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!

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