ArtAsiaPacific

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!

When Lives Become History

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CONTRIBUTORS

Chitra Ganesh on Rummana Hussain • She is the question

Mumbai • Boom Bubble

NEWS ROUND UP

Hong Kong Public Art Looks to Inflate Visitor Numbers

Paying for the Privilege

Soft at the Top • While sales at the big three auction houses, Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips, declined 23 percent from 2022 to 2023, Artnet reported that revenue gained from the highest-end artworks (more than USD 10 million) has dropped 40 percent. Recent sales found more traction away from the headliners of recent years.

Brick by BRIC • The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2024 found that global sales topped USD 65 billion in 2023 while, year-on-year, transactions had fallen by four percent. The report also found that despite economic troubles China replaced the United Kingdom as the second-largest art market with 19 percent of the global share, behind the United States at 42 percent.

60TH VENICE BIENNALE COLLATERAL EXHIBITIONS Apr 20–Nov 24

BODIES OF HISTORY

Chronicles of Displacement MARK SALVATUS

GÜLSÜN KARAMUSTAFA In a Troubled orld

THE URGENT PRESENT CONTINUOUS • Collectivity in response to crisis at March Meeting 2024

NO CULTURE IN A DRY WORLD • Notes from the Aral Sea

KANG SEUNG LEE

MANAL ALDOWAYAN IMMORTAL TRACES

EMBRACING UNKNOWNS PHILIPPE PARRENO

SANDI HILAL & ALESSANDRO PETTI

AMAR KANWAR

TSAI MING-LIANG

Framing the Physical TOSH BASCO

Itinerary

24th Biennale of Sydney Ten Thousand Suns • Multiple Locations

Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living • Mori Art Museum

Pambabae: Exploring Abstraction by Women Artists 1969–1989 • Art Fair Philippines

Howie Tsui The Cradle Rocks Above an Abyss • Hanart TZ Gallery

Heman Chong Meditations on Shadow Libraries • STPI

Sohrab Hura Ghosts in My Sleep • Experimenter

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art • Barbican Art Gallery

An-My Lê Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières • Museum of Modern Art

Jennifer Tee Ancestral Beginnings, Sessile Beings • Tina Kim Gallery

Scratching at the Moon • Institute of Contemporary Art

PRECARIOUS TIMES

IV CHAN • Ode to the Problematic Body

MAO ISHIKAWA • The Naked Image