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C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia

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

Eisa Jocson, winner of 2019 HUGO BOSS ASIA Art Award

ASIA profiles the Filipino choreographer, dancer and visual artist, winner of the HUGO BOSS ASIA Art Award for Emerging Artists 2019.

(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 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, titled "Imagined Communities".

Xiaoze Xie, Through Fire (Books that Survived the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance at Tsinghua University No. 2), 2017, oil on canvas, 48 x 74 in (122 x 188 cm). Courtesy the artist and Chambers Fine Art. Image courtesy the artist.

Xiaoze Xie and the history of banned books in China

ASIA profiles Xiaoze Xie, to look at his particular interest in books and the history of their censorship in China.

The Palestinian Museum. Photo: Iwan Baan. © The Palestinian Museum

Intimate Terrains at the award-winning Palestinian Museum

The winner of the Agha Khan Award for Architecture 2019 closes the year with an exhibition by Palestinian artists.

Andrew Luk, Eventual Responder, 2019, PVC inflatable, 830 x 300 x 120 cm. Installation view of “Very Natural Actions”, 22 September – 31 December 2019, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong. Photo: Kitmin Lee. Image courtesy Tai Kwun.

Tai Kwun artists’ Very Natural Actions

Tai Kwun Contemporary presents the work of 12 young and emerging artists from Hong Kong, the Mainland and Taiwan.

"Nepal Art Now", 11 April - 6 November 2019, Weltmuseum Wien, Austria. Image courtesy Weltmuseum Wien.

Contemporary practices in Nepal Art Now

ASIA has a look at contemporary art practices in Nepal in an exhibition in Austria.

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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.