Lan Lan hails from Xiamen but resides in Sweden. She enjoys wearing vibrant headscarves paired with brightly colored clothing—an ensemble that radiates romance, individuality, and an artistic flair. Engaging with her, one simultaneously senses the delicate gentleness characteristic of people from the South and the spirited, uninhibited nature typical of those from the North. Lan is a renowned curator within Xiamen’s art scene. Twenty-three years ago, she left the her business to dedicate herself to the arts. In 2003, she opened a gallery, Jiuyu-Jinlai Gallery, and in the following year met her partner, the Swedish artist Tong Wang. Over the decades she has spent running the gallery, Lan has curated hundreds of exhibitions of varying scales, featuring both domestic and international artists.

In October 2005, Lan Lan and Tong Wang collaborated with the municipal government of Helsingborg, Sweden, to organize a Chinese Mid-Autumn Folk Culture Festival. Held within the city's historic royal castle, the event featured not only Chinese calligraphy and painting, photography from Xiamen, and images of folk customs—all brought over by Lan—but also live demonstrations of traditional Chinese arts such as tea ceremony and floral arrangement, performed by Lan Lan and her female companions clad in traditional Chinese attire. They even introduced a distinct custom from southern Fujian—the Mid-Autumn Mooncake Gambling Game—to the local audience. Since then, Lan has served as a ferryman for Chinese culture, inviting Nordic painters to take up residence in Xiamen while also recommending numerous Chinese painters to the Nordic region—such as the truck-driver painter Longzhen Kong. In 2017, Lan and Wang established the Nordic Contemporary Art Center in the Aotou Community of Xiang'an, Xiamen; as Lan remarked, "This is the first exchange center to be truly connected with the Nordic region in every sense."

Driven by an unwavering dedication to and passion for art—and endowed with the innate warmth and sensitivity characteristic of women—Lan approaches every artistic event with wholehearted devotion and a hands-on commitment. She says she deeply enjoys the process of curating, viewing it as a form of creation brimming with joy—one that allows her to transcend the hardships of the journey. "Art infuses everything with a sense of novelty; it softens my spirit, broadens my horizons, and heightens my sensitivity to this ever-changing world. It enables me to transcend the boundaries of time and space—transforming pain into poetry, and the ordinary into the magical."