Marianne Brouwer (b. 1942) is an art historian, curator, and writer specializing in contemporary art. She was born in the Netherlands and has lived in Japan and France, where she earned her MA in art history at the Sorbonne University, Paris. In the seventies she worked as an art critic and journalist. During the eighties and nineties she was the curator of sculpture at the Kröller-Müller Museum. She has published and lectured widely, participated in international juries, and taught at various art institutions.

In 1994 she curated the exhibition “Heart of Darkness,” dedicated to issues of exile and the Other with site-specific installations by Huang Yong Ping, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Gu Wenda (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands). In 1997 she was the guest curator of the exhibition “Another Long March: Chinese Conceptual and Installation Art in the Nineties,” the first comprehensive exhibition of Chinese conceptual and video art outside China (Breda, Netherlands, 1997). In 2004 she received the Netherlands’ AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art) award for best exhibition and best book for “Dan Graham: Works 1965-2000.”

Zhang Li

Zhang Li (b. 1970, Jilin province) is a curator of Chinese contemporary art. He graduated from the Department of Art History of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 1992. Zhang worked as an assistant to Hans van Dijk from 1994 to 1997. He helped with the founding of van Dijk’s New Amsterdam Art Consultancy and the curator’s work at the CIFA Gallery in 1996. In 1997, Zhang worked for the Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery. He later worked in the Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three on the Bund as a curator from 2004 to 2006. He assisted with the founding of Three Shadows Photography Art Center in 2006, where he served as art director until 2009. After leaving Three Shadows, Zhang founded 01100001 Gallery in Caochangdi in 2009. As a curator, Zhang has organized a number of exhibitions, including “Face No. 1, Video Art by Li Yongbin” (CIFA Gallery, 1996, Beijing); “Visibility” (China Art Archives and Warehouse, 2001, Beijing; “Run Jump Crawl Walk” (East Modern Art Centre, 2002, Beijing); “artificial ^ respiration” (Sanhe Art Center, 2003, Beijing); “Shanghai Constructions” (Shanghai Gallery of Art, 2005); “In an Instant: Moving Images and Photography by Zhao Liang” (Three Shadows Photography Art Center, 2008, Beijing); and “Calligraphy by 19 Contemporary Artists” (01100001 Gallery, 2013, Beijing).