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Korakrit Arunanondchai

Artree Nepal, Godna / Tika Chedna (Tattoo) depicting peacock playing in the garden done in the Tharu tradition by women in the West and Far West of Nepal, photographic research material, 2021. Courtesy of Artree Nepal and Urmila Gamwa Tharu.

Kathmandu Triennale 2077: the intersection of contemporary art, folk art and craft

The Kathmandu Triennale 2077 exhibition sees the participation of over 100 artists and collaborators, from more than 40 nations, with over 300 artworks on show across five venues.

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.

Biennales

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".

Ting Chaong-Wen, Virgin Land, 2019, tempered glass floor, ultraviolet light tube, neon lamp, raw material of cinchona tree, tonic water, multi-channel video, dimensions variable. Commissioned by 2019 Asian Art Biennial. Installation view at Asian Art Biennial 2019, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. Image courtesy Asian Art Biennial.

Biennales

Asian Art Biennial 2019: The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea

ASIA has a look at the 7th edition of the Asian Art Biennial before its closure on 9 February 2020.

Istanbul Harbour. Photo: Orhan Pamuk, Balkon, Steidl 2018.

Biennales

The Seventh Continent: The 16th Istanbul Biennial

ASIA has a look at the 16th Istanbul Biennial.

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.

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.

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