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Cover of racy Jawi novel published by Qalam Press, Singapore, as shown by Faris Joraimi, Singapore. Image courtesy Shubigi Rao.

Asia-Pacific, Central and West Asia at the 59th Venice Biennale

Bird-shaped earthenware, Age of the Three States, Gwangju National Museum, exhibition view at 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju National Museum, 2021. Photo: Sang tae Kim.

Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning: the 13th Gwangju Biennale — Part 2

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

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".

(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.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Oh Shining Star Testify, 2016–2019, three-channel video, sound, wooden boards; At those Terrifying Frontiers where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade into Each Other, 2019, single channel video animation, sound, co-produced by PinchukArtCentre. Image courtesy PinchukArtCentre © 2019. Photo: Maksym Bilousov.

Art Awards and Prizes

The 5th Future Generation Art Prize in Venice

PinchukArtCentre presents the 21 shortlisted artists for the Future Generation Art Prize 2019 during the 58th Venice Biennale.

Zahrah Al-Ghamdi, "After Illusion", Saudi Arabia Pavilion, 58th VeniceBiennale 2019. Photo: © C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia | ASIA.

Postcards from Asia at the 58th Venice Biennale

A look at Asian art exhibitions at the Venice Biennale 2019.

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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.