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Artree Nepal, Godna / Tika Chedna (Tattoo) depicting peacock playing in the garden done in the Tharu tradition by women in the West and Far West of Nepal, photographic research material, 2021. Courtesy of Artree Nepal and Urmila Gamwa Tharu.

Kathmandu Triennale 2077: the intersection of contemporary art, folk art and craft

KT2077 features over 100 artists from40 countries across five venues.

Yee I-Lann, with weaving by Kak Roziah, Kak Sanah, Kak Kinnuhong, Kak Koddil, Tikar Reben, 2021, video still. Image courtesy Andy Chia.

Yee I-Lann: Until We Hug Again at CHAT, Hong Kong

Yee I-Lann's textile works encourage to embrace and reconcile differences, and celebrate local cultural traditions and diversity.

Etel Adnan, Hyper Espace, 1964, ink on paper, 9.7 x 14.6 cm. Image courtesy the artist & Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut.

Profiles

Writing is Drawing, Drawing is Writing: Etel Adnan et les modernes

The exhibition at MUDAM Luxembourg looks at Etel Adnan's visual art practice and its relationship to modernist masters.

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

Artist Talks

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 Conversations | Artist Talk

"Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective", installation view of A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe, 2021, Gropius Bau, Berlin. Photo: © Luca Girardini

Exhibitions

Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective at the Gropius Bau, Berlin

"A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe" spans the last 80 years of the Japanese artist's oeuvre.

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.

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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