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Yasmin Afschar
Yasmin Afschar (she/her) is a Swiss-Iranian curator, editor, and producer for contemporary visual and discursive arts, who is normally based in Zurich. She studied Art History, Persian Literature, and Visual Anthropology in Zurich and Berlin. She is the former curator at Aargauer Kunsthaus and together with Giola Dal Molin and Gabrielle Schaad, she has been running the discussion platform LE FOYER – IN PROCESS since 2018. She was recently appointed as a mediator for German-speaking Switzerland by the international initiative New Patrons supporting public art project commissioned by citizens. Exhibitions Yasmin organized include “Emma Kunz Cosmos. A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art” (Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2021 & Tabakalera, San Sebastián 2022) as well as solo exhibitions with Denise Bertschi, Cédric Eisenring, and Marie Matusz, among others. Recent edited volumes include Emma Kunz Cosmos (2021) and Denise Bertschi. Strata. Mining Silence (2020). She is the winner of the first Young Curator Residency founded by Asia Society Switzerland, administered in partnership with Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hongkong.
Eunice Tsang
Eunice Tsang (she/her) is a curator, artist, researcher and journalist based in Hong Kong. She founded and curates Current Plans (previously known as Present Projects), an experimental art space that encourages cross-disciplinary dialogues through exhibition-making. Previously, she set up the Asian Artist Book Library in Tai Kwun Contemporary, focussing her research on independent publishing and modes of creative distribution. Her curatorial interests lie in how artists develop new languages and symbols in times of political change, and how to manoeuvre the liminal space between legal and illegal, fact and fiction - using magic-realism, sarcasm, humour and myth-making.