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6 Asian exhibitions to look forward to at the 60th Venice Biennale

Hong Kong — Trevor Yeung Hong Kong’s collateral exhibition for the 60th Venice Biennale is presented by M+ and the...

Kawita Vatanajyankur My Mother and I (Vacuum III), 2021, (still from video) colour, silent, 7 min:20sec. Image courtesy the artist.

Film and Video art

Artists’ Films Galore this Autumn with MCAD Manila

In collaboration with worldwide institutions, MCAD Manila proposes two artists' films programmes throughout this Autumn.

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.

Picture (From left to right): Mr Duncan Pescod, Chief Executive Officer, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Ms Suhanya Raffel, Museum Director, M+ and Co-chairwoman of Sigg Prize Ms Maria Balshaw, Director, Tate, United Kingdom Mr Samson Young, shortlisted artist of Sigg Prize Mr Tao Hui, shortlisted artist of Sigg Prize Mr Lin Yilin, shortlisted artist of Sigg Prize Dr Uli Sigg, Collector and Member of the M+ Board Ms Hu Xiaoyuan, shortlisted artist of Sigg Prize Mr Liang Shuo, shortlisted artist of Sigg Prize Ms Shen Xin, shortlisted artist of Sigg Prize Ms Liu Li Anna, Co-chairwoman of Sigg Prize. Image courtesy WKCDA.

Art Awards and Prizes

M+ announces artist shortlist for inaugural Sigg Prize

M+ announces the six artists shortlisted for the inaugural Sigg Prize, spotlighting outstanding practices from the Greater China region.

Asia-Pacific at the 58th Venice Biennale

The 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will run from 11 May to 24 November 2019 at...

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.