Professor Anna CY Chan
Professor Anna CY Chan, Director of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, is a visionary leader with an unparalleled combination of artistic excellence, extensive management experience, and a vast industry network.
In her 35 years of advancing performing arts and arts education, Professor Chan is renowned for her transformative leadership and has established a distinguished career that encompasses academia, arts administration, performance, production, and international collaboration. Her accolades include the Hong Kong Dance Award (2004, 2019, 2023), City Contemporary Dance Laureate (2016), Distinguished Achievement Award from the Hong Kong Dance Awards (2018), and AmCham’s Women of Influence Awards (2024).
Song Dong
Song Dong was born in Beijing in 1966. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in 1989 and now lives and works in Beijing. Song Dong’s distinctive artistic language is rooted in his open-ended practice and permeated with Eastern philosophies, garnering him wide attention and acclaim in the international art world.
Since the early 1990s, Song has been actively engaged in the development of Chinese contemporary art with numerous groundbreaking event-based art activities. His diverse practice spans performance, video, installation, photography, conceptual painting, and theatre, and he has curated exhibitions and events. He specialises in utilising folkloric and mundane language in everyday life and culture to create inclusive dialogues under globalisation, seamlessly synthesising profound ideas with sensual experiences. Song’s work discusses the relationship between life and art through an Eastern lens and explores the transient nature of the human condition, practicing his art and living his life with the idea of “no boundaries.”
Song Dong’s exhibition history includes the Sao Paulo Biennale (2025, 2004), Documenta13 ( 2012), Venice Biennale (2011), and solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Groninger Museum (Groningen), the Kunsthalle (Dusseldorf), the Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), among others. He is an award-winning artist, whose works are in important collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), M+ (Hong Kong), and the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation (Switzerland) .