International Awards for Art Criticism（IAAC）

Introduction To The Jury Members
For The IAAC 11 (2025)

Alfredo Cramerotti

Dr. Alfredo Cramerotti holds a PhD in Communications, Design and Photography, He is Director of the Media Majlis Museum at Northwestern Qatar, specialising in contemporary art, media and digital culture. He is also President of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art) and Chair of Digital Strategies for the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris. The theoretical framework for his research integrates perspectives from aesthetic journalism, cultural studies and digital humanities, addressing contemporary debates on the convergence of art and technology. His curatorial practice encompasses major global art initiatives, including Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Cartagena, Spain (2008) and, more recently, Noor Riysdh, Art Dubai Digital, The Lumen Prize and the Maxxi Bulgari Prize. During his time as Senior Curator at Derby QUAD, UK (2008-11) and Director of Mostyn Art Gallery, Wales (2011-23) he organised over 100 institutional exhibitions. He has also co-curated four national and collateral exhibitions (Mauritius, Maldives, Malaysia and Wales) between 2013 and 2023 at the Venice Biennale. He has over 200 published texts to his name and five books, including Aesthetic Journalism (2009), Curating the Image (2020) and (forthcoming) The Possibility of an Image (2025). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Critical Photography book series (Intellect Books).

Ying KWOK

Ying KWOK is the Senior Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary. Prior to her role at Tai Kwun, she worked as an independent curator from 2013 to 2021. Throughout her career, Kwok has worked with a diverse range of art and cultural institutions locally and internationally, from artists’ initiatives to art festivals, public museums and the commercial sector. She continuously synthesises different art forms in contemporary visual art, from site-specific commissions and performances to film and video.

Kwok’s past roles include: Guest Curator for the 5th Audemars Piguet Art Commission: The moon is leaving us by Phoebe Hui; and was the Festival Director of Peer to Peer: UK/HK 2020; Curator for Contagious Cities: Far Away, Too Close for Tai Kwun Contemporary and Wellcome Trust; the Lead Curator of LOOK International Photography Festival 2017; and Curator at M+ for Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief, as Hong Kong’s presentation at the 57th Venice Biennale. Before embarking on her freelancing career, Kwok was the curator at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester, UK, between 2006 and 2012.

In 2014, Kwok was awarded the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship. She is an international fellow in the Clore Leadership Programme 2018/19.

Ning OU

Ning OU is an artist, curator, and writer. His practises in different periods encompass literature, music, film, art, design, architecture, urban research, utopian study, rural reconstruction, and geographical soundscape. He is the director of two documentaries, San Yuan Li (2003) and Meishi Street (2006); he was the Chief Curator of the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (2009); the founding Editor-in-Chief of the literary bimonthly Chutzpah! (2010-2014); and the initiator and practitioner of the Bishan Project (2011-2016). He taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University in 2016-2017 and has been a senior researcher at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR, Boston and Helsinki) since 2019. He moved to New York in 2022, and initiated the ISOGLOSS Collective in 2024, which will launch a multilingual online magazine, ISOGLOSS Review, in 2025.

Filipa Ramos

Filipa Ramos, PhD, is a Lisbon-born writer and curator whose research investigates art's relationship to ecology. She is Lecturer at the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, and Artistic Director of Loop, a Festival dedicated to artist’s films, spread out across the cultural and artistic venues of Barcelona. Ramos curated BESTIARI, the Catalan representation at the 60th Biennale di Venezia (2024). She co-founded the online artists’ cinema Vdrome. She runs the art and science festival The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Lucia Pietroiusti, with whom she also curated Songs for the Changing Seasons for the first Klima Biennale Wien (2024) and Persones Persons (8th Biennale Gherdëina, 2022). In 2021, she co-curated Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Ramos was Editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism (2013–20), Associated Editor of Manifesta Journal (2009–11) and contributed to Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/ MIT Press, 2016). Her upcoming book, The Artist as Ecologist (Lund Humphreys, 2025), discusses the ways in which contemporary artists embrace environmentalism.

Bernhard Schulz

Bernhard Schulz was born in Berlin (West) in 1953 and studied first Economics and Political Science, then Art History at the Free University from 1969 to 1971.

He was Assistant to the curatorial team for the Council of Europe’s 15th exhibition, Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre (Tendencies of the 20’s) in 1977. Since then, he has worked as Co-Curator for major exhibition projects, incl. Ich und die Stadt (I and the City) for the 750th Anniversary of the City of Berlin (1987).

Schulz started work as an art critic for newspapers and magazines in 1982, working for local newspapers and magazines and, from 1983, as arts correspondent for Handelsblatt (Düsseldorf) and Die Zeit (Hamburg); and from 1984 for Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin). From 1987 to 2020 he was co-editor of the cultural pages of Der Tagesspiegel, writing about art, architecture, cultural politics and history and briefly as editor of Political Book Section, 2016-2020.

From 1989 to 1999 he lectured at various Berlin Universities in Economics of Culture, Cultural Institutions, Cultural History of Post-War Germany.

2007-2013, he wrote for Speech architectural magazine (Moscow).

2011-2019, he wrote for The Art Newspaper (London).

2013-2018, he wrote for The German Times /Atlantic Times (Berlin).

From 1999 he was a contributor and author, from 2020 co-editor of Kunstzeitung and Informationsdienst Kunst (both Berlin) until end of publication in late 2023 due to financial constraints.

2020 chief editor of bb2070, Magazine for Architecture and Urban Planning (Berlin, ceased publication due to the pandemic).

He writes free-lance on art, architecture, and cultural politics for various papers and magazines, e.g Tagesspiegel, Die Tageszeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Bauwelt, Monopol Online.

From 1983 to the present, he has published numerous essays in anthologies and catalogues.