Asia Reviews

At Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, a group show reinscribes readings of contemporary art through traditional Chinese aesthetic

The eighth edition makes novel use of cacophony, disorientation and deferred gratification

From a show dedicated to the archive of a Southeast Asian art guardian to Ming Wong’s imposing cosmic installation, here’s what not to miss during Singapore Art Week and ART SG

An exhibition in Toyko sees the artist engage one of the earliest forms of photography to capture quiet, almost apparitional, landscapes

At Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, the artist’s olfactory installations yield to the unreliability of memory

At the Fine Arts Museum, the greatest delights of ‘Small World’ are artworks that play with an absence of body or sound

‘Cosmos Cinema’, the 14th Shanghai Biennale at Power Station of Art, explores economic exploitation and escapism during our current Cold War

At Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, the artist presents ‘live commissions’ that posit a relational fix to our fragmented media environment

From Arisa Kumagai’s ecclesiastical symbolism to Rika Minamitani’s carnivalesque paintings, here are the shows to see in Japan’s capital

At P21, Seoul, a group show of intimate mixed media works draws on Byung-Chul Han’s revolutionary The Agony of Eros (2017)

At PHD Group, Hong Kong, the artist mourns her mother through sensorial installations that incorporate personal detritus

A new opening at Seoul Museum of Art, Korea