Lecturer:

Tutu Zhu

China / Shanghai

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:

Writer, curator and cultural scholar, graduated from Central Saint Martins in Art Curation and Criticism, and is a PhD candidate in art philosophy at Fudan University. She has curated contemporary art exhibitions such as A Room of My Own II, Metaphor and Gaze, Future Exodus, Flexibiliity Carries, and The Interface of Janus. Nominated for the Les Rencontres d'Arles Artist Prize Exhibition 2021; Author of The Stories of 45 Craftsmen, The Sound of Silence, You Look Better in the Museum, The Letters from Zhu Yujie, etc. Translated into Playing to the Gallery, Renaissance People, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, etc. Hosted and produced ZHU's Life in Britain cultural short video programme, she was awarded China Social Media Influencer Friendly Ambassador by VisitBritain in 2018. Hosted the contemporary art podcast "Art Fold", Cultural and artistic advisor to ELLE China since 2023.

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.