Design Trust Grant Recipient | Matters of Care exhibition at the Inaugural Guangzhou Design Triennial 2024

10. 4. 2024

We are pleased to share that Design Trust Feature Grant recipient Naiyi Wang has curated Matters of Care exhibition at the inaugural Guangzhou Design Triennial 2024 at Guangdong Museum of Arts currently on show from January 16th  to May 31st  2024. Built upon her previous grant project Care Pavilion at London Design Biennale 2023, the exhibition Matters of Care, supported by Design Trust Feature Grant, continued to invite and gather interdisciplinary designers, architects, and scholars from around the globe to respond to “CARE”, using the Triennial as a testing ground to re-imagine the politics and ethics of care. Sited at Guangdong Museum of Arts in Guangzhou, the inaugural Guangzhou Design Triennial 2024 is themed “The Warm-beings” with the curatorial team of chief curator Wang Shaoqiang along with co-curators Vicky Richardson, Li Degeng, Design Trust Futures Studio Mentor Stanley Wong, and Design Trust grantee Naiyi Wang.

Left: Spaces For Well Being, Alissa+Nienke, 2023. Image courtesy of Ronald Smits. Right: Exhibition poster, courtesy of Naiyi Wang.

The thematic exhibition is driven by the gathering forces of these ever present, yet, newly urgent matters of care: thinking through care in its multiple forms—of humans and nonhumans—while re-imagining the politics and ethics of care. This thematic exhibition invites cross-disciplinary creatives from around the globe to ruminate on notions of care, seeking to explore care through many ways of knowing and being.

Left: Back to Earth, onearthstudio, 2023. Image courtesy of onearthstudio. Right: Plastic Rivers, Alvaro Catalán de Ocóe, 2019. Image courtesy of ACdO.

Participating artists and designers include A.A.Murakami (Azusa Murakami & Alexander Groves), Aldo Cibic, Alissa + Nienke, Alvaro Catalan de Ocon, Chen Min, Colin Fournier, ecoLogicStudio (Claudia Pasquero & Marco Poletto), Eric Klarenbeek & Maartje Dros, FormaFantasma (Andrea Trimarchi & Simone Farresin), Lin Fanglu, MOS Architects (Hilary Sample & Michael Meredith), Neri Oxman, Onearthstudio, Shahar Livne, Studio Ossidiana (Giovanni Bellotti & AlessandraCovini) and Terreform ONE (Mitchell Joachim & Vivian Kuan).

Platform for Humans and Birds, Studio Ossidiana
Greenhouse No. 1 / Clinic No. 1, MOS Architects.
Opening tour led by grantee Naiyi Wang, photo courtesy of Guangzhou Design Triennial.
Spaces for Wellbeing, Alissa + Nienke.
Rethinking Happiness in China, Aldo Cibic.
Guangdong Museum of Art.

Highlighted works include Rethinking Happiness in China by Aldo Cibic, Spaces for Wellbeing by Alissa + Nienke, Greenhouse No. 1 / Clinic No. 1 by MOS Architects and Platform for Humans and Birds by Studio Ossidiana. As a new platform extended from Guangzhou Triennial since 2002, the inaugural Guangzhou Design Triennial is on display till May 31, 2024 at Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.