ACAW 2014 Schedule
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW AS PART OF ACAW 2014
(OCTOBER 22 – NOVEMBER 2)
Asia Society Museum
NAM JUNE PAIK: BECOMING ROBOT
Museum Hours
Explores the artist’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 Paik’s lifelong interest in humanizing technology and his prescient view of how technological innovations would become integral to our daily lives. As the “father of video art,” his groundbreaking work blurred past distinctions between science, fine art, and popular culture to make way for new media, previously associated with mass entertainment and scientific discovery.
General Admission: $12 for nonmembers; free for members 725 Park Avenue
Art Projects International
SEOKMIN KO: STRIPSHOW
11 am – 6 pm
Seokmin Ko represents a new wave of younger contemporary artists working in South Korea. In his five-year, ongoing project "The Square"—featured in Stripshow—Ko introduces a mirror into a variety of surroundings in his photographs. The two hands gripping the mirror’s edge are the only clue of the holder’s presence. The mirrors and reflective glass act in Ko’s work implore us to reflect on how we live in the physical world.
434 Greenwich Street
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
V.S. GAITONDE: PAINTING AS PROCESS, PAINTING AS LIFE
Opens on Friday Oct 24, During Museum Hours
V. S. Gaitonde: Painting as Process, Painting as Life reveals Gaitonde as a seminal colorist whose career remains unparalleled in the history of South Asian modern art. The retrospective comprises forty-five major paintings and works on paper, forming the most comprehensive overview of Gaitonde’s work to date. Gaitonde’s work presents an unparalleled opportunity to explore the context of Indian modern art as it played out in the metropolitan centers of Bombay (now Mumbai) and New Delhi from the late 1940s through the end of the 20th century.
WANG JIANWEI: TIME TEMPLE
Opens on Friday Oct 31, During Museum Hours
Viewing art making as continuous rehearsal, Wang Jianwei uses a process-based practice that resists interpretation and alternates between chance and iteration, fiction and reality. Steeped in history and social memory, Wang’s work is conceptually driven while grounded in the reality of everyday contemporary life in China. Time Temple, the artist’s first solo exhibition in North America, comprises installation, painting, film, and a live theater production. Individually and collectively, these parts explore ambiguity and potential, express time and movement, and consider metamorphosis and rehearsal through physical forms.
General Admission: $22 for nonmembers; free for members
1071 5th Avenue
Japan Society
GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS: WORKS BY IKEKA, TENMYOUYA & teamLAB
During Museum Hours
Featuring the intricate allegorical paintings, installation, and digital works created by three artistic visionaries who are shaping Japanese art and culture today: Manabu Ikeda, Hisashi Tenmyouya, and the art and technology collective teamLab. Each artist tackles urgent cultural and social issues in a manner informed by today’s spectacle and information overload, while harkening back to the Japanese tradition of the master craftsmen, takumi in terms of the technical precision they bring to the creation of their complex, bravura fantasies.
General Admission: $12 for nonmembers; free for members
333 E 47th Street
Independent Curators International (ici)
PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2TBA
Selected by 35 international curators each of whom chose one single-channel video work from an artist they think is important for audiences around the world today, Project 35 reflects a multiplicity of artistic voices and opinions. This travelling exhibition draws on ICI’s network of curators to trace complex regional and global connections among artists from places as varied as Moldova, Ethiopia and Korea. Remarkably,13 out of 35 artists in the exhibition are working in Asia and 10 out of 35 curators are also based there. As a window to contemporary art production in Asia, these works no less can be shared, understood and appreciated globally.
Venue TBA
Lombard Freid Gallery
CAO FEI: LA TOWN
10 am – 6 pm Closes on Oct 25, 2014
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 her films and installations. Her works reflect on the rapid and chaotic changes occurring in Chinese society today and explore the lost dreams of the young Chinese generation and their strategies for overcoming and escaping reality. An ambitious stop-motion feature, La Town exemplifies the artist’s playful-yet-political practice, converging fantasy and reality into a film noir-inspired vision of the contemporary China and the World at large.
