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

Kawita Vatanajyankur My Mother and I (Vacuum III), 2021, (still from video) colour, silent, 7 min:20sec. Image courtesy the artist.

Film and Video art

Artists’ Films Galore this Autumn with MCAD Manila

In collaboration with worldwide institutions, MCAD Manila proposes two artists' films programmes throughout this Autumn.

Korakrit Arunanondchai, Songs for Dying, 2021, exhibition view at 13th Gwangju Biennale, Horanggasy Artpolygon, 2021. Photo: Sang tae Kim.

Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: the 13th Gwangju Biennale — Part 1

ASIA looks at some of the new commissions at Asia's oldest biennale, which sets out to "examine the spectrum of the extended mind".

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

Constructions of Truths at MCAD Manila

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

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Eisa Jocson, Macho Dancer, 2013, performance. Photo: © Giannina Ottiker.

Eisa Jocson, winner of 2019 HUGO BOSS ASIA Art Award

The Filipino choreographer, dancer and visual artist examines the Filipino body and the ways society affects and transforms it.

"Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States", 6 September - 29 December 2019, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Image courtesy CAM.

Stephanie Syjuco’s Rogue States at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

The exhibition features new and recent work by the Filipino-born conceptual artist.

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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.