Students from 2023
With an engineer background, he has an interest in the exercise of scientific language in exhibitions, especially how curators reshape scientific concepts unintentionally or intentionally. He found this freedom in a society heavily policed by so-called scientific truth and aim to initiate a same confrontation in his own shows. Working in energy industry and trained with computer science, he has focused on exhibitions about Anthropocene and AI application recently. ‘I would like to point out the nuances when artists talk about science because most of the time nobody in the art field would notice,’ he says.
Gena Haensel (b. Amsterdam) holds an undergraduate degree in Art & Aesthetics from Bard College Berlin, a Liberal Arts University. During her time in college, she participated in an exchange program at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Besides her academic endeavors, Gena has worked for various institutions and companies operating in the field of art and culture, such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Artek and Société. She is currently active as an independent writer, living between Taipei and Berlin.
Born in Italy, Anna Lisa has been living in Asia (Hong Kong, Beijing, Osaka, Karachi and Taipei) for over 20 years. In recent years she has been engaged in a broad range of cultural activities which have also included curating a photographic book on Milan, participating in personal and collective photographic exhibitions in Taiwan, in Japan and in the PRC.
Previously, she obtained a PhD in Politics, a Master in Security Studies and a BA in Political Science.
Phan Thi Xuan Quynh (Quinn) is a contemporary Vietnamese value creator and researcher whose curatorial practice delves into the realms of bodily experience, memory, and artefacts. Through her work, Quinn seeks to create a hospitable space where the identity of objects is reconstructed and body awareness is heightened. Her interests encompass live art, moving image, text, and mixed media installation.
Prior to her focus on the Arts, Quinn earned a BA in Marketing from VNU-HCM University of Economics and Law and an International MBA from Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan. In Summer 2024, Quinn co-founded The Kitchen Collective with three fellow creatives Daisy Bailey, Nguyen Thi Hue, and James A.Holland.
Hue holds her B.A. in Art and Media Studies at Fulbright University Vietnam and briefly worked at Nguyen Art Foundation in Saigon, Vietnam. Her areas of interest include Asian art, new materialism, and Vietnamese socialist animation. As a graduate student at CCSCA, Hue aspires to learn Mandarin and delve deeper into Taiwanese art.