HUGUETTE CALAND
10 am – 6 pm Opens on Oct 30, 2014
Highlighting Huguette Caland’s early works from the 1970s and 80s, this exhibition explores her erotic abstract paintings and “body-part” landscapes, which she first began in the early 1960s. Her paintings are impudent and humorous, featuring the female body as minimalist mountains and voids from flesh, undulating curves forming indistinct and contorted limbs. The sensual and organic nature of Caland’s work derives from her perception of her own body and physical interactions. In creating minimalist mountains and voids from flesh, Caland implies that identities are linked inextricably to sexual impulse.
518 West 19th Street
Queens Museum
JEWYO RHII: OUT OF COMFORT
During Museum Hours
Korean-born, Jewyo Rhii’s unique body of work stems from her sensitive, personal and almost subliminal responses to her immediate, ever-changing environments and her experience with displacement. Having spent nearly a year living in Queens and working out of a studio in Queens Museum, Out of Comfort features works that the artist produced specifically for this exhibition.
ANONYMOUS: CONTEMPORARY TIBETAN ART FROM THE SHELLY AND DONALD RUBIN PRIVATE COLLECTION
During Museum Hours
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 the changing attitudes towards self-expression, attribution, and identity in contemporary Tibetan art as well as its conflict with Tibet’s unbroken artistic traditions.The exhibition features the works of both firmly established and emerging artists from around the globe.
POLIT-SHEER-FORM OFFICE
Opens Nov 1, in Conjunction with ACAW Culmination Party
A retrospective chronicling the career of Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO)’s multi-disciplinary projects and exciting new works; by the China based art collective founded in 2005 by artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, and curator/critic Leng Lin. The group was formed for the abstract purpose of seeking “collective form” and purifying politics, culture, the economy, and everyday life. Together the group thinks, talks, travels in their fun attempts to transform political, cultural, economic and everyday life into pure forms with their boundary-blurring practice.
New York City Building Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Residency Unlimited
LU YANGResidency Unlimited hosts a six-month residency for artist Lu Yang, the 2014 Asian Cultural Council grantee- a Beijing based young new media artist who studied under Zhang Peili— commonly known as the father of video art in China. Lu Yang's unique brand of bio-art deals with ideas about biology, life, death and other living things; marked by the inclusion of highly controversial subject matter such as dissected frogs, sexual fetishism, and torture.
By appointment only!
360 Court Street #4, Brooklyn
Rubin Museum of Art
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: INSPIRED BY INDIA
During Museum Hours
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 himself in the daily experiences of the country’s local cultures and diverse artistic traditions. Rarely exhibited works from Clemente’s early practice will be displayed alongside new sculptures created especially for this exhibition, highlighting Clemente’s continuing engagement with Indian artistic traditions.
WITNESS AT A CROSSROADS: PHOTOGRAPHER MARC RIBOUD IN ASIA
During Museum Hours
Chronicling French photographer Marc Riboud’s journeys across Asia during the mid-1950s and 60s, this exhibition features more than one hundred arresting black-and-white photographs taken during a period of great cultural and political transition in the region, offering a glimpse into everyday life in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, China, and Japan. From a camel market in Rajasthan to music hall dancers in Tokyo to an extraordinary meeting between the Dalai Lama, Zhou Enlai, Indira Gandhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Riboud’s photographs illuminate tensions between tradition and post-war modernity and capture moments of humanity, humor, and intimacy.
General Admission: $15 for nonmembers; free for members
150 W. 17th Street
Shirin Gallery
FARAH OSSOULI: THE ART OF POETRY
11 am – 6 pm
Farah Ossouli uses the rich tradition and refined beauty of Persian paintings, architecture, and decorative arts to reflect on universal themes of female and male protagonists. Searching for a meaningful form of self-expression, she found the impassive look of miniature figures well suited toward the concepts she wished to explore, and was among the first artists to appropriate miniature painting as an authentic, personal, and contemporary medium.
