The Office for.... Multipolarity

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Mi You is a curator and professor of Art and Economies at the University of Kassel / documenta Institut. She works between ancient and futuristic imaginaries of societies and technologies, and the history, political theory and philosophy of Eurasia. Her most recent exhibitions include the 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-2021) and“Lonely Vectors” at Singapore Art Museum (2022).

At the newly founded documenta Institut, associated with documenta, in Kassel, Germany, she leads the research on alternative value systems, the social value of art, and ideological regroupings in art and culture and incubates projects on “upstreaming art” as well as on sustainable cultural funding policies. On the social front, she serves as chair of committee on Media Arts and Technology for the transnational NGO Common Action Forum. She was named “40 under 40” Asia Pacific by the international art magazine Apollo in 2022.

During her BI fellowship, she will help develop the institute’s program on intellectual and cultural dialogues between Europe and China on issues with planetary dimensions.


‘The Office for…’ is a new series of artistic and discursive programmes exploring what might be possible if the criteria of ‘contemporary art’ are displaced, temporarily, by alternative frameworks which open up for a multitude of perspectives in one of events such as talks, gatherings, lectures, workshops, screenings, etc. OCA invites people, initiatives, institutions, and organisations that are contributing and inspiring to expand the possibilities of thought, knowledge, and action throughout the planet.