Dr. Yue Yu is an independent curator and art historian currently based in Helsinki, after having lived and worked in Paris, Osaka, Tokyo, and Hangzhou. 

Understanding ‘otherness’ is at the center of her research and curatorial practice, which are inspired by horizontal art history as an alternative narrative to the center/periphery models. Her concern for underrepresented artistic scenes led her to deliver a talk at the international conference “Art in the Periphery” in Lisbon in 2019 and attend a curatorial residency at Easttopics in Budapest in 2022. She also organized an international conference on artistic exchanges between East Asia and the West at L'École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in 2023. She has curated exhibitions in China, Japan, France, the UK, and Finland. Fluent in Chinese, Japanese, French, and English, Yue is committed to cultivating meaningful conversations in the international art community. 

Yue holds a Ph.D. in Art History (2023, University of Lille & Ecole du Louvre, France), MA degrees in Aesthetics (2015, University of Osaka, Japan) and Comparative Literature (2017, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3, France), as well as a BA degree in Chinese Literature and Theatre Studies (2011, Nanjing University, China). She is also a research fellow at the University of Tokyo for Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies in 2019.