Neville Mars

Neville Mars is a Dutch architect, researcher, artist and urban planner. He is principal of MARS Architects, Shanghai, an award winning design studio and director of the Dynamic City Foundation (), an urban think-tank that explores the boundaries of urban culture through cross-media art installations, curatorship and publications.

Neville Mars is the author of the book "The Chinese Dream - a society under construction" (010 Publishers, N. Mars, A. Hornsby, R’dam 2008), a multifaceted tome on Chinese urbanisation. Mars has a PhD from RMIT, is a lecturer at the China Academy of Art, is a BMW Guggenheim Lab fellow, INK fellow, and guest editor of Urban China magazine. Neville Mars has recently been appointed as one of the lead curators of the Xi’An Bi-City Biennale 2021.

Masters at TU Delft, PhD at RMIT

The installations of Neville Mars have featured at numerous Biennales, the Museum of Modern Art Guangzhou, and the Guggenheim Museum NY.