Reverberation Qinshan Art Season

6.15 - 7.16. 2023

Hangzhou, China

Project Coordinator & Media Strategy : Nara Huang

Host: Yuhang District People’s Government of Hangzhou; Alibaba Design
Organizer: Huanghu Town People’s Government, Yuhang District, Hangzhou
Co-organizers: U Design Week; JV Communication Academic Support: Research Institute of Beautiful China Initiative, China Academy of Art


Deputy General Manager, Alibaba Design Department: Dong Chen
Curator: Jian Jiang
Sound Performance Co-curator: Mulian Chen
Nature Theatres Co-curator: Masa Cui
Local Experiments Co-curator: Lei Zhang

Reverberation Qingshan Art Season relocated art from the city’s “white cube” to the open landscape of Qingshan Village, transforming bamboo groves, trails, lawns, and the reservoir edge into a living exhibition site. Conceived as a “natural stage,” the festival invited audiences to encounter art through movement, attention, and direct contact with place.

Organized into four program units—Nature Theater, Public Art, Sound Live, and Local Connections—the season convened 4 curators and 162 artists across installations, performances, sound events, workshops, exhibitions, and forums. Treating the environment as more than a backdrop, it positioned the landscape as an active medium—opening new dialogues between artistic practice, local community, and ecology, and shaping each visit into a distinct experience of nature, art, and self.