呂岱如

Esther Lu was the director of Taipei Contemporary Art Center from 2015 to 2107, and the curator of This is not a Taiwan Pavilion — collateral event in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. She has curated a number of international exhibitions and workshops in Asia and Europe. Her recent curatorial practice involves creating co-learning and innovative mediation strategies for professional workshops and audience experience.

Esther Lu is a curator and writer with a background in literature, art history, activism and curatorial studies. She is interested in formulating conceptual ways of seeing and discursive events crossing art and reality. Many of her projects focuses on interplays of sensibility, body, institution and memory, driven by the curiosity to explore human conditions, boundaries of knowing and how art embodies and exceeds our imagination to address various concerns toward humanity, culture and relevances of life.

• Independent Curatorial Projects (selected)

• 2021

  Workshop Seven Bodies and the Talking Sea, Moss Piglets, an international online workshop

• 2021

  Workshop Moon Salt, a Sci-fi Writing Workshop, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2020

  Workshop Nusantara in the Future Tense, NML Residency and Nusantara Archive Project + soft/WALL/studs, Singapore

• 2020

  Exhibition Listening Eyes, part of Head with Many Thoughts exhibition, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

• 2018

  Workshop Lemon, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2018); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2018); China Academy of Art, Hanzhou (2019); Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei (2020)

• 2018

  Exhibition The Extra Extra Ordinary, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines

• 2017

  Event and Workshop series Salon Spice, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  Exhibition Never Odd or Even, Taipei Artist Village + Not Today magazine paper exhibition, organized by Edouard Malingue Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  Conference MITTing: Art and Cultural Network Forum, organized by OCAC & jiandyin, URS 21, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2013

  Exhibition This is not a Taiwan Pavilion, collateral event in the 55th Venice Biennale organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy

• 2011

  Exhibition A-ma, Camera!, URS 127, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2011

  Exhibition Don’t Brush off What You See, One Year Gallery, MEME, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2008

  Performative Talk Tea Time, ISCP, New York, USA

• 2008

  Exhibition Turntable Series/ Good Gangsters in Town, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2007

  Performance Sound In, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden

• Collaborative Curatorial Projects (selected)

• 2021

  Exhibition The Turn of the Fifth Age, co-curated with Heru Hikayat and Hsu Shih-Yu, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia

• 2019

  Screening + writing workshop hOle, co-curated with GaHee Park, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2017-

  Writing workshop PostSuperFutureAsia, co-curated with Jason Wee, ZK/U, Berlin (2017), Grey Projects, Singapore (2017), Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2018), Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (2019), online Southeast edition hosted by The Arts House, Singapore (2020)

• 2016

  Exhibition Portrait Portrait, co-curated with FANG Yen Hsiang and PENG Jo Ying, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2015

  Exhibition Remastering under the Banyan Tree, co-curated with FANG Yen Hsiang and PENG Jo Ying, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2009

  Fanzine & Events DUET, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2008

  Archive Poll of Push and Pull, ISCP, New York, USA

• 2008

  Event Hot Desk, a project invited by Manifesta 7, Paris, France; Istanbul, Turkey

• 2007

  Exhibition as an Open Office Big Family Business, IMC, Istanbul, Turkey

• 2006

  Screening I don’t know what else to do with myself, AK28, Stockholm, Sweden

• 2006

  Reading Series Treasure Hill Tea + Photo Phase Four – Garden, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2006-2008

  CuratorLab, Konstfack University College of Arts, Design and Crafts, Sweden

• 2001-2002

  Goldsmiths College, MA in History of Art (Twentieth Century), UK

• 1996-2001

  Fu Jen Catholic University, BA in English Literature, Taiwan

• 2015-2017

  Taipei Contemporary Art Center, director

• 2021

  Compass Encompass: Yesterdays Are Tomorrows, editor and writer, Taipei: Taipei Contemporary Art Center

• 2019

  Lemon, editor and writer, self-published

• 2019

  Sweet Fish, editor and writer, Seoul: Mediabus

• 2019

  Runner-up, Sci-fiathon – Fictions of Social Cosmos, Creative Writing Competition, Institute of Network Society, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China