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2021-11-23	Jes Fan in New Museum Triennial \| Ocula
	Vivian Chui in Ocula: “Rather than forcing artists into rooms organised by subthemes, works correspond to one another in a free-flowing exchange that runs through the show. Jes Fan’s glass sculptures Networks (for Rupture) and Networks (for Expansion) (both 2021), containing a strain of black mould known for its asexual reproduction, are placed besides Iris Touliatou’s Untitled (Still Not Over You) (2021), an abstract installation of flickering, near obsolete fluorescent light tubes collected from defunct offices in Greece. Although addressing unrelated themes—respectively, sexual identity and the temporality of human infrastructures—the pairing appears materially harmonious, united visually by the shared use of tubular materials. One of the show’s greatest strengths is the notable subtlety of works on display: a refreshing respite at a time when so many artists have embraced brash, overt political agendas within their practices.” Read more …
2021-11-06	James T. Hong at Centre Pompidou-Metz
	Opening today at Centre Pompidou-Metz in Paris: Toi et moi, on ne vit pas sur la même planète, a curated selection of works from the 2020 Taipei Biennial. Eighteen of James T. Hong’s storyboard series, “The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend”, are included in the exhibition. The biennial, with the theme “You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet” was co-curated by French philosopher Bruno Latour and Paris-based independent curator Martin Guinard. James T. Hong’s on-going series of storyboards centre on a speculative science-fiction film in which forces from China, the USA, and other nations engage in military conflict on the island of Taiwan. Hong’s choice of watercolor as a medium evokes histories tying together plein-air romanticism and the rise of militarism; the cult of sentiment and the cult of the dictator. Painted in collaboration with Yin-Ju Chen, these works often evoke a disarming sense of calm amidst depictions of total warfare. Read more …
2021-10-29	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork featured in The Here and There Collective
	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork was recently featured in The Here and There Collective’s Instagram Live series. The Here and There Collective, founded by Steven Abrahram & Lisa Young, are an organization committed to connecting and uplifting contemporary artists, curators, and collectors from the AAPI/Asian diaspora. View the Instagram Live below, with a walkthrough of Kiyomi Gork’s exhibition Olistostrome at Empty Gallery, with the artist’s commentary and context around the works. Read more …
2021-10-27	JES FAN IN THE FIFTH NEW MUSEUM TRIENNIAL
	“Soft Water Hard Stone,” the fifth New Museum Triennial, brings together works across mediums by forty artists internationally, including Jes Fan. It recognizes artists reimagining traditional models, materials, and techniques beyond established institutional paradigms. Their works exalt states of transformation, calling attention to the malleability of structures, porous and unstable surfaces, and the fluid and adaptable potential of both technological and organic media. The Triennial will be on view from 27 October, 2021 to 23 January, 2022. Curators: Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at The New Museum, and Jamillah James. Read more …
2021-10-21	Tishan Hsu: skin-screen-grass at Miguel Abreu Gallery
	Tishan Hsu’s first solo exhibition with Miguel Abreu Gallery, skin-screen-grass, opens October 21st, on view until December 23. The exhibition is held at the gallery’s 88 Eldridge Street location. “Over the last three years, with increasing focus and intensity, Tishan Hsu’s art has taken a turn towards exploring the vast possibilities of image production today, and how to introduce this all pervasive force into his work. With the steady development of ever more sophisticated image processing software, and quasi limitless access to photographic sources and electronic imagery afforded by new high resolution databases, Hsu’s palette has expanded exponentially to include a set of tools particularly well suited to engage with the concerns underlying his work since the beginning: How does the screen world affect cognition and our relation to our bodies? How can art channel omnipresent technological effects and reveal their immanent affective content? In other words, what kind of artistic forms might truthfully render this increasingly potent and palpable state of biomorphic affairs?” Read more …
2021-10-16	Xper. Xr in The Principle of Hope, Inside-Out Museum
