Independent curator · Shanghai

Making room for
restless pictures.

Lena is an independent curator, b. 2000, based in Shanghai. Since 2022 she has staged fifteen projects across galleries, art fairs and public space — solo and group exhibitions, city commissions, and the odd charity gala.

Currently — graduate study, East China Normal University

Index

2022 – 2025 · Fifteen projects

  1. 01 2024–25 Roaming in the Paracosm Cub_ism_ Artspace, Shanghai Solo exhibition A wide view of the gallery: paintings across three walls reflected in a mirror-polished floor, a small sculpture on a plinth. View project

    Fifteen paintings and a clutter of cat sculptures, hung as three rooms — the one project on this index you can still walk through.

  2. 02 2024 Forbes Year-End Gala — Charity Auction Shanghai Charity auction
  3. 03 2024 DREAM xiànchǎng West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai Art fair
  4. 04 2024 Return to Landscape: What We Perceive and What We Construct Cub_ism_ Artspace, Shanghai Group exhibition
  5. 05 2024 Habitat Art Season — Birds Returning Home Gemdale Weixin × Wuji, Shenzhen Public art
  6. 06 2024 Public Sculpture Project Wuxi Lihu Eco-Design Festival, Wuxi Public art
  7. 07 2024 Hello Paracosm — Artist Afternoon Tea Gao Mei Hotel art project, Shanghai Artist event
  8. 08 2024 Painting’s Little Era 33ml offspace, Shanghai Group exhibition
  9. 09 2023 West Bund Art & Design Cub_ism_ Artspace, Shanghai Art fair
  10. 10 2023 The Gazed Cub_ism_ Artspace, Shanghai Group exhibition
  11. 11 2023 Figaro Style Gala — Artist Friend Beijing Artist event
  12. 12 2023 Multiple Refraction: The Ghost of Modernism Cub_ism_ Artspace, Shanghai Group exhibition
  13. 13 2023 Bobo Rabbit — Public Art Bund Daimaru, Shanghai Public art
  14. 14 2023 Birds Returning Home — Public Art China Shanghai Int’l Arts Festival Public art
  15. 15 2022 West Bund Art & Design Cub_ism_ Artspace, Shanghai Art fair

Approach

A show is an argument made with someone else’s work — and the room, its pacing, its pairings, its silences, is how the argument gets made.

Lena works with artists at the beginning of their public lives, building exhibitions where personal memory and public event share a wall, and staying with the work from studio visit to install.

About Lena