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6 Asian exhibitions to look forward to at the 60th Venice Biennale

UuDam Tran Nguyen, Serpents’Tails, 2015, installation view. Image courtesy National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

7 Asian contemporary art exhibitions to see this Christmas 2021

ASIA features a selection of must-see exhibitions of Asian contemporary art around the world this Christmas.

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.

Leelee Chan in her studio. 2020. Image courtesy the artist (06/2020).

Art Awards and Prizes

Leelee Chan wins BMW Art Journey 2020

The Hong Kong-based artist wins with her proposal 'Tokens From Time'.

Ting Chaong-Wen, Virgin Land, 2019, tempered glass floor, ultraviolet light tube, neon lamp, raw material of cinchona tree, tonic water, multi-channel video, dimensions variable. Commissioned by 2019 Asian Art Biennial. Installation view at Asian Art Biennial 2019, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. Image courtesy Asian Art Biennial.

Asian Art Biennial 2019: The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea

Curated by Hsu Chia-Wei and Ho Tzu Nyen, the 7th Asian Art Biennial brings together the work of 30 artists and collectives from 16 countries.

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(Foreground) Brett Graham, Monument to the Property of Peace and Monument tothe Property of Evil, 2017; (background) HrairSarkissian, Execution Squares, 2008. Installation view at 21st Contemporary Art Biennial SESC_VIDEOBRASIL: Imagined Communities, 2019-2020. Photo: Everton Ballardin / divulgação.

21ST Contemporary Art Biennial SESC_VIDEOBRASIL: Imagined Communities

ASIA brings you some highlights from Asia at this year's Sesc_Videobrasil video art biennale.

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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.