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Venice Biennale

"Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War", installation view of Taiwan Collateral Event 2024 at the 60th Venice Biennale. Courtesy ©TFAM.

“Everyday War”: In Conversation with Yuan Goang-Ming at the 60th Venice Biennale

“Everyday War”, Taiwan’s collateral event for the 60th Venice Biennale at at the Palazzo delle Prigioni presented by the Taipei...

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...

Cover of racy Jawi novel published by Qalam Press, Singapore, as shown by Faris Joraimi, Singapore. Image courtesy Shubigi Rao.

Asia-Pacific, Central and West Asia at the 59th Venice Biennale

ASIA brings together all the Asian participations at the 59th Venice Biennale.

"Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective", installation view of A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe, 2021, Gropius Bau, Berlin. Photo: © Luca Girardini

Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective at the Gropius Bau, Berlin

"A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe" spans the last 80 years of the Japanese artist's oeuvre.

12th Benesse Prize winner Amanda Heng at Singapore Biennale 2019.

Art Awards and Prizes

Amanda Heng wins 12th Benesse Prize at Singapore Biennale 2019

The Singaporean artist won for her experimental and critical spirit reflected in her SB19 commission.

Tiffany Chung, The Vietnam Exodus History Learning Project: the exodus, the camps and the half-lived lives, 2017, watercolor on paper. Courtesy the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York. The Vietnam Exodus History Learning Project is carried out in collaboration with Hồ Hưng, Huỳnh Quốc Bảo, Lê Nam Đy, Nguyễn Hoàng Long, Đặng Quang Tiến, Phạm Ái, Võ Châu, and Hoàng Vy. © Tiffany Chung

Vietnam, Past is Prologue: Tiffany Chung at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

In an unprecendented exhibition in Washington, Tiffany Chung tells Vietnam War's history through Vietnamese eyes.

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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.