September 2018
ShanghART Singapore – Aditya Novali – Significant other
Aditya Novali: Significant Other ShanghART Singapore is pleased to present Significant Other, a solo exhibition by Indonesian artist, Aditya Novali, featuring an entire series of new works. The exhibition opens on 8 September 2018 and will be on view from 9 September to 21 November 2018. Aditya Novali’s new series of work seeks to explore the universal experience of coming to terms with the numerous uncontrollable facets of life. Novali’s inspiration came from his daily occurrences and observations of his…
Find out more »Tai Kwun Contemporary – Cao Fei – A hollow in a world too full
The exhibition features the artist’s newly commissioned work, Prison Architect, a new film that is shown here in a specially conceived installation setting.
Find out more »River City Bangkok – RCB Film Club
RCB Film Club is proud to present September's four dynamic films by four individualistic Directors. Having all won awards and creating waves at festivals around the world, these films include three from Asia - Under Construction, Mindfulness and Murder, and The Bit Player - and Secret in their Eyes.
Find out more »Edouard Malingue Gallery (Hong Kong) – Constructing mythologies
Explore the social construction of certain mythologies in Cambodia, China, Myanmar, and Vietnam, in particular. These countries have deeply relied upon, developing and supporting fictional discourses in order to promote dominant State ideology and to obscure some parts of reality and history.
Find out more »BANK – Tri-solo – Sun Yitian – Wang Rui – Kim Laughton
Three separate solo exhibitions by three young artists whose works probe the soul of our hyper-consumerist and networked condition in diverse ways. BANK has separated its space into three portals so that each exhibition project functions independently.
Find out more »A2Z Art Gallery Hong Kong – Engku Iman – Rukun Iman
Engku Iman presents a selected body of works that expound the six foundations of her artistic practice: Religion / Culture / Society / Roles / Gender / Humanity.
Find out more »Capsule Shanghai – Maya Kramer – Decoy
For Kramer, decoy, or a disguised “lure,” is both a metaphor and a method of imitation, trapping, and reflection. Decoy is also a form of invitation––the artist is inviting the viewers to see through the mechanisms behind disguises, and to contemplate the more prevalent problems in the natural and industrial worlds.
Find out more »At Bangkok – 2018 Taiwan minorities film festival in Bangkok
For six screenings at Doc Club Theater at Warehouse 30, and another two screenings with Talks Q/A with Taiwanese director Chou Tung-Yen at Alliance Francaise Bangkok and Taiwanese LGBT activists at Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand (FCCT).
Find out more »Affinity Art – Le Quy Tong’s solo show – True gold – Chapter II
Approaches this open-endeness as a feasible means of remembering and moving forward. His altered images of protest, revolution, rubble, and revolt are a way of combating forgetfulness, of prolonging history and highlighting its malleability.
Find out more »October 2018
Puerta Roja – KIAF 2018
Puerta Roja Presents Movement in Abstract Art at KIAF 2018. New works by Op and Kinetic master Carlos Cruz-Diez alongside bamboo mobiles by Laurent Martin ‘Lo’ and ‘nature paintings’ by Fernando Prats included in the group exhibition.
Find out more »Singapore Art Museum – President’s young talents 2018
President's Young Talents 2018 The President’s Young Talents exhibition (PYT), organized by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), is the nation’s premier mentoring, commissioning and awards exposition. Into its seventh edition, PYT 2018 maintains its core focus as a platform that nurtures emerging artists aged 35 and below. A mentoring committee comprising artists, independent curators and artist-curators, selected Yanyun Chen, Weixin Quek Chong, Debbie Ding, Hilmi Johandi and Zarina Muhammad, as the finalists of PYT 2018. A six-month mentorship followed, and…
Find out more »UCCA Dune – After nature
UCCA Dune is an art museum buried under a sand dune 300 kilometers east of Beijing where “After Nature” will be presented.
Find out more »Wei-Ling Contemporary – The further you stand, the clearer you see
Shed light on the notion of memories linked to architecture. Intrigued by historical buildings across Malaysia – at the same time distressed by their rapid disappearance – the artist created embroidery patchworks that mix and match portions of different structures as if recycling them into new edifices.
