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Leaving the Echo Chamber: Sharjah Biennial 14

Launched on 7 March 2019, the 14th edition of Sharjah Biennial will soon come to a close on 10 June....

Ahmed Javed, Imran Qureshi Studio, Gouache and gold leaf on Wasli, 110 x 150 x 5 cm. Image courtesy the artist.

Art Awards and Prizes

Ahmed Javed wins Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2019

Pakistani artist Ahmed Javed won the 15th Sovereign Asian Art Prize for his work 'Imran Qureshi Studio'.

Korea Artist Prize 2018 winner

2018 Korea Artist Prize winner siren eun young jung

2018 Korea Artist Prize winner siren eun young jung talks about her practice.

Playcourt, installation view of "Shirley Tse: Stakeholders", Hong Kong in Venice, 2019. Image courtesy M+ and the artist. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio.

Negotiating differences with Shirley Tse at the 58th Venice Biennale

ASIA talks with curator Christina Li about Hong Kong's collateral exhibition "Stakeholders" by Shirley Tse.

Zahrah Al-Ghamdi, "After Illusion", Saudi Arabia Pavilion, 58th VeniceBiennale 2019. Photo: © C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia | ASIA.

Postcards from Asia at the 58th Venice Biennale

ASIA has a look at Asian art exhibitions at the Venice Biennale 2019.

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 | Artist Talk | Telling Stories: Narrative Forms and Strategies. Screenshot by ASIA.

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 Conversations | Artist Talk

Artists talk about the tacticts they use to express a narrative through their work at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019.

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ASIA | Art Spectacle International Asia is an independent online magazine covering contemporary art from Asia-Pacific to the Middle East.

Founder and Editor C. A. Xuân Mai Ardia is a Vietnamese-Italian from Padova, Italy. She currently resides near Venice, Italy, but she has lived around the world for more than 20 years. London was her home throughout university and her first forays in the art world and gallery work, until she moved to Shanghai in 2006 where she worked for Pearl Lam Galleries (then Contrasts Gallery) until 2009. She has lived between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Padova, Italy in 2009-2016, where she worked at Galerie Qyunh, Craig Thomas Gallery and contributed to Art Radar.

Mai holds a BA in Chinese | History of Art and Archaeology and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, as well as an MSc in Development Studies | Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, Italy. She has worked in the conservation of world cultural heritage in Rome and in contemporary art galleries in London, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City. Her articles have been published in Art Review Asia, Art Radar, The Culture Trip and CoBo Social.

Mai joined the Art Radar team as Copy Editor in May 2013, and became Staff Writer in November of the same year. Continuing to contribute her writing to Art Radar, she took up the role of Managing Editor from November 2015 to December 2018, when Art Radar ceased publication.

To continue on and contribute to the dissemination of contemporary art ideas and practices from Asia, Mai founded ASIA in Spring 2019.