Catherine David (Deputy Director, Centre Georges Pompidou)

Catherine David was curator during the 1980s and 1990s at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, at the Centre Georges Pompidou and at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, all in Paris, where she organized several exhibitions. From 1994 to 1997 she was the artistic director of Documenta X in Kassel in Germany and since 1998, she has directed the long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations which began at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. Between 2002 and 2004, she directed the Witte de With Center of Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

Hao Liang (Artist)

graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Chinese painting department of Sichuan Fine Arts Instituteand currently works and lives in Beijing. His recent solo exhibitions include: “Hao Liang: The Virtuous Being” (Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, 2016) and “Secluded and Infinite Places: Hao Liang Solo Exhibition” (Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2014). Recent group exhibitions featuring his work include “Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan” (Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2016); “Bentu: Chinese artists at a time of turbulence and transformation” (Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2016); “From the Peony Pavilion” (Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, 2016); “Luo Zhongli Scholarship 10th Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition”(Luo Zhongli Museum, Chongqing, 2015); “Editing the Spectacle: The Individual and Working Methods Post-Mediatization” (Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing,2015); ”The Garden of Forking Paths—Tracks and Intersections of 15 Artists” (Shanghai Gallery, 2015); “The Fictitious Present” (Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 2015).