Celina Lei, Author at ArtsHub Australia

Celina Lei

Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_

Celina Lei's Latest Articles

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Opportunities and awards

A $60,000 moving image commission opens, plus the winner of the MECCA x NGV Women in Design and finalists of…

Celina Lei

Mar 4, 2025

Opera for the Dead performance shot, featuring two movable stages, each with a performing standing at its centre, slightly obscured by black stingy curtains. The image is dark other than the stage being slightly illuminated from below.

Performance review: Opera for the Dead (祭歌), Asia TOPA 2025

A cyber-opera that deserves the world stage.

Celina Lei

Feb 25, 2025

A figure standing next to a large unstretched canvas on a white wall, depicting thick circular strokes in yellow, orange, green, purple and red.

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Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 welcomes Australian ambition

As things get heated on home turf, the international potential of Australian arts practitioners continues to expand.

Celina Lei

Feb 25, 2025

A black and white photo of a group of people dressed in formal suits and dresses at a party, looking comically devastated.

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Opportunities and awards

The Lighthouse Award and Australian Life photography competition open now, plus the winner of the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and…

Celina Lei

Feb 25, 2025

LON Gallery Booth C2 with a duo presentation of Jeremy Eaton and Stephen Benwell, installation view, Melbourne Art Fair 2025. A white walled space inside a grey convention centre. On the walls are canvases of soft yellow, green, orange and purple hues, while small earthenware sculptures are lined up on a plinth in the centre of the space.

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Best of Melbourne Art Fair 2025

ArtsHub's annual round-up on what to see at Melbourne Art Fair.

Celina Lei

Feb 21, 2025

Ryuichi Sakamoto in mixed-reality, ‘KAGAMI’. A virtual image of Sakamoto playing a black grand piano in a limbo or dark virtual space.

Mixed-reality concert review: KAGAMI, Asia TOPA 2025

In this one-on-one encounter with Ryuichi Sakamoto, ‘KAGAMI’ is a tender, yet ambitious, ode to life and death.

Celina Lei

Feb 19, 2025

The entrance of TarraWarra Museum of Art's new Eva and Marc Besen Centre, designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects. A rectangular steel structure framed by green leafy branches with an entrance way into a contemporary education and visible storage centre.

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From visible storage to new photography centre, major builds drive regional traffic

TarraWarra Museum of Art is delivering an education space with visible storage while Ballarat’s National Centre for Photography reveals opening…

Celina Lei

Feb 19, 2025

Thomas Buchanan is the inaugural Brown Falconer Artist in Residence program. A man kneeling on the ground on top of a round platform making expressive marks with black pigment.

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Opportunities and awards

Georges Mora Fellowship open for applications, plus Li Cunxin honoured with Lifetime Achievement and Matilda Awards nominees revealed.

Celina Lei

Feb 18, 2025

A portrait photo of two men rendered in black and white.

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Creative Australia back-pedals on 2026 Venice Biennale selection in response to ‘divisive debate’

Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino have been dropped as the artistic team with a Senator criticising earlier work featuring the…

Celina Lei

Feb 14, 2025

AURORA on stage in front of a large sun displayed on the screen behind her, while audiences hold up their hands as if reaching out.

Concert review: AURORA 2025, Margaret Court Arena

The Norwegian songstress is a national treasure with soul-touching vocals and charming authenticity.

Celina Lei

Feb 12, 2025

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