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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (MMCA)

UuDam Tran Nguyen, Serpents’Tails, 2015, installation view. Image courtesy National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

7 Asian contemporary art exhibitions to see this Christmas 2021

ASIA features a selection of must-see exhibitions of Asian contemporary art around the world this Christmas.

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

Artists’ Films Galore this Autumn with MCAD Manila

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

Haugue Yang. Image courtesy Hyundai Motor.

Exhibitions

MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020: Haegue Yang – O2 & H2O

MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020 presents a solo exhibition of internationally acclaimed Korean artist Haegue Yang.

Park Chan-kyong, Belated Bosal, 2019, HD film, black & white, 5.1 channel sound, 55min. Installation view at MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-Kyong – Gathering, MMCA, Seoul. ⓒ Hong Cheolki

Exhibitions

MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-kyong

MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019 presents Park Chan-kyong's "Gathering".

Art Awards and Prizes

Korea Artist Prize 2020 Finalists

MMCA and SBS Foundation have announced the four finalists for Korea Artist Prize 2020, who will be exhibiting in the Prize exhibition from October 2020.

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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