Hung Huang: only stupid people get bored.
Hung Huang, media person and writer, born in 1961 in Beijing, China. She has published magazines such as “iLOOK” and “TimeOut”; hosted TV talk shows “Adults Are Talking” and “Bright Talk”; starred in the film “Perpetual Motion”; founded China’s first integrated store for original designer brands, BNC. She has written columns for “Sanlian Life Weekly” and published prose collections such as “My Abnormal Life”, “Purposeless Good Life” and “Cheap Philosophy”, as well as novels such as “Miss Zhang”. In 2011, she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In 2013, she was invited to serve as a member of the board of trustees of Vassar College in the United States. In 2015, she founded a content studio and has been managing her we-media ever since, with accounts on Weibo, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu, and a total of 16 million followers across the internet.
Mian Mian: don’t kill yourself, let’s have a drink.
Mian Mian, writer, born in Shanghai, China. She lives in Kathmandu now. In addition to writing, her creative ventures have included contemporary art, electronic music, and film. Her novel and short stories collections been translated into fifteen languages and has been published worldwide. She is the author of the novels Candy, Panda Sex, and Vanishing Act. Her film Short Capitalism was admitted into the film section of Art Basel Hong Kong 2017. In the late 1990s when China’s Internet was booming, Mian Mian’s short stories collection “Every Good Kid deserves Candy” was published. The title of book and the author’s unconventional remarks showed extremely the true nature of a writer. She was artistic and rebellious, which was attracting many young people at the time. Mian Mian expresses her understanding of fiction by describing the night in Shanghai. Her works beautifully and cruelly reveal how globalization affects the lives and identities of the younger generation.
Cheng Ran: make artists rich again.
Cheng Ran, artist, born in 1981 in Inner Mongolia, China. He currently works and lives in Hangzhou. He participated artist residency project in Royal Academy of Visual Arts in the Netherlands in 2013, and founded the art organization Martin Goya Business in 2017. As a representative of China’s new generation of video and cross-media artists, Cheng Ran has been experimenting with different art forms, including film, poetry, drama, novels, installations, etc. At the same time, he is also good at integrating art with the public. The 26-screen video work “Always I Trust (2014)” was starred by Carina Lau and was produced by K11 ART FOUNDATION. Cheng Ran’s works are widely collected by art museums and institutions, including M+ Museum, Hong Kong; K11 Art Foundation; DSL Collection, France; Domus Collection, New York; New Century Contemporary Art Foundation, Beijing; White Rabbit Art Museum, Australia; Guangzhou Art Museum; Shanghai Art Museum; Zhejiang Art Museum; Borusan Kocabıyık Foundation, Turkey; The Walther Collection, Germany; Royal Academy of Visual Arts, Netherlands; Erlenmeyer Foundation, Switzerland; etc.
Li Zhenhua: mi casa es su casa.
Li Zhenhua, curator, born in 1975 in Beijing, China. He currently works in Zurich, Berlin and Hong Kong. Active in the field of contemporary art since 1996, his practice mainly revolves around curation, artistic creation and project management. Currently, he is the curator of light screenings at Art Basel Hong Kong (2014-present), and the recommender of Prix Pictet Photography Festival in Switzerland. He has served as a recommender for the Summer Institute of the Paul Klee Museum in Switzerland, and an international consultant for the British Barbican International Exhibition “Digital Revolution” (2014), etc. Li Zhenhua won the 2015 “Art News Asian Art Contribution Award Annual Curator Award”, and the 3rd Ural Contemporary Art Industry Biennale (2015) curated in 2016 won the Russian Innovation Award Regional Contemporary Art Project Award. Served as the chief judge for many domestic and foreign institutions, including: German Translation Media Art Festival (2010), CCAA Chinese Contemporary Art Award (now M+ Sigg Award 2012), Switzerland Fantoche Animation Festival (2012), AAC Chinese Art Award (2015-2016), Hyundai Motor Blue Prize (2018), KCC Open Call (2021), etc.