	“After a long summer of being closed for maintenance, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum reopens with a new exhibition, *The Principle of Hope. It is an exhibition that contemplates, envisions, summons and claims the “future.” By presenting the practices of Chinese and international artists and cultural practitioners, we demonstrate the future as a space full of potential, beckoning for the subjective individual, to confront the present with the courage and enthusiasm of a future-oriented outlook.” Participating artists:* Francis Alÿs, Aram Bartholl & Nadja Buttendorf, Erick Beltrán, Chen Chen Yu, Chen Juanying, Karel Čapek, Carlomar Arcangel Daoana, Datong Dazhang, Péter Dobai, Fang Tianyu, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Norma Jeane, Pauline Julier & Nicolas Chapoulier, Pope. L, Lei Lei, Li Jiaqi, Feng Kehui, Mak Ying Tung 2, Pedro Neves Marques, Meng Jinghui, Nabuqi, Phil Patiris, Gabriel Tejedor, Xingfu Peifang, Wang Xiyan, Xper.Xr, The Yes Men, Liam Young, Goang-Ming Yuan, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Zhong Ming Artistic directors: Carol Yinghua Lu, Luo Xiaoming Curatorial team: Huang Wenlong, Liang Chouwa, Yin Shuai, Jerome Zhang, Scarly Zhou, Zhu Siyu Read more …
2021-10-13	Empty Gallery at Frieze London 2021
	Empty Gallery is pleased to open a dual-presentation of sculptor Jes Fan and painter Henry Shum at the Focus section of Frieze London, booth H10, from October 13 through October 17. Fan’s ongoing Diagrams sculpture series features partial body-molded pieces of aqua resin covered in patches of color alluding to medical depictions of the epidermis, overlaid with hand-blown glass globules. These works continue Fan’s inquiry into what forms belie the body part that determines the majority of differences in human skin colors, and suggests that living beings are not bound entirely by the form of the skin. Shum presents new oil paintings created in his home/studio in Tai Po. Building on his exploration of allegory, symbolism and spirituality in his recent exhibition Vortices, Shum extends his unique approach of wielding oil paint in an ink-like fashion, rendering elements from spiritual and mythological imagery in translucent, dripping layers. Shum’s material experimentation and dynamic approach to a familiar medium results in surreal, large-scale compositions at once dream-like and restrained. The works of Shum and Fan involve the iterative layering of materials to dissolve unquestioned binaries, whether it be the collapsing of interior and exterior spaces in Shum’s paintings or the questioning of race and gender in Fan’s pieces. Read more …
2021-10-11	Jes Fan at Frieze London Talks
	In conjunction with our Frieze London booth (H10) presenting Henry Shum and Jes Fan, Jes Fan will be in conversation with artist Rindon Johnson, moderated by professor and translator Ari Larissa Heinrich, at Frieze Talks curated by Jeppe Ugelvig. Professor Heinrich is currently working on Decolonial Melanin: Jes Fan’s Contagious Xenophoria (A Glossary). This online discussion will take place on Saturday 16 October, 13:00 British Standard Time / 8:00am Eastern Standard Time/ 8:00pm Hong Kong Time. This event is accessible to Frieze members and guests of the fair. Click the link below for more information. Read more …
2021-10-08	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork in Mousse Magazine #77
	Setting the Stage: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork by Lumi Tan appears in the Tidbits section of Mousse Magazine #77, out now. “For artists who center sound within their practice, sharing sonic space and attention within institutional environments is a familiar struggle: how to create a focused audience without merely encasing them in soundproof walls or imposing isolating headphones upon them. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has attuned her sound work to be fully integrated within group exhibitions, art fairs, and outdoor settings. Pointedly, they consider themself a listener, not a composer—in a sense, aligned with the individual visitor and the collective audience rather than with the maker.” Read more …
2021-09-11	Tishan Hsu in TECHNO at Museion, Bolzano
	Tishan Hsu’s new wall installation and accompanying QR-linked video piece, “Grass-Screen-Skin: Bolzano” is now on view at Museion, Bolzano, Italy, as part of TECHNO. The exhibition is on view until 16 March, 2022. Articulated through three themes— *Freedom, Compression* and *Exhaustion* — the exhibition TECHNO puts the techno experience center stage, adopting it as a lens through which to capture a contemporary human condition and social order. Museion invites an international group of artists, thinkers and producers to explore how cultural phenomena related to techno have become interlaced with the ways we experience our identities today. Artists: Riccardo Benassi, Paul Chan, Nicolò Degiorgis, Karin Ferrari, Massimo Grimaldi, CC Hennix, Tishan Hsu, Mire Lee, Ghislaine Leung, Isabel Lewis, Piero Martinello in Zusammenarbeit mit/in collaborazione con/in collaboration with Franco Ruaro, Sandra Mujinga, Nkisi aka Melika Ngombe Kolongo, Emeka Ogboh, Yuri Pattison, Daniel Pflumm, James Richards und/e/and Steve Reinke, James Richards, Jacolby Satterwhite, Leander Schwazer, Sung Tieu, Jan Vorisek among many others. TECHNO is curated by Bart van der Heide, Director of Museion, in collaboration with an international research team including Francesco Tenaglia, art critic and curator, Florian Fischer, stage director and author and Frida Carazzato, curatorial assistant at Museion. Read more …

