Newly appointed Arthub Director Qiu Zhijie (邱志傑) is an artist, curator, writer, and teacher whose experimental projects since the mid-1990s incorporate varied media in a visual challenge of authority and presumed social understanding. He was one of the first to engage new media activity in China, co-curating the influential exhibition Post Sensibility: Alien Bodies and Delusion in Beijing, in 1999.

Qiu Zhijie is currently a professor at Total Art Studio at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he established a course focused on cultural research and concept-based practice through artistic creation, curation and teaching.

Major group exhibitions include: The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, UK; 2nd Yokohama Triennale, Japan; 5th Shanghai Biennale, China; and Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art, USA.