ASEF Culture360 | Connecting Asia and Europe through arts and culture


Get in-depth perspectives through commissioned articles, interviews and reports on current topics for Asia-Europe cultural relations.


By Claire Wilson

23 Dec 2010

Dancing in the Graey: A Festival of Asian Dance in Singapore

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The Graey Festival, staged in Singapore in November at the Substation, had its 3rd edition this year in 2010. The festival originally began as a study of Indian contemporary dance …

By Anupama Sekhar

15 Dec 2010

Talking Dance in India

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Conceptualised by the Delhi-based Gati Dance Forum, Ignite! succeeded in creating a dedicated platform for both performances and the debates surrounding practice.

By Valentina Riccardi

14 Dec 2010

Walking for social and ecological transformation

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The first edition of the “International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social transformation” (Gabrovo, Bulgaria, August 2010) proved an insightful and challenging process for the wide …

By Florentina Bratfanof

10 Dec 2010

Cultural policy overview on Romanian Film Industry

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Romanian cinema began to gain recognition on the world stage after 2005. Interest in Romanian movies grew ever since, and important young film directors begun to make a name for …

By Florentina Bratfanof

06 Dec 2010

Thermostat|artistic exchanges between France and Germany

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Thermostat is a series of joint exhibitions and events presented by 24 French art centers and German Kunstvereine from now until April 2011.

By Kerrine Goh

06 Dec 2010

Romanian Cinema, Here and Now

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There are not many places in the world where you can be looked up at for being Romanian, but one of them is the prestigious wonderland of Cannes.

By Shirley Abraham

03 Dec 2010

The traveling screen: Exploring resonances between nomadic cinemas in India and Europe

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Remote villages in the state of Maharashtra, in western India, remain one of the last stops of travelling cinemas in the world.

By Bharti Lalwani

03 Dec 2010

Malaysia focuses on Islamic art from Southeast Asia

Bharti Lalwani has interviewed Lucien De Guise, Senior Curator at Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM)

By Siddharth

03 Dec 2010

An experimental artistic journey through local communities of South India

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In South India, Reloading Images (a Berlin based art association) and Maraa (a Bangalore based artists collective) collaborated with the support of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and Arts Network Asia …

By Judith Staines

03 Dec 2010

Nomadic artists

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Judith Staines, Culture360.org’s Europe Editor, met Spanish artists Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernández Pons during their residency at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in Korea and asked them about their nomadic …

By Florentina Bratfanof

01 Dec 2010

2010lab.tv stimulates cultural creativity

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2010LAB.tv is an interactive web TV, blog and audio podcast for creative people in the Ruhr Metropolis and Europe. As a media hybrid of TV and internet, it is an …

By Jérémy Segay

30 Nov 2010

Interview with Charlotte Appelgren of Cine-Regio

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Culture360 discusses with Charlotte Appelgren of Cine-Regio, the European network of regional film funds.

By Valentina Riccardi

11 Nov 2010

Call for articles on film.culture360.org

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The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the editorial team of www.culture360.org are inviting potential writers from ASEM countries*

By Veeranganakumari Solanki

02 Nov 2010

10000 Lives: the 8th Gwangju Biennale

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Since the first Gwangju Biennale in 1995, Asia has seen a significant development of contemporary Asian art on the international circuit with more and more Biennales organised in the region.

By Bharti Lalwani

02 Nov 2010

Cross-cultural influences shape the island of Sumatra

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Senior Curator of the Asian Civilisations Museum Singapore, Ms. Heidi Tan, shares in the following interview her high points on the first international travelling exhibition on Sumatran culture "Sumatra: Isle …