Erin Li 李伊寧 is a London-based curator. Her recent curatorial practice centres around liveness and embodiment, from street dance and live art, live culture in fermentation, to transforming everyday relations, processes and vulnerabilities into transdisciplinary art projects. She is currently Curator (Public Programmes and Residencies) at YDP, a project space for Asian and Asian diasporic contemporary art. She is also the Founder of Batata, an independent platform that nourishes London-based artists through collating resources and sharing art industry knowledge.  

 

Erin was previously Curator at Delfina Foundation, where she curated exhibitions, organised public programmes, and hosted over 100 international artist and curator residencies. Before relocating to London through Asymmetry Curatorial Fellowship at Whitechapel Gallery, she was Associate Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, where she realised numerous contemporary art exhibitions and events, including curating Sipping Dreams by Doreen Chan (2023), emo gym (2022), and co-curating trust & confusion: Tino Sehgal (2021) and The Unsung (2021). Erin also worked as Art Manager at Duddell’s (Hong Kong and London) and Project Researcher and Development Coordinator at Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong).

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Recent Activities

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Current

• Co-curator, performance series Living, Rehearsing..., YDP (Jan–Mar 2026)

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2025 

• ​Speaker, Ming Strike EP38: Erin Li on Art Residencies Across Cultures (listen)

• Moderator, Dance Umbrella Film Series: Sunday Shorts, Dance Umbrella x Barbican

• Jury member, Oskár Čepan Award

• Speaker, symposium Building an International Knowledge Network, Tate Modern

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2024

• Speaker, symposium Transversal Alliances: Architecture, Anthropology, Filmmaking and Performance, Architectural Association

• Nominating jury member, inaugural E.A.T.PRIZE 

• Speaker, Museum Debate: Traces of the Body, Remnants of the Voice: Curating and Commissioning Performance Art in Contemporary Spaces, The Courtauld (watch)

• Guest curator, Wong Kit Yi: ​A River in the Freezer, Online Screening Room & Conversation, Residency 11:11 (read)

• Speaker, In Focus: Simon Liu 2 – Life as Usual, Open City Documentary Festival 2024

• Speaker, Gerard Ortín Castellví’: Politics of Food, Tate Modern

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Contact 

erin.yiningli [at] gmail [dot] com

@batataforartists

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