The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Gallery, and Serpentine North, previously known as the Sackler Gallery. The gallery spaces are within five minutes' walk of each other, linked by the bridge over the Serpentine Lake from which the galleries get their names. Their exhibitions, architecture, education and public programmes attract up to 1.2 million visitors a year. Admission to both galleries is free. The CEO is Bettina Korek, and the artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art is one of the most important Russian cultural events and was founded in 2003.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a Swiss art curator, critic, and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of The Interview Project, an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is also co-editor of the Cahiers d'Art review.
MAD Architects is an architectural design firm based in Beijing, China, with offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and Rome. MAD Architects is currently led by Ma Yansong, Dang Qun and Yosuke Hayano.
Karl Gunnar Vougt Pontus Hultén was a Swedish art collector and museum director. Pontus Hultén is regarded as one of the most distinguished museum professionals of the twentieth century. He was the pioneering former head of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and in the 1970s he was invited to participate in the creation of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where he was the first director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (MNAM) in 1974–1981.
The Red Mansion Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in London, England. Founded by Nicolette Kwok in 1999, its aim is to promote cultural understanding between East and West through the medium of contemporary Chinese art.
Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect and urban planner, and a founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti. Among his most known projects are the Vertical Forest in Milan, the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille, and the House of the Sea of La Maddalena. He is the professor of urban planning at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
The Shanghai Biennale is one of the highest-profile contemporary art events in Shanghai and the most established art biennale in China. It was initially held in the Shanghai Art Museum. From 2012 on, it has been hosted in Power Station of Art, the first state-run museum dedicated to contemporary art in mainland China. Shanghai Biennale provides artists, curators, writers and art supporters from around the world with a space to meet and exchange ideas about their experiences, works and inspirations to create international dialogues. It highlights the achievements of Asian artistic creativity and production and challenges the conventional division of the world between East and West. Aside from its main museum show, it also includes talks, lectures and installations in various venues throughout the city.
Yongwoo Lee is a South Korean art historian and curator based in Shanghai and Seoul. He is the artistic director of the Shanghai International Art City Research Institute and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University.
museum in progress is a private art association based in Vienna. The non-profit art initiative was created in 1990 by Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner with the aim to develop new presentation forms for contemporary art. The projects are implemented in each case on the basis of co-operation between economy, art and media.
Anton Vidokle is an artist and founder of e-flux. Born 1965, Vidokle lives in New York and Berlin.
Sou Fujimoto is a Japanese architect.
Oscar Murillo is an artist working within the painting tradition. He currently lives and works in various locations.
Laboratorium was a contemporary art exhibition curated by Barbara Vanderlinden and Hans-Ulrich Obrist at Fotomuseum Antwerp, the Century City building and various other locations in Antwerp, Belgium, from 27 June to 3 October 1999.
The Xiao Hui Wang Art Center was an art institute at Tongji University, Shanghai. Founded in 2003, it was administered by Professor Xiao Hui Wang, and was known for its numerous commissioned urban design projects and for being the first art institute in China to focus on new media art. The Center closed in 2015.
art4d is a magazine for Architecture, Design, Arts. It was founded in 1995 and has been based in Bangkok, Thailand, since then. It is published by Corporation 4d, a Bangkok-based publisher specialized in architecture and design in Thailand. The magazine is devoted to architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design and arts. It focuses mainly on movements of design, artistic, and creative professional and participants in Thailand and Asia, especially Southeast Asia.
This is a bibliography for Hans-Ulrich Obrist, a Swiss art curator, critic and historian of art. He currently lives in London.
Shanghai Himalayas Museum, formerly known as Shanghai Zendai MoMA (上海证大现代艺术馆), is a privately funded, non-profit art institute in Pudong, Shanghai, China, focusing on art exhibition, education, collection, research and academic exchanges, established by the Shanghai Zendai Group in 2005. Shanghai Himalayas Museum is the main organizer of the inaugural edition of the Shanghai Project, a yearlong ideas platform co-directed by Yongwoo Lee and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
Amira Gad is an Egyptian art curator, writer, and editor in modern and contemporary art and architecture who was born in France but grew up in Saudi Arabia. She is currently Head of Programmes at the Light Art Space (LAS), a private foundation based in Berlin.
Roomade was a Brussels-based arts organisation founded in 1996 by Barbara Vanderlinden, directed and curated until 2006 by Vanderlinden, it commissioned and produced a string of notable exhibition projects and publications.
