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Shanghai
Curators Lab 4

The Shanghai Curators Lab (SCL) is a forum for emerging curators to discuss the expanding role of curators, evolving from narrative-builders in art to mediators of social communities. Until now, curators have been recognized as storytellers who narrate and interpret visual art through exhibitions. However, what is demanded of curators by today's expanded social community, which encompasses art, architecture, urban planning, climate crisis, and technological revolutions, is a multifaceted practice in an expanded field.

Curating has moved beyond the niche of high culture and into the realm of everyday life, to the extent that the term is increasingly recognized as simply “making choices.” Rather than implementing "exclusive choices for a minority" in institutional contexts such as museums or biennials, the Shanghai Curators Lab respects methodologies and discursive processes from diverse research areas while questioning the act of curation as the process of selection.

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Lead
Professors

The lead professors for 2023 Shanghai Curator Lab 3 are internationally renowned scholars and curators, Prof. Yongwoo Lee from Tongji University, China, joined by Professor Ute Meta Bauer from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Previous lead professors of SCL include Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Director, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin) in 2018, and Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath (curator duo Art Reoriented, now Directors of Hamburger Bahnhof) in 2019. <...>

Nikolaus Hirsch

Nikolaus Hirsch is a curator, architect, editor, and educator. He is the artistic director of the architecture museum CIVA in Brussels where he co-curated exhibitions such as “Marcel Broodthaers – The Architect is Absent”, “Pre-Architectures”, “Style Congo” (with Sammy Baloji), and “Sick Architecture” (with Beatriz Colomina). Previously he was the director of Städelschule and Portikus in Frankfurt and has taught at the Architectural Association in London and the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at Giessen University......

Yongwoo Lee

Lee founded the Shanghai Project in 2016, a platform for multidisciplinary research on the urgent discourses facing us under the theme "The Future of Humanity in 100 Years." Previously, he was the artistic director of the Gwangju Biennale and president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation. His curated exhibitions include "Dansaekhwa" and "Times Reimagined," which were collateral events for the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2022, solo exhibitions of Yves Klein, Nam June Paik, Ding Yi, Huang Rui, and group exhibitions “Challenging Souls” (Power Station of Art, Shanghai), “Electronic Maple” (New York Center for Media Art)......