The 7th edition of the Asian Art Biennial, organized by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and co-curated by artists Hsu Chia-Wei from Taiwan and Ho Tzu-Nyen from Singapore, will open on October 5th. The exhibition will feature a wide selection of artworks, including paintings, installations, video works, performances, and workshops by 30 artists and collectives from 16 countries.
:: Breaking Boundaries and Frameworks Through the ‘Stranger’ Perspective ::
Titled “The Strangers from Beyond the Mountain and the Sea”, the 2019 edition of the Asian Art Biennial will focus not only on the encounters between insiders and strangers, but also explore complex human entanglements through non-human elements. By “strangers”, the curators refer not only to travellers from distant lands, but also spirits, gods, shamans, foreign merchants, immigrants, minorities, colonists, smugglers, partisans, spies and traitors. To them, strangers are mediums, through which other worlds may be communicated. As such, “strangers” have the potential to propel and transform the very foundations of our cultures. Through the perspectives of “strangers”, this exhibition seeks to spark the imagination and curiosity of viewers by expanding the limits of our existing knowledge systems, as well as extending the frameworks by which reality is understood.
:: Issues in Asia Reinterpreted by 30 Artists from 16 Countries ::
The artists participating in the 2019 Asian Art Biennial are as follows: Korakrit ARUNANONDCHAI & Alex GVOJIC (with boychild) (Thailand/ USA), Antariksa (Indonesia), Zuleikha CHAUDHARI (India), Charles LIM (Singapore), Shilpa GUPTA (India), Roslisham ISMAIL/a.k.a ISE (Malaysia), Guo Fengyi (China), CHIANG Kai-Chun (Taiwan), CHIU Chen-Hung (Taiwan), HO Rui An (Singapore), Snow HUANG/Against Again Troupe (Taiwan), JIANDYIN(Jiradej MEEMALAI and Pornpilai MEEMALAI ) (Thailand), Hiwa K (Iraq), LEE Ufan (Korea), LIU Chuang (China), LIU Yu (Taiwan), Open Contemporary Art Center (Taiwan)＋Lifepatch (Indonesia), PARK Chan-Kyong (Korea), Timur SI-QIN (Germany), Gilad RATMAN (Israel), Tcheu SIONG (Laos), Wukir SURVADI/Senyawa (Indonesia), TING Chaong- Wen (Taiwan), Ming WONG (Singapore), Maya WATANABE (Netherlands/Peru), WANG Si-Shun (China), Yuichiro TAMURA (Japan), WANG Hong-Kai (Taiwan), YEE I-Lann (Malaysia), and Sawangwongse YAWNGHWE (Burma).
