ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK (ACAW) is taking a programmatic sabbatical in 2019 to plan our programs for 2020 and beyond. Please stay tuned. For questions and participation, please email us at acaw.contact@gmail.com. Thank you for your support! .history{margin-left: 27px;} Read More
Pi Artworks (London) | An Avalanche Of Subtlety
Pi Artworks (London) July 10 – August 8, 2015 Artists: John Henry Newton, Laura Reeves, and Himali Singh Soin Curated by Adrienne Groen An Avalanche of Subtlety presents a conversation with thirty-two boxes, each containing objects meticulously ordered by an unknown collector, that have been repossessed by the artists to create a new history. Through their practice, artists... Read More
Pi Artworks (Istanbul) | Love, Hate and Edit
Pi Artworks (Istanbul) June 17 – July 10, 2015 Artist: Saeed Ensafi Pi Artworks Istanbul presents Iranian artist Saeed Ensafi’s first solo show in Turkey. Ensafi, who grew up in the post-war era Tehran and experienced its aftermath and the myths and narratives that surround it, reflects on traces left behind by the people who suddenly leave our lives in his work. In his assemblages... Read More
Opening Reception – October 29th
Ventana244 Gallery Opening Reception | Wednesday, October 29, 5 – 7:30 pm Lu Yang: Arcade This presentation of select videos is accompanied by an experimental retrospective titled Lu Yang: Arcade, which transforms the storefront of Wallplay (Delancey & Orchard) into a vintage arcade featuring interactive games, video installations, and a shop of bizarre objects. Ventana244... Read More
Public Viewing – October 31st
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Friday, October 31, 2014, 10 am – 5:45 pm Wang Jianwei: Time Temple Beijing-based artist Wang Jianwei’s first solo-show in North America featuring installation, painting, film, and a live-theater production; a multi-faceted project steeped in history and social memory. $22 for nonmembers / free for members Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum >... Read More
Film Screening – November 1st
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Film Screening | Saturday, November 1, 2014, 5 pm The Morning Time Disappeared Inspired by Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Wang Jianwei’s film follows a young man who moves to Beijing with fantasies of the future and undergoes a series of transformations. $8 for nonmembers / $6 for members > In conjunction with the exhibition, Wang Jianwei: Time... Read More
Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art | QUEENS MUSEUM
Queens Museum September 21, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Group Show Within the new social reality as part of the People’s Republic of China, art is becoming a vital medium of self-expression for Tibetans. An increased focus on the experience of the individual has result in a cautious, 21st-century visual language steeped in irony, metaphor and allusion. Anonymous explores... Read More
Francesco Clemente: Inspired By India | Rubin Museum of Art
Rubin Museum of Art September 5, 2014 – February 2, 2015 Artists: Francesco Clemente The first-ever exhibition dedicated to the work that Clemente created while living in India— an extended period of cross-cultural exchange that has shaped the artist’s creative vocabulary over the past four decades. Since his first visits to India in the 1970s, Francesco Clemente has immersed... Read More
Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot | Asia Society Museum
Asia Society Museum September 5, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Artist: Nam June Paik Becoming Robot explores the Nam June Paik’s visionary use of technologies and the lasting impact his singular contributions have had on the development and appreciation of new media art. The exhibition highlights his lifelong interest in humanizing technology and his prescient view of how technological... Read More
Cao Fei: LA Town | LOMBARD FREID GALLERY
Lombard Freid Gallery September 10– October 25, 2014 Artist: Cao Fei Beijing-based artist Cao Fei is one of the most significant and innovative young artists to have emerged on the international scene from Mainland China. Known for her multimedia installations and videos, she mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in... Read More
