Track the latest arts and cultural events in and between Asia and Europe.
Viewing by date posted in order of earliest to most recent
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
SINOPTICON is a long-term project investigating ideas and themes of a contemporary chinoiserie in contemporary art. The exhibition across museum, gallery and heritage sites in Plymouth, England explores our… 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
Sofia Design Week is an international festival for design and visual culture. It takes place every June in Sofia, and features a professional forum with prominent speakers from all over the world, as well as an extensive programme of open events targeting a broader audience Read More
As for previous Biennales, the 2012 Biennale of Sydney exhibition will aim to invigorate and enrich Australian visual culture through a fertile cultural exchange programme involving large numbers of artists, writers and curators. The Biennale of Sydney continues to be committed to presenting an exhibition and programme of events that is free to all visitors. Read More
Bucharest Biennale (BB) aims to promote awareness and dissemination of culture, particularly in the fields of the arts, through exchanges and cultural cooperation within Europe and beyond. It is looking… Read More
On the occasion of the 17th edition of the French Film Festival presented by the Embassy of the Republic of France highlighting a retrospective in his honor, acclaimed auteur Olivier Assayas visits the UPFI Film Center for a master class at the Videotheque followed by a special screening at Cine Adarna on Thursday, 7 June 2012. Read More
The Serpentine Gallery opens the 2012 Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park, created by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. It is the twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual… Read More
The Malta Festival in Poznan, Poland 2012 is conceptualised this year around the “Malta Idiom” of Asian Investments – reflecting on ambivalence and ambiguity in European-Asian relations. Festival runs… Read More
The George Town Festival (GTF) returns this month offering a wide array of cultural events ranging from music performances to film screenings, visual arts exhibitions, and much more. Read More
Big Bang China: City and Architecture in Contemporary China opens on 6 June at the University of Seville’s cultural centre CICUS. The exhibition examines China’s urban transformation and its impact on culture, identities, and ecosystems. Read More
As one of the official projects of the 2012 China in Germany Year, the exhibition China New Design – Revisit and Reflect will be the first large-scale collective exhibition of contemporary Chinese design in Germany: encompassing 189 design products complemented by 109 objects that reference daily Chinese life. The focus highlights the evolution and rapid transformation of Chinese aesthetics, lifestyle, culture and society. Read More
The fifth Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum will take place from 25 to 27 June 2012 in Bonn. “Culture. Education. Media – Shaping a Sustainable World” is title of… 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
Open Design Shared Creativity is an international forum that seeks to explore and debate the emerging landscape of openness and exchange that is taking shape around practices such as open code, creative commons licensing, co-creation, de-localisation and collaboration. Read More
KLEX (Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival) is in George Town to present 2 international screening programmes, a single-channel video installation by Huvi Chan Seauhuvi and an audio-visual performance night, featuring artists and performers from Penang and Kuala Lumpur. Read More
Register now for the ISEND-WEFT international symposium and exhibition on natural dyes, world eco-fibre and textile forum to be held 27 Sep – 1 Oct in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia…. Read More
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is currently hosting the first major exhibition of German photographer Thomas Demand, showcasing a range of his activities, from his earliest works to more recent film pieces. Read More
The Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale was first launched in 1998. Since its inception, the exhibition has employed a rather loose definition of sculpture and form for its exhibition framework, engaging in exploration and experimentation in the public nature of contemporary art as it pertains to the issues revolving around Chinese contemporary art and its connection to society and culture. Read More
TO THE LIGHT, an exhibition of Yoko Ono’s work at the Serpentine Gallery, is her first in a London public institution for more than a decade, and includes new and existing installations, films and performances, as well as archive material relating to several key early works. Read More
Design Research Society (DRS): Bangkok 2012 is open to a variety of global perspectives on the theory, education and practice of design. This year’s informal theme is Re:Search: uncertainty, contradiction and value. It was chosen to encourage a distinctly contemporary exploration of issues facing international design and craft communities. Read More
Thousands of music lovers travel across the globe to Sarawak every year in mid July to attend a unique world music festival, Rainforest World Music Festival, with performers from… Read More
This year’s Crossroads international Festival of Traditional Music in Krakow, Poland, with the theme of ‘The Eastern Wind’, includes performers from India, as well as Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and… 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
Over the two days of ‘All That is Banned is Desired’ – A World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression, artists, journalists, activists, scholars, curators and others will respond… Read More
Academics and civil society experts from Asia and Europe will gather in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from the 12th to the 14th of July 2012, to discuss the growing importance of public-private partnerships in the management of heritage cities and historic urban landscapes. Read More
Action Parties is the brainchild of artist-curator Khairuddin Hori and was first held at The Substation in 2007. It’s a multi-disciplinary project that gives creative people a space to actualize their ideas over a specified duration, allowing them to use time as their medium. Back in Singapore for its third installment, this select group of creative heavy-hitters has turned a notch up on quirky. Read More
Every two years the Centre for Fine Arts organises the Summer of Photography, an international biennale that focuses on photography and related media. Not only does the festival provide the opportunity to discover modern-day photography, it also looks forward to the future of the image in our culture. Read More
Hong Kong Book Fair 2012 takes place 18-24 July at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre under the theme ‘Reading the World | We Read Therefore We Know’…. Read More
The Rencontres d’Arles is a summer photography festival founded in 1970. Its policy of programming almost exclusively new work has earned it a world-wide reputation. Les Rencontres d’Arles 2012… Read More