ArtAsiaPacific

Whether through sight, sound, or textures, humans are always receiving sensory data and reacting. The way we think of ourselves, however, is sometimes less fundamental or elemental, while many contemporary artists have worked to draw our intimate and

Arriving late at the home of renowned Korean artist Park Seo-Bo after fighting Seoul’s traffic, I find him holding court at the head of a long table; on one side sits his daughter-in-law; on the other, a handful of friends and gallerists. At 91, Park

Made up of diverse communities, Zurich is developing many interesting cultural layers. These cultural strata are continuously crossing different fields, spaces, and social classes. While art is an everyday presence in the high-priced, high-quality-of

Leading international arts and cultural organizations around the world—from the United States to the United Arab Emirates—canceled or paused projects by architect David Adjaye after the Financial Times (FT) reported on July 4 the cases of three women

The creation of socially themed art is founded on the premise that an artist is a member of society with inherent social obligations. During the New Order era (1966–98), artists in Indonesia who addressed social issues raised the theme of resistance

Can the art market in mainland China bounce back to pre-pandemic form and avoid the slowing growth experienced by the country at large? Would the North Atlantic art world shake off a bad auction season in New York in May to find renewed enthusiasm am

SEP 6–FEB 25, 2024 For the tenth edition of the annual MMCA Hyundai Motor Series, renowned South Korean multimedia artist Jung Yeondoo debuts work in his first large-scale solo exhibition at MMCA since 2007. “One Hundred Years of Travels” is centered

For the recent group exhibition “Hysteria: Contemporary Realism Painting” at Seoul’s Ilmin Museum of Art, South Korean artist Jung Soojung showed new paintings from 2023, including Still Life with Teeth, of pomegranates with molars instead of flowers

Over the course of five decades Filipino artist Jose “Bogie” Tence Ruiz has advocated for social realism across paintings, illustrations, graphic design, and curatorial work, embracing the label with what he calls “the broadest definition.” Emerging

In a portrait taken for The New York Times several years ago, artist Jean Shin stands in front of a huge hemlock tree wrapped in patches of colorful leather, looking firmly forward with an antique-looking metal spear—a bark spud, or peeling iron—in h

Growing up at the turn of the millennium in Calaca, a small town around 100 kilometers from Manila, I remember boredom being somewhat endemic. Among the few things I would do to amuse myself was visit my aunt’s store, which was located in front of a

Mire Lee frequently turns to industrial materials and machinery to mine for waste and unexpected byproducts. In her installations and sculptures, there are low-fi motor-driven pumps, concrete mixers, PVC tubing, and hand-grafted silicon abscesses, wh

Over the past two decades, Tarek Atoui has established a distinctive experimental sonic practice, working in the interdisciplinary spaces of contemporary art—where it is possible to synthesize and hybridize elements of genres such as electronic music

Insomnia, anxiety, and the inability to concentrate are common afflictions of life in the modern world. In searching for ways to alleviate these ailments, there has been a growing interest in sound frequencies—also known as binaural beats. In Corinne

For almost ten years, Hong Kong artist Elvis Yip Kin Bon has obsessively collected newspaper cuttings of the city’s police force arresting criminal suspects, then carefully removed any extraneous text and actors from the page, save for the suspects—h

A realist portrait. A muted palette. At first glance, Yooyun Yang’s Beam (2020) is straightforward, matter-of-fact. Any of the paintings in the Seoul-based painter’s recent show “Passing Time” at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, might give a similar

The first international retrospective of the late Pacita Abad (1946–2004), curated by Victoria Sung with Matthew Villar Miranda, was as celebratory as it was studious. Navigable by the curators’ bold use of color across four expansive galleries and s

In “mOTHERTONGUE,” everything was a provocation. A collection of cultural and linguistic artifacts, this exhibition was an exploration of two decades of Mithu Sen’s career, spanning 40 artworks and 12 new commissions. Curated by Max Delany for the Au

Exhibitions that revisit seminal historical shows do the doubleduty of presenting the artistic productions of the day while carrying the potential to reveal the exhibitionary conditions of the time—whether explicitly curatorial, institutional, or exp

French-born Charles Munka’s latest paintings are littered with references to different places, tracing and encircling the islands of his former home of Hong Kong, as well as Japan, specifically Sado, where he now lives and works. The typographic joy

As the decade-long love for the Korean monochrome movement known as Dansaekhwa begins to wane, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum unveiled “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–197

When was the last time you saw a contemporary art exhibition that was also a great love story? A tale of clandestine romance, love of country and culture, some political maneuvering, and artistic collaboration culminates in one of China’s legendary r

Feathers were ruffled over the opening weekend of the first instalment of National Gallery Singapore’s (NGS) two-part exhibition, “See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia.” In the museum’s Ngee Ann Kongsi Concourse gallery, a coop

Four long-necked figures appear together: a man and a woman in green-blue hues silhouetted against an orangered background, shielding a pair of children in front. Song Huai-Kuei (1937–2006) painted herself and her family in the late 1960s in Sofia af

For most people, time is linear—perpetuated by calendars, annals, and other historical recording devices. For others, it is merely an illusion. As artists engage creatively with time-based media, alternative forms of experiencing durational or chrono

‘’Dui Jip Ki,’’ (Korean for “to flip”) was an exploration of the multidirectional nature of Korean contemporary art, exhibiting various artists’ practices of turning established histories, traditional methods, and natural processes upside down and in

There are two motives for abstraction. The first is destructive: a railing against received wisdom, a deconstruction of established perspectives. The second is, in the legal sense, constructive: it relies upon a viewer’s inference, nodding to realiti

“Several Reenactments” was Korean-born Haegue Yang’s first solo exhibition in a Belgian museum and acted as a Gesamtkunstwerk (or “total work”) in which different situations were (re-) staged to unpack the various semantic layers of the artist’s oeuv

Edited by Xi Bei, Hou Hanru, Yu Hsiaohwei Published by Les Presses du Réel Dijon, 2022 After economic reforms began in China in 1979 that allowed businesses to operate autonomously from the central government in “special economic zones,” the Pearl Ri

It is raining in Paris, and the late July weather is milder than in other parts of Europe that are wilting under the apocalyptic heat. The city is also emptier than anticipated and the journey from the airport is quick and painless, and when I finall

Over the course of more than half a century, Damascus-born Simone Fattal’s artistic practice has explored the complexities of war, mythology, religion, archaeology, and memory through painting, ceramics, sculpture, and collage. Growing up in Beirut,