Find out more »Manzi Art Space – Bàng Nhất Linh – Summer Grasses
‘Summer grasses’ is Linh’s most recent work - an installation artwork which revisits and references his previous unexhibited work - ‘Hero’. ‘Hero’ created out from 2010 to 2012 was inspired by the famous naval Battle of Bach Dang - one of the greatest victories in Vietnamese war history.
Find out more »National University of Singapore – Shifting undergrounds in east and southeast asia
Organised by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, in collaboration with National Gallery Singapore.
Find out more »YELO House – Nova Contemporary – The dimension of humanity
The shape of the invisible, the rhythm of the unspeakable, the dimension of humanity explores the human mental state under an increasingly connected environment, and the effects of the all-surrounding, all-surveilled sensorium on our sense of self and identity.
Find out more »Art+ Shanghai Gallery – Chen Xuanrong – Huang Yulong – Altered state
Two Chinese artists, with almost a 10-year gap in age difference, create works influenced by hip-hop – or what we interchangeably call, ‘street culture’.
Find out more »November 2018
Krabi – Thailand Biennal 2018 Krabi – Edge of the wonderland
As the foremost international exhibition of contemporary art in Thailand, the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC), Ministry of Culture in Bangkok, is organising the First Thailand Biennale.
Find out more »Long Museum West Bund – Louise Bourgeois – The Eternal Thread
the first large-scale museum exhibition in China of work by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Bourgeois is renowned for creating a body of work that fuses psychological depth with high formal invention.
Find out more »Asia Society Hong Kong Center – Liminal encounters – An augmented reality exhibition
An outdoor art journey that explores the ways technology integrate the virtual world with our real life through artworks that make use of augmented reality (AR). As we are used to accessing information digitally in all aspects of life, the gap between the real and virtual grows closer every day.
Find out more »Perrotin Shanghai – Takashi Murakami in wonderland
Murakami’s exhibition will bring to Shanghai new and recent creations that are of a wide range of dimensions, from single-panel canvases to a monumental, ambitious, 15-meter-long acrylic painting mounted on an aluminum frame, as well as a towering 250 cm sculpture.
Find out more »Gallery VER – Be Takerng Pattanopas – The nerve that eats itself
The Nerve That Eats Itself are a series of sculptures that attempt to offer consolation in touching the core of viewers’ bodies and minds. However chaotic the compositions may seem, viewers can sense various forms of energy from the subatomic to cosmic.
Find out more »National Gallery Singapore – Minimalism – Space.Light.Object
National Gallery Singapore and ArtScience Museum are collaborating to present the region’s first exhibition focusing on Minimalism. Over 150 works will explore the history and legacy of this groundbreaking art movement, which continues to influence a wide range of art forms and practitioners across the world today.
Find out more »S.A.C. – Weerapong Sansomporn – The truth of the matter(s) is
Detachments from reality change how we see our nature, our society, and our concepts with the movements and moments that provide the memories of life in a fixed time. These works, just as our perceptions, are deceptively strong while being often delicate in construction.
Find out more »Pace Gallery – Ham Kyungah
Ham Kyungah Exhibition consists of her signature work, a series of six large-scale needle paintings of chandeliers that have been completed in collaboration with North Korean embroidery craftsmen.
Find out more »December 2018
Lucie Chang Fine Arts – Yasumasa Yonehara – YONE – Sweet Secret
Showcasing a group of collaged woman-themed mirror images. “Reflection Alter Perception,” YONE encourages viewers to sense the incertitude of the visual world.
Find out more »January 2019
Our ArtProjects – Rethinking Editions
This curated group exhibition features 15 visual artists who have explored and interpreted the idea of art 'editions'. Featured artists include Ajim Juxta, Dhavinder Singh, Yee I-Lann and Noor Mahnun Mohamed.
Find out more »Chan + Hori Contemporary – Chris Chong Chan Fui – devices
Echoing artificial mimicries and calculated capital gains, the artist contemplates how this mechanization of nature reflects upon our own integrity.
Find out more »May 2019
Four Season Hong Kong – Sovereign Asian art prize 2019
The Sovereign Asian Art Prize invites mid-career contemporary artists nominated by a carefully selected board of independent art experts from the region.
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