Hong Kong's Tai Kwun has named Philip Tinari as director of Tai Kwun Arts, the cultural programming arm of the heritage complex. Tinari succeeds longtime director Timothy Calnin, who will now oversee the institution's special projects, while Chin Chin Teoh takes on the managing director role. The appointment completes a transition that began at the start of the year, when Tinari joined Tai Kwun as head of art. He arrived after the departure of Pi Li from the head-of-art post and began overseeing Tai Kwun Contemporary's programmes in February, working alongside Calnin on the institution's long-term artistic vision. Tinari is best known for his 15-year leadership of the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, where he served as director from 2011 and as CEO from 2017, after the institution's founders, the collectors Guy and Miriam Ullens, sold it to private investors. During his tenure he oversaw the opening of three UCCA outposts in Shanghai, Beidaihe and Yixing, and more than 150 exhibitions across the group's venues, establishing UCCA as one of China's most internationally visible contemporary art institutions. The announcement also clarifies UCCA's succession: Lingyi Kong has been appointed the Beijing institution's next CEO, with Xi Guo as deputy director, giving both organisations a clean leadership handover. The move is one of the most consequential appointments in Asia's institutional art world this year. Tinari already has history with Tai Kwun, having co-curated a major exhibition during the complex's first season in 2018, and Calnin praised his record of building a dynamic and internationally respected contemporary art institution in Beijing - a signal that Tai Kwun intends to sharpen its curatorial ambition as Hong Kong's cultural landscape keeps evolving.