Archive


past
	2021
•	2021-09-11 . . . 2021-11-20	Olistostrome	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork past
•	2021-04-17 . . . 2021-07-24	Tailwhip	Xper. Xr. past
•	2020-12-23 . . . 2021-03-20	Rumor Has It	Taro Masushio past
	2020
•	2020-09-26 . . . 2020-11-21	Vortices	Henry Shum past
•	2020-06-20 . . . 2020-09-05	Oax.D.F.L.A.N.O.H.K	ektor garcia past
•	2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01	The Thing	James T. Hong past
•	2019-12-14 . . . 2020-02-01	Reoccurring Afterlife	Diane Severin Nguyen past
	2019
•	2019-09-28 . . . 2019-11-23	The Bare Life	Philippe Grandrieux past
•	2019-06-22 . . . 2019-09-07	New Molecules & Stem Cell Retinoid Screen	Sean Raspet past
•	2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06	Unfinished Return	Cici Wu past
•	2019-03-26 . . . 2019-06-06	delete	Tishan Hsu past
•	2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26	The Pearl Of Tailorbird	Rei Hayama past
•	2018-12-15 . . . 2019-01-26	Memento Stella	Takashi Makino past
	2018
•	2018-09-22 . . . 2018-11-24	Gravitational Currents & The Life Magic	Susanne Winterling past
•	2018-06-30 . . . 2018-09-08	Thresholds of Perception	Catherine Christer Hennix past
•	2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02	Ruthless Logic	Xavier Cha past
•	2018-03-27 . . . 2018-06-02	Mother Is A Woman	Jes Fan past
•	2017-12-09 . . . 2018-02-03	Shocking Asia	C. Spencer Yeh past
	2017
•	2017-09-09 . . . 2017-11-18	Everything Visible Is Empty	Toshio Matsumoto past
•	2017-06-17 . . . 2017-08-26	Catchy	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork past
•	2017-03-22 . . . 2017-05-27	Infinite Doors	Takeshi Murata past
•	2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17	Kaya Cynara	Hans-Henning Korb past
•	2016-12-13 . . . 2017-02-17	CINÉMA CONCRET	Takashi Makino past
	2016
•	2016-03-24 . . . 2016-05-20	Ancestor Bone Hug	Amit Desai past
•	2015-11-07 . . . 2016-02-06	The Man Who Sleeps On His Breath	Edward S. Curtis, Valerio Tricoli past
	2015
•	2015-09-11 . . . 2015-10-21	Sonorous Objects	Rolf Julius, Tomoko Sauvage, Rubén D’Hers and Marc Hurtado past
•	2015-03-05 . . . 2015-08-15	Transcendance	Amit Desai past


