Nikita Yingqian Cai

Nikita Yingqian Cai lives and works in Guangzhou, where she is currently Chief Curator at Guangdong Times Museum. She has curated exhibitions such as A Museum That is Not (2011), Jiang Zhi: If This is a Man (2012), You Can Only Think about Something if You Think of Something Else (2014), Roman Ondák: Storyboard (2015), Big Tail Elephants: One Hour, No Room, Five Shows (2016), A Man Who Never Threw Anything Away (2017) and Omer Fast: The Invisible Hand (2018). Her recent curatorial research and practice focus on issues of gender, alternative modernity, and transnational trajectories between China and the global south, presented in the latest exhibition Pan Yuliang: A Journey to Silence (Villa Vassilieff in Paris and Guangdong Times Museum, 2017) and the research initiative All the Way South. She is also organizing the para-curatorial series at Guangdong Times Museum, which features an annual discursive platform and has covered topics such as No Ground Underneath: Curating on the Nexus of Changes (2012), Active Withdrawal: Weak Institutionalism and the Institutionalization of Art Practice (co-organized with Biljana Ciric, 2013), Cultivate or Revolutionize? Life between Apartment and Farmland (co-organized with Binna Choi, 2014), Between Knowing and Unknowing: Research in-and-through Art (2015), Reciprocal Encounters: The Enactment of Collecting and Its Modes of Representation (2016), and In the Name of Archive_Re-imagining History as Contemporary Art Practice (2017). Her writings have appeared in a number of publications and magazines, and she is a contributing writer to LEAP, Artforum.com.cn, Arttime, and Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.

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