511 W 25th Street
Taymour Grahne Gallery
K FILES:TAREK AL-GHOUSSEIN
10 am – 6 pm
Born in Kuwait to Palestinians parents in exile, Tarek Al- Ghoussein examines his relationship with Kuwait through two distinct approaches: his self-portrait photographs, which explores the country through interactions with iconic locations; and his documentation works, which track his family history through documents that have entered the public realm on such websites as eBay and Amazon. Presenting his works in a serial manner often result in complex narratives that explore tensions between longing for and belonging to a place. His research-based work demonstrates how personal memories are subject to commodification in the age of the Internet and questions the boundaries between private and public.
157 Hudson Street
Tyler Rollins Fine Art
RONALD VENTURA: E.R. (ENDLESS RESURRECTION)
10 am – 6 pm, Through October 25, 2014
In his latest series of oil paintings, Ronald Ventura meditates on Filipino history through visual and performative culture, reflecting on the history of faith and its expressions in ritual, art, and in the human body itself. Tracing the evolution of iconic motifs in popular visual culture, from the demons of the Middle Ages to the comic book characters of today, Ventura incorporates images of flagellants alongside a swirling host of figures inspired by European Old Master paintings, alongside motifs and texts taken from vintage carnival posters, advertisements, and comic books.
HERI DONO10 am – 6 pm, Opens Oct 30, 2014
One of the first contemporary Indonesian artists of his generation to achieve iconic status internationally, Heri Dono constructs fantastic worlds of strange, hybrid creatures and oblique narratives in his paintings, installations and sound and performance works. In juxtaposing traditional Javanese aesthetics with pop culture references and experimenting with a variety of media including moving parts, sound and video components, Dono’s works make powerful statements on political and social issues and the jarring interrelationship between globalization and local cultures. The exhibition features a selection of sculptures and paintings from throughout his career, along with new works.
529 W 20th Street # 10W
Ventana244 Gallery
LU YANG: ARCADE1 pm – 6 pm
The first New York solo exhibition for Shanghai-based artist Lu Yang presents some of her key projects since 2011 as well as new works that feature fantastical, often morbid visions of death, sexuality (or a-sexuality), illness, and neurological constructs of both real life-forms and religious icons. An experimental retrospective that captures her interest in games and virtual realms as sites for imaginative, provocative, and critical possibilities, the show takes the form of a vintage arcade with a plethora of interactive games, videos, installations, performances, and a shop of bizarre objects and garments.
244 N6 Street, Brooklyn
PUBLIC PROGRAMS, OPENINGS, AND RECEPTIONS
(ACAW OCTOBER 22 - NOVEMBER 2)
Wednesday, October 22
Taymour Grahne Gallery / ArteEast
5 - 8:30 pm | ACAW LAUNCH PARTY
Co-hosted in celebration of ACAW 2014, alongside TarekAl-Ghoussein: K Files, the artist’s solo-debut in New York, which features self-portraits in iconic locations in his hometown Kuwait alongside a series that tracks his family history through documents circulating on such websites as Amazon.
157 Hudson St. (Laight & Hubert St.)
Art Projects International
6 – 8 PM | OPENING RECEPTION
SEOKMIN KO: STRIP SHOW
South Korea-based artist Seokmin Ko’s new photography project “Strip Show” presents structures in various surroundings that reflect the way we occupy the physical world.
434 Greenwich St. (Vestry & Laight St.)
Rubin Museum of Art
7 - 8 PM | ARTIST IN CONVERSATION
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE WITH ERIC RIPERT
As part of Rubin Museum’s Clemente X8 Series, artist Francesco Clemente gets on stage with visionary chef Eric Ripert and invites him to bring an object as the starting point for their freewheeling discussion.
