Liang Du | Chinese Art Business Director and Curator
Yan Ma | European Regional Arts Business Director
Tu Hua
Rednote: 涂画 Gil
When a concept begins to grow.
It started as my own personal maintenance—encapsulating invisible internal contradictions into visible visual structures. Now, it wishes to become a container for more people.
TINA is not an art institution; it is a design outlet.
For all designers who remain alert within the commercial system yet have no place to channel their urge for expression.
We do not make art; we make another kind of deliverable: delivering honesty to ourselves, and delivering to the world a complete, unedited visual syntax—untouched by client revisions.
Format: Themed Collective Maintenance
Each season, we will propose a theme rooted in a genuine paradox.
Participants enter as designers, using the professional gestures you know best—typesetting, modeling, rendering, deconstructing, reconstructing—to process the theme.
What is presented in the end is not “art,” but a series of personalized system maintenance reports.
What we build together is not an exhibition, but an evidence archive:
Proof that design thinking can not only solve commercial problems but also sort out the order of life;
Proof that expression itself is a vital professional skill.
TINA
We encapsulate contradictions, we present structures.
We do not make art—we simply refuse to remain the one unresolved item within the system.ression itself is a vital professional skill.