Liu Yi (Yve)

Liu Yi is a curator at the Exhibition and Academic Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, where she has been working since 2016. She graduated in Art History from the University of Sussex (UK) in 2013 and has contributed to the realization and curation of more than forty exhibitions, focusing in particular on the study of the museum’s collections and the exchanges between Chinese and Western art and culture. Her work also includes the translation and dissemination of academic materials and international projects.
MOCA Yinchuan is the first major museum of contemporary art in Northwestern China. Situated on the outskirts of the city, it engages in dialogue with the farmlands nourished by the Yellow River and lies not far from the border with Mongolia. Designed by the architectural studio WAA (We Architect Anonymous), the very form of the building recalls the folds of the earth, shaped over millennia by the erosion of riverbeds. From the vast natural park that surrounds it to the sculptures at its entrance, the museum creates a fluid transition between natural space and art space. For this reason, the relationship with the surrounding landscape and with the human and more-than-human communities inhabiting the farmlands around the institution is one of the guiding axes of the museum’s pedagogical and artistic programming.
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