Aion Culture Agency

Four practices to bridge China and Europe

Aion Culture is also a mission-driven agency. For cultural institutions, family offices, law firms, publishers: field work, due diligence, exhibitions, cultural engineering — always trilingual, always documented, never generic.

Operis verba. — The words of the craft.
China presence
12 yrs
Shanghai · Beijing · Hangzhou
Working languages
FR · ZH · EN
native trilingual
Institutional network
50+
senior interlocutors
Quote · First call
48 h
personal reply

The four practices

Bespoke missions · Every scale
Due diligence

Investigation

·On quote
Bilingual report · 2 to 4 weeks
  • Background checks (counterparts, entities, transactions)
  • Network and influence mapping
  • Critical reading of Chinese archives and press
  • Identification of reputational and political risks
  • Written report and confidential oral briefing
Open a case
Exhibitions

Curating & production

·On quote
Curation · Production · Touring
  • Curating China–Europe exhibitions
  • Delegated production (scenography, transport, insurance)
  • Negotiating loans with Chinese institutions
  • Touring management across borders
  • Bilingual or trilingual catalogue writing
Build an exhibition
Cultural engineering

Project design

·On quote
Design · Structuring · Financing
  • Design of cultural projects and festivals
  • Multi-year programming structure
  • Financing mix (patronage, grants, public-private partnerships)
  • Advisory to cultural institution leadership
  • Site-opening accompaniment (museum, art centre)
Design a project

Why work with us

Verba, non promissa.

A rare institutional network. Twelve years of presence in China, fifty-plus senior interlocutors across museums, foundations, cultural departments and European family offices in Asia. Not a list — a Lindy.

A trilingual working language. Very few European agencies actually operate in native Mandarin. We do — for translation, but also for the critical reading of Chinese primary sources (press, archives, registers).

A documentary discipline. Every deliverable is sourced, dated, verifiable. No opinion without support. No due diligence without primary archive. No translation without a glossary.

A public AI charter. We use assistive models (Claude, GPT-4) — systematic human review, traceability. Read the charter →

Confidentiality by default. Standard NDA within 24 hours, encrypted delivery on request, named references only with written consent.

Discuss a mission

A direct message to Franck Serrano. Personal reply within 48 hours.