Inga Svala Thórsdóttir & Wu Shanzhuan

China & Iceland 

Wu Shanzhuan wasborn in 1960 in Zhoushan, China. He graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of FineArts (now China Academy of Art) and the Hochschule für bildende Künste inHamburg. As one of the leaders of the ’85 New Wave Movement, Wu founded a group called“Red Humor” in 1986 and “Red Humor International” in 1990, breathing new lifeinto Chinese conceptual art by giving humorous and ironic expression topolitical themes.

Inga Svala Thórsdóttir was born in Iceland in 1966.  She graduated from the Icelandic School ofArts and Crafts and the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. She founded“Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service” in 1993 and BORG in 1999.

Since 1991,Wu and Thórsdóttir have been working and exhibiting collaboratively. They arenow based in Hamburg and Shanghai.