$45, for tickets visit rubinmuseum.org
150 West 17 St. (7th Ave. & Ave. of the Americas)
Asia Society Museum
6:30 – 8:30 pm | FILM SCREENING
NAM JUNE PAIK & TV LAB: LICENSE TO CREATE
A documentary film highlighting Paik’s key role in TV Lab, a 1980s platform exploring TV as a medium. In conjunction with Becoming Robot, an exhibition exploring the artist’s visionary use of technology and the lasting impact of his work on new media art.
$8 members / $10 students & seniors / $12 nonmembers.
725 Park Ave. (70 & 71 St.)
Thursday, October 23
Independent Curators International (ici)
5 – 8:30 pm | EXHIBITION & DISCUSSION PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2Drawing from ICI’s international professional network, 35 curators are invited to each select one video work by an artist they consider important today. Tellingly, 13 of the artists in the exhibition are based in Asia, as are 10 of the curators.
Space limited; RSVP required
401 Broadway #1620 (Canal & Walker St.)
Friday, October 24Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
10am - 5:45 pm | PUBLIC VIEWING
V.S. GAITONDE: PAINTING AS PROCESS, PAINTING AS LIFE
A comprehensive retrospective of seminal colorist V.S. Gaitonde’s unparalleled career, offering a glimpse into Indian modern art in Bombay (now Mumbai) and New Delhi through the latter half of the 20th century.
$22 for nonmembers / free for members
1071 5th Avenue (5th & Madison)
Japan Society
6 – 9 pm| EXHIBITION VIEWING
GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS
Features the intricate allegorical paintings, installations, and digital works of three major artistic visionaries shaping Japanese art today: Manabu Ikeda, Hisashi Tenmyouya, and the art/technology collective teamLab.
One-night complimentary admission.
333 E 47th Street (1st & 2nd Aves.)
Rubin Museum of Art
6:15 pm| ARTIST IN CONVERSATION
9:30 pm| FILMSCREENINGS
In conjunction with Francesco Clemente: Inspired by India exhibition, LA-based artist Sandeep Mukherjee discusses his works in relation to Clemente’s with curator Beth Citron, followed by a special screening of films selected by Clemente as part of the museum’s Cabaret Cinema series.
Complimentary with $10 K2 Friday night museum admission
150 West 17 St. (7th Ave. & Ave. of the Americas)
Asia Art Archive in America
7 - 10 pm | SPECIAL RECEPTION
A celebration honoring ACAW FIELD MEETING speakers, consortium members and participants.
(By invitation only)
Saturday, October 25
Asia Society Museum
8 – 9:30 pm PEFORMANCE
ELECTRIC IMAGINARY
Composer and artist DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) and guest artists pay homage to Nam June Paik with a virtual cello quartet/installation performance based on Paik’s early multimedia experiments.
$25 for nonmembers / $20 for members / $22 students / seniors 725 Park Ave. (70 & 71 St.)
Sunday, October 26
FIELD MEETING
10:30 am - 7 pm | ACAW SIGNATURE PROGRAM
SESSION I
Capitalizing on the synergy of exhibitions organized by ACAW Consortium member museums and galleries city-wide, this two-day forum— conceived as a studio visit on a communal scale— brings together artists, curators, and institutional leaders based in Asia and beyond to present their most outstanding works and initiatives through a series of lecture-performances, talks, and discussions. The program will examine individual art practices while taking into consideration their dynamic relationships to local politics, history, activism, ethics, tradition, and the cross-pollination of subcultures in creative processes. Its ultimate aim is to foster opportunities for artists and art professionals to network, exchange concepts, and forge partnerships for future collaborations.
Space is limited and registration required. Curators, scholars, and museums professionals receive priority RSVP. Contact [email protected] with full name, title, and affiliation.
