Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, 22 May – 26 May 2013 My first impression was definitely linked to the new name: Is this event taking place in Basel or in Hong Kong? Will the Art Basel fair now be called “Art Basel Basel” to conform to the new naming convention? Below, three deja-vues and…
April 27 – August 11, 2013, Rockbund Museum, Shanghai The Rockbund museum did not disappoint again and prepared another show worth a visit. This time, the exhibition includes more smaller works and thus may seem fragmented at first sight (on the first floor), but all the fragments come together to form a whole once the…
20 May – 28 June 2013, Pearl Lam Fine Art Shanghai I was not familiar with Entang Wiharso’s work before entering this exhibition, so I first and foremost appreciated the show as an introduction to the oeuvre of this well established artist from Indonesia. Wiharso basically works in two modes: One mode of expression is…
Pearl Lam Gallery,Shanghai April 15 – May 12, 2013 With Michael Wilkinson’s show at the Pearl Lam Gallery in Shanghai, I felt for the first time that the artworks on display positively interacted with the space they were displayed in. In previous shows, I often felt that there was a kind of competition for attention…
March 12, 2013 – June 23, 2013 This show at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul is a yearly event showcasing a small group of ‘best’ emerging artists in Korea. It was a nice occasion to get acquainted with some names that we may be hearing more often in the upcoming years. A…
Plateau (Samsung), Seoul, March 7 – May 23, 2013 The main thing that stuck in my mind from seeing this show were the seemingly simple ‘arte-povera’-like sculptures (assemblages of cardboard boxes, trash bags, mattresses, wooden sticks) , which, after a close examination, revealed themselves as meticulously crafted ‘copies’ executed in bronze, resin etc. In the…
Saint Petersburg is a city famous for its historical architecture as well as art collections spanning many centuries of art history. Two big institutions which stand out are the Hermitage and the Russian Museum. Both of the museums have numerous locations around Saint Petersburg. The Hermitage is known for its almost endless amassment of classical…
段建宇，胡晓媛《醍醐》 Rockbund Art Museum, January – March 2013, curator: Karen Smith Hu Xiaoyuan’s work was on the lower floors and thus was the first one the visitor encountered. Hu’s work is based on careful observation and questioning of what one sees. The results: Sculptural objects and videos. I found the objects most interesting, because they…
Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, January 29 – February 3, 2013 Transmediale (TM) is an very ‘old’ new media art festival in Berlin, which is running more than 25 years. Originally conceived as a warm-up week for the Berlinale film festival (which takes place the following week), it developed into a separate event touching…
第九上海雙年展2012: 黎肖嫻《1906 – 1989 – 2012: 廣州-香港-上海-安吉》 Now that the Shanghai Biennale is getting close to its end (scheduled to finish in the end of March), I would like to conclude my previous posts related to the biennale (Shanghai Biennale 2012, Berlin Pavilion, Sydney Pavilion, Daejeon Pavilion) with one more post, this time about one…