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Topic Archives: Curators
Art Radar speaks with Para/Site curator, director Fominaya on November auction event
Posted on Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
ART AUCTION FUNDRAISER HONG KONG CURATOR INTERVIEW Para/Site Art Space, a non-profit organisation located in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, will hold its annual Para/Site Fundraising Auction in early November this year. It will take place in the Kee Club, who … Continue reading
Important ArtInsight conference on Middle Eastern art market in London – event alert
Posted on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
MIDDLE EAST CONTEMPORARY ART LONDON CONFERENCES ArtInsight, the events partner of leading art market research firm, ArtTactic, has organised what we think looks to be a very important conference for early October in London. State of the Art – Middle East … Continue reading
Young Chinese artist Li Hui lights up Netherlands: an Art Radar interview
Posted on Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
CHINESE ARTIST SOLO EXHIBITION LIGHT ART NETHERLANDS Following his impressive solo exhibition last year in Mannheim, Germany, young Chinese artist Li Hui brings yet another surprise to the European art scene. In the pitch-dark exhibition space provided by The Centre of Artificial Light in … Continue reading
Curator Tobias Berger talks about Korean contemporary art scene in 4 questions
Posted on Monday, September 20th, 2010
SOUTH KOREA CONTEMPORARY ART INTERVIEW CURATOR Art Radar Asia recently spoke with German-born curator Tobias Berger, who currently holds the position of Chief Curator at the Nam June Paik Art Center, about the Center’s exhibition “The Penguin that goes to … Continue reading
India’s Experimenter focuses on the "now" with RAQS and Kolkata location – an interview with Prateek Raja
Posted on Thursday, September 16th, 2010
KOLKATA CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE ART GALLERIES INTERVIEWS For a gallery that is just over a year old, Experimenter, co-owned, run and mostly curated by husband-and-wife duo Prateek Raja and Priyanka Raja, is quickly becoming a critical current in the very new … Continue reading
ArtSway Associate Dinu Li's new solo exhibition on China's past and present – two Art Radar interviews
Posted on Saturday, September 11th, 2010
BRITISH-CHINESE ARITST PHOTOGRAPHY NEW MEDIA MULTIMEDIA RESIDENCY INTERVIEW QUAD Gallery at Derby, UK presents UK and China-based artist Dinu Li’s past, recent and newly commissioned works in a solo show “Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is Mystery“. This show is partly … Continue reading
Follow "The Penguin" to the mountain – Tobias Berger on the NJPAC show
Posted on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
KOREAN CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS EMERGING ARTISTS “The Penguin that goes to the Mountain“, an exhibition of contemporary art by young and emerging Korean artists, recently finished up this month at the Nam June Paik Art Center (NJPAC). It took … Continue reading
Photography in contemporary Russia – Art Radar speaks with curator Olga Sviblova, AES+F and Igor Moukhin
Posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
MOSCOW PARIS CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION MUSEUM SHOWS With France-Russia Year 2010 in full swing, Maison Européene de la Photographie (MEP) and the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM), formerly the Moscow House of Photography, partnered for the photo exhibition “Photography in Contemporary Russia, … Continue reading
World premiere of new AES+F photo collages at Moscow's Garage Center – video
Posted on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
RUSSIAN ARTIST COLLECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY VIDEO Made up of artists Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladmir Fridkes, internatinoally acclaimed Russian collective AES+F returns once again to Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in the center’s newest exhibition, “The Feast of … Continue reading
Rashid Rana show proof of Musée Guimet new contemporary acquisition policy – interview with curators
Posted on Thursday, August 5th, 2010
INTERVIEW ASIAN ART MUSEUM CONTEMPORARY ART PAKISTANI ARTISTS Revolutions come far and few in between in the museum world. This season promises to be different. The Musée Guimet, France’s leading ancient Asian art museum, has opened its doors to contemporary Asian … Continue reading
Russian curators prosecuted for showcasing banned art: media round-up
Posted on Monday, August 2nd, 2010
RUSSIAN ART CURATORS BANNED ART LAW After a two-year trial, two Russian curators, Yury Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev, were declared guilty of “inciting religious hatred,” despite massive protest. Although they escaped the three-year prison sentence demanded by the prosecution, the judge … Continue reading
Is Hong Kong a cultural desert? How can you become a better collector? Answers revealed at Asia Art Forum
Posted on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
ART PROFESSIONALS HONG KONG ART INDONESIAN ART ART COLLECTING Guest writer Bonnie E. Engel, a Hong Kong freelance journalist, presents Art Radar Asia readers with her perspective on the talks of two speakers at the this year’s Asia Art Forum, held … Continue reading
Young Chinese artist Lu Yang brings anti-humanist elements to the Hong Kong art scene
