艺术评论家，策展人，文化学者，作家。于德国明斯特大学获得哲学博士学位。沈奇岚关注艺术和哲学的对话，与国内外艺术机构策划有多个富有国际影响力的展览和论坛项目。曾任《艺术世界》杂志社编辑部主任，出版社艺术主编。现任《书城》杂志编委。华东师范大学设计学院客座教授。
近年来策划的展览包括：《时间的裂缝》、《A.R.Penck: 暗喻会否成真？》、《包豪斯课堂》《暗蚀》、《重整|德国艺术立场》、《中国骄傲——把当代作为方法》、《万物有灵美》、《贾蔼力：莽原》、《感性对话》、《再生》、《意志与表象的世界》、《世迹》、《万物皆相见》、《知觉的森林》、上海双年展国际论坛“回环”系列、“我们的未来 The Futures”系列国际论坛等。她也担任了《蓬皮杜现代艺术大师展》、《艺术家此在》等国际展览的顾问。
2022年，她担任了保时捷中国青年艺术家双年评选的艺术顾问及策展人。青年艺术100 展览主理人计划 2022年度策展导师。2020年，她担任了集美·阿尔勒国际摄影季发现奖提名人与策展人。2023年她策展了北京国际电影节·大师影像展《幻想的学》。
她为多家国际艺术媒体和艺术机构撰写专栏和画册文章，包括上海博物馆、上海龙美术馆，意大利乌菲齐美术馆、澳大利亚当代艺术馆、意大利 Skira 出版社，Financial Times 中文网、《信睿周报》、《生活》月刊、Noblesse、artnet 等。2021年她与 ELLE 合作了富有影响力的艺术音频节目《艺术治愈生活》。2022年，她与碧云美术馆合作了《Write it！写下来》文学播客。2023 年起，她担任国际艺术杂志《art now》客座主编。她是中国新一代文化学者和策展人的代表人物之一。
An art critic, curator, cultural scholar and writer. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Münster, Germany. She was the editorial director of Art World magazine and editor-in-chief of the art department at Insight Media publishing house. She is also an editorial board member of Book Town magazine. She is a guest professor of East China Normal University.
She focuses on the ongoing dialogue between art and philosophy，she curated a number of internationally influential exhibitions and forums with domestic and international art institutions. Recent exhibitions: "Aura of Poetry" “A. R. Penck: Will Sign Become Reality?” "Bauhaus Class", "Eingedunkelt", "China Pride - Contemporary as a Method", “Bright and Beautiful”, “Jia Aili: Harsh”, “Un Dialogue avec la Sensibilité”，“Regenerate”,“Die Welt der Wille und Vorstellung”, “Paths”，”Nothing is wasted in Nature or in Love”, “The Forest of Senses”. Shen Qilan planned and presided over the international forum “Detour: A Dialogue between Art and Philosophy" for Shanghai Biennale 2018. In the same year, she also curated and presided over the international cultural dialogue series “The Futures”.
She worked as consultant to "Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou 1906 - 1977" exhibition, 2016. She is academic consultant for the exhibition "Sightings| Positions of Art from Germany" 2019. In 2020, she is the nominator and curator of the Discovery Award for the Jimei-Arles International Photography Festival. In 2022, she is artistic advisor and curator for the Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” Award. She’s curatorial Mentor for the Young Art 100 Exhibition Masterplan 2022. In 2023 she curated “The Poesie of illusions”, a phenomenal exhibition of video art masterpieces for the Beijing International Film Festival.
She has contributed to columns on many international art media and catalogs for international art institutions, including Financial Times, Artnet, The Thinker Weekly, Life, Noblesse, T magazine, Uffizi Museum, Shanghai Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Skira Press in Italy, among other important media and institutions. 2021, She has collaborated with ELLE and produced an influential art audio program "Art Heals Life". 2022, She collaborated with Being Museum and makes an audio program “Write it!”. Since 2023, she has been guest editor-in-chief of the international art magazine art now. She is one of the representative figures of the new generation of Chinese cultural scholars and curators.
