Henry Meyric Hughes, who chairs the jury as a non-voting member, is an independent curator, writer and editor. He is Honorary President of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris and was the General Co-ordinator of Council of Europe exhibitions. He was a co-founder of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art , Manifesta (1993) and President of the Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam, from 1996-2007. He is series editor of Art Critics of the World (AICApress). He is co-curator of Manifesta 16 in the Ruhrgebiet, Germany (2026). From 1968-92 he worked for the British Council in Germany, Peru, France and Italy, ending up as Director of Visiting Arts (1994-96) and Director of Visual Arts (1986-92). He was the British Commissioner for the Venice Biennale and the São Paulo Biennial, 1986-92 (Richard Hamilton, Tony Cragg, Anish Kapoor …). He was then Director of the Hayward Gallery, including National Touring Exhibitions and the Arts Council Collection from 1992-96, (exhibitions incl. ‘Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1930-1945',‘The Spirit of Romanticism in German Art, 1790-1990’ and ‘The ‘British Art Show 4’, 1996). His more recent projects include curating a survey exhibition, 'Blast to Freeze: British Art in the Twentieth Century' for Wolfsburg and Toulouse (2002-2003); the Cypriot Pavilion (Nikos Charalambidis) at the 2003 Venice Biennale; a touring exhibition of contemporary art in Norway for Oslo (2005-2006); and (co-curating) 'No Borders, Just N.E.W.S.', a touring exhibition of young European artists, 2008. He co-curated the XXX Council of Europe exhibition, 'Critique and Crisis/The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945' for Berlin, Krakow, Tallinn and Milan, with extensions to Sarajevo, Prague, Thessaloniki and Brussels (2012-2015). Recent co-publications include AICA in the Age of Globalisation (AICA Press, 2010) and African Contemporary Art: Critical Concerns / Art Contemporiain Africain: Regards Critiques (AICA Press, 2011, co-ed.). Contributions to recent publications include essays in various languages on Pierre Restany, Herbert Read, Dansaekhwa, ‘The Reception of British Sculpture Abroad’(Yale) and pan-European aspects of contemporary art. He has taught and written about curating contemporary art and been an external examiner at the ENSBA, Paris and RCA, London. He has acted as an adviser to UNESCO and as a consultant and general co-ordinator for Council of Europe exhibitions. He has been a Board member of Iniva and Matt’s Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol and The Hepworth Wakefield; and advisory board member for MUMOK, Vienna and MAMbo, Bologna; member of the Advisory Board of the Archives de la critique d’art and editorial committee of the review, Critique d’art, in Rennes, France. He co-convened (with Jean-Marc Poinsot) an international colloquium on Archives for The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, in 2019. He was appointed Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and the Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Sun Xiangchen is a professor at the School of Philosophy at Fudan University, and also serves as the director of the General Education Center of Fudan University. He is the vice-president of the Chinese Society for the History of Foreign Philosophy, a member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (Fisp), a council member of the World Congress of Sinology, the vice-chairman of the Shanghai Philosophy Society, and the vice-chairman of the Shanghai Association for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy and Culture, etc. He is also the co-editor of academic journals Modern Foreign Philosophy, General Education Review, Shan Shui（山水）. He has been a visiting scholar and visiting professor in many academic institutions such as Yale University, University of Chicago, Ecole Normale Supérieure, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Birmingham etc. His publications include: On Family: Individuals and Kinship (2019), Facing the Other: A Study of Levinas' Philosophical Thought (2008), Political Philosophy and Chinese Theology (co-authored, 2007), Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century (co-authored, 2006), etc. In recent years, he has devoted himself to the construction of art disciplines at Fudan University. He has successively established the Center for Philosophy of Art, and the Department of Philosophy of Art at Fudan University. He laid the ground and spearheaded the planning for the Fudan Art Institute, which opened in December 2024.