PHILIP TINARI

2025 Summit partner Philip Tinari is director and Chief Executive of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in China. Since 2011, he has led its transformation from a founder-driven private museum into China’s leading independent contemporary art institution, presenting a wide range of exhibitions and programs to more than one million annual visitors across four venues in Beijing, Shanghai, Beidaihe and Yixing. His award-winning program has included more than 120 exhibitions of artists ranging from Cao Fei and Xu Bing to Rauschenberg and Picasso, putting the contemporary art of China into global context and vice versa. 

In his curatorial statement, Philip writes that the 2025 Summit edition looks to situate the precarious state of the art world a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century.

"At a moment of unprecedented disruption and realignment, the Summit brings together a wide range of artists and thinkers who offer us new visions for an uncertain future. In this time of crisis, the Summit provides an opportunity to listen closely to each other and arrive together at fresh perspectives. We look forward to the bold ideas that these practitioners will share with the world."