📅 Thursday, 4 September 2025, at 18:00
🎟️ Registration fee 2 EUR, register here
🗣️ The lecture will be held in English
Curating contemporary art today goes far beyond selecting and hanging works. Spatial curating treats space itself as a storytelling medium – combining narrative, sensory experience, and spatial design to turn exhibitions into immersive, participatory environments. This approach engages audiences intellectually and emotionally, transforming passive viewing into active connection.
In this talk, curator and artistic director Junyu Wen will share insights from her projects in China and internationally, showing how architecture, light, sound, and scenography can activate space and invite deeper engagement. Drawing on recent exhibitions – including 东方草木 (Eastern Plants and Trees), which challenges stereotypes about China and explores questions of identity – Junyu will discuss how multi-sensory storytelling fosters empathy, reflection, and dialogue. She will also reflect on broader trends in contemporary Chinese art, where rapid urban transformation and cultural exchange inspire innovative, site-responsive curatorial approaches.
The lecture will further explore the creative process behind spatial curating, its collaborative, interdisciplinary nature, and its potential to serve as a catalyst for meaningful cultural exchange.
About lector
Junyu Wen is a spatial storyteller, curator, and researcher working at the intersection of art, architecture, and narrative design. She holds a Master’s in Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins (London) and a Bachelor’s in Interior Architecture and Design from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing). Her projects range from art biennales to experimental installations, exploring memory, identity, urbanism, and sensory perception.
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