past
	2021
•	2021-07-24	Easy Listening for The Hard of Seeing past
•	2021-03-06	Webinar \| Taro Masushio and Taro Nettleton	Taro Masushio past
	2020
•	2020-09-05	ektor garcia, Ruth Asawa and a brief history of crochet	ektor garcia, Ruth Asawa past
	2019
•	2019-12-15	Screening \| John Carpenter's The Thing	James T. Hong past
•	2019-11-30 . . . 2019-12-01	The Body Electric	Xper.Xr., Die Angel, Fiesta Brass past
•	2019-10-05		Still House Plants past
•	2019-06-23	Human Formats: Recent Developments in Stem Cell Science and the Plastic Arts	Dr. Robert Johnston past
•	2019-03-20	Opening Rave \| delete & Unfinished Return	O YAMA O, DJ PYTHON, CARLOS SOUFFRONT, BILL CONVERSE past
•	2019-01-26	Screening \| Experimental Films by Rei Hayama	Rei Hayama past
	2018
•	2018-12-16		Taku Sugimoto & Minami Saeki past
•	2018-10-27		Taibach, Billy Bao & NYPD past
•	2018-08-31 . . . 2018-09-02		Chora(s)san Time Court Mirage past
•	2018-06-30	Opening Reception \| Thresholds of Perception	Amir ElSaffar past
•	2018-03-31	Failed Celestial Creatures	David Grubbs & Taku Unami past
•	2018-03-30	Opening Rave \| Ruthless Logic & Mother Is A Woman	Ahmed, Cera Khin, Mumdance, Logos & Rob Hall past
	2017
•	2017-12-09	Opening Reception \| Shocking Asia	Violet past
•	2017-11-18	Screening + Closing Reception \| Funeral Parade Of Roses past
•	2017-10-21		Reizen / Morishige past
•	2017-09-09	Opening Reception \| EVERYTHING VISIBLE IS EMPTY	Aki Onda past
•	2017-08-26	Closing Reception \| CATCHY	Errorsmith past
•	2017-06-17	Opening Reception \| CATCHY	Thomas Brinkmann × Seijiro Murayama past
•	2017-05-27	Closing Reception \| Infinite Doors	C. SPENCER YEH past
•	2017-03-25	Green Hour, Grey Future	Reinier Van Houdt past
•	2017-03-23	Une Nuit Sans Sommeil	Lionel Estève, Jean-Michel Distexhe & Zoë-Louise Estève past
•	2017-03-22	Opening Party \| Infinite Doors	Sissy Spacek, Gabber Eleganza, Lorenzo Senni & Rian Treanor past
•	2017-02-18	Endless Cinema	Takashi Makino past
•	2017-01-21	Green Music	Tomoko Sauvage & Francesco Cavaliere past
	2016
•	2016-12-17		Eli Keszler, Rashad Becker & James Hoff past
•	2016-12-09	EG Reopening Party	Terre Thaemlitz, Mark Fell, Rian Treanor & Robert Lippok past
•	2016-05-21		Magda Mayas × Tony Buck, dj sniff & Shane Aspegren past
•	2016-04-23	Dialogues	Ko Ishikawa / Joel Ryan & Jean-Luc Guionnet / Daichi Yoshikawa past
•	2016-01-09		Keiji Haino × John Butcher past
	2015
•	2015-11-21		Masayoshi Urabe past
•	2015-10-24		Peter Brötzmann past
•	2015-09-25 . . . 2015-09-26	Editions Mego 20th Anniversary	Fennesz, Klara Lewis, Ilpo Vaisanen & KTL past
•	2015-08-15	[email protected]	III人 past
•	2015-06-07	[email protected]	Mark Fell × NHK’KOYXEN past
•	2015-05-09	[email protected]	Suishou No Fune past
•	2015-03-14 . . . 2015-03-15	[email protected]	Ninos Du Brasil, Eli Kezler, Rashad Becker, NHK’KOYXEN, Lorenzo Senni, Gábor Lázár & Mark Fell past


past
	2021
•	2021-10-13 . . . 2021-10-17	Frieze London	Jes Fan, Henry Shum past
•	2021-09-20 . . . 2021-09-26	Liste Art Fair Basel	Taro Masushio past
•	2021-05-19 . . . 2021-05-23	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu, Taro Masushio, Xper.Xr., Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong past
•	2021-02-24 . . . 2021-03-07	South South Veza	Rei Hayama past
	2020
•	2020-11-26 . . . 2020-11-30	Hong Kong Spotlight by Art Basel	Cici Wu & Xiaofei Mo, Henry Shum past
•	2020-11-11 . . . 2020-11-15	Art021 Shanghai	Tishan Hsu, Diane Severin Nguyen, John Wu past
•	2020-08-20 . . . 2020-08-31	June Art Fair	John Ziqiang Wu past
•	2020-02-13 . . . 2020-02-16	Felix Los Angeles	James T. Hong past
	2019
•	2019-11-07 . . . 2019-11-10	ART021 Shanghai	Elliott Jun Wright past
•	2019-03-29 . . . 2019-03-31	Art Basel Hong Kong	Tishan Hsu past
	2018
•	2018-05-03 . . . 2018-05-06	Frieze New York	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon past
•	2018-03-07 . . . 2018-03-10	The Armory Show	Tishan Hsu and Takeshi Murata past

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Temporarily closed for installation
Up next: Yutaka Matsuzawa
Opening 11 December
Curated by Alan Longino & Reiko Tomii

New Museum Triennial “Soft Water Hard Stone”

“Setting the Stage: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork” by Lumi Tan in Mousse Magazine

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Setting the Stage: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork by Lumi Tan appears in the Tidbits section of Mousse Magazine #77, out now.

New Museum Triennial “Soft Water Hard Stone”