Hou Hanru

INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE

Hou Hanru is an art curator and critic. He has made Paris and San Francisco his home; however, currently he lives in Rome and has been Artistic Director of MAXXI since December 2013.

Hou’s prolific curatorial work addresses contemporary practice and the conditions of artists living in the diaspora from the perspective of cultural hybridity. He has curated exhibitions in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, including international biennials in Shanghai (2000), Istanbul (2007), the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007), and Lyon (2009). He also curated the 5th Auckland Triennial in 2013.

Hou has been consultant and advisor in many international institutions including Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art (Kumamoto, Japan), De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), Times Museum of Contemporary Art (Guangzhou), Today Art Museum (Beijing), Deutsche Bank Collection (Frankfurt), Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco/Paris), Asian Art Archive (Hong Kong).