
July 2018
Artist + Run Gallery – Pool – Tintin Cooper
The solo exhibition POOL by Tintin Cooper seems at first to follow a loose poolside narrative of a mostly male cast. Characters- perhaps athletes or celebrities- parade or lounge around as if on tropical holidays, on phone calls and social media. Yet on closer inspection we discover something else is afoot.
Find out more »August 2018
Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong – Zhao Zhao – one second – one year
Explores aspects of time and the way time alters our perception of the artworks on view. "One Second" drawings and "One Second" paintings established a dialogue about depictions of time. The artist held in one hand ten pencils and within one second marked a piece of paper with a grouping of lines.
Find out more »Ilham Gallery – Latiff Mohidin – Pago pago (1960 – 1969)
A way of thinking and working that sought to challenge the dominance of Western modernism at the time, Pago Pago led Latiff Mohidin to explore a syncretic approach to form in his art and enter dialogues with other avant-garde thinkers in Southeast Asia.
Find out more »S.A.C. The Art Centre – Kitikong Tilokwattanotai – Gregorian
Gregorian, an exhibition by Kitikong Tilokwattanotai is reminiscent of that historical moment in 1582. Using a monoprint approach, the artist worked daily to create prints that reflected his states of mind, thoughts and life events.
Find out more »10 Chancery Lane Gallery – HKFOREWORD18
an annual exhibition showcasing recent works by 9 Hong Kong art graduates. Organized by 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, aims to actively promote and strengthen relations between the new generation of contemporary artists in Hong Kong and local universities offering art degree programs.
Find out more »S.A.C Art Centre – Thanathorn Suppakijjumnong – Typeface
The typewriter is an important invention in the history of mankind that changed the way people communicate. The artworks by Suppakijjumnong revive the machine which is almost forgotten in the history back to life by employing it to depict her life’s stories in a contemporary way.
Find out more »Over the Influence (Hong Kong) – Drawing room
“Drawing Room,” offering a unique vision of traditional private spaces within a residence. Whether to write, read, or entertain visitors, drawing rooms bridged the personal and communal parts of a house.
Find out more »Singapore Art Museum – Singapore night festival at SAM
Entry to the museum and all activities are free during Singapore Night Festival. Explore the rich architectural heritage of the museum building through the façade projection and free tours, catch outdoor screenings, join in the dance and music performances, support local at the SAM x Local People Art Market, and more!
Find out more »SongEun ArtSpace – Delfina in SongEun – Power play
Group exhibition at SongEun ArtSpace in Seoul curated by Aaron Cezar, Director of Delfina Foundation. Power play explores the complex nature of friendship and the power dynamics at play within relationships between individuals, institutions and the state.
Find out more »September 2018
Kukje Gallery – Yoo Youngkuk – Colors from nature
Yoo Youngkuk: Colors from Nature features twenty oil paintings on canvas from 1964 and onwards, a period in which Yoo mastered his independent style, characterized by intense colors and the use of graphic, blocky compositions that suggest landscapes and fragmented bodies.
Find out more »Wei-Ling Contemporary – Dadang Christanto – Missing
Comprises 110 acrylic and charcoal imagined portraits of the 1965 victims. Dadang Christanto’s friend knew a news photographer colleague who somehow, had managed to access and produce photos of those who had been captured and tortured between 1965-1966 in Tegal.
Find out more »Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo – Silke Otto-Knapp “Violets”
The title of the exhibition refers to a journal of poetry Kurt Schwitters published in 1931 in Hannover. The group of paintings in the exhibition take their starting point from the Schwitters journal. They range from landscapes to paintings based on historical documentation of stage design and performance.
Find out more »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 »Karin Weber Gallery – The other story
'The Other Story' A Group Exhibition by Chloë Cheuk, Tsang Chui Mei and Tsang Tsui Shan // Curated by Ying Kwok 13 September - 3 November 2018 Since the origin of mankind, storytelling has been at the heart of human existence. From the very first carvings on the walls of caves to our online blogs and ‘tweets’ of today – we are, and always have been, storytellers. It is through stories that we communicate, learn, and associate with one another. Stories…
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 »ShangArt Singapore – Robert Zhao Renhui – Trying to remember a tree
The work is a series of 14 near life-size photographs, featuring a very old and large tree that collapsed near the artist’s home.
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 »PACE Beijing – Tim Eitel – Sites and attitudes
Following his inclusion in Pace's presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong 2018, Tim Eitel will have his first solo-exhibition in Beijing at Pace's gallery in the 798 Art District. Featuring a selection of new and recent figurative paintings, the exhibition will highlight Eitel's continued command of color, technique and form and showcase the artist's ongoing investigation of interior space, memory and perception. ------------- Tim Eitel: Sites and Attitudes 2018.09.29 - 2018.11.10 Beijing— Pace Gallery is pleased to announce Sites and…
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 »