Dai Xiyun

Xiyun Dai is an artist and curator based in Bejing. From 2019 to 2024 she worked as a curator for the Taikang Art Museum. In 2024 she curated the show Expeditionary Botanics at the famous Long March Space, one of the first art spaces in Beijing's 798 Art District. In 2025 she is in Paris for a three-month residency at La Friche #5 in Palais de Tokyo.

Dai Xiyun@DAI:

Excerpt from Dai Xiyun's At what point can I pause? for Speaking Without Thumbs - DAI's 3 day performance lecture marathon, July 2016 in Arnhem.

Learn more about Dai Xiyun's written MA thesis (DAI, 2016): From a Butterfly for Nobody to a Captured World

Follow Dai's "Life after DAI"via @daixiyun