video, and sound, with projects including Documenta11 (2002)—which marked one of her earliest formal  collaboration with Yang Fudong—the 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2004); the 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022) co-curated with David Teh and Amar Kanwar; and the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024. Bauer previously co-curated the US Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, featuring artist Joan Jonas; and the Singapore Pavilion, 59th Biennale di Venezia, presenting artist Shubigi Rao.

Philip Tinari (Director, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art)

Philip Tinari is Director and Chief Executive of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. Since joining UCCA in 2011, he has led its growth and transformation from a founder-owned private establishment into China’s premier institution of modern and contemporary art, operating across a constellation of four locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Beidaihe, and Yixing. His program has featured major Chinese and international artists including Cao Fei, William Kentridge, Luc Tuymans, and Xu Bing alongside emerging talents and historical figures such as Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Tinari co-curated the landmark exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” (2017) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and organized the inaugural Diriyah Biennale (2021) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Born near Philadelphia in 1979, he has lived and worked in Beijing since 2006.

Chelsea Qianxi Liu (UCCA Curator)

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