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Emerging artists: 4 top posts from 2010 to 2011
ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS LISTS With the growth of the Asian art market, great new artists are popping up all over the place. This week, as part of our ‘Lists’ series, Art Radar burrows deep into our...
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Art Radar 3rd birthday loyal reader giveaway: Picasso photobook
FLASH REWARD PHOTOBOOK We will shortly be awarding our very first Flash Reward to one lucky loyal reader in honour of our third birthday. Up for grabs is a beautiful hardback photobook that documents...
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5 Indonesian painters in Hong Kong group show – picture feast
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS HONG KONG GALLERY EXHIBITIONS From September to October 2011, work by five Indonesian painters was on show at Hong Kong gallery iPRECIATION. The selection was described by the...
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Post-disaster reflections in Japan-Australia art exhibition “Alternating...
AUSTRALIA JAPAN RELATIONS CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW With “Alternating Currents: Japanese Art after March 2011″ the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in cooperation with the Japan Foundation...
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Southeast Asian photography: Langgeng Art Foundation holds rare group showing
EMERGING SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARTISTS PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION The Langgeng Art Foundation has brought together works by Southeast Asia’s top photographers in a rare exhibition that is running until 21...
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Political spectre looms over Ai Weiwei Taiwan exhibition – round up
CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS “Ai Weiwei absent”, organised by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), wrapped up on 29 January 2012 after a three-month-long run. It was the artist’s...
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Asian Art Museum’s “Phantoms of Asia”: 5 Indian artists contemplate tradition
In a survey exhibition at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, five contemporary Indian artists create works that talk with the artifacts they sit next to. “Phantoms of Asia – Contemporary Awakens the...
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Taiwanese painter Lien Chien Hsing’s fictional reality – picture feast
In a recent Taipei exhibition, Taiwanese painter Lien Chien Hsing’s Taipei imagines away the country’s continued environmental degradation. “Between Reality and Fiction: Sceneries of the Mind” was...
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Gwangju Biennale 2012: Curatorial genius or chaos?
Multiple curators and multiple themes set the stage for a complex biennale. With six co-directors and six overlapping sub-themes, the 9th Gwangju Biennale, to be held from 7 September to 11 November...
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Singapore Gillman Barracks 2012 opening: Optimism abounds
Gallerists and artists are optimistic that Singapore’s Gillman Barracks will have a positive impact on the contemporary art scene in Asia. Gillman Barracks, which officially opened on 14 September...
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Ou Ning on Get it Louder – new voice in China’s visual arts scene
Follow CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITIONS ART PROFESSIONALS INTERVIEWS The third edition of “Get It Louder” (GIL), perhaps one of the most ambitious Chinese exhibition events representing emerging...
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Taiwan eco-art exhibition Going Green tours America – curator interview
Follow ENVIRONMENTAL ART TAIWANESE ARTISTS ART EXHIBITIONS AMERICA Environmental art in Asia is not a subject we’ve touched on much here at Art Radar. So when we heard about “Going Green”, an...
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Words in Art: How does Manuel Ocampo avoid alphabet soup?
Follow CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ART PAINTING COLLAGE TEXT Art Radar spoke with the Filipino artist Manuel Ocampo on how he uses words and philosophy as a tool of expression in his paintings. In this...
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Art Radar visits Shanghai leg of “Detour”– picture feast
Follow ART EVENTS CHINA CHINESE ARTISTS Art Radar recently attended the eighth leg of “Detour”, a travelling exhibition of artist-decorated Moleskine notebooks, and took some pictures to share with...
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Hong Kong Street Art Series: No Borders not boxed in by graffiti art label
Follow HONG KONG STREET ART SERIES In this third feature of our Hong Kong street art series, Art Radarwill take you to No Borders Art Gallery, established in the city in September 2009. Founder of No...
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If it makes you scratch your head, its art – Sakshi 25th anniversary exhibition
Follow MUMBAI ART SHOW SAKSHI GALLERY SWAPAN SETH Mumbai-based Sakshi Gallery has made the rather unusual decision of having a first-time curator put together its golden jubilee show. Having said...
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Curator Tobias Berger talks about Korean contemporary art scene in 4 questions
Follow SOUTH KOREA CONTEMPORARY ART INTERVIEW CURATOR Art Radar recently spoke with German-born curator Tobias Berger, who currently holds the position of Chief Curator at the Nam June Paik Art...
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Video artist Chen Chieh-jen premieres in UK with Empire's Borders II
Follow TAIWANESE ARTIST VIDEO ART UK EXHIBITIONS Following his successful exhibition in the United States, Chen Chieh-jen (b. Taoyuan, Taiwan, 1960), an internationally acclaimed video artist,...
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Hong Kong Street Art Series: Above Second imports new energies and aesthetics...
Follow HONG KONG STREET ART URBAN ART SERIES In this first feature in our Hong Kong Street Art Series, Art Radar Asia will introduce you to one of the newest art spaces in Hong Kong to show street and...
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Japanese gallery MEM re-opens in new Tokyo space with RongRong & inri exhibition
Follow ART GALLERIES JAPAN ART EXHIBITIONS CHINESE ARTISTS MEM, an art gallery based in Tokyo that represents mainly Japanese contemporary artists, has moved to a new gallery space in NADiff a/p/a/r/t...
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