ArtAsiaPacific - ArtAsiaPacific Issue 143, May/Jun 2025

In dieser Ausgabe

In our cover article, Johanna Bear explores Angela Goh’s decade-long career of contorting her body in an embodied meditation on life.
HG Masters, speaking with Su-Mei Tse during her recent solo exhibition in Hong Kong, reads the practice of the Luxembourg-born artist, who in 2003 won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for best national pavilion, in light of her background as a classically trained cellist.
Up Close spotlights Korean artist Jane Jin Kaisen’s multilayered video installation Ieodo (Island Beyond the Sea) (2022–24); Shuang Li’s Demolition Lovers (2024), an installation inspired by a Covid-induced separation from her mother; and Raqs Media Collective’s new multimedia spectacle, which considers our future in the world of AI.
For Inside Burger Collection, Alex Jen, an assistant curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, reflects on the minimalist sculptures of postwar American artist Anne Truitt.
In Profiles, Chloe Chu considers Bruno Zhu, who critiques principles of spatial manipulation and display to reveal how narratives of identity are constructed. Hung Duong chats with Japanese-born, Bandung-based Kei Imazu on the eve of her solo exhibition at Museum MACAN in Jakarta.
In Essays, Ryan Su considers advises artists and galleries how to prepare for forthcoming tariff wars. Brisbane curator Elizabeth Ann MacGregor reflects on the Creative Australia censorship fiasco. Jakarta-based artist Ella Witj pens a One on One on Doris Salcedo’s work. Hung Duong’s Dispatch from Ho Chi Minh City describes the can-do energy that fuels the city’s art scene. Our Reviews cover the 16th edition of the Sharjah Biennale as well as major solo exhibitions from Seoul to Seattle.
Lastly, for Where I Work, Jennifer S. Li takes us to the Los Angeles studio of Greg Ito, whose flat, brightly layered paintings create immersive worlds that—like all the projects in this issue—unsettle viewers, inviting curiosity and contemplation.