Lahr, Christin, Berlin/ Leipzig

Prof. Christin Lahr

Artist, curator and professor of media art.

Class Artistic Action and Research, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB)

Lives and works as an artist, curator and professor of media art in Berlin and Leipzig. Artistic action and research at the interfaces of art, science, technology, society and politics. Ephemeral art and concepts, participation and involvement, artistic strategies and spaces, socio-political narratives and interventions, art as a cross-border viral system.

https://www.hgb-leipzig.de/personen/professor-innen_mitarbeiter-innen/christinlahr

Liu Si 刘思, Hong Kong

LIU SI 刘思
Graduated from Tsinghua University and Berlin Institute of Technology, studied architecture and stage design. DAAD Artist Scholarship Winner. Formerly a Hong Kong Jinnian icosahedral creation coordinator. Currently living and working in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. She has participated in numerous stage productions as a designer. In recent years, she has also participated in the planning and management of a number of large-scale cultural and art projects, including the 11th Saint Etienne International Design Biennale (St. Etienne, 2019), The 5th and 6th Shenzhen-Hong Kong City\Architecture Biennale (2015, 2017 in Shenzhen), the Smithsonian Folk Culture Festival (Washington, 2014), the building is an art festival (2011, 2013 Hong Kong).

RW.36 ACCELERATED STANDSTILL

Li Zhenhua 李振华, Zuerich

LI ZHENHUA 李振华
1975 born in Beijing, work and live in Zurich and Berlin.

Writer, curator, artist and producer Li Zhenhua splits his time and practice between China and Zurich. He is the founder of Laboratory Art Beijing and the Mustard Seed garden. Li is actively engaged in the production, dissemination and critical discussions around new media, and has taken part in symposiums, talks and presentations at leading galleries and museum spaces worldwide, including ZKM Karlsruhe, the Walker Art Centre in which he curated the Wave project and the Guangzhou Museum as a participating artist of the Guangzhou Triennale in 2005. A prolific and active participant in the creative industries, Li managed the first international new media art festival MAAP in 2002 in Beijing, where it was held at the Beijing Millennium Monument Museum, and between 2002 and 2003, he founded and organized the Illuminate the Great Wall music festival. In 2005, he and Loredana Cozza founded the Naples Far East Film Festival with Dongfang University, and the next year, he was appointed executive producer of the Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium. It is this background, as Li notes, which led him to become the curator of Art Basel in Hong Kong’s inaugural film programme.

www.bjartlab.com/

RW.36 ACCELERATED STANDSTILL

Liu Xiaodu 刘晓都, Shenzhen

LIU XIAODU 刘晓都

URBANUS都市实践建筑设计事务所创建合伙人，主持建筑师，深圳设计之都推广促进会首届会长，2017深港城市\建筑双城双年展（深圳）总策展人。

Principal Architect and Co-founder of URBANUS Architecture & Design Inc.
In 1999, LIU Xiaodu co-founded URBANUS with partners MENG Yan and WANG Hui. LIU Xiaodu established the structure of the firm and oversees the operation of the company. Architecture design projects co-led by LIU Xiaodu include Tulou Collective Housing, Hui Hotel, Hongdu Factory Renovation, the OCT Art & Design Gallery, Barcelona Re.Set—Identity Pavilion, OCT-LOFT Renovation, Greater China IFC, SHUM YIP UpperHills LOFT and Wanxia Mind The Sea; Urban design projects include Huaqiangbei 3D street Urban Design and VANKE Liuxiandong Urban Design, etc. Committing to explore the path of the future development of high-density cities, he led the research and design project “Hyper Metropolis” in 2015 to investigate the lifestyle of a super metropolis in the Pearl River Delta 2.0 era. As the curator of the China Pavilion for the London Design Biennale 2016, he further extended and deepened the urban research on high-density through the work “DenCity”.

LIU Xiaodu has received his Bachelor degree of Architecture from Tsinghua University and Master’s degree of Architecture from Miami University. He is often invited to be the jury member for international competitions and to give lectures at many influential academic institutions worldwide. LIU Xiaodu has served as the chairman for the first Shenzhen City of Design Promotion Association and appointed to be one of the chief curators for 2017 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\ Architecture (Shenzhen). He held the posts of visiting professor and critic at the School of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, Hunan University, and Shenzhen University. He taught a summer studio at IUAV in 2016 and open studio at Tsinghua University in 2017 and 2019.

