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C. A. Xuan Mai Ardia

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.

Etel Adnan, Hyper Espace, 1964, ink on paper, 9.7 x 14.6 cm. Image courtesy the artist & Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut.

Writing is Drawing, Drawing is Writing: Etel Adnan et les modernes

ASIA profiles Etel Adnan on the occasion of her exhibition at MUDAM Luxembourg.

Mella Jaarsma, I Eat You Eat Me, 2001–2012, performance in Jakarta, Indonesia, 2001. Collection of the artist. Image courtesy the artist.

Dunia dalam Berita – The World in News at Museum MACAN

The survey exhibition explores the emergence of contemporary art before and after Indonesia’s political reformation (Reformasi).

Lee Kit, "Techno", 2019, TKG+, Taipei. Image courtesy the artist and TKG+.

Lee Kit’s “Techno” art at TKG+

Lee Kit's latest exhibition explores the contradictions of contemporary life.

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...

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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.