Franck Gautherot (Co-Founder and Co-Director of Consortium Museum)

Franck Gautherot was born in France and lives in Dijon and Paris. He has been a co-founder and co-director of the Consortium Museum. Since 1977, he has organized hundreds of exhibitions and collaborated with numerous artists who are now internationally renowned, often at the very beginning of their careers.

Co-founder & CEO of publishing house Les presses du reel, he has been in charge of a number of publications and the editorial policy. (www.lespressesdureel.com) As co-commissioner, Le Consortium has curated several contemporary art biennales, including the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2001; the Lyon Biennale, 2003; and the Valencia Biennale, 2005.

As a producing institution, the Consortium Museum has initiated many public art commissions in France and abroad. Since the early 2000s, the institution has participated in a number of urban artistic regeneration programs, including the Anyang Public Art Project in South Korea in 2007 and the Doha Musheireb Downtown Project in Qatar from 2011 to 2013.

His practice has brought him into contact with various geographies, cultures, generations of creative minds, and diverse disciplines: visual arts, publishing, films productions, architecture, craft and music. Various formats and scenarios have been explored throughout his long-term commitment.

Seung-duk Kim (Co-Director and International Project Director of Consortium Museum)

Seung-duk Kim was born in Korea and lives in Paris. In 2000, she joined the Consortium Museum in Dijon, France, as a co-Director.
 
Associated Curator in the Collection Department at the Centre Georges Pompidou,1996-1998; Programming Committee Member for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, 2011-2017; and Commissioner and Curator of the Korean Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.  
 
Among her major international projects are Lynda Benglis traveling shows, Yayoi Kusama traveling shows, Anyang Public Art Project (APAP) (2007); Valencia Biennale (Venice, 2005); “Flower Power” (Lille, 2004); Asia Culture Center, and artistic director for common space area along with Franck Gautherot, 2014-2016. She was made Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of France in July 2022.
 
Her skills cover curatorial practices, strategy development, and international networking, shaped by her multicultural background, spanning Korea, the USA, to Italy, and France. She has published a number of interviews and critical analyses in catalogue and magazines…

Zhang Yao

Zhang Yao studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts from 2008 to 2015, earning a Bachelor's degree in Art History and a Master's degree in Fine Arts. She joined UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in 2021 and currently serves as Assistant Curator and Project Manager. She lives and works in Shanghai.

As a curator, Zhang’s recent exhibitions include “Improvised Drift: New Directions in Ceramics” (UCCA Clay, Yixing, 2025); “The Ways of Clay: Select Award-Winning Works from the International Ceramics Festival Mino of the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan” (UCCA Clay, Yixing, 2024); and “World Weather Network – Zhao Xiaoxiao: Cloud Atlas” (theTANG, Qinhuangdao, 2022); among others.

As a Project Manager at UCCA, she has overseen major exhibitions including “Ahmed Mater: Antenna” (UCCA Edge, Shanghai, 2025); “Matisse by Matisse” (UCCA Edge, Shanghai, 2023); and “Modern Time: Masterpieces from the Collection of Museum Berggruen / Nationalgalerie Berlin” (UCCA Edge, Shanghai, 2023); among others.

In addition to her curatorial practice, Zhang is a writer whose articles and essays have appeared in publications including Wallpaper*, The Art Newspaper China, and Art China.

Pierre Emile Pralus (Principal Lender and Collector)

Pierre Emile Pralus is among the generation that rediscovered the French decorative arts of the 1950s, taking an interest in designers whom the war and the hardships of the immediate postwar period had silenced, but who were finally able to express themselves: Prouvé, Perriand, Mouille, Royère, Jouve, and Capron, to name just a few.
 
In 2006, drawing on his close friendship with Serge Mouille, Pierre Emile Pralus published *Serge Mouille, a French Classic*, a definitive work on this designer.
Although Accolay ceramics had long been found at flea markets and auctions, little was known about their origins or history. Their remarkable diversity of designs and the diversity of inspirations behind them often left observers perplexed.
Intrigued, Pierre Emile Pralus undertook extensive research into the history and Accolay ceramics at a time when no archival records existed.
Working closely with former participants, collectors, galleries, and auction houses, he conducted interviews and assembled a comprehensive visual record of surviving works.
 
The culmination of this research is an upcoming publication tracing the history of the Potiers d'Accolay—a remarkable story of artistic experimentation, entrepreneurship, and collective endeavor. Featuring several hundred photographs, the volume offers the most comprehensive survey to date of their work, with particular attention to its most original creations.

matali crasset (Exhibition Designer)

matali crasset is an internationally renowned French designer. She has defended design as an artistic, anthropological, and social practice ever since graduating from the ENSCI-Les Ateliers. She strives to place design at the service of creativity, people, and everyday life. “How can design contribute to our community and help us navigate the contemporary world?” This is the simple yet engaged premise, from which she thinks and sets everything in motion. For the past 30 years, she has been inventing her singular path, undertaking hundreds of projects within the fields of architecture, exhibition and furniture design, public spaces, and urban planning.
 
Her works have been exhibited in France and abroad. They are part of important museum design collections, including the MoMA’s, New York, and the Centre Pompidou’s, Paris.
 
