Rebecca Catching

Rebecca Catching is an art critic, curator, editor and director of Shanghai’s OV Gallery, a groundbreaking contemporary art gallery in the French Concession. Here she has led a challenging program working with established names such as Jin Feng, Qiu Anxiong, Zhang Dali and Ji Wenyu. She has also helped to create a platform for new and emerging artists such as Jiang Hongqing, Qian Rong, Su Chang and Gao Mingyan and has reached out to foreign artists living in Shanghai who often have few opportunities to show. She has a background in East Asian studies and art history and is fluent in Mandarin. She has been following the Chinese cultural scene for the past nine years, working as an arts & entertainment editor for local culture magazine that’s Shanghai and freelancing for a number of international publications such as Art Asia Pacific, Art Review, Flash Art and the Yishu.