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UCCA

Philip Tinari: what can be unburdened by what has been.

Philip Tinari, director, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, born in Philadelphia, USA. He has lived and worked in Beijing from 2001. He holds degrees from Duke and Harvard. Since coming to UCCA in 2011, Philip Tinari has led its transformation from a founder-owned private museum into an accredited museum across multiple locations, a public foundation, and a family of art-driven enterprises. During his tenure, UCCA has mounted more than seventy exhibitions and thousands of public programs, bringing artistic voices established and emerging, Chinese and international, to an audience of over a million visitors each year.

You Yang: culture on exhibiting.

You Yang, Director of X Museum and a member of its Board of Directors. He previously served as the Art Director of UCCA Group and the Deputy Director of UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. You Yang closely follows the dynamics and integration of urban and consumer culture. He has held various roles, including arts institution manager, columnist, curator, art management lecturer, and public relations and marketing expert. He focuses on contemporary museum theory, exploring collaborative research projects across cultural fields, public art projects, and government cooperation projects.

Ruben Lundgren: “Great idea! What’s the budget?”

Ruben Lundgren, photographer and curator, born in 1983 in the Netherlands. He currently works and lives in Beijing. He graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011. He made a name within the conceptual photography duo WassinkLundgren with publications as Empty Bottles (2007) and Tokyo Tokyo (2010). FOAM showed a retrospect of their work in 2013. He works as a photojournalist for Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and as an independent curator of Chinese photography. Together with Martin Parr, he co-edited The Chinese Photobook (2015). Other publications include Hlleo? (2018) and MeNu (2018) a tasty collection of Chinese vernacular food photography.