Asia Society Auditorium, 725 Park Avenue
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue
Monday, October 27
FIELD MEETING
10:30 am - 7 pm | ACAW SIGNATURE PROGRAM
SESSION II
(See above for details)
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue
The Armory Show
6:30 – 9 pm | 2015 FOCUS ANNOUNCEMENT RECEPTION
An annual reception announcing the fair’s much-anticipated 2015 Focus region and curator to select collectors, museum professionals, and press.
(By invitation only)
Tuesday, October 28Public Art Fund
All Hours | PUBLIC VIEWING
SUI JIANGUO: BLIND PORTRAITS
The most significant outdoor presentation in the United States to date by the celebrated Chinese artist Sui Jianguo features four large-scale, cast bronze sculptures from a series beginning in 2008.
Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park (60th Street and 5th Avenue)
Wednesday, October 29
Ventana244 Art Space
5 – 7:30 pm | OPENING RECEPTION LU YANG: ARCADEThe Shanghai-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, realized as a vintage arcade with interactive games, videos, installations, performances, and a shop of bizarre objects and garments.
244 N 6th Street Brooklyn (Roebling & Havemeyer St.)
Residency Unlimited
7 – 8:30 pm | ARTIST IN CONVERSATIONAs the host for Lu Yang’s residency this fall, RU presents a conversation between the artist, curator Xin Wang, and other panelists to explore Yang’s fascination with subculture, death, sexuality, disease, neuroscience, and religion.
360 Court Street #4, Brooklyn (Union & President St.)
Rubin Museum of Art
7 – 8 pm | ARTIST IN CONVERSATION
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE WITH BILLIE TSIEN
As part of Rubin Museum’s Clemente X8 Series, Francesco Clemente speaks with architect Billie Tsien.
$45, for tickets visit rubinmuseum.org
150 West 17 St. (7th Ave. & Ave. of the Americas)
Thursday, October 30
Japan Society
6:30 – 8:30 pm | IN CONVERSATION + RECEPTION
FUTURE NOW: CONTEMPORARY ART & ASIA
Gallery Director Miwako Tezuka speaks with Melissa Chiu, new Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, about her new role and perspective on contemporary Asian Art.
$18 for nonmembers / $15 for members, students & seniors.
333 E 47th Street (1st & 2nd Aves.)
Lombard Freid Gallery
6 – 8 pm OPENING RECEPTION
HUGUETTE CALAND
An exhibition of paintings by the Lebanese artist with a focus on her early works from the ‘70s and ‘80s: erotic, abstract paintings and “body-part” landscapes.
518 West 19th Street (10th & 11th Ave.)
Shirin Gallery
6 – 9 pm | CLOSING RECEPTION
FARAH OSSOULI: THE ART OF POETRY
Among the first artists to appropriate miniature painting as an authentic, personal, and contemporary medium, Iranian painter Farah Ossouli’s works reflect on universal themes of female and male protagonists.
511 W 25th St (10th & 11th Ave.)
Tyler Rollins Fine Art 6 – 8 pm OPENING RECEPTIONHERI DONO
Internationally acclaimed Indonesian artist Heri Dono is known for constructing fantastic worlds, hybrid creatures, and oblique narratives in his paintings, installations, sound and performance works.
529 W 20th St # 10W (10th & 11th Ave.)
Friday, October 31
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
10 – 5:45 pm PUBLIC VIEWING
WANG JIANWEI: TIME TEMPLE
Chinese 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
1071 5th Avenue (5th & Madison)
Artnet / LEAP
6:30 – 9 pm | PANEL + RECEPTION
ART PUBLISHING IN ASIA, AS PART OF FIELD MEETING
Robin Peckham of LEAP Magazine moderates a discussion on publishing as knowledge production vs. performance and the challenges of localizing and globalizing in running cosmopolitan publications. With artist Ian Cheng from Badlands Unlimited, artforum.com editor Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Artnet editor-in-chief Benjamin Genocchio, and others.
Space is limited and RSVP required via [email protected]
401 Broadway #1620 (Canal & Walker St.)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
5 pm | FILM SCREENING
THE MORNING THAT 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 transmogrifications.
