Vernissage
The artists, galleries and institutions redefining how art is produced, exhibited and experienced today.
Stories
Indonesia has always been home to one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic art scenes. We meet some of the artistic luminaries leading its development.
From the streets of Tokyo to the vineyards of Champagne, Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata crafts whimsical, ephemeral architectural sculptures that cling to buildings and trees, offering a poetic commentary on freedom and impermanence
Chanel has transformed a historic Shanghai power plant into a sanctuary for art and literature, marking a sophisticated new chapter in the house’s deep-rooted and cinematic connection to the Chinese landscape
As FutureObjekt debuted at the Melbourne Art Fair, the city’s leading designers challenged the status quo, blending high-end craft with conceptual rigour to redefine the future of Australian collectable design
Celebrating 20 years of hiding in plain sight — most recently through a striking photo-performance in the Maldives with Ruinart — Bolin Liu reveals that behind the camouflage, his first and enduring artistic love remains sculpture
Curated by Joseph Gardner for Craft’s Visionaries 2025, Done/Undone shows more than 50 artists’ and designers’ explorations of the creative process
Designed by Skarn Chaiyawat Architects, Bangkok’s influential gallery Nova Contemporary has moved into a renovated shophouse in the city’s Sam Yan neighbourhood, its weathered surroundings subtly shaping the viewing experience
Across Asia, a fresh wave of art spaces is redefining the landscape, creating places where art and architecture engage in a dialogue, blurring the line between creation and setting
Designed by Kulapat Yantrasast of Why Architecture, Dib Bangkok will bridge Thai and international art in a calm enclave amid the city’s bustle
Rahee Yoon reinterprets industrial materials through a craft ethos to create geometric yet emotive forms
Drawing more than half a million visitors in its first month — mostly locals and first-time art show visitors — the inaugural Bukhara Biennial, entitled Recipes for Broken Hearts, proposes a more measured, sustainable approach to exhibition-making — and unmaking
The recent history of Pakistani art mirrors that of the relatively fledgling state, and is similarly heir to converging traditions that call simplistic approaches to art history into question. Three recent shows highlight its fascinating past and present.
Art space Bangkok Kunsthalle has become one of the city’s most significant contemporary art spaces, and is igniting Southeast Asia’s scene with its original approach
The fourth iteration of the Bangkok Art Biennale brings international artists and a broader approach to the works on display across the city
Asian artists are increasingly visible at the Venice Biennale, with national pavilions and collateral events around the city highlighting artistic production from the region
Australian poet and artist Tais Rose Wae has found a new language at her loom, weaving colours and textures to tell stories of her heritage
Paris-based Studio Liaigre designed the new YAGEO Foundation centre in Taipei, an art and hospitality space to house the collection of Taiwanese entrepreneur and art collector Pierre Chen. Here studio creative director Frauke Meyer tells us more about the landmark project
A collaborative showcase at New York’s Matter Projects explores the formal and familial ties between South Korean painter MyoungAe Lee and artist-designer Minjae Kim, who happen to be mother and son
Australian designer Dale Hardiman and American artist and designer Mark Dineen have launched Sharefolder Fantasy, a global call out that has resulted in a digital exhibition of radical self-expression
Newly launched digital art platform The MetaArt Club connects collectors with digital artists and their NFT collectible artworks
The Sydney-based designer and maker explores the possibilities of metal and aerated concrete through her striking sculptures and experiments
Herzog & de Meuron’s first project in South Korea, for the SONGEUN Art & Cultural Foundation, is inspired by distinct elements of local context, culture and environment
Asia Art Archive’s annual fundraiser will take place at the end of October 2021, with 48 works up for bid. Here we highlight the auction’s range of powerful paper-based pieces by women artists
Pairings of art and design works, curated by Edition Office and Trent Jansen, formed a meditative collision of cultures and contemporary thought at Artbank Melbourne
Hosted by the NGV, the first major retrospective of Aboriginal designer and artist Maree Clarke explores ideas of Country, culture and place, with over thirty years of Clarke’s work in addition to specially commissioned pieces
This exhibition at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria explores the materials used in art and design production, seeking to provoke thoughts on the way humans plunder the natural world — and why it’s important to find new models of sustainability
This year has proved to be a pivotal moment in history when we are afforded the opportunity to rethink both the present and future. In Visions of the Future, eight Singaporean designers have the opportunity to showcase their ideas
Take a walk down memory lane at Asia Art Archive’s 20th anniversary fundraising auction — a creative reminder of what makes Hong Kong
Kukje Gallery’s collaborative partnership with digital design company d'strict marks a first for the gallery
Indian urbanist Himani Gupta’s art practice culls out emotional narratives shaped by spatial environments and explores how land and cities evolve and impact human behaviour and identity