IBA Stage: 8th Yokohama Triennale – Liu Ding

Photo by OHNO Ryusuke. Photo courtesy of Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale

IBA Stage: 8th Yokohama Triennale
May 8, 2024 (Wednesday)
4:00 pm (Yokohama/GMT+6)

We are thrilled to announce the participation of Liu Ding, Curator of “Wild Grass: Our Lives” 8th Yokohama Triennale to our upcoming IBA Stage event! As both an artist and curator his perspective on the making of the exhibition concept of this major show will certainly provide us with a rich and personal reading of this experience. Having already taken part in numerous biennials, among which Istanbul Biennale in 2015, Prospect New Orleans in 2014, Taipei Biennial in 2012and the Chinese Pavillion at the 2009 53rd Venice Biennale, Ding clearly has a long and profound experience of this exhibition model and we look forward to hearing more about how this affected his curatorial decisions for this year’s edition of the Yokohama Triennale.

Liu Ding is an artist and a curator. Born 1976 in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province and now based in Beijing. He creates artworks using text, photography, installation, painting, performance and other media based on his research into the interplay between art, culture, and politics in modern and contemporary Chinese history. His recent solo exhibition includes “Reef: A prequel,” Bonnefanten, Maastricht (2015). He’s participated in biennales including Busan Biennale (2018), Yinchuan Biennale (2018), Istanbul Biennial (2015), Asia Pacific Triennial (2015), Prospect 3 New Orleans (2014), Shanghai Biennale (2014), Taipei Biennial (2012), Chinese Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennial (2009), Media City Seoul (2008) and Guangzhou Triennale (2005). He’s participated in major group shows including “Discordant Harmony,” Art Sonje Center, Seoul / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art / Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2015-16); “By Artists: From the Home to the Museum, from the Museum to the Home. Homages to the Works of the Cerruti Collection,” Castello di Rivoli (2019) and “Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War,” HKW Berlin (2018). In 2015, he joined Tate’s online festival “BMW Performance Room” in London.

As always IBA Stage events are meant as a moment to hear about a project through its makers and have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session at the end of the presentation.

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