Arthub Favorite: Week 35

Arthub would like to introduce the 11th edition of Asia Contemporary Art Week to our followers who will be in New York this fall. This year ACAW expands to a full season! From September 8 to November 18, visitors will have a chance to see cutting-edge exhibitions, performances, and discussions at leading partner museums and galleries citywide.

Not-to-be-Missed Highlights
An unprecedented overview of contemporary art from China hits New York City this fall, including the first US retrospective of Zao Wou-ki (Asia Society); newly commissioned works by 6 major emerging artists, co-organized by Xiaoyu Weng and Ho Hanru (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum); a striking installation by Wu Jian’an (Chambers Fine Arts), plus works by the infamous Ai Weiwei (Lisson Gallery); South and Southeast Asia and its diaspora is represented by prominent artists – Amina Ahmed (Twelve Gates Arts), Jitish Kallat (Philadelphia Museum of Art), Rasheed Araeen (Aicon Gallery), Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan (Sundaram Tagore Gallery), Zarina Hashmi (DAG Modern), and Reena Saini Kallat (MoMA); solo exhibitions for women artists known for their community-engaged, multi-disciplinary performance-based practices including Mariam Ghani (Ryan Lee Gallery), Mierle Laderman Ukeles (Queens Museum), and Arahmaiani (with an opening night performance at Tyler Rollins Fine Art).

Multiple symposiums and lectures across the city contextualize artists and historical timelines, such as Turner Prize winner Simon Starling on his expansive Noh Theater installation (Japan Society). Other timely and provocative ACAW co-organized programs feature a panel on the life and philosophy of Arakawa (with Reversible Destiny Foundation, hosted at Artnet), an evening with Palestine-based artists and architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti (with ArteEast), and a private mid-season kickoff reception for ACAW, generously hosted by Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Foundation.

A full program is available at: acaw.info

Signature Forum
FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice
November 11-12, hosted at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Asia Society

With performances, lecture-performances, and lively discussions by over 30 creative compelling figures including Shezad Dawood (London), Jennifer Wen Ma (Beijing and New York), Jonas Staal (Amsterdam), Mami Kataoka (Tokyo), Sarah Rifky (Cairo & Boston), Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (Ramallah & New York), Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Beirut), and many more.
For full speaker lineup, profiles and curatorial narrative, click here.

Curated by ACAW Director Leeza Ahmady
Space is limited and advance registration is required. Register to attend now!

For Press Inquiries email: acawpr@asiasociety.org

Consortium Partners & Participating Institutions: Asia Society Museum / ArteEast / Asia Art Archive in America / Japan Society / The Metropolitan Museum of Art / MoMA | Museum of Modern Art / Queens Museum / Rubin Museum of Art / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Foundation / +91 Foundation / Reversible Destiny Foundation / Twelve Gates Arts / Aicon Gallery / Art Projects International / Chambers Fine Art / DAG Modern / Doosan Gallery / Lisson Gallery / Owen James Gallery / Ronin Gallery / Roya Khadjavi Projects / Ryan Lee Gallery / Sundaram Tagore Gallery / Tyler Rollins Fine Art / Ab-Anbar Gallery (Tehran) / Alserkal Avenue (Dubai) / Edouard Malingue Gallery (Hong Kong) / Exhibit320 (New Delhi) / Galeri Zilberman (Istanbul) / Ink Studio (Beijing) / Richard Koh Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur) / Space Station (Beijing) / Mori Art Museum (Tokyo) / Otto Zoo Gallery (Milan) / The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation / Sa Sa Bassac (Phnom Penh) / The Third Line Gallery (Dubai) / Kadist Art Foundation / APA Institute NYU / Philadelphia Museum of Art / Sotheby’s

Download the full press release here.