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Aisha Khalid,Ishq, 2023, pins on canvas, 40 x 80 in (101.6 x 203.2 cm), variation one. Image courtesy the artist and Aicon, New York.

Exhibitions

“At the Circle’s Center”: Aisha Khalid at Aicon, New York

Biennales

“You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet” — Taipei Biennial 2020

TB20 explores the different planets we live on and how we might meet to face the future together.

Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) during the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Image courtesy Seoul Museum of Art.

Biennales

11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: One Escape at A Time

The 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale reimagines escapism as a tool for navigating our fractured realities.

Chiharu Shiota, Where Are We Going?, 2017/2019, white wool, wire, rope Installation view of "Shiota Chiharu: The Soul Trembles", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2019. Courtesy Galerie Templon, Paris/Brussels. Photo: Kioku Keizo.

Exhibitions

Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles at Mori Art Museum

The Tokyo museum holds the largest survey exhibition of Chiharu Shiota's work to date, featuring her 25-year oeuvre.

"Constructions of Truths", MCAD Manila, 2020. Image courtesy MCAD Manila.

Exhibitions

Constructions of Truths at MCAD Manila

The exhibition encourages us to negotiate the continually shifting perceptions of reality through images.

"Nepal Art Now", 11 April - 6 November 2019, Weltmuseum Wien, Austria. Image courtesy Weltmuseum Wien.

Exhibitions

Contemporary practices in Nepal Art Now

ASIA has a look at the landmark exhibition at Weltmuseum Wien before its closure.

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.

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