TEXT / Huang Shan and Huang He HB STATION Contemporary Art Research Center stands for the preservation and support of experimentation in art. It is a loose yet cohesive institution, but it does not of…

TEXT / Sasha Zhao CURATED BY DONG Bingfeng with Amy Cheng among others, “Visions & Beyond,” the 2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, opened on December 6, 2014, with parallel events occur…

TEXT / Ophelia S. Chan As much as the internet is a utilitarian space for social movements, it is also a cultural space for personal and collective expressions of social issues. BORN IN THE 1980s—Chin…

INTERVIEW/ LEAP PHOTO/ Tara Sosrowardoyo In a surprise move after almost a year of speculation, Art Basel promoted its new Director Asia from within—Adeline Ooi was formerly a VIP relations liaison for the fair in southeast Asia. Known as the not-so-bad-after-all kind of art adviser (the kind who spends as much time with artists as…

Hong-gah Museum, Taipei 2014.11.01~2015.01.25 Curated by scholars Gong Jow-Jiun and Nobuo Takamori, the 4th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, “The Return of Ghosts,” features the work of more…

In Return from Sichuan, there is a relationship to religion. I create a scene that is open to misreading. Contemporary painting has extended its boundaries of interpretation. Like many things associat…

Pierre Huyghe’s latest film, Human Mask (2014), opens with drone footage of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, site of the 2011 meltdown, before settling in Kayabukiya Tavern, a modest establishment just outside the quarantine zone in Utsonomiya, Japan. Before the disaster, the tavern made headlines for its monkey waitstaff, dolled up in masks, wigs, and…

WEB EXCLUSIVE Our modern world is fast.  The connections we make are immediate yet superficial:  texting, social media, and mass media swirl past us to until we are left over-saturated by information, much of which is useless.  Amidst all of this, hiding in plain sight, are the evils of corruption, poverty, and the complacency we…

WEB EXCLUSIVE Edouard Malingue has made the long trek across Queen’s Road Central, down Pedder Road, and up Des Voeux Road Central. His new space—easily double the size of his old one, which boasted a clever OMA design by which office and auxiliary space surrounded a central, off-axis exhibition area—is designed by the young architectural…

WEB EXCLUSIVE Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka exhibit together for the first time at Gagosian Hong Kong; Wood is new to the Gagosian roster, a surprising move after a long allegiance to Los Angeles dealer David Kordansky, and both artists are new to Hong Kong, so the relationships are fresh all around. The one constant…

TRANSLATION / David East Look at my brother. He’s successful by mastering an effective style and embellishing it with so-called conceptual content. This is why he’s known as an “international Asian ar…

TRANSLATION / Xia Sheng Art historian Hal Foster’s extended review of German artist Isa Genzken’s MoMA exhibition in the February 2014 issue of Artforum begins with the statement that Genzken’s career has been wrongly contextualized by her relationships with more famous male artists. While this is probably true, Foster proceeds to draw an almost entirely…

TEXT / Shi Qing（1） TRANSLATION / Katy Pinke EDUCATION IS AN ancient profession. In China, the arts academy has a long history, dating back centuries. Since the dawn of the modern era, it has been the …

TEXT / Song Yi TRANSLATION / Sarah Stanton The art academy we propose here is not a place where everyone studies at the same fixed stage of life; rather, it is a process of self-directed maturation governed by a plethora of unknown factors, full of accidents, misunderstandings, accommodations, and any number of other unexpected mishaps….

TRANSLATION / Daniel Nieh The voices of actual students describing their experiences are generally missing from discussions of art school education. The following short story, by the young artist YK, …

TRANSLATION / David East A FEW MONTHS AGO , when I started planning an exhibition of work by graduates of Chinese art academies with fellow curator Luan Zhichao, we agreed to work by observing first and choosing a theme only later. After reviewing the graduate exhibitions of the major academies, we focused our curatorial work…

TRANSLATION / Xi Winkler THE LABEL OF “experimental” art has developed new meanings in China since its formulation in the 1990s. In an academic context, the term means something very specific, more qu…

WHAT MIGHT A theory of history look like at this moment? How might art make forms that at least suggest a way forward? These are pressing questions now that we know this era is the Anthropocene, that …

To encourage the development of emerging young artists, Hong Kong’s K11 Art Foundation and the Central Academy of Fine Arts have launched a three-year partnership. Through this investigation, they hope to cultivate future models for exhibiting art. The collaboration began on January 15 with the opening of The 2nd “CAFAM Future” Exhibition, a joint effort…

Each generation of artists has to be sensitive to the needs of changing social and cultural structures in order to select the tactics of their practice. Tactics involve shaking off the rigidity of the…