Her design without borders expresses her deep conviction that any creative process is first and foremost human, social, and ecological. The purposes of any project doesn’t lie on its sole realization, but the process it implements and its capacity to forge links, create a system of exchange and reciprocity between individuals within a given environment. From this perspective, all projects ultimately turn into a collaborative effort.

 
Rena Kudoh (Artist)

Rena Kudoh (b. 1994, Miyagi Prefecture) graduated in 2017 with a BFA in Oil Painting from the Department of Fine Arts at Tohoku University of Art & Design. Without a fixed base, she works while moving from place to place. Drawing on a personal sense of chaos—formed by anonymous memories gathered through travel, lingering sensations from childhood, and dream images that emerge abruptly—she creates works across multiple media, including painting, ceramics, and drawing. Her practice gives rise to peripheral worlds that feel familiar yet belong nowhere.
 
Her recent solo exhibitions include: “One alone, Two hugs. All three of us together. Filleted” at (VOU / Bou, Japan,2022); “Un-public mother and child” (Shiogama Sugimura Jun Museum of Art, Japan, 2022); “The rats listen to the night” at myheirloom, Japan, 2023); and “be your dog” (Tosei Kyoto Gallery, Japan, 2023). Group exhibitions include: “How to Make Friends” (Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan, 2023). In 2025, she installed three public sculptures as part of the official projects commemorating the 1300th anniversary of the historic site of Tagajō.
 
From October 2025, she will spend one year in Mexico as a recipient of the Overseas Study Grant from the Pola Art Foundation.

Geng Xue (Artist)

Geng Xue (b. 1983, Jilin, China) graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Department of Sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 and earned a master's degree from the printmaking department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2014. She teaches in the Department of Sculpture at Central Academy of Fine Arts. She has participated in: the China Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019; the 21st Sydney Biennale, 2018; the Parallel Exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017; and the Busan Biennale, 2014. Geng has been invited to participate in artist residency programs at the Gwangju Yijae Museum, South Korea; the Seto City Art Museum, Japan; the Fire Works Ceramic Studio, Cardiff, UK; the National Sculpture Factory, Ireland; as well as residencies in Berlin and Paris. She has also participated in inter-university exchange and visiting programs at West Virginia University, USA, and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany.

Her works in ceramics, sculpture, painting, and video are in the collections of institutions including the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China; Henan Museum, China; Wuhan Art Museum, China; Zhuzhong Art Museum, China; M+ Museum (Uli Sigg Collection), Hong Kong, China; National Museum Wales, UK; Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, USA, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea, Seto City Art Museum, Japan; White Rabbit Gallery, Australia; Royal Delft Museum, the Netherlands; Simon Fraser University Library, Canada; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; and Powerhouse Museum, Australia. Her video works have been selected for exhibitions such as “A Hundred Years of Chinese Animation: Wanlai Ming Documentary Exhibition — Special Screening at the Chinese Independent Animation Film Forum”; the 11th IZDANJE 25FPS Film Festival; “Here Out There,” the HAFF International Animation Film Festival, the Netherlands; and the ANČA International Animation Film Festival, Slovakia.

Sun Yue (Artist)

Sun Yue (b. 1991, Liaoning, China) graduated with a BA in Fashion Design from the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University in 2013, and received an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York, in 2017. In 2018, she founded Key-Craft Ceramics Studio, where she has continued her independent ceramic practice. She currently lives and works between Jingdezhen, China, and Tamba-Sasayama, Japan.

Selected exhibitions include:“How Long Is the Silk Road?” (Dunhuang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2026); “Louis Vuitton Maison Art Collection Project” (Taikoo Li Sanlitun, Beijing, 2025–present); “The Gate of All Things: The Vanishing Exhibition, Act V” (Zhi Art Museum, Chengdu, 2025); “Trajectories of Matter” (Common Art Center, Beijing, 2024); “Journey of Porcelain: Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale 2023” (Jingdezhen, 2023); “Echo” (two-person exhibition with Pan Xiaorong, BLANK Gallery, Shanghai, 2023); “The Forehead of the World” (two-person exhibition with Zhang Xiaoying, Xiansuo, Shanghai, 2022); “Happy Times Are Not Always Short-Lived” (two-person exhibition with Qin Yuling, Gallery Where, Beijing, 2022); “Spring Blooming” (BLANK Gallery, Shanghai, 2022); “Curves and Straight Lines: The Twinship of Art and Design” (Zhenbao Art Foundation, Shanghai, 2022); Wallpaper* Dossier: “Co-Made Collaborative Project” (Shanghai, 2022); “Mingzhou on Ceramics 2022: Ningbo International (China–Japan–Korea) Exhibition of Contemporary Young Ceramic Artists” (China Port Museum, Ningbo, 2022); “Natural Forms” (20C Gallery, Shanghai, 2022); “Flower Beds in Reflection” (Doya Space, Hangzhou, 2021); “Loewe Artbox Shanghai” (Shanghai, 2020); “The Book of Sand” (NAYUN, Hangzhou, 2020); “notSHOWROOM” (Xiansuo, Shanghai, 2020); “Pebbles Growing” (Sleepcenter Gallery, New York, 2018); and “Second Nature” (Westbeth Gallery, New York, 2017), among others.