Lecturer:

Li Zhenhua

China / Zurich

Brief description:

Multidisciplinary lectures (10%) are led by experts in contemporary art, design, film, curation, and other interdisciplinary fields, providing participants with multidimensional inspiration to cultivate artistic aesthetics and also bringing influences on design practices.

Biography:

Li Zhenhua (b. 1975) has been active since 1996. His practice mainly concerns curation, artistic practice, and project management.

Since 2010 he has been the nominator for the Summer Academy at the Zentrum Paul Klee Bern (Switzerland), The Prix Pictet (Switzerland), The Sovereign Asian Art Prize (Hongkong), and Future Generation Art Prize (Ukraine). He is a member of the international advisory board for the exhibition "Digital Revolution" at the Barbican Centre in the UK in 2014, etc. 

Since 2000 focused on curating and dialogue with filmmakers and documentary filmmakers from China since 2004 involved in CIFF. 2015 producer of JU Anqi's film Poet on a Business Trip. 2010 curated Heat: ZHANG Yuan solo show in Nanjing, China. 2007 producer of SHEN Shaomin's documentary film I am Chinese. Since 2014 worked as the Film curator for Art Basel Hong Kong.

Li served as a final jury member for Shorti (Spain 2003), Napolis Film festival (Italy 2006), Transmediale 2010 (Berlin, Germany 2009), CCAA (Beijing, China 2012), CIFF (Nanjing, China 2012), Fantoche (Switzerland 2012), Art Award China (Beijing, China 2015-2016), 2021 KCC UK X Germany Open Call (Germany & UK 2021), DAAD: Fellows of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme 2022 (Germany 2021).

Li Zhenhua has edited several artists' publications, including Zeng Zhe’s Another Place, Some Other Time (2022), Yan Lei: What I Like to Do (Documenta13, 2012), Hu Jieming: One Hundred Years in One Minute (2010), Feng Mengbo: Journey to the West (2010), and Yang Fudong: Dawn Mist, Separation Faith (2009). A collection of his art reviews was published under Text in 2013.

2016 The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (2015), The Regional Contemporary Art Project, INNOVATION Prize, Russia. 2015 Curator of the Year, TANC Asia Prize, Shanghai. 2015 Curator of the Year (2014), Art Power 100, Beijing.