Lisa Movius

Shanghai

China Bureau Chief at The Art Newspaper

Arts writer based in Shanghai, covering most of Asia primarily for The Art Newspaper. Swimmer. Cat lady. Opinions my own. ta/she/her/they/them

Articles

Newly opened Photography Museum of Seoul plans to become a ‘cultural anchor’ for the region

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) has opened a new branch dedicated to photography in South Korea's Dobong-gu district. According to a statement announcing the project, the Photography Museum of Seoul (Photo-SeMA) is the country's first public museum dedicated to photography, and aims to provide a central venue for cultivating and promoting the medium. The 7,048 sq. m.
Rebranded Beijing Art Season persevered amid tariff and economic struggles

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

Rebrands are all the rage for this year’s Beijing art week, which ran from 22 May to 1 June, now brandishing the new title of Beijing Art Season, comprising a gallery weekend plus two fairs. JingArt, the fair run since 2018 by Shanghai’s Art021 fair, this year returns as Art021 Beijing (22 to 25 May), with a new location in Tank 79 and The First Workshop in art district 798.
Chinese museum visitors accuse artist Heman Chong of ‘cyber harassment’

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

A group of Chinese museum visitors have issued a formal complaint against Heman Chong, after the Singapore-based artist allegedly shared their images on social media alongside what they describe as “derogatory accusations”. The visitors say they shared pictures of themselves posing at Chong’s exhibition, The Endless Summer (27 October 2024-6 April 2025) at UCCA Dune, on the Chinese platform Xiaohongshu, also known in English as Little Red Book or Rednote.
Korean artists are taking the world by storm-but why does their work resonate so widely?

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

Korean artists have been part of the global art circuit for decades now, but their place in the art world and popular understanding is shifting to something more nuanced as more contemporary and conceptual artists take centre stage. The artist Haegue Yang describes the recognition as overdue: “There are great artists in Korea. There always have been.
Japan’s art islands gain a new attraction with museum designed by Tadao Ando

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

Since it was founded in the late 1980s, the Benesse Art Site Naoshima has earned global acclaim as a unique art destination, with works scattered across three remote Japanese islands in the Seto Inland Sea. The project, credited with regenerating the communities and economies of a depopulating region, has until now primarily shown permanent installations by artists from Japan and the West.
Japan’s art islands gain a new attraction with museum designed by Tadao Ando

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Lisa Movius

3 hours agoIn a thoughtfully researched and visually captivating new book, author Marc Zinaman offers an intimate journey through the places where a century of LGBTQ+ history in New York City took place. A New York native, Zinaman sheds light on everything from the city’s early bathhouses and balls of the …
How Myanmar's art community rallied after a deadly earthquake

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

The human toll and long-term infrastructural damage to an already embattled Myanmar continues to mount following the devastating 7.7 earthquake on 28 March. The country’s art community, both at home and in exile, has been raising funds for the country’s rebuilding efforts and providing channels to support relief, rather than filling the coffers of the ruling Tatmadaw junta.
Taiwan's newest art institution taps into a flourishing local scene

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

A new art museum opening on 25 April in New Taipei City, Taiwan’s most populous metropolitan area with four million residents, is expected to help the city carve out a distinct artistic identity and emerge from neighbouring Taipei’s cultural shadow. New Taipei City is a municipality in northern Taiwan that surrounds the capital, but is administratively separate.
Guy Ullens, collector and patron of Chinese contemporary art, has died, aged 90

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

Baron Guy Ullens de Schooten, the art collector and patron who cofounded Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2007 with his wife Myriam Ullens, passed away on 19 April at the age 90. Already a longtime avid collector, Ullens became an enthusiastic supporter of Chinese contemporary art in its heady formative years in the 1980s and 90s.
Nova Contemporary gallery taps into Thailand’s burgeoning market

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Lisa Movius

The influential Thai gallery Nova Contemporary is expanding this month, opening a 412 sq. m location in Bangkok’s Bang Rak neighbourhood. The inaugural show, Affinities (26 April to 5 July), is a survey of 28 mostly Thai contemporary artists organised in co-operation with Bangkok CityCity Gallery. The relaunch comes at a time when the Thai art market is “definitely expanding”, albeit gradually, says the gallery’s founder, Sutima Sucharitakul.