Writer, curator and museum director

David Elliott is a cultural and art historian, writer, curator and museum director primarily concerned with modern and contemporary art. Elliott was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England from 1976-96, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden from 1996-2001, the founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 2001-06, the first Director of Istanbul Modern, Turkey in 2007 and from 2016-2019, Vice-Director and Senior Curator of the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou. From 1998-2004, he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and in 2008, the Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor of Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin; from 2012 to 2017 he was a guest professor in curatorship at the Chinese University, Hong Kong.

Since 2010, he has been the Artistic Director of biennales of contemporary art in Sydney, Kiev, Moscow and Belgrade and is currently working freelance as a writer and curator.

Arts Editor, Financial Times

Jan Dalley is the Arts Editor of the Financial Times, appointed in 2005 after joining the newspaper in 1999 as the Literary Editor. She writes extensively on arts and culture, and has a regular column in FT Weekend.

Previously, she was Literary Editor of the Independent on Sunday for eight years; before becoming a journalist, she worked in publishing.

She is a Council member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council, where she chairs the judging panel of an annual documentary film competition, and a Trustee of the Arts Foundation. She is a director of Sid Motion Gallery.

Jan has judged literary prizes including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread, the Hawthornden prize and the Encore Prize. She appears as a commentator on arts programmes on television and radio. Her publications include Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire (2006) and Diana Mosley: A Life (1999).

Art historian, curator, writer and art strategy consultant

Jiyoon Lee is an art historian, curator, writer and art strategy consultant. Alongside a PhD in Art History focusing on Impact on globalization on Asian contemporary art since 1989 from Courtault Institute of Art, and an MA in Museum & Gallery Management, she has had decades of experience working in the public, private and corporate cultural sector.

For the last 16 years, she has been one of the most active and influential curators in the cultural exchange between European and Asian contemporary art, producing more than 50 international exhibitions including high profile Biennales including Busan 2006, Liverpool 2008, and Venice 2009.

In 2003, she founded an independent curating office out of London called SUUM, that has attracted many high-profile clients for strategic creative consultancy from consumer electronics companies like Samsung and LG, to public government projects such as the London 2012 Olympics and Samsung Media Art Award with FT etc.

In 2014, she was appointed a director of MMCA Seoul, new branch in National Modern and Contemporary Art Museum where she served for three years introducing international collections and putting a global focus in an international exhibition programs.

Since, she has returned to SUUM and has continued to exercise her creative strategic consultancy running Hana Bank collection, one of the major bank collections. Alongside this, she is an adjunct professor at Yonsei School of Business, a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine and JoongAng Korean national newspaper, and a guest curator at the CAFA Museum in Beijing since 2018.

Artist and Professor at The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

Miao Xiaochun graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany. Currently Professor at CAFA, he has worked since the 1990s on the interface between the real and the virtual. His extensive body of work includes photography, painting and 3D computer animation based on software. He has been involved in numerous international exhibitions, including the 55th Venice Biennale, the 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, the 1st Kiev International Biennial of Contemporary Art, the 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Busan Biennale, the Seoul Media Art Biennale, Shanghai Biennale; China—Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna and National Art Museum of China; Thermocline of Art—New Asian Waves, ZKM Karlsruhe; Between Past and Future—New Photography and Video from China, tour exhibition at ICP and Asia Society, NY, Smart Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, V&A Museum, London. His work is in the collections of MoMA NY, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY and Fondation Nationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris, amongst others.

Artist

Zhou Li was born in 1969 in Hunan, China, and lives and works in Shenzhen. She studied oil painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China, graduating in 1991. In 1995 Zhou moved to France, where she lived and worked until 2003.

In 2015m Zhou was appointed Director of the Institute of Abstraction and Contemporary Arts, at the Centre of Research on Artistic and Cultural Innovation and Development, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Since 2013 she has been a guest professor in the Oil Painting Department, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. She has also been artist in residence at Shenzhen Art

Academies, a guest professor at the Art Design College of Shenzhen University and the art consultant for Shenzhen Airport. Since 2015, Zhou has been an art director of Boxes Art Space of OCT Harbour, Shenzhen. Since 2017, she has been art director of OCT Boxes Art Museum, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province. She was director of Studio 5 since 2019 in the Department of Oil Painting of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Zhou's solo exhibitions include ‘Original State of Mind’, White Cube, London in 2019, ‘Shadow of the Wind’, Yuz Museum, Shanghai and ‘The Ring of Life: Zhou Li’, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (both 2017). She has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including ‘The world is yours, as well as ours’, White Cube, London (2016).