Media artist Elke Reinhuber currently holds a position as Assistant Professor at Nanyang University in Singapore for Expanded Photography. In her artistic research, she investigates on the correlation between decisions and emotions and explores different strategies of visualisation and presentation, working with immersive environments, virtual and augmented reality and scientific imaging technologies.

May 5th, 2015

Menene Gras és la directora de Cultura i exposicions a Casa Àsia (Barcelona i Madrid) des de 2003. Amb un doctorat de la Universitat de Barcelona, Menene Gras és crítica d’art, conservadora i ex-professora. Abans d’això, va ser directora de Cultura i exposicions a l’Instituto de Medicaments Iberoamericans (actual Casa Amèrica de Catalunya) i també directora actual del festival de cinema asiàtic. Autora d’assajos, catàlegs, antologies i quatre llibres de poesia, ha estat corresponsal d’art d’Art Forum durant més de dotze anys i ha escrit pels diaris espanyols més importants.

Els recents aspectes destacats de la seva carrera professional inclouen exposicions i publicacions, com Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. Les línies de mà (2014) i Pequín (2011).

L’any 2015 va ser guardonada per l’ACCA pel Projecte de Video Art Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art com la millor exposició espanyola feta a l’estranger. Actualment viu i treballa a Barcelona.

Darrera actualització: 10 de maig, 2017

Imma Prieto is an art critic and independent curator. She teaches Contemporary art and New Media at the Eram School of the University of Girona, and lectures in the MA Program in Curatorial Studies at the Ramon Llull University of Barcelona. She has curated several exhibitions nationally and internationally (TempArtSpace-NewYork, Hirshhorn Museum-Washington, MucaRoma-Mexico Central American Isthmus Biennial-Guatemala, Palazzo Ca ‘Tron-Venice, Joan Miró Foundation Barcelona, Fabra i Coats-Barcelona, Bòlit-Girona, among others).

She regularly writes in newspapers and magazines (such as La Vanguardia, Bonart, A*Desk and Artichoke) and is the author of artists catalogs as well as of books on art theory and aesthetics. She has been manager of the research group ELAA (European Live Art Archive), formed by the University of Girona, the University of Oxford and the artist residence Glaugair in Berlin, and is a member of the Chair of Contemporary Art and Culture of the University of Girona, the AICA (International Art Critics Association) and the IAC (Institute of Spanish Art).

Last update:  April 4th, 2017

Christine Van Assche is a contemporary art historian, curator, and critic specializing in audiovisual art. As the Chief Curator at Centre Pompidou between 1982 and 2013, she built up the institution’s first video and new media art collection, featuring 1,600 works including those by David Claerbout, James Coleman, Stan Douglas, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Jean-Luc Godard, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Chris Marker, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, etc. She curated a number of thematic exhibitions such as Passages des l’image in 1990, Sonic Process in 2000, Vidéo, un art, une histoir that toured internationally between 2005 and 2012, Une vision du monde. La collection des Lemaître in 2006, Video Vintage in 2012 and 2013, as well as numerous solo exhibitions accompanied by catalogs devoted to artists such as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Mona Hatoum, Johan Grimonprez, Douglas Gordon, James Coleman, Chris Marker, Bruce Nauman, Pierre Huyghe, Ugo Rondinone, Isaac Julien, among others.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Tao Hui currently lives and works in Beijing. Tao graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China in 2010, majored in BFA oil painting. Tao Hui creates immersive video-installations that bend the boundaries of fiction and reality to address cultural and identity related issues. His works are visceral and provocative, yet enlightening and always imbued with a strong emotional power and a sense of displacement, inviting the viewers to confront themselves with their own cultural history, ways of living and social identities. In 2015, Tao Hui was awarded The Grand Prize at the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_ Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas, São Paulo, and the Art Sanya & Huayu Youth Award, Sanya, China. His work is represented in the collections of: Kadist Foundation, San Francisco; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; K11 Foundation, Hong Kong; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; New Century Art Foundation, Beijing; Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – MMCA, Seoul, and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art–UCCA, Beijing.

Last update: October 8th, 2019.

Hayoun Kwon (Seoul, 1981) first began working with video between 2006 and 2008, and has since developed a practice in which the digital medium is utilized in all its diversity to transgress the limits imposed by contemporary political situations. Animation affords her the freedom to dramatize, exaggerate, and push the frontiers of representation, and to exploit the fantasmatic potential of her subject matter. Of particular interest to her is the border that divides North and South Korea, perceived as a mirror that reflects similar images back to both the watcher and the watched, or as a theatre stage whose limits cannot be transgressed. The concept of border poses the question of the physical and mental limits of the individual. A sensitive reflection on identity and borders runs throughout Kwon’s work, interrogating the construction of historical and individual memory, as well as the ambiguous relationships that link memory, reality and fiction.

Director of Aike Dellarco Gallery. Shanghai

Moritz is an early career curator and interior designer; he is currently working with videoclub to deliver programmes such as Both Sides Now, a collaboration between Videotage (Hong Kong) and videoclub, working across the UK and China. He also contributes to acubien.com as a lifestyle editor, based at Asia Bureau.
He recently worked as design assistant with Not Tom, a London-based design consultancy, supporting design concept development, sales and marketing, and design research.
In early 2015 and 16, he worked with Art Basel as Film Coordinator, working with curator Li Zhenghua, to coordinate the film programme during Art Basel Hong Kong, showing works by artists such as Chen Tianzhuo, Lu Yang and Song Kun. In 2014, he worked at La Biennale di Venezia (architecture), helping to deliver events and exhibitions held in the Hong Kong Pavilion. Moritz is a recent graduate, holding a BA in Environmental and Interior Design.

May 30th, 2016

Director, videoclub. Jamie Wyld established videoclub in 2005 with Ben Rivers and Laura Noble, since then videoclub has shown work by over 400 artists, with screenings taking place internationally, alongside partners such as Whitechapel Gallery (London), Videotage (Hong Kong), Echo Park Film Center (LA) and Chronus Art Center (Shanghai). Artists have included Laure Prouvost, Naheed Raza, Uriel Orlow, Hetain Patel and Semiconductor.
He is also a director of creative collective The Nimbus Group, which works with digital media to create experiences. The Nimbus Project (2014) was produced in collaboration with Chris Watson, to take listeners to impossible places to augment daily life. Their most recent Project, Giddy (2016), enables audiences to hear teenaged memories of life in Brighton during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. For six years he was programme curator for arts and technology agency, Lighthouse, working with artists such as Kutlug Ataman, Mariele Neudecker, David Blandy and James Bridle.

May 30th, 2016