Track the latest arts and cultural events in and between Asia and Europe.
Viewing by date posted in order of most recent to earliest
Festival Bo:m is an international festival of performing arts and visual arts that is multi-cultural as well as multi-genre. It takes place in Seoul 22 March – 18 April… Read More
As part of the TINA B Prague Contemporary Art Festival this autumn, a special collaborative project 우리[WOO:RI] took place, with poetic intervention installations by Korean contemporary artists in prominent… Read More
Collector’s Choice is an exhibition and project presentation by Korean artist Jaewoo Oh at the City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand and runs 15 December 2012 – 10 February 2013…. Read More
Comica Festival 2012, the 9th London International Comics Festival, offers a season of major British and international guests, with exhibitions including spotlights on German and Korean comics. The festival… Read More
A large exhibition of works by Anish Kapoor opens in Seoul at the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art. This exhibition is Kapoor’s first major museum show in East Asia,… Read More
Hong Kong Photographic Culture Association presents the Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2012, which is held throughout October and November with the theme “From Like to Love, Live in… Read More
CONNECT-Asia presents a live stream broadcast from eight Asian countries on 1st November 2012, from UNESCO World Heritage sites, connecting viewers worldwide with Nepal, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, South… Read More
A meeting is organised in Paris by the Centre Culturel Coreen to meet some of the new young voices of Korean literature that are translated into French.With the participation… Read More
The 2012 ICCN Festival will be held in Gangneung City, Republic of Korea in 2012 on the theme of ‘the great harmony of the millennium, the world, to the… Read More
Mobile performance laboratory AMPERS&ND brings together leading innovators in music, dance and physical theatre from Australia, Korea and Europe. Workshop and presentation events at Chuncheon Arts Festival in Korea… Read More
The 1st World Biennial Forum serves as a forum for exchange, providing an opportunity for critical reflection upon the fact that over 150 biennials for art and related disciplines are currently being organized all over the world: a world with many cultural centers that are characterized by rapidly changing socio-economic, and political situations. Read More
The 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale will open from 11th September ~ 4th November 2012. The theme of this year’s biennale is ‘Spell On You’. This proposes to… Read More
A key element for the Busan Biennale 2012 is to stage collaborations between artists and their audience. This year’s theme “Garden of Learning” will be structured around such interactions and set up a number of “learning councils” through which members of the general audience can question and discuss with individual artists. Read More
The Festival O! is a media art festival in Gwangju that uses an exhibition facade and a large scale media art platform to maximize the notion and function of… Read More
Korea is invited as the country of honor at the Beijing International Book Fair 2012 in celebration of twenty years of diplomatic ties between China and Korea. A Korean… Read More
Performing Arts Market in Seoul (PAMS) on the theme ‘Creative Cooperation: Conception to Circulation’ takes place 8-12 October, with a special Central and Eastern Europe Focus session and showcase…. Read More
Artsonje Center is pleased to present WANDERLUST: A Never Ending Journey to the Other Side of the Hill from June 23 to August 12. WANDERLUST is an exhibition project… Read More
The Korean Culture Centre in London is holding a 100-day Korean culture summer festival, All Eyes on Korea, a festival of literature, food, fashion, craft, music and film at venues across London in celebration of 2012. Read More
Hyperconnected 2012 will explore how Chinese, Korean and Australian film and digital media companies and practitioners are transforming creative and culture industry practices outside Hollywood’s global hegemony with “disruptive innovation”. Read More
The 5th General Conference of the Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS) will be organised in partnership with the National Museum of Korea and will take place on September 13-15 in Seoul. Read More
ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale, described as an open-ended series of collaborations, will continue its evolving conversation with this talk chaired by Lorenzo Fusi, curator of the Biennial Exhibition at the 2012 Liverpool Biennial. The panel features four of the six Co-Artistic Directors of the 9th Gwangju Biennale Read More
ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts) welcomes its members from the Higher Arts Education field in Asia, Europe and beyond to participate in the ELIA-ASIA symposium in… Read More
East meets West: Art and Design Now, exhibits the work of 20 young artists and designers from Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, Hong Kong and Macau – many currently working in London. The show reveals the stimulating variety of creative energy emanating from these countries, and which is increasingly impacting on the capitals – and indeed – the worlds, art scene. Read More
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), in partnership with the National Museum of Singapore present a special film event on “Mutual Perceptions between Asia and Europe” to mark ASEF’s 15th anniversary this year. Read More
The International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) will hold its 26th June Congress in Seoul, Korea, with the timely and poignant theme of Cultural Shifts. June 11-16. Read More
Mobile performance laboratory AMPERS &ND et al brings together leading innovators in music, dance and physical theatre from Australia, Korea and Europe, researching new modes of artistic communication between performer and musician. Read More
Through workshops, film screenings and talks with renowned manga artists, young people will be given the unique opportunity to learn more about this popular form of culture and the way it is produced. Read More
CROSS+SCAPE, organized by the ASEAN-Korea Centre, seeks common grounds, differences and relationships between Asian cultures by inviting twenty-seven photographers from the ten ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and Korea, to look into Asia’s contemporary art from new perspectives. Read More
Seoul Design Festival is an exhibition where designers can express their creativity through experimental ideas. Since 2002, it has been the leading design show in Seoul and has received… Read More
The UNESCO Creative Cities Network Conference, ‘Sustainable Urban Development Based on Creativity, aims to encourage the creation of balanced development through citizens’ participation in every phase of the ‘Creative City’ management. Read More