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!

ArtAsiaPacific

Contributors

Taking a Break

Jakkai Siributr on Gee’s Bend Quilters

Colombo • The Poetry is in the Hunger

Documenta Artists Resist Censorship

Youthful Energy • Closing out Hong Kong’s first auction season of 2022, Phillips’ and Poly Auction’s respective modern and contemporary sales catered to millennial buyers with new names, which were bolstered by a few established auction favorites for those erring on the side of caution. With younger artists continuing to break records across global auction houses as the market becomes younger, this strategy appeared to pay off.

Next Stop • People jumped at the chance to hop on a plane again this summer. Once restrictions were lifted, everyone departed, causing ongoing logistical chaos. But for the first time in nearly three years, overseas participants were finally able to return to the sales floors in Europe, while seizing the opportunity to also visit longawaited European festivals—the Venice Biennale and documenta fifteen. In China, a Beijing show kick-started the year’s art events after a series of lockdown-related delays and disruptions.

Rebalancing Acts

Crisis and Opportunity: Hong Kong Art Education in Recent Years

SITES OF EXCHANGE

PRESENT SPECTERS

KIRI DALENA • Confronting Narratives

ELIA NURVISTA • Recipes for Reorientation

POETIC THINKING

THE ACT OF REMEMBERING

BOO SZE YANG

SERENE HUI SZE LOK

HEIDI LAU

MONIQUE YIM

This Too Shall Pass • Song Dong Finds Hope in the Ephemeral

ART DIRECTORY • 130 A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ART SPACES AND GALLERIES IN ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PACIFIC, AND AROUND THE WORLD.

documenta fifteen

Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda

Ultra Unreal

Kazuna Taguchi A Quiet Sun

Tsuyoshi Maekawa Selected Works 1958–2018

Illuminated Curiosities

Isaac Chong Wai If we keep crying, we will go blind

Mire Lee Look, I’m a fountain of filth raving mad with love

Hiraki Sawa flown

Joeun Kim Aatchim Homed

Carlos Villa Worlds in Collision

Christopher K. Ho CX 889

ONGOING

TO GUIDE AND TO DESERT

MAI-THU PERRET • A Woman’s World

PACITA ABAD • Textured Existence