$8 for nonmembers / $6 for members
Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 5th Avenue (5th & Madison)
Queens Museum
4 – 7 pm | ACAW CULMINATION PARTY
ACAW closes with the opening of three major exhibitions with artist walkthroughs. Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO), a retrospective chronicling the boundary-blurring practices of the ever-elusive China-based art collective (artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, and curator/critic Leng Lin); Out of Comfort, works by Jewyo Rhii produced during her residency at QM; and the 2nd iteration of Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art, which reflects upon changing attitudes toward self-expression, attribution, and identity.
New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Sunday, November 2
Times Square / Queens Museum
11 am – 12 noon | PERFORMANCE
POLIT-SHEER FORM OFFICE: “DO THE SAME GOOD DEED”
China-based art collective PSFO’s major public performance involving a group of people in repetitious cleaning efforts in Guangzhou and New York City to test the drive for collective organization as a phenomenon in different social climate.
Times Square, 42nd - 44th Street Plazas
ASIA-BASED PARTICIPANT & CONSORTIUM MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS
Aike-Dellarco – Shanghai
Founded to promote the exchange and dialogue between contemporary Chinese artists and the international community, AIKE-DELLARCO in Shanghai currently holds four shows per year in its gallery and runs a residency exchange program entitled 'Revolving Boundaries,' in which two foreign artists work out of Shanghai and two Chinese artists work in Italy to produce site-specific works of art with strong ties to the territory. The gallery is supporting artist Li Shurui’s participation in FIELD MEETING, and will be presenting a solo exhibition for Lee Kit, entitled And, whichwill be on view from September 13 – October 31, 2014.
F2, Bldg 1, 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai, China 200060
Chi-Wen Gallery – Taipei
With its pulse on the best of contemporary Taiwanese art, Chi-Wen Gallery represents artists whose works continue to grow in historical importance. During ACAW New York, 2014, the gallery will support artist Yu Cheng-Ta’s participation in ACAW’s signature two day art forum, FIELD MEETING and will present a solo exhibition of Yeh Wei-Li’s work in their gallery in Taipei, A Present for the Gift or Vice Versa: For You & Your Friends Down the Road, from October 4 – November 8, 2014.
3rd Fl, No. 19, Lane 252, Tun-Hua South Road Sec 1, Taipei, Taiwan
The Back Room – New York, Tehran, Shraz
The Back Room is a pedagogical and curatorial project, developed in collaboration with artists, curators, and writers in Iran and the United States. Since its inception, the platform has joined forces with a variety of art spaces in each country to organize workshops, public programs, and exhibitions. The organization will be supporting curator Bavand Behpoor’s participation in FIELD MEETING.
Website: http://thebackroom.org/
Edge of Arabia – London
An internationally recognized platform for dialogue and exchange between the Middle East and the western world, Edge of Arabia is committed to reaching new audiences and improving understanding through free exhibitions, publications and public programming. Edge of Arabia will be supporting artist and curator Ava Ansari’s participation in FIELD MEETING, and has several curated projects organized throughout the United States in fall 2014.
40 Elcho Street, London SW11 4AU
Edouard Malingue Gallery – Hong Kong
Dedicated to showing both established and emerging contemporary artists, Edouard Malingue Gallery has a strong regional focus. In addition to their active, on-site programs, the gallery is committed to organizing public installations, performances, off-site exhibitions as well as creating publications in collaboration with curators across Asia and internationally. Edouard Malingue Gallery is participating in the ninth edition of ACAW through the support of artist Sun Xun’s participation in FIELD MEETING. On view at the gallery from October 10 – November 9, is a group exhibition, Never Odd or Even, examining artists’ actions and sensibilities in conceptualizing ideas and expressions that investigate social connections.
