Carsten Höller（Artist）

Carsten Höller (b. 1961, Belgium) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden; in Biriwa, Ghana; and in Tuscany, Italy. He has a background as a researcher in agricultural science and received his doctorate in 1988 at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Germany, with a thesis on insect scent communication. In the early 1990s, he completely devoted himself to his artistic work.

Carsten Höller’s works have been shown internationally over the past three decades, with major installations and solo exhibitions including “Synchro System” (Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2000); “One Day, One Day” (Färgfabriken, Stockholm, 2003); “Test Site” (Tate Modern, London, 2006); “Amusement Park” (2006), a large installation of full-sized carnival midway rides operating at dramatically slowed speeds at MASS MoCA North Adams; The Double Club (2008–09), a work that created a dialogue between Congolese and Western culture in the form of a bar, restaurant, and nightclub in London; “Soma” (Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2010); “Experience” (New Museum, New York, 2011); Decision(Hayward Gallery, London, 2015); “Doubt” (Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, 2016); Y (Centro Botín, Santander, 2017); The Florence Experiment (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2018); SUNDAY (Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2019); DAY (MAAT, Lisbon, 2021); a third version of The Double Club (2024), which was installed for four days in Los Angeles in conjunction with the exhibition “Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy.” In 2024, Giant Triple Mushroom (2024) was temporarily installed at Place Vendôme in Paris as part of the Art Basel public programs. The same year, the second edition of Höller’s Book of Games/Spielebuch was published by Taschen. In 2022, he opened Brutalisten—a restaurant with brutalist cuisine where each dish consists of only one ingredient—in Stockholm.

Philip Tinari （Exhibition Curator）

Philip Tinari is an internationally acclaimed curator and cultural leader who has shaped contemporary art discourse in China and on the global stage.

Before joining Tai Kwun as Deputy Director and Head of Art in 2026, Tinari served as Director and Chief Executive of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art for fourteen years. During his tenure, he oversaw the expansion of China’s premier contemporary art institution from the flagship UCCA Beijing to UCCA Dune (Beidaihe), UCCA Edge (Shanghai), and UCCA Clay (Yixing). He delivered blockbuster surveys of historical icons such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Andy Warhol, along with major shows of leading figures including Cao Fei, Maurizio Cattelan, and Yang Fudong.  

Beyond UCCA, he co-curated the landmark exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and organized “Feeling the Stones,” the inaugural Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale in Riyadh.

Zou Jiashu (UCCA Assistant Curator)

Zou Jiashu joined UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in 2021 and currently serves as Assistant Curator. Based in Beijing, she graduated from the University of Cambridge, University of the Arts London, and Freie Universität Berlin, holding a BA in History of Art and dual MA degrees in Digital Humanities and Curating. Her research interests focus on the history of early photography in China and the global artistic practices of post-war Asian diasporic artists.

She curated “Michael Cherney: Middle Distance” (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2026), and co-curated “Memory and Imagination: UCCA at Fifteen” (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2022); “Crosstalk” (GWBJ, Beijing, 2022); and “John Latham: Now Forget Everything You Ever Knew” (Flat Time House, London, 2020). Exhibitions for which she was oversaw project planning and implementation include: “Pipilotti Rist: Your Palm is My Universe” (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2025); “Matisse by Matisse” (UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2023); and “Modern Time: Masterpieces from the Collection of Museum Berggruen / Nationalgalerie Berlin” (UCCA Edge, Shanghai, 2023).