Recently, Wendy Yu, a post-90s entrepreneur, philanthropist, art collector, and founder and CEO of Yu Holdings, has been appointed as the newest member of the Council of the Ullens Art Foundation by the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. She has also become the youngest member in the history of this highly acclaimed top contemporary art institution both domestically and internationally. Yu Wanwan will work with 30 other council members to promote the development of UCCA and contemporary Chinese art, better serve the community, carry out charitable and public welfare activities, and promote academic research.

Yu Wanwan and the Yu Holdings venture capital firm she founded have always had the mission of being "creative power venture capitalists", discovering and supporting emerging creative talents, breaking industry boundaries, and promoting cultural exchange and integration between the East and the West. UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and Yu Holdings, a venture capital firm, will establish a strategic partnership to leverage Yu Wanwan's enormous international influence in fashion, art, and business to accelerate the progress of contemporary art and young artists in China, and to bring China's new creative forces to the world.

Yu Wanwan said, "Fashion and art have always been interconnected. The ultimate artistic power of fashion in today's world continues to inspire the imagination of young people, and art is becoming a new fashion in the lifestyle of young consumers." While continuing to support the development of art, Yu Wanwan empowers artistic innovation in the fields of fashion and beauty industry. At the end of 2020, she officially launched the Yu Prize Creative Award, an annual award designed around fashion design aimed at discovering and supporting future stars in the Chinese fashion and creative industry; In February 2021, as the brand's founder and creative director, she released China's first luxury art beauty product, Yumee. The brand takes beauty as the carrier, combines the oriental ingenuity and western creative aesthetics, and presents beauty in an unprecedented and highly artistic way.

Philip Tinari, Director of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art and CEO of UCCA Group, congratulated Yu Wanwan on joining the Council of the Ullens Art Foundation. He also said, "Yu Wanwan has always been a close friend of UCCA, promoting the development of UCCA and China's contemporary art industry. We look forward to her new and important role further promoting the popularization of contemporary art among young people.

Yu Wanwan is one of the most important art sponsors in the contemporary world, using art sponsorship to promote public aesthetic education. In 2017, Yu Wanwan permanently established the position of "Wendy Yu Title Curator" for the Fashion Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States. She is also a founding member of the prestigious young patron group of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, and actively supports art institutions such as the British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, and London Design Museum. In 2018, thanks to her outstanding achievements in the fields of fashion and art, she was selected as a leading figure in the fashion and art industry on Forbes China's "30 Under 30" list.

Yu Wanwan, who is only 30 years old, is one of the most influential figures in the contemporary global fashion and creative industry. She has invested in the women's clothing brand Cefinn owned by former British First Lady Samantha Cameron, the eponymous brand of independent British designer Mary Katrantzou, and the sustainable fashion accessory brand Bottletop, as well as in Tujia and China's largest ride hailing service provider Didi Chuxing; In 2019, she supported the appearance of Chinese independent designer Caroline Hu at London and Paris Fashion Week; In 2020, I was invited by the French Haute Couture and Fashion Confederation (FHCM) to become an international ambassador for the "Emerging Brand Project" and launched the YU PRIZE Creative Award in China; In 2021, Yumee, the first luxury art beauty brand in China founded by her, was officially launched. Vogue magazine from multiple countries called her "one of the most important fashion sponsors today"; The Times of London referred to her as the 'most influential woman in the fashion industry'; Harrods Magazine praised her as the new generation 'fashion godmother'.