Originally from Romania, Cosmin Costinas is director of Para/site in Hong Kong. His previous titles have included curator of BAK in the Netherlands, co-director of the 2010 Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, and editor of the magazine documenta 12. Major exhibitions include Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York for Para/site (2012), Spacecraft Icarus 13. Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere and In the middle of things for BAK (2011), and I, the Undersigned, a touring exhibition at the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, the Lunds Konsthall in Lund, tranzit+display in Prague, and Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart (2010--2011).