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.