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
Time Memorialized
Kawita Vatanajyankur on Marina Abramović
LOS Angeles • Leaning In, All at Once
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Co-Founder Killed
Let’s Bring Down the Fence and Re-Build Together
All the Best People
Season of Settling In • As auction houses returned to their pre-pandemic seasonal lineups, they also faced cooler winds as buyers and sellers alike readjusted their expectations for the coming year. Sales in New York and Hong Kong displayed consistent demand but less superheated competition for many top lots.
True Optimism • Money flows where the optimism goes. Eager to return to pre-pandemic scales—both physically and financially—fairs in the Asia-Pacific region introduced local talent to international visitors who returned for the first time in three years. In Dubai, a destination to skirt financial sanctions in Europe, people wondered if art sales were impacted by the Russia-Ukraine War.
RADICAL EXPLORATIONS
URBAN CHAOS MEMORY
CITRA SASMITA • Imagined Cosmologies
Architectures of Control SUNG TIEU
SURFACE MATTERS • Yun Hyong-Keun’s years in Paris
Shim Moon-Seup
The History is Female
UP CLOSE
BROOK HSU
VAEVAE CHAN
This is the strategy
ITINERARY
Sharjah Biennial 15 Thinking Historically in the Present • Sharjah Art Foundation & multiple locations
Goro Kakei • Taka Ishii Gallery
Adaptation: A Reconnected Earth • Museum of Contemporary Art and Design
Wang Tuo The Second Interrogation • Blindspot Gallery
Liu Kuo-sung Experimentation as Method • National Gallery Singapore
Chitra Ganesh Orchid Meditations • Gallery Espace
Bollywood Superstars: A Short Story of Indian Cinema • Louvre Abu Dhabi
Christine Sun Kim Cues on Point • Secession
Martin Wong Malicious Mischief • KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Samson Young Frames and variations • Petzel Gallery
VINTAGE REFLECTIONS
SEUNG YUL OH AND JUNGEUN LEE • Cohabitating in a household of creative enterprises
TRUONG CONG TUNG • Relics of the Earth