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ArtReview Asia Winter 2024 Issue Out Now

Nov 14, 2024 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia

***Subscribe now or get your copy from our new online shop***ArtReview Asia’s Winter issue features Indonesian artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi on the cover – and Stephanie Bailey dives into the quantum theories, mysticism and Indigenous folklore that inform his work. In his latest film, Mirage: Eigenstate (2024), a cosmonaut crashes into ‘quantum immortality’ – escaping death by existing across several ‘non-interacting realities or timelines’.
ArtReview Asia Autumn 2024 Issue Out Now

Sep 19, 2024 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia

***Subscribe now or get your copy from our new online shop***ArtReview Asia recently became aware of what feels like a burgeoning trend whereby artists today describe their location of residence as where they’re ‘based’ – a word choice that relates more to pragmatism and transience than a sense of domesticity. Which makes ArtReview Asia wonder what is meant by calling a place home.
ArtReview Asia Summer 2024 Issue Out Now

Jun 20, 2024 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia

***Subscribe now or get your copy from our new online shop***ArtReview Asia has been hard at work on its Summer issue – to the point where it thinks it might deserve a rest. Yet art, the thing it spends most of its time thinking about, sits in an unusual meeting point between labour and leisure.
The Top Exhibitions to See in Hong Kong This Spring

Mar 22, 2024 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia |Nirmala Devi

From Apichatpong Weerasethakul at M+ to Xiyadie at Blindspot, our editors select shows to see during Art Basel Hong KongYang Fudong, M+, through 9 JuneApichatpong Weerasethakul, M+, from 8 MarchWhat do UBS, Art Basel and M+ have in common? No, not money; Yang Fudong. In March that intrepid trinity are teaming up to present the Chinese artist and pioneer of moving-image’s latest film on the M+ facade (the museum’s exterior wall, which doubles as a giant digital display).
ArtReview Asia Spring 2024 Issue Out Now

Mar 21, 2024 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia

Featuring Aki Sasamoto, Kim Heecheon, Glenn Ligon, Wang Ya-Hui, Taipei Biennial and Thailand Biennale, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and much more“A switch for eccentricity is not available until you flip it,” Aki Sasamoto tells Tyler Coburn in the cover feature of ArtReview Asia’s Spring issue. Across performance, video, installation and sculpture practices, the Japanese-born, New York-based artist mines the eccentricities of everyday life, turning each of her experiments into a philosophical musing.
Beyond Limits: Unrealised Works of Chris Burden

Jan 12, 2024 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia

ArtReview Asia and Nowness Asia present a new series of digital artworks based on unrealised projects by pioneering artist Chris Burden, produced by TRLab, in partnership with the Chris Burden Estate, on view at ART SG at the ArtReview Asia + Nowness Asia booth on Level 1. Supported by FerragamoThis month TRLab is showcasing a new series of digital artworks that realise a number of projects by pioneering artist Chris Burden that were unrealised at the time of his death.
ArtReview Asia Winter 2023 Issue Out Now

Nov 9, 2023 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia

Featuring Citra Sasmita, Shuang Li, Soumya Sankar Bose and Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; an interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto; an artist project by Hylozoic/Desires; essays on the ‘Hijab Revolution’ and Thailand Biennale; and much moreArtReview Asia’s Winter issue features cover artist Citra Sasmita.
Wang Bing: “Filmmaking is not that complicated”

Sep 22, 2023 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia

The Xi’an-born, Paris-based director speaks to ArtReview Asia about his new film Hei Yi Ren (Man in Black), compassionate cinema and the act of witness The filmic style of Xi’an-born, Paris-based director Wang Bing is characterised by his lengthy, immersive documentary odysseys. Ever the observer, Wang silently follows his protagonists, neither stepping in on the situations he films, nor backing away from them.
ArtReview Asia Autumn 2023 Issue Out Now

Sep 4, 2023 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia

Featuring Kim Beom, Wang Tuo and Sancintya Mohini Simpson; interviews with Wang Bing, Cai Guo-Qiang and Sung Neung Kyung; essays on Thailand’s holy bronze men and reformulated identity politics; and much moreArtReview Asia’s Autumn issue takes a look at the external power structures that shape art, as well as those within art practice itself, and the various ways in which artists try to unravel those hierarchies. ‘Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a first-generation Australian. She’s an artist.
The Top Exhibitions to See in Seoul in September 2023

Aug 31, 2023 | artreview.com | ArtReview Asia |Chris Fite-Wassilak |Nirmala Devi

As the artworld descends on Seoul for Frieze and KIAF, our editors pick out the shows they’re looking forward toWoosung LeeHakgojae Gallery, through 13 SeptemberWoosung Lee’s precise, studied paintings feel like a kind of archaeology of the present, portraying cryptic messages from an indecipherable moment. Eternal Story (2023) depicts a set of large smooth stones, all of them engraved with runes in the shape of a laptop, an airplane, a fast-food cup.