PERSONAL STRUCTURES

Hangzhou to Venice: A Contemporary Art, Silk & AI Road – A Group Parallel Exhibitions of the 2026 Venice Biennale hosted by ECC, this project was initiated by Karl Weiming Lu, a Hangzhou born Australian artist and Chief Curator of the Australian Chinese Global Curation Association, which was formed to promote global Chinese and world culture, arts, AI, and science & technology development by a group of international Chinese elites in the fields of humanities, art, design, architecture, AI, science & technology. Karl Lu invited his old friend Prof. Haiyan Wu, a Former Dean of Design School of China Academy to be a Co-Chief Curator the project. Thus, both Karl Lu and Prof. Wu are Co-Chief Curators to curate the whole project. Further, Karl Lu also invited Mr. Ji Peng as a Co-Chief Curator to curate the Contemporary Art sector with Lu himself. Ji Peng is a Beijing based senior curator and a Director of the Contemporary Art Collectors Association of the China Association of Collectors. Meantime, Prof. Wu played the Chief Curator role to curate the Silk Road & Civilization section of the project. Prof. Wu and Karl Lu also co-curated the Hangzhou AI Dragons section of the project.