8 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong
Galeri Zilberman– Istanbul
Galeri Zilberman’s aim is to promote contemporary Turkish artists internationally, while introducing international artists to the local art scene through exhibitions, artist talks, and roundtable discussions scheduled throughout the year. The gallery is supporting artist Burçak Bingöl’s participation in FIELD MEETING and will present two exhibitions in its gallery from September 25 – November 6: Disquiet, a group show, captures a dreamlike unease, through works that pose phantasmagorical scenarios and rearticulate historical and political narratives to conceal the truth.Şükran Moral’s solo show feature two new works— a video, Tales to a Young Girl and an installation, Child-Bride. Both works convey Moral’s critique on the position of women in society, the focus of her work since the 1990s.
Bülbül Mh., Mısır Buğdayı Sk No:5, Beyoğlu, Turkey
Ink Studio – Beijing
A gallery and experimental art space devoted to documenting and responding to new and exciting developments in the media of ink painting currently emanating from China, Ink Studio is highly active in researching and developing the immense contemporary creative possibilities of the millennia-old language of paper, brush and ink. During ACAW 2014, the gallery will be supporting artist Zheng Chongbin’s participation in FIELD MEETING along with the participation of its founder, Craig Yee. It will also be presenting, in its gallery in Beijing, the exhibition Ink and the Body, from September 21 – November 2, 2014. The exhibition is the the first installation in an exhibition series devoted to the phenomenology of ink—the concept of ink as an expressive language to embody human experience.
Red No. 1-B1, Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100015, China
The Korean Art Museum Association – Seoul
The Korean Art Museum Association nurtures private art museums in Korea through the following efforts: supporting and consulting private art museum development, holding international academic research and seminars for the exchange of information, establishing a public and private art museum consultative group, and supporting museums’ public programming through private art museum festivals, and monthly art-and-culture magazines. Through its online platform, Korean Artist Project (KAP), art museums under The Korean Art Museum Association can hold online/virtual exhibitions through KAP’s website, in order to fostering an international exchange, which will ultimately inspire more opportunities for Korean artists in the global art scene. Kko-kka Lee, project manager of KAP will be representing her organization through her presentation at FIELD MEETING.
Website: www.koreanartistproject.com/
MabSociety – Shanghai
An international curatorial and consultancy firm based in Shanghai, MABSOCIETY is a hybrid organization that acts as a cultural conduit between China and the rest of the world by producing exhibitions, publications, educational programs, and consulting for collections, institutions, and individuals. The organization represents artists and their interests in the globalized marketplace and collaborates with international galleries and organizations for the promotion and intervention of art into everyday life. During ACAW 2014, MABSOCIETY will be represented by its founder and director, Mathieu Borysevicz as well as Polit-Sheer-Form Office, the China-based art collective, all of whom will be presenting at FIELD MEETING.
1F, 59 Xianggang Lu, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200002, China
Spencer Art Museum – University of Kansas
Exploring the capacity of art to spark curiosity, inspire creativity, and create connections among people, the Museum houses an internationally-known collection that is deep and diverse, currently numbering nearly 36,000 artworks and artifacts in all media, which includes broad and significant holdings of East Asian art. During ACAW 2014, Kris Ercums, Director and Curator of Asian Art will be presenting in FIELD MEETING, and will be discussing Spencer Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition Temporal Turn. The exhibition will explore speculative-based practice in contemporary art from Asia as well as examine speculative inquiry and real- world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism that are occurring across contemporary Asia.
1301 Mississippi Street Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7595
Vadehra Art Gallery– New Delhi
In promoting contemporary and modern Indian art through exhibitions, retrospectives, publications and educational programs over the last 20 years, Vadehra Art Gallery’s position as an artistic interlocutor with the public has contributed to filling the lack of a vibrant art museum culture in India. Working closely with some of India’s finest artists from different generations, the gallery has paved the way for active collaboration between private and public art sectors. During ACAW 2014, the gallery will be supporting artist Shilpa Gupta’s participation in FIELD MEETING.
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024, India
