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!

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Contributors

Images of Identity

Enoch Cheng on Michaela Coel

Brunei • In search of a national visual identity

Etel Adnan • Lifelong Passion

Hossein Valamanesh • Following a Path of Love

Taiwan Terminates Venice Biennale Plans Mired By Sexual Assault Allegations

SELF-ORGANIZE AND SELF-EDUCATE • In 2022, the Point asks writers to examine modes of learning. Below, Liang Jianhua, artist and director of Guangzhou’s nonprofit space HB Station, discusses current and alternative art-education models in China.

59th Venice Biennale • “The Milk of Dreams”

RULE – BREAKERS

SYNCHRONIZED FREQUENCIES • In the Classroom with Oscar Murillo

BARIŞ DOĞRUSÖZ • Lamenting the Ruins

SIN WAI KIN • Self, World, Universe

SIMON FUJIWARA ALL THE WORLD‘S A CARTOON

HISTORY THROUGH THE BAMBOO CAMERA

UP CLOSE

Twilight of the Communist Idols • Political Notes on Cao Fei

2021 Asian Art Biennial: “Phantasmapolis” • National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

10th Asia Pacific Triennial • Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

Cast But One Shadow: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities • UP Vargas Museum

Guo-Liang Tan Soft Turnings • Ota Fine Arts

Kartik Sood In Thin Air • Talwar Gallery

Manal AlDowayan The Eternal Return of the Same • Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde

Candeğer Furtun • Arter

Thea Djordjadze all building as making • Gropius Bau

Sutapa Biswas Lutmen • Kettle’s Yard

Wifredo Lam The Imagination at Work • Pace Gallery

Hung Liu Portraits of Promised Lands • National Portrait Gallery

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme If only this mountain between us could be ground to dust • Art Institute of Chicago

ITINERARY

In Full View • THE POLITICS OF ART: DISSENT AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN LEBANON, PALESTINE, AND JORDAN

TINO SEHGAL • It takes an urban village

JUMANA MANNA • Wild Resilience