Track the latest arts and cultural events in and between Asia and Europe.
Viewing by date posted in order of earliest to most recent
International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) was founded in Frankfurt am Main by Ensemble Modern which is one of the world’s leading ensembles of New Music. Read More
Since it began in 1981 Theater der Welt has developed into the most important international festival for the performing arts in Germany. Artists from all over the world perform. Read More
Digital China 2010 is an international dialogue between Shanghai and Berlin, the most vibrant and creative cities in the East and West respectively. It is constructed as a professional symposium taking place in Berlin and in Shanghai. Read More
SidebySide Studio presents a debate between artists, journalists and cultural activists in Berlin about cultural production and values in China today. Read More
The internationale tanzmesse nrw is a biennial marketplace and festival platform for communicating and networking in the field of contemporary dance. It takes place in Dusseldorf, Germany 25-28 August. Read More
21st anniversary KIFT (Keochang International Festival of Theatre) linking themes of nature, human and theatre. 45 teams from all over the world, including Hungary, Slovakia, Japan and Germany. Read More
Tokyo+Berlin (To-Be), a multi-disciplinary exhibition on Communication Art will take place from 7–29 August 2010 at the Freies Museum Berlin. Read More
The Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) and Stephen Kovats from transmediale, festival for art and digital culture, Berlin supported an Expert Meeting for New Media, Civil Society and Environmental Sustainability involving artists, designers, philosophers, and media practitioners from Asia and Europe at the Nu-Substance Festival 2010 in Bandung Indonesia from the 19th of July -24th of July 2010. Read More
‘Being Singular Plural’ is the first exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin to focus exclusively on artistic production in India. Read More
Based in a modern planned satellite city of Seoul, Anyang Public Art Project 2010 is an inquiry about the idea, belief and structure of NEW COMMUNITY, with artists from Asia, Europe and North America. Read More
The Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government presents the 24th Macao International Music Festival (MIMF) from October 3rd to November 7th, 2010. Read More
The first exhibition in the series “connect:” at ifa, Stuttgart presents eleven positions by Vietnamese artists who deal with social phenomena in their works and who have made a major contribution to the emergence of a contemporary and relevant art scene in Vietnam. Read More
The exhibition forum “Shanghai-Hamburg (urban public) Space” addresses the issue of city development and public space in Hamburg and Shanghai presenting new artistic strategies Read More
A tour of Korean Dance in Europe in November 2010, with 11 choreographers to 11 cities in 8 countries. Read More
Berlin’s UfaFabrik presents a Fokus Korea arts events programme in January 2011 with dance, music and performance and a documentary film premiere. Read More
In the first week of February, Berlin’s House of World Cultures hosts transmediale.11 RESPONSE:ABILITY! with a dynamic programme of cutting edge artworks, live performance and leading thinkers from around the world. Read More
Beyond Curating: Strategies of Knowledge Transfer in Dance, Performance and Visual Arts is held in Germany end January with an international programme of speakers from Europe, Asia and beyond. Read More
World premiere of opera Matsukaze commissioned by La Monnaie, Brussels with music by Japanese contemporary composer Toshio Hosokawa, choreography and staging by Sasha Waltz. Read More
The ‘Internationale Tanztage’ celebrates its 10th jubilee in Oldenburg, Germany with a broad and exciting contemporary dance festival programme focussing on diversity, co-operation, accessibility, identity. Read More
DMY Berlin is an international platform for contemporary product design, founded in 2003 by a visionary circle of leading creative thinkers from the Berlin design scene. Read More
One of the aims of the project is to to foster creativity and innovation in the North Sea Region and beyond by showcasing the potential of creativity and innovation in cities, represented by business, economic development agencies, education institutions and local government and disseminate their activities. Read More
Applications for the British Council’s programme Cultural Leadership International 2011 are now open. Cultural leaders from the UK, France, Germany, Italy & Russia (as well as other non-ASEM countries listed below) may apply. Read More
Future-oriented issues of “water,” “food,” and “health” are the focus of the 8th Asia-Pacific Weeks, in Berlin 6 – 17 September, themed “Asia-Pacific: Partner for a Common Future.” Read More
Woodcuts, drawings, illustrated books, and paintings by Hokusai are for the first time exhibited as part of a major retrospective of the Japanese artist in Germany. Read More
The focus of the 11th international literature festival berlin is the Asian-Pacific region. The goal is to make the literature and culture of the region accessible for an interested audience, to promote mutual understanding and to inspire contact and a lively exchange among authors, artists and mediators. Read More
ZKM | Karlsruhe presents The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, featuring more than 100 artists from around the world. What can art say about the globalized present? How does globalization change art? Read More
Save the date – February 8-9 2012, the Heinrich Boll Foundation is holding a conference in Berlin “Radius of Art” on the creative politicisation of the public sphere and cultural potential forces for social transformation. Read More
Bangkok International Typographic Symposium is officially the first-ever international typographic conference organized in southeast Asia and has brought a considerable amount of attention to the design community in Thailand. Read More
The exhibition of contemporary art by artists from Khoj International Artists Association, Delhi moves from Stuttgart to Berlin, showing at ifa gallery Berlin 14 Oct – 22 Jan. Read More
The Microwave International New Media Arts Festival is the largest event of its kind in Hong Kong. The 2011 edition takes “Alchemy” as an over-arching theme and showcases works by several media arts laboratories that are pioneers in their field. Read More