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!

Us, You, #MeToo

Contributors

On Kawara

Hanoi • For better or for worse

Global Uproar Over Shahidul Alam’s Arrest

Awards

Gana (Hear, Think, Understand)

Spinning Up, Winding Down

Where Art Thou?

The Inevitable Descent

Survival Strategies

Here and There

In Between • Three artists explore contemporary urban environments and social interactions in their installation works

We Are Each One An Other • The winner of ArtAsiaPacific’s Young Writers Contest 2018 examines cross-cultural themes in the works of Shezad Dawood

Hopping on a Broken Bandwagon • Singapore’s confused art fair-industrial complex

Ladies and Gentlemen of Leisure • Looking at the priorities of Shanghai’s private museums

Always Painting, Always Sculpting

Understated Visionaries

The Long Way Home

CUTTING THROUGH HISTORIES

NAKED AND KNIFE - SHARP • ANITA DUBE

YOUNG & EMERGING • NEW DIGITALS

THEN AND NOW • A look back through our archives, from 1993 to 2017

GIVING VOICE, FORMING BODY • A Conversation between Christina Végh, Alexander Birchler and Teresa Hubbard

GWANGJU BIENNALE 2018

TARRAWARRA BIENNIAL

KUNIÉ SUGIURA

BUSAN BIENNALE

CHENG RAN

SHOJI UEDA

CAO FEI

FX HARSONO

TIES OF HISTORY

INDONESIA, SPIRIT OF THE WORLD

SUBCONTRACTED NATIONS

FIVE HEADS (TAVAN TOLGOI) – ART, ANTHROPOLOGY AND MONGOL FUTURISM

THE PROGRESSIVE REVOLUTION: MODERN ART FOR A NEW INDIA

TADANORI YOKOO

SIAH ARMAJANI

TOMOO GOKITA

The Art of Place, the Place of Art • Witty wordplay and expressions of diaspora identities resist the status quo

ART DIRECTORY 111 • A comprehensive guide to the contemporary arts in Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific and around the world.

Izumi Kato • In the artist’s Hong Kong studio, wide-eyed extraterrestrial beings and primordial deities stare back

Keiichi Tanaami • In our next regular issue, we look at how the visual acuity of Japanese pop-art icon Keiichi Tanaami fuses personal history with riotous visions and still influences artists today