Posted on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
CHINESE ART HONG KONG ART GALLERIES BIOLOGICAL ART Chinese artist Lu Yang has shocked and electrified the Hong Kong art scene with her recent solo new media exhibition, “A Torturous Vision“, held at Input/Output (I/O). Showcasing her latest music video … Continue reading
Gao Minglu’s maximalist exhibition blurs boundaries between traditional and contemporary Chinese art
Posted on Friday, June 25th, 2010
CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART CHINESE AVANT-GARDE Contrasts Gallery Shanghai was the host of the recent exhibition “Mind Space: Maximalism in Contrasts” curated by distinguished art scholar and curator Gao Minglu. While visually the works in the exhibition referenced Western modern or … Continue reading
Interventions explore art industry relationships in curator Meenakshi Thirukode's Guild Art Gallery show: interview
Posted on Thursday, June 24th, 2010
ART GALLERY SHOW ASIAN ART IDENTITY CURATOR INTERVIEW “Structures Within an Intervention“, a show that was on at The Guild Art Gallery, New York, was centered on the various relationships that exist in the art world. Relationships that determine the … Continue reading
World's top collectors and art professionals attend ART HK: a testament to fair's growing importance
Posted on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
ART HK 10 HONG KONG ART FAIR ART COLLECTORS ART MARKET ART HK 10 was reportedly more festive than the ’09 edition due to its increasing ability to attract more high-profile and experienced collectors and curators from round the world, … Continue reading
Pop culture references abound in Indonesian art: curator Eva McGovern discusses Indieguerillas’ Happy Victims and the Southeast Asian art climate
Posted on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
INDONESIAN CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY EXHIBITION Indieguerillas is made up of Indonesian husband-and-wife duo Miko Bawono and Santi Ariestyowanti, whose artistic skills stem from roots in the design industry. Known for their smooth blending of pop culture aesthetics, subtle social commentary … Continue reading
Compound Eye: RongRong and inri retrospective at He Xiangning Art Museum
Posted on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM EXHIBITION “Compound Eye: Works by RongRong & inri (2000-2010)” (website in Chinese) is the first retrospective exhibition of collaborative works by RongRong and inri since they started working as a husband-and-wife team in 2000. In 1999, … Continue reading
Curator Valerie Doran on ‘Hope and Glory’ and challenges for Hong Kong art world – interview
Posted on Friday, May 28th, 2010
HONG KONG CURATOR INTERVIEW For a place that has been repeatedly touted as a cultural desert, Hong Kong has managed to attract arts practitioners from many walks of life who are dedicated to working with the challenging realities present within … Continue reading
3 young Chinese artists awarded prizes at inaugural Caochangdi PhotoSpring
Posted on Friday, May 21st, 2010
PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL BEIJING AWARDS As part of the launch of the first annual Caochangdi PhotoSpring festival, held in Beijing, China, from 17 April to 30 June this year, three young Chinese artists were awarded a prize for their outstanding work in … Continue reading
Watch Simon Birch’s video tour of conceptual circus ‘Hope and Glory’ in Hong Kong
Posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
HONG KONG PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION VIDEO TOUR For international art lovers who aren’t able to see the sprawling conceptual circus for themselves, Simon Birch guides viewers through his masterful art event “Hope & Glory”. Watch the videos to see the … Continue reading
Simon Birch is ringleader of artists in Hong Kong’s conceptual circus ‘Hope and Glory’
Posted on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
HONG KONG PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION Simon Birch, Hong Kong’s celebrated Englishman artist of Armenian heritage, becomes the ringleader of artists in his conceptual circus ‘Hope and Glory,’ which features a bevy of artists as creative collaborators. The exhibition, curated by … Continue reading
The Problem of Asia: Para/Site art exhibition explores Asian identity in Sydney
Posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
PARA/SITE ASIAN IDENTITY ART The Problem of Asia, an exhibition presented 30 April – 22 May, 2010 at Chalk Horse Sydney in partnership with Hong Kong’s Para/Site Art Space, deals with an array of issues, not all of which are politically correct. The … Continue reading
Asia Art Forum 2010 meets growing demand for art collector education in China – Jing Daily
Posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
CHINESE ART COLLECTING Jing Daily, an online news source covering “the business of culture” in China, spots a new trend: burgeoning demand for collector education. According to Jing Daily, Along with the growing interest in buying and collecting art in … Continue reading
‘Guerilla’ gallerist on introducing Banksy to Asia, art atmosphere in Hong Kong- interview
Posted on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
HONG KONG ART MARKET Two year old gallery Fabrik, known for its unique guerilla exhibitions and for bringing Western iconic artists to Asia, sets up permanent home in Hong Kong. The Fabrik Contemporary Art Gallery is young in Hong Kong, … Continue reading



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