Art World Database - The go-to online database for all Southeast Asian contemporary artists.

AWDB is an initiative that aims to be the go-to

online database for all information pertaining

to Southeast Asian contemporary artists.

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HIGHLIGHTS

Asia Now 2024

18 October - 19 October, 2024

Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

Asia NOW is a curated platform fostering rich dialogues and deeply engaged programming. It encompasses a global selection of galleries showcasing artists from across Asia.

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Heman Chong - 'The Book of Equators'

9 October - 30 November, 2024

Amanda Wilkinson, London, United Kingdom

Singapore bibliophile and artist Herman Chong presents a suite of new works in his solo exhibition, including an eponymous series of patterned paintings on polyester fabrics, The Book of Equators (2024).

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Group Exhibition – ‘TERRA II’

18 October - 17 November, 2024

Chateau de Chevignyen Valière, Burgundy, France

TERRA – a monumental international group exhibition – returns to Burgundy for its second iteration, bridging the worlds of art and wine in a site-specific showcase. AWDB will represent Nino Sarabutra's installation.

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Moe Satt - 'Rest the Thumbs on the Cheekbones'

1 Oct - 17 Nov 2024

Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom

Rest the Thumbs on the Cheekbones, the first European solo exhibition by artist Moe Satt from Myanmar, brings a new commission alongside recent and early works in conversation to showcase the artist’s relentless, dynamic exploration of embodiment, identity, and political resistance.

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FEATURED GLOSSARY TERM

Iconography

Iconography in a painting is the images presented in it and is ascribed by an artist to any object or image that is prominent or has a distinctive connotation attached to it. In the field of academia, Iconography (or iconology) is also the study of images in art and their meanings.

Source: AWDB team

AWDB highlighted artist: Khairulddin Wahab

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FEATURED EDITORIAL

AWDB SPOTLIGHT: Interview with Khairulddin Wahab

AWDB speaks to Khairulddin Wahab, an artist from Singapore whose paintings explore cultural and colonial histories through the natural world. Sourcing archival and found images, his work aims to re-enchant nature against colonial classification of Southeast Asian environments.

IMAGE COURTESY OF CUTURI GALLERY AND THE ARTIST

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