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BMW Art Journey. Screenshot by ASIA.

Art Awards and Prizes

Meet the shortlisted artists for Art Basel BMW Art Journey 2019

The shortlist for Art Basel BMW Art Journey 2019 was announced during Art Basel in Hong Kong on 28 March....

Tungaru: The Kiribati Project, Est. 2012, Jeff Smith, Aotearoa New Zealand b.1962, Mauri, 2018, site-specific built environment for APT9 Kids: projectors, cameras, ambient soundtrack, MDF, plywood, timber, movement sensor, PC. Commissioned for APT9 Kids with support from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. Image courtesy the artist.

Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 9

APT9 features more than 400 artworks by over 80 artists and collectives from the Asia-Pacific region.

Biennale of Sydney 2020 "NIRIN", artist group. From left: Léuli Eshrãghi, Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker, Kylie Kwong, Barbara McGrady, Gina Athena Ulysse, S.J Norman, Lhola Amira, Tony Albert, Nicholas Galanin, Lisa Reihana, Brook Andrew, Katarina Matiasek, Arthur Jafa, Latai Taumoepea. Photo: Joshua Morris.

Biennale of Sydney announces 2020 exhibition

The Biennale of Sydney has announced its 2020 exhibition, "Nirin", and 33 participating artists.

Li Jin, "Flesh and Bone", 2019, INK Studio, Beijing. Image courtesy INK Studio.

Li Jin’s “Flesh and Bone” ink art

The exhibition curated by Alan Yeung chronicles the development of Li Jin's early practice in the 1980s and 1990s.

Pannaphan Yodmanee, Thailand b. 1988, In the aftermath (installation view), 2018, mixed media, concrete and paint. Courtesy the artist and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Proposed for the QAGOMA Collection. Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA.

Asia Pacific Triennial 9

ASIA looks at some of the new and commissioned works for the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at QAGOMA.

ABHK2019 Curators Talk. Screenshot by ASIA.

Panel discussions

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 Conversations | Curator Talk

Curators of recent exhibitions anchored to the geography of Asia discuss the exhibition format.

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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.