Yang Tong is a curator and researcher based between Hong Kong and Frankfurt am Main. She is currently completing her MA thesis in Curatorial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and Städelschule. Her practice explores curating as a relational and transdisciplinary methodology situated between contemporary art, architecture, technology, and urban transformation. Working across cultural contexts in Asia, Europe, and South America, she develops exhibitions, residencies, research platforms, and collaborative projects that examine how artistic practices mediate spatial, historical, and social conditions.

Tong adopts both autoethnographic methodologies and material-based approaches within her research and curatorial practice, through which personal experience, mobility, and situated encounters become modes of engaging broader cultural and geopolitical conditions. Within this framework, she approaches curatorial practice not solely as the production of exhibitions, but as the construction of relational infrastructures: spaces that enable dialogue, translation, and forms of connection across communities, histories, and systems of knowledge.

Born in Lanzhou along the Yellow River, Tong’s early experiences were shaped by the layered historical and geopolitical conditions of Gansu, a region marked by routes of exchange, state development, extraction, and uneven modernisation. These experiences fostered an early awareness of how geography, infrastructure, and historical narratives shape cultural identity and spatial memory, and continue to inform her engagement with material memory, cultural translation, and the ways histories are embedded within space.

She received her BA in Fine Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Since the age of sixteen, Tong has lived and worked across multiple cultural environments, including Argentina, Italy, Australia, and Germany. These transnational experiences have shaped her ongoing interest in translation, migration, and the negotiation of meaning across diverse social, linguistic, and geopolitical contexts.

Her curatorial methodology understands space not as a fixed artefact, but as an evolving relational condition shaped through human interaction, memory, movement, and cultural exchange. Through this perspective, Tong investigates how curatorial practice can function as an infrastructural form that sustains long-term relations between people, places, and temporalities.

楊桐是一位往返於香港與法蘭克福策展人與研究者，目前於法蘭克福歌德大學與 Städelschule 修讀策展研究碩士課程。她的實踐將策展視為一種關係性與跨學科的方法論，介於當代藝術、建築、科技與城市轉化之間展開。透過橫跨亞洲、歐洲與南美洲的文化脈絡，她發展展覽、駐留計畫、研究平台與協作型項目，探討藝術實踐如何作為媒介，介入空間、歷史與社會條件之中。

楊桐的研究與策展實踐結合自我民族誌（autoethnography）方法與材料性研究，將個人經驗、移動性與情境性的相遇視為理解更廣泛文化與地緣條件的方法。在此框架下，她並不將策展僅視為展覽的生產，而是視為一種關係性基礎設施（relational infrastructure）的建構：一種能夠促成不同社群、歷史與知識系統之間對話、翻譯與連結的空間。

出生於中國西北黃河沿岸的蘭州。她早年的成長經驗深受甘肅多重歷史與地緣政治條件所影響——這是一個由交流路徑、國家發展、資源開採與不均衡現代化所形塑的地區。這些經驗使她較早意識到地理、基礎設施與歷史敘事如何塑造文化身份與空間記憶，並持續影響她對材料記憶、文化翻譯以及歷史如何嵌入空間之中的關注。

2019年畢業於香港浸會大學藝術學院（AVA）藝術學士課程。自十六歲起，她曾於 Argentina、Italy、Australia 與 Germany 等多個文化環境中生活與工作。這些跨國經驗形塑了她對翻譯、遷移，以及不同社會、語言與地緣政治脈絡中意義協商過程的持續關注。

她的策展方法論將空間理解為一種不斷演化的關係性狀態，而非固定的物件；這種狀態由人際互動、記憶、移動與文化交流共同構成。透過此視角，楊桐探討策展實踐如何作為一種基礎設施性的形式，維繫人、場所與歷史之間的長期關係。