Yang Beichen is a curator and scholar of film and contemporary art. He is currently a member of the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada (Milan and Venice), a guest researcher at the New Century Art Foundation (Beijing and Shanghai), and a contributing editor of Artforum China. He lectures on film and media studies at the Central Academy of Drama (Beijing). His curatorial practices correspond with his multidisciplinary academic approaches, as in his exhibtions New Metallurgists (Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf), Earthbound Cosmology (Qiao Space, Shanghai), Micro-Era (Nationalgalerie, Berlin). He curated three research-based exhibitions at the New Century Contemporary Art Foundation from 2019 to 2021: Anti-Projection: Media Sculptures in Early Chinese Video Art, Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art, Polyphonic Strategies: The Moving Image and its Expanded Field. His recent projects include co-curating the Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021 (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou), and participating as researcher-at-large in the exhibition project Socialist Realism at the V-A-C Foundation (Moscow). He has contributed critical essays for the catalogues of artists such as Cao Fei, Laure Prouvost, Omer Fast, and Ho Tzu Nyen among others.