Davide Quadrio 乐大豆

After founding and managing for a decade BizArt Art Centre in Shanghai, the first not for profit independent creative lab in the city, he created in 2007 Arthub (www.arthubasia.org) a platform to organize, curate and support artistic endeavors in Asia. With BizArt and its team, and now with Arthub, he organized hundreds of exhibitions, educational activities and exchanges in China and abroad, developing relationships with local and foreign institutions worldwide. Quadrio has been consulting Bund18 Creative Space (2005-2008) curating shows such as Vivienne Westwood’s Exhibition together with V&A, the Droog Design exhibition tour China (Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing) and the solo exhibition by Olivo Barbieri, during the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. In the international arena he curated shows worldwide among others the 9th Biennale 2012, organizing the Inter-city Pavilions (30 cities worldwide with over 100 artists participating) within this project he curated Palermo, Istanbul and Bandung’s pavilions; Survival Techniques (Chulalongkorn University Art Gallery, Bangkok, 2011 and Mocp, Chicago 2012), Shcontemporary special projects (featuring artists such as Jennifer Wenma, Zhang Enli, Fx Harsono, Yto Barrada, Shilpa Gupta, Raqs media Collective and more, 2011-2012), Artissima Cinema in the Museum of Cinema, Turin (with Defne Ayas, 2007-2008) and in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi with the show China! China!China which toured to Sainsbury Art Center (2009). Davide organized a 5 days public art event for the Earts festival, October 2008 in the heart of Shanghai, Xujiahui district featuring artists such as Takeshi Murata, Feng Mengbo and Christian Marclay. In 2009, following the financial crises, Davide created an art production company called Far East Far West LTD to finance new artworks by artists in China and Asia (first production Cao Fei’s “RMB City Opera” in Turin, November 2009, the collection is now available to general public in the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago). Davide has been often invited by Universities such as Leiden University (the Netherlands), La Sapienza (Italy) and East Anglia University (UK), Academy of Fine Arts of Seoul (Korea), Frie Universitaat (Berlin), Cini Foundation (Venice) just to mention few, for lectures, workshops and presentation. Articles written by Davide appeared in various magazines, newspapers and catalogues worldwide, such as Yishu Journal, Flash Art, Artforum etc. and several academic publications. From 2011 Davide is a host lecturer at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Fudan University.

Francesca Girelli

After more than five years of professional experience in the art market, working in Ireland, Spain and in the UK as a specialist and auctioneer, Francesca Girelli is currently based in Shanghai. As part of the team of Arthub Asia, a not-for-profit organization that supports contemporary art creation in China and internationally, Francesca works as Researcher and Project Manager, carrying out research on Asian Art and cross cultural curating practices, and assisting in the development of curatorial projects.In 2012 she was part of the core team that coordinated and organized the City Pavilions Project, an integral and innovative section of the 9th Shanghai Biennale that featured curatorial interventions of 30 cities from all around the world.