The exhibition brings together work from the SAM collection, examining the inventive ways artists have appropriated quotidian routines and lived experiences to express powerful statements of resilience and endurance. Event information from SAM, September 2024
MACAN Museum presents 'Korakrit Arunanondchai: Sing Dance Cry Breathe | as their world collides on to the screen', a solo exhibition by the Thai-born artist for the first time in Indonesia. The exhibition will bring together a wide range of Arunanondchai’s artistic practices, from his most renowned video installations, paintings, and newly created site-specific installations.…
esea contemporary and MAO (Museum of Asian Art), Turin, are pleased to present ‘Shadow and Void: Buddha’, an innovative collaboration between the UK’s only non-profit gallery dedicated to East and Southeast Asian contemporary art and one of Europe’s foremost institutional collections of Asian art. Curated by Xiaowen Zhu, Director of esea contemporary, and Davide Quadrio,…
In January 2025, Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita will transform The Curve for her first solo exhibition in the UK: a new commission titled 'Into Eternal Land'. Working fluidly across painting, sculptural installation, embroidery and scent, Sasmita will invite visitors on a symbolic, multi-sensory journey through the 90-metre-long gallery to explore ideas of ancestral memory, ritual…
The Sharjah Biennial 16 title, 'To Carry', is a multivocal and open-ended proposition. The ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, is an invitation to encounter the different formations and positions of the five curators as well as the constellation of resonances they have gathered. Thus, ‘To Carry’ proposes the Biennial…
‘An Uncommon Thread’ features 10 contemporary artists living and working in the UK. The group exhibition highlights the transformative power of unconventional mediums in evoking personal and collective memories. Each artist demonstrates an unwavering commitment to the integral role materials and techniques play in their creative process; employing unexpected painting surfaces, adapting formal craft traditions…
Using materials such as abaca, rope, rattan, batik, and glass, Hair tied together, embodied we speak reveals interwoven artistic methods, forms, and narratives that shape new contexts and perspectives. The exhibition explores photography, installation, and sound as tools for connection, resistance, and self-identity. Highlights include Patricia Perez Eustaquio's abaca rope sculpture, reflecting on intergenerational labor and sustenance,…
MONO8 opens their 2025 exhibition programme with 'A Fold In Time', which features the works of female artists with roots and links to Southeast Asia: Aimi Kaiya, Eunice Sanchez, Goldie Poblador, Ines Katamso, Issay Rodriguez, Jill Paz, Kelli Maeshiro, Liu Hsin-Ying, Luh'De Gita, Rose Cameron, Sinta Tantra, Wah Nu. In its first iteration, diverse artistic…
Deus Gallery presents works by Antonius Kho in 'Love Robots', exploring a blend of humanity and technology. The artist explains the birth of his fascination: "Robots are artificial intelligence created by humans to help human work in all fields, such as in hospitals, in restaurants, in factories, in households, etc. These robots are created in…
This exhibition marks a return, not only of an artist to his audience but of materials to their most primal essence. Following his celebrated solo exhibition Earth in Hanoi, this body of work gathers decades of quiet devotion – lacquer, paper, and, a series formed from the very earth itself. The works on paper, created…
Silverlens New York is pleased to present 'Junk DNA', opening March 6, 2025. For the artist’s first solo presentation in New York, Martinez probes and satirizes the idea of the “American Medieval” with large-scale narrative paintings and intimate portraits featuring his recurring cast of expressionistic and cartoonish characters. Anchored by a large salon-style wall of…
How do female artists use their creativity to explore identity and respond to the impact of societal development on the natural environment in the context of contemporary art? The exhibition 'In Her Hands' delves into this theme through the works of Han Sai Por, Kumari Nahappan, and Kanoko Takaya. Through sculpture, painting, installation and photography,…
