Art What!: Mika Rottenberg’s SNEEZE at Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong)

HONG KONG – This October, Tai Kwun Contemporary presents Mika Rottenberg’s SNEEZE, a solo exhibition featuring four video installations that create surreal alternative worlds of global everyday life.  Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg (b. 1976) is known for her engaging yet rigorous artistic practice that combines film, architectural installation and sculpture. She is fascinated by processes of labour and of technology as well as the effects of distance and … Continue reading Art What!: Mika Rottenberg’s SNEEZE at Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong)

Arts of Hong Kong 2020: A Lover’s Concerto Episode 2 by City Contemporary Dance Company (Review)

HONG KONG – Following Episode 1 of A Lover’s Concerto in September, Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) returned this week with their second episode showcasing the sheer number of couples who had met through the company. This time around, Goh Boon Ann and Wu Yi-San, and Chang Lan-Yun and Luo Fan each presented dance films each couple starred in, once again displaying strong onscreen chemistry, … Continue reading Arts of Hong Kong 2020: A Lover’s Concerto Episode 2 by City Contemporary Dance Company (Review)

Art What!: Days — and counting by OH! Open House

It’s been over 185 days and counting since the circuit breaker in Singapore was first announced, transforming the way we live, work and play, all thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. In its first foray into the digital sphere, OH! Open House will present Days — and counting, a digital art walk that captures the surreal and strange times we live in through the lens of … Continue reading Art What!: Days — and counting by OH! Open House

Art What!: Iwan Effendi’s DRAWING withdrawing at Mizuma Gallery

Mizuma Gallery has announced DRAWING withdrawing, a solo exhibition of Indonesian artist Iwan Effendi, curated by Artati Sirman. In puppet theatre, a puppeteer aids a certain tension between his puppet and its audience as he builds their relations around the suspension of disbelief. For a short period of time, as an audience, we willingly depart away from any form of critical thinking in favour of … Continue reading Art What!: Iwan Effendi’s DRAWING withdrawing at Mizuma Gallery

Art What!: Search and Discover – The Joy of Collecting at The Private Museum

The Private Museum (TPM) Singapore will be presenting Search and Discover: The Joy of Collecting – Selections from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection. TPM revisits its foundation of bridging the private and the public in this year’s final and largest exhibition that forms part of the museum’s 10th anniversary programming, featuring an array of private collections in Singapore. Michael Lee, God’s Villa (2011) Co-curated by … Continue reading Art What!: Search and Discover – The Joy of Collecting at The Private Museum

Art What!: David Zwirner New York presents Liu Ye – The Book and The Flower

Liu Ye,​ Book Painting No. 21 (Karl Blossfeldt, The Complete Published Work, Taschen GMBH, 2017) , 2018. © Liu Ye. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.   NEW YORK – David Zwirner has announced an exhibition of new work by Chinese artist Liu Ye, on view at the gallery’s 34 East 69th Street location, in New York. The show marks the artist’s debut solo presentation with the gallery. Liu … Continue reading Art What!: David Zwirner New York presents Liu Ye – The Book and The Flower

Art What!: Gerhard Richter’s Cage Paintings at the Gagosian

Photo Credit: Hubert Becker  CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES –  Gagosian will be presenting Gerhard Richter’s Cage paintings (2006) in Los Angeles and New York. The presentation follows their inclusion, as a cornerstone, in the artist’s retrospective, Gerhard Richter: Painting After All at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York earlier this year. In conjunction with this key group of six paintings, a new group of … Continue reading Art What!: Gerhard Richter’s Cage Paintings at the Gagosian

Art What!: Francis Alÿs and Mika Rottenberg’s first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong at Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong)

HONG KONG – Tai Kwun Contemporary has announced two brand new exhibitions this October, marking the first solo exhibitions of Francis Alÿs and Mika Rottenberg’s at Tai Kwun Contemporary. Curated by Tobias Berger, Tai Kwun Contemporary presents SNEEZE, a solo exhibition by Mika Rottenberg featuring immersive video installations about surreal alternative worlds of global everyday life. This is the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by … Continue reading Art What!: Francis Alÿs and Mika Rottenberg’s first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong at Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong)

Art What!: Art Basel announces ‘OVR: Miami Beach’ for December and plans for Miami Art Week 2020

Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms (OVR) are back this December, with OVR: Miami Beach featuring galleries accepted to the 2020 edition of the show and will be accompanied by a program of online events, including talks and gallery walk-throughs. Art Basel will further amplify the cultural offerings of museums, foundations, non-profits, and galleries whose activities will comprise Miami Art Week 2020. Like Art Basel’s in-person fairs, … Continue reading Art What!: Art Basel announces ‘OVR: Miami Beach’ for December and plans for Miami Art Week 2020

Art What!: #NEVERBEFORESG – 9 Chapters About Covid-19 by National Museum Singapore

With few tourists and citizens less willing to enter arts and entertainment spaces, COVID-19 has not made life easy for any museum or gallery here in Singapore. And that’s precisely why for their latest exhibition, the National Museum of Singapore (NMS) is taking the venue out of the equation, and running it completely online. Titled #NEVERBEFORESG, the online exhibition reflects on how COVID-19 has affected the … Continue reading Art What!: #NEVERBEFORESG – 9 Chapters About Covid-19 by National Museum Singapore