6.27 – 7.25 ShugoArts (Tokyo) Ikeda Mitsuhiro’s second solo show, and first in two years, at ShugoArts. The artist describes his paintings as ‘engaging more actively with things gleaned from reality, thereby generating new images that change our perceptions ofView More >
6.27 – 7.18 Cemeti Art House (Yogyakarta) Solo show by an artist who’s been in huge demand in the Asian art market ever since he represented Indonesia at the first Singapore Biennale (2007). Defying perhaps the art market’s penchant forView More >
6.24 – 9.7 The Museum of Modern Art (New York) The MoMA atrium is host to the Chinese artist’s Waste Not, first shown in 2005 at BTAP in Beijing and thereafter touring Gwangju, Berlin, and Walsall. Song DongView More >
6.22 – 7.19 MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo) A cross-discipline group show by a party of 26 artists. Deriving from the German word gewalt (power), the expression geba geba came into use during the ’60s Japanese student movement to express anView More >
6.19 – 9.23 Maison Hermès 8F Le Forum (Tokyo) Scum – Complusion, 2008 Large-scale exhibition of new works by the 1975-born artist from his PixCell series of objects transformed by encasing them in a skin of glass beads orView More >
6.19 – 10.11 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing) Iconic portrait painter Yan Pei-Ming’s first show off the canvas yearns to be framed as ‘installation’, with its giant landscapes painted on the walls of UCCA and ‘painted flags’View More >
I tend to be in limbo to start with, and insert lies in each piece as I go along. Artist Sawa Hiraki is best known for films suffused with subtle smatterings of lyrical fabrication, commonly set in hisView More >
6.18 – 30 Sigiarts (Jakarta) An exhibition of leading Indonesian artists who make themselves the subjects of their works. Participating artists include Agus Suwage, who uses himself as a motif peppered with humor to satirize political and religious views; BudiView More >
6.17 – 8.30 9.23 Catherine Schubert Fine Art (Bangkok) Haunting photographs of traditional aspects of contemporary Beijing by a French-born artist. (Brian Curtin) http://www.catherineschubertfineart.com/news
6.6 – 7.26 Kathmandu Photo Gallery (Bangkok) Kathmandu continues its notable program with a solo exhibition of works that explore notions of self in terms of disorienting reflections. (Brian Curtain) http://www.kathmandu-bkk.com/exhibition_future01.html
A message of love for all eternity Text: Yanashita Tomoko Portrait: Nagare Satoshi Myriad lines extend unhesitatingly from the pen, forming repeating, multiplying, intricate patterns. The documentary film NEAR EQUAL KUSAMA YAYOI – I Adore Myself captures the artist inView More >
6.6 – 28 Thavibu Gallery (Bangkok) One of Vietnam’s major female artists. Nhi’s expressive figurative works have a visceral yet psychological appeal. (Brian Curtain) http://www.thavibu.com/vietnam/dinh_y_nhi/VIE3100.htm