FOUNDER & LEAD CURATOR
Wenqi Zhang is a curator, researcher and distributor working across film, visual art, and cultural programming. She is the Founder and Lead Curator of Which Witch Collective, a curatorial platform dedicated to exhibition, moving image, and performative practices. She is also the Co-Curator of the MINT Chinese Film Festival, the UK’s first women-led Chinese film festival. As an SGSAH ARCS-funded doctoral researcher with in- depth experience across the creative industries in China and the UK, Wenqi's interdisciplinary practice brings together moving image, contemporary art, and cultural programming to explore feminist perspectives, migration, underrepresented voices, and transnational cultural exchange.
@wendyqiiiz
Wenqi Zhang is a curator, researcher and distributor working across film, visual art, and cultural programming. She is the Founder and Lead Curator of Which Witch Collective, a curatorial platform dedicated to exhibition, moving image, and performative practices. She is also the Co-Curator of the MINT Chinese Film Festival, the UK’s first women-led Chinese film festival. As an SGSAH ARCS-funded doctoral researcher with in- depth experience across the creative industries in China and the UK, Wenqi's interdisciplinary practice brings together moving image, contemporary art, and cultural programming to explore feminist perspectives, migration, underrepresented voices, and transnational cultural exchange.
@wendyqiiiz
C0-CURATOR
Xinxin Li is an independent curator based between London and Shanghai, working across exhibition and moving image practices. She is the Founder of Ambiguity Film, a curatorial collective established in Edinburgh that brought Chinese artists' moving image to audiences across the UK, and Co-Founder of The Knot Collective, a London-based platform centring the narratives of East and Southeast Asian women and non-binary artists. Holding an MSc in Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue from the University of Edinburgh, she develops a curatorial practice that foregrounds feminist perspectives, socially engaged work and overlooked narratives, driven by a belief in art's potential to confront structural silences and open space for reimagined visibility.
@annali18951228
Xinxin Li is an independent curator based between London and Shanghai, working across exhibition and moving image practices. She is the Founder of Ambiguity Film, a curatorial collective established in Edinburgh that brought Chinese artists' moving image to audiences across the UK, and Co-Founder of The Knot Collective, a London-based platform centring the narratives of East and Southeast Asian women and non-binary artists. Holding an MSc in Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue from the University of Edinburgh, she develops a curatorial practice that foregrounds feminist perspectives, socially engaged work and overlooked narratives, driven by a belief in art's potential to confront structural silences and open space for reimagined visibility.
@annali18951228
GUEST CURATOR
Liyuan Leah Sun (b.2001) is a London-based freelance curator and founder of The Knot Collective, a moving image screening collective. She holds an MSc in Film, Exhibition and Curation from the University of Edinburgh. Her curatorial practice includes programming and delivering exhibitions that combine fine art, moving images, and live performance. Through this blend of academic researching and hands-on experience, Liyuan has developed a distinctive curatorial voice centred on underrepresented diasporic perspectives of East and southeast Asian women and non-binary individuals, creating spaces where art, performance, and dialogue intersect.
Recent projects include: Reframing Intimacy Through Living Archives: Independent and Heritage Cinema from ESEA Women and Non-binaries (various venues, 2026); Twined Will in the Wind (Somers Gallery, London, 2026); Patina (BOTH Gallery, London, 2026); Corpus: Her Embodied Archive (Three Rooms Gallery, London, 2025); Bodies in Tension (Genesis Cinema, London, 2025); Of Mothers and Longing (The Garden Cinema, London, 2025); They Call Me Witch (The Crypt Gallery, London, 2025); Soft Wounds, Sharp Bonds (Atlas Cinema, London, 2025).
@xiaoooosun
Liyuan Leah Sun (b.2001) is a London-based freelance curator and founder of The Knot Collective, a moving image screening collective. She holds an MSc in Film, Exhibition and Curation from the University of Edinburgh. Her curatorial practice includes programming and delivering exhibitions that combine fine art, moving images, and live performance. Through this blend of academic researching and hands-on experience, Liyuan has developed a distinctive curatorial voice centred on underrepresented diasporic perspectives of East and southeast Asian women and non-binary individuals, creating spaces where art, performance, and dialogue intersect.
Recent projects include: Reframing Intimacy Through Living Archives: Independent and Heritage Cinema from ESEA Women and Non-binaries (various venues, 2026); Twined Will in the Wind (Somers Gallery, London, 2026); Patina (BOTH Gallery, London, 2026); Corpus: Her Embodied Archive (Three Rooms Gallery, London, 2025); Bodies in Tension (Genesis Cinema, London, 2025); Of Mothers and Longing (The Garden Cinema, London, 2025); They Call Me Witch (The Crypt Gallery, London, 2025); Soft Wounds, Sharp Bonds (Atlas Cinema, London, 2025).
@xiaoooosun