www.urbanus.com.cn

RW.36 ACCELERATED STANDSTILL

Gregor Jansen, Duesseldorf

Dr. Gregor Jansen, Director of the KUNSTHALLE DÜSSELDORF

Gregor Jansen wurde im November 2009 durch den Aufsichtsrat und die Gesellschafterversammlung der Kunsthalle gGmbH zum Künstlerischen Leiter der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf berufen und hat seine Tätigkeit im Januar 2010 aufgenommen. Er studierte Kunstgeschichte, Baugeschichte und Philosophie an der RWTH Aachen und promovierte 1998 zum Thema „Eugen Schönebeck. Eine deutsche Legende“. Seit 1991 arbeitete er als Kurator, Kunstkritiker, Autor und unterrichtete in den Fachbereichen Bildwissenschaft und Medientheorie an mehreren Hochschulen in Deutschland und den Niederlanden. Von 2005 bis Ende 2009 leitete Gregor Jansen das ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, wo er unter anderem Ausstellungen wie „Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht“(mit Peter Weibel), „totalstadt. beijing case“ und „Vertrautes Terrain. Aktuelle Kunst in & über Deutschland” (mit Thomas Thiel) kuratierte.

In November 2009, the supervisory board and general meeting of the Kunsthalle gGmbH appointed Gregor Jansen director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. He assumed his duties in January 2010. He studied art history, building history, philosophy, sociology, and political science at the RWTH Aachen and completed his doctorate in 1998 on the subject “Eugen Schönebeck. A German Legend.” He subsequently worked as curator, art critic, and free-lance author, and lectured in image science and media theory at a number of universities in Germany and the Netherlands. From 2005 to the end of 2009, Gregor Janson headed the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, where the exhibitions he curated included “Light Art from Artificial Light” (with Peter Weibel), “totalstadt.beijing case. Cultural Aspects of the High-Speed Urbanization in China,” “Michael Kunze,” and “Vertrautes Terrain. Contemporary Art in & on Germany” (with Thomas Thiel).

www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de

RW.34 MUSEUM

Notz, Adrian, Zuerich

Adrian Notz (* 1977 in Flurlingen) ist ein Schweizer Direktor und künstlerischer Leiter des Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich.

Adrian Notz wuchs in Flurlingen auf und besuchte dort die Primar- und Sekundarschule, in Winterthur das Gymnasium. Dann studierte er während zweier Jahre in Bremen Freie Kunst. In Zürich studierte er «Theorie der Kunst und Gestaltung». Als Assistent beim Cabaret Voltaire begann Notz 2004, 2012 übernahm er die Co-Direktion zusammen mit Philipp Meier, gegenwärtig (Stand 2015) ist er alleiniger Leiter.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Notz
http://www.cabaretvoltaire.ch/de/

RW.33 DA!

Mille, Daria, Karlsruhe

Daria Mille
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
www.zkm.de

From 2008 to 2011, Daria Mille was curatorial assistant of the Moscow Biennial. Since 2011, she works in the exhibition department of ZKM I Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe involving herself theoretically, curatorially and on an organisational level. In 2014, she took over responsibilities in the preparations for the GLOBALE and is co-curator for the exhibition Infosphere, that displays 5 roofs I 5 continents of REMOTEWORDS.

GLOBALE ZKM / RW.26 − RW.30

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS
ONE EARTH UNITES MANY WORLDS

http://zkm.de/globale-infosphere

Thompson, Grant, Auckland

Grant Thompson / Faculty of Creative Arts, Manukau Institute of Technology

Newbury St, Otara,
Auckland 2023
New Zealand

Grant Thompson is the Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Together with Courtney Meredith, he was on-site curator for RW.29 and supported the installation in Auckland with his team.

www.manukau.ac.nz/study-options/areas-of-study/creative-arts

GLOBALE ZKM / RW.26 − RW.30

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS

RW.29 EARTH…

http://zkm.de/globale-infosphere

Meredith, Courtney, Auckland

Courtney Meredith / Faculty of Creative Arts, Manukau Institute of Technology

Newbury St, Otara,
Auckland 2023
New Zealand

Courtney Meredith is a poet, writer and works for the Faculty of Creative Arts at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Together with Grant Thompson, she was on-site curator for RW.29 and supported the installation in Auckland with her team.

www.manukau.ac.nz/study-options/areas-of-study/creative-arts
www.courtneymeredith.com

GLOBALE ZKM / RW.26 − RW.30

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS

RW.29 EARTH…

http://zkm.de/globale-infosphere

Eugene, Andre, Haiti

André Eugène
Co-director of the Ghetto Biennale, member of Atis Rezitans, artist, curator

The Ghetto Biennale is an invitation by the Haitian artist group Atis Rezistans to visiting Western and non-Western artists to come to Haiti and to produce work on site. For its fourth edition, the Ghetto Biennale invites artists and curators to explore what potentials the radical tools, Kreyòl, Vodou and the Lakou, have to offer to the contemporary world.

www.ghettobiennale.org
www.atis-rezistans.com/eugene.php

GLOBALE ZKM / RW.26 − RW.30

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS

http://zkm.de/globale-infosphere

REVIV

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS ONE EARTH UNITES MANY WORLDS

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS

REVIV

FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS
ONE EARTH UNITES MANY WORLDS