Art talk: Mi You on art in a multipolar world
Mi You curated the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-2021) and “Lonely Vectors” at Singapore Art Museum (2022). Her book ( ) interprets insights into developments of Chinese contemporary art.
At the newly founded , associated with documenta - the world’s largest contemporary art exhibition taking place in Kassel, Germany every five years, she leads the research on art and technology, alternative value systems, the social value of art, and ideological regroupings in art and culture and incubates projects on “upstreaming art” as well as on sustainable cultural funding policies.
On the social front, she serves as chair of committee on Media Arts and Technology for the transnational NGO Common Action Forum. She was named “40 under 40” Asia Pacific by the international art magazine Apollo in 2022.
She is currently a Bergguen Institute fellow in Venice developing the institute’s program on intellectual and cultural dialogues between Europe and China on issues with planetary dimensions.
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