Ma Zhongren and Zuoxiao Zuzhou

Both artists were part of the collective of ten artists known as Beijing East Village was formed in the early 1990s and comprised Wang Shihua, Cang Xin, Gao Yang, Zu Zhou, Ma Zongyin, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Zhang Binbin, Duan Yingmei and Zhu Ming. The group became known for performance art and photography and this photograph by Lü Nan comes from a 20-minute live performance which took place in 1995 of To Add One Metre to an Unknown Mountain.

Zoe Butt

Zoe is Director of International Programmes at Long March Space, part of the 798 Art Zone in the Chaoyang District of Beijing. 

Interesting gallery. Runs programme of fellowships. Concentrating on Chinese artists who make work that challenges the social and political status quo in China and elsewhere. Regular programme of group shows. Also operates as a commercial gallery. 

www.longmarchspace.com

Shu Yang

Shu Yang is an artist. Did an interesting project while on residency in Manchester, asking people in the street to photograph him wearing a Union Jack apron. He then photographed them too and exhibited the pair of photos alongside each other. 

Also Art Director of DaDao Live Art Festival, Planner, Lightning Factory, Beijing and Planner, Art Magazine art i, Beijing

He Meijing

Networks Manager for the British Council offices in Beijing. 

Can put visiting artists in touch with curators, galleries, artists etc. 

Liang Wei

Artist based in Beijing. 

Makes video and drawings

Represented by interesting gallery in Athens, Greece 

http://www.bernier-eliades.gr/

Yang Tao

Tao is an established and successful Sculptor in Beijing. Makes stylised human forms with huge bellies. Is working on a commission for hundreds of these figures that subverts the idea of the Terracotta army. His vast studio is covered with these creatures ...  

Colin Chinnery

Artist, Curator, Writer

Colin used to work at the British Council in Beijing. Left there to set up the Ullens space www.ucca.org.cn  Now moved on to be freelance - various international curating projects as well as continuing his own art practice. 

798 Art Zone

A HUGE complex of galleries. Their marketing reads ... 230,000 square meters assembles many cultural elements such as galleries, design studios, fashion shops, restaurants ... nearly 400 organisations!

www.798art.org

Meng Jinn

Did his MA at Chelsea. Interesting photographs of domestic spaces with views of political architecture from the window. 

Wu Wanxuan

Photographer. Collaborates with artists on projects. 

Tone Zhao (Zhao Hongxin) - Art and Knowledge Space

Director of Art and Knowledge Space, Beijing. 

Cheng Guang Feng

Sound Sculptor. His studio is that of a 'mad scientist'! Glass test tubes and other paraphernalia crowd the surfaces. He fills these with green liquid and suspends them from various metal stands and frames. Feng wires this up to speakers and you can hear the installations ... 

Dong Bingfeng

Artist. Dong Bingfeng made a BEAUTIFUL triptych video of the people at work in a coastal fishing village. One of the men, one of the women, and one of both sexes working. 

Independent Curator, recent of Labyrinth I and Labyrinth II

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48a3b2c301009q0r.html

Curator at Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing

www.ucca.org.cn

Duan Yuting

Duan Yuting founded the Lianzhou International Photo Festival. An annual photography exhibition in the city of the same name. Festival has a reputation as the foremost photography exhibition in China. A guest curator works with her each year to select the work. 

Duan is based in Guangzhou and also in Beijing.

Richard Calder Chen

Yin

Xu Shuxian (or Sue)

Sue is a video artist. See http://xslattice.spaces.live.com

Sue has also been working as a Project Manager at Vitamin Space. www.vitamincreativespace.com

Hu Fang

Artistic Director of Vitamin Creative Space

www.vitamincreativespace.com

Interesting gallery in Guangzhou, represents artists but also runs great programme of exhibitions, talks, education events etc. that are more about questioning the art market than participating in it. Will launch the Vitamin Art 'Shop' at Frieze Art Fair this October

Libreria Borges Institute for Contemporary Art

Chen Tong's Librería Borges is a gallery cum bookshop. In addition to his role as critic and curator, Chen publishes the magazine Vision 21 and edits art theory books. We didn't meet Chen Tong personally. 

Libreria Borges Institute for Contemporary Art
7 Yile Yihang, Yile Road, Guangzhou
86 20 89100086