ShContemporary 10 | Organizers
ShContemporary is organized by a strong team of leading experts in the field of modern and contemporary art, international art fairs, and trade show business:
BolognaFiere SpA, organizer
One of Europe’s leading fair organizers and experts in large-scale exclusive lifestyle fairs. Headquartered in Bologna, Italy, it has branches in the US, Russia and particularly China, where it has become one of the main foreign trade show organizers. ShContemporary is promoted and organised by BF International Fairs srl, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bolognafiere SpA, in cooperation with Bolognafiere’s operational companies in Italy (Fairsystem S.p.A.) and in Shanghai (Bolognafiere Shanghai Exhibition ltd). The fair is also organized in cooperation with Shanghai International Cultural communication Association (SICCA), Shanghai Art Fair Organization Committee and Eastern Shanghai International Culture Film & Television Group
Colin Chinnery, fair director
An artist and curator based in Beijing, he has been engaged for many years with bringing experimental contemporary culture in dialogue with a wider audience in China, creating shows such as Sound and the City, the first major sound art project in China, and Aftershock, a survey of contemporary British art. Previously as Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), he was instrumental in setting up China’s largest private contemporary art institution.