Curatorial Roundtable:
Communicating the Value of Art

Leonhard Bartolomeus is a curator at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM). After graduating from Jakarta Institute of the Arts, he joined ruangrupa (and later became part of Gudskul Ekosistem). Working with ruangrupa, he developed an interest in the intersection between art, education, and community engagement. This experience deeply influenced his later curatorial work, including projects with the collective Kolektif Kurator Kampung (2017–2021) and various YCAM programs such as KURIKULAB: Moving Class (2021), The Flavour of Power (2022), Speculative Library (2023), Iida Kaido Kikitori Art Project (2024), Dance Floor as Study Room (2024), PROJECT MRT: Natureless Solution (2025), as well as Roppongi Crossing 2025: What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal. at Mori Art Museum.　
Bartolomeus considers himself a generalist and always tries to learn new things through workshops, lectures, exhibitions, and art projects that he participates in at various places.

Sunjung Kim is the Artistic Director of Art Sonje Center, Seoul (since 2022), and serves on the boards of CIMAM and ICOM ASPAC. She previously served as President of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation (2017–2021), Chair of ICOM Korea (2023–2025), and Artistic Director of the ACC Archive & Research at the Asia Culture Center (2014–2015). Closely associated with Art Sonje Center since 1993, she has played a leading role in shaping its curatorial program. She is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the REAL DMZ PROJECT, an ongoing art and research initiative exploring the Korean Demilitarized Zone through the critical lens of contemporary art.

Ryo Sawayama, born in 1982, is an art critic and professor at Musashino Art University. Sawayama completed his master’s degree at Musashino Art University, Tokyo. His first book, Dynamics of Painting, a collection of essays on postwar American and Japanese art, was published in 2020 by Shoshi Kankanbo (Fukuoka); a forthcoming single-author book, Painting and Omnidirectionality: Art after Abstraction, is planned for publication by Shoshi Kankanbo.

Cathy Fan is Editor-in-Chief of Artnet China and also oversees Artsy China. She has written extensively on contemporary art and the art market across Asia, with a particular focus on China and its relationship to the global art world. She was also co-author of Artnet Pro’s biweekly newsletter The Asia Pivot. Her broader research and writing interests include photography, traditional Chinese art and history, and how cultural heritage is interpreted and communicated to contemporary audiences.