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!

Contributors

ArtAsiaPacific

Practices of Realignment

Raja’a Khalid on Kurt Vonnegut

Picture Window with Two Chairs • In Memory of Siah Armajani, 1939–2020

Marid • Mind the gap

Singapore Loses Major Exhibition and Residency Platform

AWARDS

OBITUARIES

To Conceive of the Curriculum of the Forest • In 2020, the Point examines how our cultural and sociopolitical systems are implicated in climate change, and what actions the arts industry can take. In this issue, the Forest Curriculum discuss pedagogical models that allow us to better understand our ecologies.

Fun for All

Back in Business • More than half a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the art world is slowly finding its footing. Live auctions resumed between spikes in cases across New York, London, and Hong Kong. Christie’s and Sotheby’s reaped significant earnings, though a number of high-profile pieces failed to sell.

Online Shopping • While some art fairs forged ahead with in-person events, most played safe with online presentations. Results were positive as galleries and clients are growing accustomed to the virtual formats of the Covid-19 era.

SHIFTING GROUNDS

RESTORING THE VIEW

EVERY DAY EARTH • The ecological flows of Yukihisa Isobe

IRENE AGRIVINA • Interspecies Matchmaking

TAMARA DEAN • In the Vanishing Wild

MAE-LING LOKKO • Building Blocks for the Future

THE MATERIALITY OF MEMORY THU VAN TRAN

Beneath the Concrete, the Ocean • MAP OFFICE

PRABHAKAR PACHPUTE

TRUONG CONG TUNG

SU YU HSIN

3 7 Meret Oppenheim: Every Idea Is Born with Its Own Form • INSIDE BURGER COLLECTION

ITINERARY

ART DIRECTORY • 121 A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ART SPACES AND GALLERIES IN ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PACIFIC, AND AROUND THE WORLD.

7th Yokohama Triennale: “Afterglow”

Khaled Sabsabi A Promise

Xu Zhen eternity vs evolution

More, More, More

Koo Jeong A 2O2O

Mark Chung Wheezing

My Body Holds Its Shape

Hương Ngô Lost from View

11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: “The Crack Begins Within”

A Slightly Curving Place

Thao Nguyen Phan Becoming Alluvium

Kaz Oshiro 96375

Otherworldly Journeys

KELLY AKASHI • Forms of Wonder in Seasons of Chaos

Memories of Murder