A series of paintings and sculptures at the Kuala Lumpar gallery featuring the British Balinese artist Haffendi Anuar and the Malaysian artist Sinta Tantra. While Anuar creates sculptures out of a variety of found objects connected to his Malaysian roots, Tantra has produced a series of minimalist paintings using color and geometry. Though working in different mediums, both artists position contemporary practices of the “new world” through engaging spaces and the unfolding of circumstances around them.
 
On view through September 25, 2018.
 
Address: 229 Jalan Maarof, Bukit Bandaraya, Bangsar, 59100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 

Thai photographer Pattana Chuenmana’s seven large photographic works are inspired by the renowned illustrator and writer Hem Vejakorn, known for creating pulp novel covers during a period when electricity was not widely accessible. Translating this to contemporary life in modern day Bangkok, Pattana attempts to capture the essence of Hem’s drawings by recontextualizing these compositions into similar scenarios where daily life is lit by the use of 21st century electronics and gadgets instead.
 
Address: Unit A, 3rd Floor, N22 Art Warangkok ehouse, 2198/10-11, Narathiwas Rajanakarin Rd soi 22, Chong Nonsi, Yannawa, B10210, Thailand
 

Xu Bing is widely recognized as one of the leading conceptual artists of language and semiotics working today. Curator Britta Erickson takes a fresh look at Xu Bing’s practice and explores its central theme of nature. The exhibition examines nature’s relationship to human minds and human societies as embodied in two distinctly Chinese modes of signification: the pictorial character of Chinese writing and the language-like nature of Chinese painting.
 
Language and Nature incorporates works from six distinct but conceptually inter-related practices to chart Xu Bing’s systematic exploration of what he describes as nothing less than the “most essential and particular constituent of our [Chinese] culture.”
 
Curated by INK studio Artistic Director Dr. Britta Erickson. On view through September 23rd.
 
Address: Red No.1 B1, Caochangdi, Chaoyang district, Beijing 100015
 

Impossible Landscapes unpacks a series of works by Chinese artist Bingyi, which she accomplished over the course of three years: films, a treatise, an earthworks installation and a series of paintings.
 
Ruins—a trilogy of art films explores the destruction of the hutongs alleys in Beijing which are formed by lines of the traditional siheyuan courtyard residences. Bingyi developed the film script in the form of a 1600-line epic poem in the Han rhapsody form which was published in Huacheng—China’s leading journal for experimental literature.
 
Subsequently, she authored a new theoretical treatise on the landscape painting discourse in China called Shanshuilun and later completed Emei Waterfall, the fifth of her massive land-and-weather earthworks at sacred mountain sites in China. The artist capped off this productive and incredibly transformative period by creating two entirely new series of ink paintings entitled respectively the Archaeology of Waves and Impossible Landscapes.
 
On view through November 25th.
 
Address: Red No.1 B1, Caochangdi, Chaoyang district, Beijing 100015
 

Counterpoint brings a prominent 20th-century modernist artist together with one of the most critically recognized conceptual artist working today. Vo takes elements of his personal biography as well as others’—some well-known, others obscure— to interact with evidence of historical events and political ideas of the world he inhabits. He often pays particular attention to overlooked or obsolete images, and objects and ideas that have been overshadowed by modernity and capitalism. Noguchi’s (American, 1904 – 1988) internationalist mindset has allowed him to explore various traditions, crafts-manships, and materialities, creating sculptures, gardens, furniture, ceramics, architecture and set designs around the world.
 
Address: West Kowloon Cultural District