Kim MacHan

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About Kim MacHan

Kim Machan is founding director of MAAP-Media Art Asia Pacific and has developed curatorial projects in Australia and the Asia regions through this organisation from 1998 to the present. Machan has pioneered collaborative cultural partnerships with arts organizations and governments throughout the Asia regions to produce and curate major exhibitions, festivals, public art programs and innovative art projects. She has negotiated complex projects working with museums, galleries, contemporary art spaces, universities and non-traditional art settings in Australia and the Asia Pacific regions. In China, Machan has been able to take MAAP’s exhibitions into a range of institutions, including the China Millennium Monument Art Museum, National Art Museum of China, National Library of China, and China Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), Hangzhou Library, Shanghai Library, and Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou. In 2002, she curated (with Fan Di'an)'MAAP in Beijing: MOIST’, the first museum new media art exhibition presented in China. In 2008, she was curatorial advisor to ‘Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008’ at the National Art Museum of China, which was a Beijing Olympics Cultural Project and 'Thingworld' 2014 also at the National Art Museum of China. Recent projects include ‘Light from Light’ that won the highly distinguished Australian Arts in Asia Award for Visual Arts in 2013 and ‘LANDSEASKY: Revisiting Spatiality in Video Art’ that toured major museums and galleries in Seoul, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Sydney and Brisbane through 2014-2015. In 2016-2017, curator of ‘Zhang Peili: from painting to video’ with Olivier Krischer at the Australian Centre for China in the World, Canberra. In 2020 she curated a major exhibition 'Refocusing on the Medium: the rise of East Asia Video Art' opening in OCAT Shanghai art museum China, and touring to Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, China. She has a PhD specialising in curatorial practice, concerning the rise of video art in East Asia.