We are pleased to announce the appointment of five new trustees to esea contemporary’s Board.
Award-winning designer and partner at CNTRFLD.ART Maria Chen; Petra van den Houten, Director of Development, Marketing and Communications at Liverpool Biennial; Sam Krivinskas, Head of Legal — Treasury & Debt Capital Markets at Together Money; Peter Lin, Director of Operations at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study; and independent arts and culture consultant Stephanie Poon join the UK’s only non-profit art centre specialising in presenting and platforming artists and art practices that identify with and are informed by East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) cultural backgrounds as the organisation approaches its third year as esea contemporary.
We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the Henry Moore Foundation to support the creation of a publication to accompany our forthcoming exhibition Steph Huang: 'There Is Nothing Old Under The Sun.'
The exhibition opens on 28 September and the publication will be launched shortly after in November 2024. Sign up to our newsletter to receive updates about this and our wider artistic programme.
We are delighted to share the news that Xiaowen Zhu, Director of esea contemporary, has been appointed to the British Council's Arts and Creative Economy Advisory group. In this role, Xiaowen will contribute to shaping the organisation's global arts strategy alongside other leading figures in arts and culture.
The Arts and Creative Economy Advisory Group's role is to support the British Council's mission of fostering understanding between the UK and the wider world, advocate for its work, advise on strategy development, keep the Arts leadership team informed of sector developments, provide professional advice, identify opportunities and trends, and establish connections with relevant communities within the arts and creative economy sectors.