Qinle Jin

Curating Contemporary Art (MA)

About

Qinle Jin (b.2000) is an emerging curator with art market experiences, based in London and Beijing. His curatorial focus centres on Creolisation, Technology and Diaspora, exploring the potential for cultural hybridisation, interdisciplinary practices, and collaboration in collective work.

Drawing on Édouard Glissant’s definition of Creolisation in his Poetics of Relation, Qinle’s curatorial interest lies in the diverse experiences and potential relationships generated within the infinitive process of Creolisation, where involuntary memories act as triggers for connecting images. Observing that “technological” has taken the place of “modernisation” as a new characteristic of Creolisation, he forms and redifines a compound term “Techno-creolisation” as a curatorial method applied in his practices. The modified prefix “Techno-” not only includes the technological aspects of the time but also encompasses technical strategies where Glissant’s ideas intersect with Isabelle Stenger’s “Ecology of practices”. Mixing this term with the curatorial, it explores the archipelagic dialogues of exchange and hierarchical orders of all practitioners within unpredictable relational processes.

Before studying at the Royal College of Art, Qinle graduated from Capital Normal University (Beijing, China) in 2022 with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (Art Market) and was awarded the Outstanding Graduate of Beijing that same year. He has interned and worked in museums, art fairs, and art media in Beijing, including the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Gallery Weekend Beijing and Art Fair In Hotel.

His recent curatorial projects including The Enigma of Arrival (RCA Battersea, London, 2024), Traveling Memories (The Modern Showroom, London, 2024), Transitional Traces (The M P Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London, 2024) and After The Post (Zhijiang Culture Center, Hangzhou, China, 2024).

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