The Team
We bring different perspectives to the table, but we’re united by a love of joining people, idea and place together, creating meaningful connections across cultures and disciplines.
Shuyu Chen
As a curator and researcher, Shuyu Chen investigates diverse temporal and spatial frameworks for event-making, asking what art can be and what it can do across different conditions of life.
She co-founded the Institute for Provocation (Beijing, 2010–2022), an independent art platform for cross-disciplinary exchange and artistic research. In 2025, she founded Peach Colony, a circulating entity situated at the intersection of social life, migratory aesthetics, and collective processes of becoming and belonging.
Max Gerthel
Max Gerthel is an architect, designer and curator based in Malmö, working across architecture, public art, furniture design and exhibitions through his interdisciplinary practice Studio Max Gerthel. He was Program Director of the independent art space Institute for Provocation in Beijing 2011-2016 and co-founded the gallery and platform SPARK in Malmö in 2019. His work combines spatial design with artistic collaboration, with recent projects including public commissions and cultural initiatives in Southern Sweden.
Elin Frost
Elin Frost is an artist, facilitator, and cultural producer working across interdisciplinary collaborations and participatory formats that enable Cross Innovation. More than fifteen years ago, she initiated a series of travelling dinner performances across Sweden as part of an artistic exploration into the future of theatre and collective storytelling.