Arthub Favorite: Week 65 SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now

Duration: 2017.7.5 [Wed] – 10.23 [Mon]
Venue: Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)

With its total population counting around 600 million, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-faith Southeast Asia has nurtured a truly dynamic and diverse culture. Contemporary art from the emerging economic powerhouse of Southeast Asia is currently earning widespread international attention. The “sunshower” – rain falling from clear skies – is an intriguing yet frequently-seen meteorological phenomenon in Southeast Asia, and serves as a metaphor for the vicissitudes of the region.

This exhibition, the largest-ever in scale, seeks to explore the many practices of contemporary art in Southeast Asia since 1980s from 9 different perspectives. It aims to showcase its inconceivable dynamism of Southeast Asia that is somewhat nostalgic yet extraordinarily new.

Organizers
The National Art Center, Tokyo; Mori Art Museum; The Japan Foundation Asia Center

Co-organizers
The Asahi Shimbun, The Tokyo Shimbun, Nikkei Inc., The Mainichi Newspapers, The Yomiuri Shimbun, NHK

In Association with
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan; Embassy of Brunei Darussalam in Tokyo; Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Japan; Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Tokyo, Japan; Embassy of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic in Japan; Embassy of Malaysia, Tokyo; Embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Tokyo; Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, Tokyo, Japan; Embassy of the Republic of Singapore; Royal Thai Embassy, Tokyo; Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam in Japan

Corporate Sponsors
OBAYASHI CORPORATION, transcosmos inc., WEARNES, SUMITOMO CORPORATION

Support
ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS CO., LTD., Thai Airways International, Champagne Pommery

Patrons
Tan Leon, Yaw Chee Ming, Jim Thompson Art Center, DC Collection Thailand, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), anonymous

Curatorial Team
[The National Art Center, Tokyo] Yoneda Naoki (Curator) / Kida Sayuri (Associate Curator) / Mukasa Yuiko (Assistant Curator), Minami Yusuke (Director, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Former Deputy Director, The National Art Center, Tokyo)
[Mori Art Museum] Kataoka Mami (Chief Curator) / Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator) / Kumakura Haruko (Assistant Curator) / Araki Natsumi (Curator) / Kondo Kenichi (Curator) / Tsubaki Reiko (Curator)
[Independent Curators from Southeast Asia] Merv Espina (Artist / Curator, The Philippines) / Vera Mey (Curator, Singapore) / Ong Jo-Lene (Curator, Malaysia) / Grace Samboh (Curator, Indonesia)

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