Gallery Baton In Ocula Magazine

Coinciding with Kiaf Seoul, galleries and institutions across the city present the best of contemporary art in Korea and beyond.

Yuichi Hirako's latest paintings invoke folklore and fairytales that venerate nature's deep relationship with time.

Curated by Venus Lau, the section is dominated by Chinese new media artists.

The digital showcase of 20th century art takes place from 28–31 October.

The seventh edition of ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair took place at Shanghai Exhibition Center. 111 world's leading galleries from 18 countries and 57cities are selected to present contemporary art and design by established and emerging artists.

There has been a flurry of triennial and biennial activity in Japan, including Pierre Huyghe's Okayama Art Summit.

Frieze London returns to Regent's Park to present the best of international contemporary art by emerging and established artists, alongside a dynamic programme of newly commissioned artworks, films and talks.

The highly anticipated seventh edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong brought together 242 leading galleries, presenting a unique overview of the diverse art scenes across Asia and beyond.

The 13 th edition of [Asia Contemporary Art Week][0] (ACAW) launched during the first week of September—along with the rest of the New York art world—offering rare insight into artist spaces and pr

Art Basel in Hong Kong provided an in-depth overview of the Asia Pacific region’s diversity through both historical material and cutting-edge works by established and emerging artists.

As with other regions, there remains a need to develop knowledge of both contemporary and modern art from Asia beyond the territory, not to mention a market for it. In Paris, these needs appear to be driving an expansion that is only just getting started.

My inspiration comes from a vast variety of things, places, images, thoughts and regrets. So, I think it is more appropriate to approach works fresh and not connected with solid theories or a continuity of style.

I think part of why we were interested in doing this project together was to have time together.

Frankly though, I couldn't concentrate: a trade fair seemed trivial as social and political progress seemed on the brink of a steep and painful descent.

What is interesting to me is what's behind technology and the philosophical aspects of that.

It was a typical Berlin week of contrasts, of darkness and beauty, the sacred and the profane.

I was looking for everyday objects, which I could transform into something else by only subtracting material.

I look to create works that establish my daily life and explore the identity of space.

Feminism, to me, means the equality between women and men. This point sometimes makes me look like a human rights activist.

Too many Tokyoites miss the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) altogether. Beyond both the Ueno museums and the network of newer art spaces in Roppongi, this institution of first-class exhibition facilities, a vast pubic art library and one of the most significant global collections of contemporary Japanese art takes you by surprise in Old...

It’s easy to list off the most influential gallerists in Seoul. Kukje, Arario, Hyundai, PKM, Pyo and Gana Art. But in recent years, a pivotal band of creative spaces have been taking the South Korean art scene in a different direction, headed by a new generation of artists and gallerists able to adapt to the post-recession economic...

I try to constitute a language that comes out of the abstract but still deals with the landscape and feeling of the streets.

So everyone who went to the opening of the 55th Biennale of Venice knows that the art world moves at curious speeds. You see movers and shakers lost in chat and apparently blind to the works on the wall or asleep on their feet in queues for the ‘Must See Pavilion’. Well one of the slowest moving of these was for Kimsooja's...