Hanlu Zhang

Independent Curator, Writer
Guangzhou, China

Hanlu Zhang is a writer and curator whose work examines migration – not only as a subject of inquiry, but as a lived experience. In 2020, she founded Social Practice Lab (SPL), a platform that curates socially engaged art and initiates collaborative projects. She previously worked as a curator at Guangdong Times Museum and as an editor at ARTFORUM China.

Her past exhibitions include:

• Rebel Cities (Yang Arts Museum, Beijing, 2017), which explored spatial politics and urban planning.
• Bicycle Thieves (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2019), which examined the relationship between technology and labor.
• He Who Sees Everything, Knows Everything, Is Everything (Up&Coming section, Gallery Weekend Beijing, 2020), which investigated spirituality and alternative forms of knowledge.
• River Pulses, Border Flows (Guangdong Times Museum, 2022), which showcased artistic practices around four transboundary rivers in Southeast Asia.

She also contributed to the curatorial teams of Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence (Chengdu, 2018) and Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human (Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019).

 

LOST CONTACT

A cross-city and online program that explores the shifting nature of love, connection, and solitude in contemporary life. Through personal narratives, public gatherings, and experimental practices, LOST CONTACT opens space for reflection on how relationships are formed – and fractured – amid changing bodies, politics, and technologies.