ArtAsiaPacific - ArtAsiaPacific Issue 143, May/Jun 2025

In deze editie

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.

ArtAsiaPacific Magazine Description:

For more than 30 years, ArtAsiaPacific Magazine has been at the forefront of the powerful creative forces that shape contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Covering the latest in contemporary visual culture, ArtAsiaPacific is published 6 times a year in Hong Kong, with editorial desks in 25 countries around the world. Our special annual issue, the ArtAsiaPacific Almanac, published in January, covers the major art events of the past year and forecasts the key trends of the year to come.
The dominant artistic influence in the world today - and for many years to come emanates from the vast territory that lies between Turkey and the Pacific island of Tonga that we call the Asia-Pacific. This territory includes India, China, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Pakistan, New Zealand, Korea and Indonesia, whose combined populations make up an amazing half of the world's total population. Also included are Burma, Cambodia, Kiribati and Uzbekistan - places hitherto overlooked, but which like their gigantic neighbors, are producing cutting-edge art of stunning and unexpected quality.
ArtAsiaPacific is authoritative, accurate, even-handed, exact and essential. Included in each issue is an up-to-date directory of the major galleries, not-for-profit organizations and museums with a focus on contemporary art from our geographical footprint. ArtAsiaPacific offers thoughtful reportage, analysis, comment and criticism to its readers made up of collectors, gallerists, curators, artists and those who want and who need to know the latest developments in the fastest-growing and most astonishing region of the contemporary art world.