6️⃣0️⃣ seconds with artist Tan JingSpend 6️⃣0️⃣ seconds getting to know Tan Jing! We caught up with the artist, whose work was recently featured at #ArtBaselHongKong, to learn what she values in friendship, her guilty pleasure, and her ideal dinner party guest (hint, hint Zendaya!)
Conversations | The Old-New Cold WarLee Kai-chung, artist, Tabula Rasa Pu Yingwei, artist, Hive Contemporary Ming Wong, artist, Ota Fine Art Moderated by Kathleen Ditzig, Curator, National Gallery Singapore Across Art Basel Hong Kong, artists are exploring the Cold War and its spectres as an unresolved historical chapter that continues to impact international geopolitics. Why do artists feel compelled to centre this period of 20th Century history? What have they learned about the world...
Conversations | Artists as ChangemakersMartha Atienza, artist, Silverlens Taeyoon Choi, artist Tozer Pak Sheung Chuen and Cherry Chan, co-founders, HASS Lab Moderated by Chantal Wong, Convenor of AFIELD This discussion, organized in collaboration with AFIELD, explores how artists are developing community-focused projects and initiatives that utilize their skills and connections as creative practitioners to engage with the needs of their communities. How can artists contribute to the so...
Conversations | What Matters More: Artists or Artworks?Wang Tuo, artist, Blindspot Gallery, 2023 Sigg Prize Winner Kara Chin, artist, Linseed Jitish Kallat, artist, Templon Steph Huang, artist, Public Gallery Moderated by Cem. A, artist Crit Club is a contextual performance conceived by Cem A., also known as freeze_magazine, that holds space for playful disagreements by inviting guests to debate impossible art-related questions. Convened in a panel format for the first time, this live-...
Conversations | Social Fabrics: Weaving as Art FormYee I-Lann, artist, Silverlens Qualeasha Wood, artist, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Yuki Kihara, interdisciplinary artist, CHAT exhibition Moderated by Mizuki Takahashi, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile (CHAT) The art of weaving has long been a tradition of social cohesion: a creative act that produces textiles that are worn, used, or displayed in public and private spaces to signal identities, tel...
Conversations | How to Build a Biennial TogetherGridthiya Gaweewong, artistic director of The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok / Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023 Amar Kanwar, co-curator, 2022 Istanbul Biennial Rirkrit Tiravanija, artistic director, Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023 Moderated by Amal Khalaf, co-curator, Sharjah Biennial 16, Director of Programmes at Cubitt and Alia Swastika, co-curator Sharjah Biennial 16, Director of the Biennale Jogja Foundation Biennials are reimagi...
Conversations | Encounters: Holding Space for Humanity in a Complex WorldYoan Capote, artist, Ben Brown Fine Arts Tsherin Sherpa, artist, Rossi & Rossi Lí Wei, artist, Tang Contemporary Art Catalina Swinburn, artist, Selma Feriani Moderated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director, Artspace Sydney and Encounters Curator If art is a vital form of communication, how are artists learning to hold space for the complexity that defines our shared existence? Blending geographies and experi...
Conversations | Worldmaking Beyond the WestKoyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town Suhanya Raffel, Director, M+ Durjoy Rahman, Founder, Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation Moderated by X Zhu-Nowell, Artistic Director, Rockbund Art Museum Institutional leaders discuss their efforts to decenter Western narratives within the field of art by developing programming that illuminates new mappings and deeper understandings of local, regiona...
Conversations|How to Build a History-Defining Collection of Contemporary Chinese ArtUli Sigg, Collector of Chinese Contemporary Art Johnson Chang, Founder and Director of Hanart TZ Gallery Moderator: Pi Li, Head of Art, Tai Kwun Contemporary How do you create a narrative of Chinese contemporary art history through the practice of private collecting? Collectors share their approaches to developing landmark collections of Chinese contemporary art, reflecting on how their role has devel...
Conversations | Continuous Reenactments: Haegue Yang in ConversationHaegue Yang, artist, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Kukje Gallery, kurimanzutto Moderator: Yung Ma, Senior Curator, Hayward Gallery Ahead of her solo show ‘Leap Year', which opens at London’s Hayward Gallery in October 2024, artist Haegue Yang reflects on the evolution of her practice with curator Yung Ma. The Hayward show follows major institutional exhibitions in 2023 at S.M.A.K Ghent, Helsinki Art Museum, Pinacoteca de...
Conversations | Conversations | The Global Art Market: Perspectives from AsiaClare McAndrew, Founder, Arts Economics Xiaoming Zhang, Research Advisor, Northwestern University Adrian Zuercher, Co-Head CIO Global Asset Allocation and Co-Head CIO Global IM APAC, UBS Moderated by Margaret Wang, Private collector and arts patron Asia’s art markets are established and emergent, with local ecosystems growing markets at home while developing regional and global connections abroad. How are th...
Conversations | Learning From the New Wave: Charting Alternative Futures for Arts in Hong Kong
Inner Worlds | Tastemaker Kazunari Shirai_The ‘Inner Worlds’ film series visits creatives in the places that inspire them_ The enigmatic entrepreneur opens the doors to his art and automobile collections A rare glimpse into the world of one of Japan’s most private figures, the latest installment of ‘Inner Worlds’ introduces Kazunari Shirai. The Japanese businessman is an investor, co-founder of Art Week Tokyo, a publisher, and an avid collector known for his eclectic range ...