Since its inception in 2017, the Guangdong Museum of Art's flagship exhibition, the "Guangzhou Image Triennial," has successfully held two editions, garnering widespread acclaim both within and beyond the industry. The exhibition has thus become a significant cultural event for the city. Recently, preparations for the "Guangzhou Image Triennial 2025" are now fully underway. The Guangdong Museum of Art is honored to have invited experts and scholars who have long been dedicated to curatorial research and practice, and who possess a high degree of attention, acuity, and insight into the fields of image and art, to jointly form the curatorial team for this exhibition. The exhibition will be led by Wang Shaoqiang as Chief Curator, with Michel Poivert, He Yining, and Taous Dahmani serving as Curators.

 

Wang Shaoqiang

 

 

 

Michel Poivert

 

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Michel Poivert is a photography historian, curator, and professor of contemporary art history and photography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He previously served as Director of the Doctoral Department of Art History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, as editor of the journal Études photographiques, and as President of the French Society of Photography (1995–2010). He is the founder of the Collège international de photographie and has been named Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2024, he was appointed by the French Ministry of Culture as a member of the scientific committee of the Bicentennial of Photography 2026–2027. His major publications include La photographie contemporaine, L’Art de la photographie: des origines à nos jours, Brève histoire de la photographie, and 50 ans de photographie française: de 1970 à nos jours. He has curated major exhibitions such as L’Utopie photographique: 150 ans de la Société française de photographie (Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, 2004); L’Événement: les images comme acteurs de l’histoire (Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2007); La Subversion des images: surréalisme, photographie, film (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2009–2010, co-curator); Métamorphoses: la photographie en France 1968–1989 (Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, 2022–2023); and AImagine: Photography and Generative Images (Hangar, Brussels, 2025).

 

He Yining

 

A researcher and curator, she is the initiator of two publishing projects: Floating Island and Starlight. Her contributions to writing, editing, and translation span over twenty publications, including Routledge Photography, Representation and Social Justice (2022), The Abode of Anamnesis (2021), and the Port and Image series (2017, 2019, 2022). He Yining has curated over fifty group exhibitions across Asia and Europe, with recent curatorial projects including DBN Prelude: Decolonial Gaze (Goethe-Institut China, Beijing, 2025), Photographic Geomancy (Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2024), and China Imagined (Grote Kerk Breda, 2020). She served as co-curator for the 8th Singapore International Photography Festival (2022) and the 3rd Beijing International Photo Biennale (2018). He Yining graduated from the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA), The Faculty of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University, UK. Her research focuses on decolonial art practices in contemporary Chinese art since 2008, examining the entanglement between artistic practices, semi-colonial legacies, and contemporary decolonial discourse.

 

Taous Dahmani

 

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Taous R. Dahmani is a London-based French, British, and Algerian art historian specialising in photography. She has curated both group and solo exhibitions internationally, including the 2022 Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles (France) and the 2024 Jaou Photo Biennale in Tunis (Tunisia). Her solo curatorial projects include SMITH at NOUA (Bodø, Norway), Anastasia Samoylova at the Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), and Adam Rouhana at Kyotographie (Kyoto, Japan). Dahmani’s writing has been widely published in photobooks and journals, with contributions to titles by Phaidon, Loose Joints, Textuel, and Tate Publishing, as well as features in Aperture, FOAM, Camera Austria, The British Journal of Photography, Dazed, GQ, and 1000 Words Magazine. She is the associate editor of Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain (MACK/Autograph ABP, 2024), a critically acclaimed, award-winning publication. She also teaches at London College of Communication (UAL) as an Associate Lecturer.

 

 

 

Guangzhou lmage Triennial

 

 

 

 

 

Guangzhou Photo Biennial, the predecessor of Guangzhou lmage Triennial, was first held in 2005. in 2017, it was renamed by the Museum as Guangzhou lmage Triennial which, based on observation and thinking onthe development of media phenomena, expands the research focus fromthe original "social and humanistic photography" to the more inclusive anddiscipline-oriented "visual research image", aiming to promote the practiceand research of Chinese contemporary video art through more liveral andoriented efforts. Since its renaming, the "Guangzhou Image Triennial" has successively presented two editions of exhibitions, both receiving widespread recognition and acclaim from all sectors of society:  "Stimultaneous Eidos: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2017" received the National Art Museum Excellence Award from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2018;  "Intermingling flux Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021" was nominated for the **National Art Museum Excellence Award** (2020-2021) by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.