For over 20 years, ArtAsiaPacific has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published in Hong Kong, with over 30 editorial desks worldwide. Our annual issue, the Almanac, is an alphabetical tour d'horizon of the 67-odd countries covered in ArtAsiaPacific, spanning Afghanistan to Vietnam. The Almanac also invites influential art world figures to comment on the major cutural events that have shaped the past 12 months. Now also available on the iPhone!
Moveable Feasts
ArtAsiaPacific
CONTRIBUTORS
Isaac Chong Wai on Käthe Kollwitz
Eora/Sydney • In Metamorphosis
NEWS ROUND UP
Palestinian Artist’s Retrospective Canceled
The Edge of Pluralism
Would You Be My Dragon?
Regions for Growth • Singapore has rapidly become the region’s favorite city among global asset and wealth-management firms in recent years, as the strained relationship between China and the United States has caused financial firms to seek a getaway from the risks of possible sanctions and embargos from the two feuding superpowers. India, now the world’s largest population, maintains its art market largely on an expanding domestic audience.
60th Venice Biennale • Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere
National & Collateral Pavilions
OBJECTS OF OUR EMOTION
GERALDINE JAVIER • Lightness in Death
ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI • Seeing the Forest for the Trees
A ROOM OF MY OWN • Escaping Queer Erasure Through Art
PROOF OF PERSONHOOD • The Promises and Perils of AI Art
TREVOR YEUNG • Watchful Intimacies, Botanical Intricacies
YUKO MOHRI • Electric Smelly Orchestra
LIU CHUANG
HODA AFSHAR
NATASCHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN
ROBERT GOBER
ITINERARY
LONDON
SEOUL
TAIPEI
HONG KONG
SINGAPORE
CHIANG RAI
NEW DELHI
VIENNA
MILAN
NEW YORK
WASHINGTON, DC
LOS ANGELES
CRITICAL LISTS
DENİZ GÜL • Embracing the Absence
MANAL ALDOWAYAN • Time’s Echo