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58th Venice Biennale

"Manora Field Notes" by Naiza Khan, Pavilion of Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale. Installation view of Sticky Rice and Other Stories, 2019. Photo © Riccardo Tosetto Photography.

Manora Field Notes: Naiza Khan talks art, cities and migration

Naiza Khan talks about her solo presentation in the inaugural Pakistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019.

Pavilion of Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Photo © Riccardo Tosetto Photography.

Curator Zahra Khan on Pakistan at the 58th Venice Biennale

Pakistan Pavilion curator Zahra Khan provides insights into Naiza Khan's project for the Venince Biennale 2019.

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

ASIA brings you some highlights from the Future Generation Art Prize 2019 exhibition in Venice.

Shu Lea Cheang, "3X3X6", mixed media installation. © Shu Lea Cheang. Image courtesy the artist and Taiwan in Venice 2019.

Talking sex, gender and surveillance with Shu Lea Cheang at the 58th Venice Biennale

“3X3X6” by Shu Lea Cheang is curated by Paul B. Preciado and presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum at...

Playcourt, installation view of "Shirley Tse: Stakeholders", Hong Kong in Venice, 2019. Image courtesy M+ and the artist. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNOstudio.

Negotiating differences with Shirley Tse at the 58th Venice Biennale

ASIA talks with curator Christina Li about Hong Kong's collateral exhibition "Stakeholders" by Shirley Tse.

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

ASIA has 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.