ATM 6 Convenors
Reframed as convenors, ATM’s curators foster a model rooted in shared thinking, experimentation, and international dialogue.
Curatorial Assembly
Hongjohn Lin
Hongjohn Lin is an artist, writer, and curator, and Professor at Taipei University of the Arts. He earned his Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities from New York University. Lin has participated in major exhibitions including Taipei Biennial (2004, 2012), the Manchester Asian Triennial 2008, Rotterdam Film Festival (2008), Guangzhou Triennial (2015), and China Asia Biennial (2014). He curated the Taiwan Pavilion Atopia at the Venice Biennale (2007), co-curated the 2010 Taipei Biennial with Tirdad Zolghadr, and led projects such as The Good Place (Taizhong, 2002) and Live Ammo (2012). He is co-curator of ATM 6: Transvaluation (2025).
Henk Slager
Henk Slager is Senior Lecturer in Artistic Research at Utrecht University of the Arts and a visiting professor at Uniarts Helsinki. He co-initiated the European Artistic Research Network (EARN) in 2004, exploring the impact of artistic research on contemporary art education. Slager has co-produced numerous curatorial projects including the 7th Shanghai Biennale (2008), the Research Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2015–2019), the 5th Guangzhou Triennial (2016), and Farewell to Research at the 9th Bucharest Biennial (2020–2021). His work bridges research, education, and curatorial practice, focusing on the evolving role of artistic inquiry in contemporary art.
Miya Yoshida
Miya Yoshida is Professor of Artistic Research and Head of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung (ZFF) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Based in Vienna, she is a curator, art theorist, and cultural practitioner developing projects rooted in artistic research. Yoshida has co-curated ATM 6: Transvaluation (2025), and previous projects include Listening to the Stones (Kunsthaus Dresden, 2021–22), Sharing as Caring (Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2012–2018), and Each Line Is A Crime (Archive Kabinett, Berlin, 2018). She has published widely, including Towards (Im)Measurability of Art and Life (2018) and Listening to the Stones (2023), contributing to contemporary art theory and aesthetics.
Kalen Lee
Kalen Lee (LEE Wing Ki, b.1981) is an independent artist, curator, and researcher based in London and Hong Kong. His practice spans documentary photography, archival research, media archaeology, and contemporary analogue photographic work. Lee’s research explores East-Asian photographic practices, queer studies, and critical digital humanities. He has exhibited internationally, including Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Latvia, Taiwan, the UK, and the US. Educated at the University of Hong Kong and London College of Communication (MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, Chevening Scholar), he founded the artist collective LOVE (2021), supporting queer and gender non-binary communities in the arts.
Yusaku Imamura
Yusaku Imamura is an architect, curator, producer, and educator, serving as Vice President and Professor of Global Art Practice at Tokyo University of the Arts. He was founding director of Tokyo Wonder Site and Special Counsellor for Cultural Policy to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, where he helped establish Arts Council Tokyo and launch initiatives including Festival/Tokyo and Roppongi Art Night. Imamura has advised institutions worldwide, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Tensta Konsthall (Sweden), and PMQ (Hong Kong). He also directs the Center for Curatorial Studies at Tokyo University of the Arts, overseeing international collaborations such as the Inter-University Exchange Project.
Sarah James
Sarah E. James is Professor of Visual Culture at Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. An art historian, critic and occasional curator, her research focuses on contemporary art, photography, and the visual cultures of the Cold War. She has authored two monographs including ‘Common Ground: German Photographic Cultures Across the Iron Curtain’ (Yale, 2013) and ‘Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde’ (MIT, 2022). James curated ‘The Turner Prize 2022’, at Tate Liverpool, and co-curated ‘Anti-Social Art: Experimental Practices in Late East Germany’ (2022). She has published over 90 reviews and essays in the international art press, and has collaborated on international research projects with institutions including MoMA, Reina Sofia, and HKW Berlin. Her new book project explores ‘Art in an Age of Disaster’.
Anna Bergqvist
Anna Bergqvist is Reader in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she also serves as Postgraduate Research Coordinator. Her work bridges moral philosophy, moral psychology, and philosophy of psychiatry, focusing on moral perception and co-production as tools for social change. Bergqvist is Director of the Values-Based Theory Network at St Catherine’s Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice, University of Oxford, and holds leadership roles in professional bodies including the World Psychiatric Association and the Royal College of Psychiatry. She has been a Visiting Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, and serves as External Examiner at the University of Liverpool, contributing to philosophy and ethics at national and international levels.
Exhibition Team
Clare Chun-yu Liu
Dr Clare Chun-yu Liu is a UK-based Taiwanese artist filmmaker and researcher. Clare is interested in reviewing history in relation to diasporic experience and postcolonial thinking. In her practice, she explores oral history and lived experience in the form of fiction and nonfiction to challenge the grand narratives. Clare holds a practice-based fine art PhD from Manchester School of Art. Funded by the Vice-Chancellor Scholarship, her doctoral research reinterprets English chinoiserie from a postcolonial and personal/Taiwanese perspective through fiction filmmaking.
Vera Mey
Dr Vera Mey is an art historian and independent curator. She was awarded her PhD from SOAS, University of London. Most recently, she was Co-Artistic Director of the Busan Biennale 2024. Mey co-founded the scholarly journal ‘Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia’(National University of Singapore Press) and was part of the research colloquium ‘The Color Curtain and the Promise of Bandung’ organised by the Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt, and the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California. She was on the founding curatorial team of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, where she led the Residencies Programme. More recently, as an independent curator, she has co-curated and curated exhibitions in Bangkok, Berlin, New Zealand, Paris, Phnom Penh, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Angie Chia-Lin Lee
Angie Chia-Lin Lee is an independent curator based in Taipei. She graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University and the Institute of Contemporary Art & Social Thoughts at the China Academy of Art. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. Her research focuses on the culture, media, and art developed and created in the digital era. Lee is the founder of ZIMU CULTURE, a studio dedicated to producing contemporary art exhibitions and publishing books.