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Art Week Tokyo 2022: Must-See Exhibitions

Ocula Feature Art Week Tokyo 2022: Must-See Exhibitions By Elaine YJ Zheng, Tokyo Ocula Magazine selects Tokyo's best exhibitions to see over Art Week Tokyo.

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Frieze Seoul 2022: In Photos

Ocula Photolog Frieze Seoul 2022: In Photos Frieze Seoul opened its inaugural fair this year in the Gangnam district of the Korean city. Ocula's Hazel Ellis was on the ground to capture all the art, the energy and the people.

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In Palermo, Fondazione Merz Looks Forward with New Initiative

Ocula Insight In Palermo, Fondazione Merz Looks Forward with New Initiative By Stephanie Bailey, Palermo Turin-based Fondazione Merz's latest outpost in Palermo offers a site for collaboration and solidarity.

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Art Collaboration Kyoto Transports the Art World to Japan

Ocula Conversation Art Collaboration Kyoto Transports the Art World to Japan By Sam Gaskin, Kyoto Fifty-four galleries will share just 32 booths when Art Collaboration Kyoto takes place for the first time.

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Art Week Tokyo 2021: Exhibitions to See

Ocula Feature Art Week Tokyo 2021: Exhibitions to See By Elaine YJ Zheng, Tokyo Find out more about highlights on view across the inaugural Art Week Tokyo.

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Melissa Chiu Highlights Local Artists in the Hawai’i Triennial 2022

Ocula News Melissa Chiu Highlights Local Artists in the Hawai’i Triennial 2022 Honolulu, 18 October 2021 Announced today, the full list of participating artists includes Ai Weiwei, Theaster Gates, Sun Xun, and Liu Xiaodong. But which Hawaiian artists is curator Melissa Chiu most excited to show?

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Kiaf 2021 Lowdown: Must-See Exhibitions in Seoul

Ocula Feature Kiaf 2021 Lowdown: Must-See Exhibitions in Seoul By Sherry Paik, Seoul Coinciding with Kiaf Seoul, galleries and institutions across the city present the best of contemporary art in Korea and beyond.

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Mit Jai Inn: The Artwork as Gift

Ocula Insight Mit Jai Inn: The Artwork as Gift By Tessa Moldan, Birmingham It is only in recent years that the artist's kaleidoscopic paintings have found an international following.

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Lynn Hershman Leeson: 'I had to wait 30 years for the millennials to be born'

Ocula Conversation Lynn Hershman Leeson: 'I had to wait 30 years for the millennials to be born' By Vivian Chui, New York With an exhibition at the New Museum, Lynn Hershman Leeson traces her experiences working in uncharted territories.

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A Guide to the Extreme Self in the Age of You

Ocula Insight A Guide to the Extreme Self in the Age of You By Dorian Batycka, Dubai Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist's new graphic novel The Extreme Self attempts to track the accelerated hieroglyphs of the emoji age.

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Art Collaboration Kyoto Introduces Disruptive Fair Design

Ocula News Art Collaboration Kyoto Introduces Disruptive Fair Design Kyoto, 7 July 2021 Booths shared between Japanese and international galleries will be distributed in a seemingly random way, creating exhibition hall 'back alleys' for private discussions and deals.

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Juliana Engberg Catalogues Catastrophes at Auckland Art Gallery

Ocula News Juliana Engberg Catalogues Catastrophes at Auckland Art Gallery Auckland, 14 June 2021 Pandemic misery finds company in artworks responding to the Fukushima disaster, the Christchurch earthquake, and other calamities stretching back 3.2 billion years.

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Natalie Rudd on Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women Since 1945

Ocula Conversation Natalie Rudd on Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women Since 1945 By Tessa Moldan, London Natalie Rudd, Senior Curator of the Arts Council Collection, discusses the touring exhibition Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women Since 1945.

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12th Taipei Biennial Rethinks Globalisation

Ocula Feature 12th Taipei Biennial Rethinks Globalisation By Penny Liu, Taipei The 12th Taipei Biennial is imagined as a galaxy of interconnected 'planets', which offer different ways to understand and rethink life on earth.

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Taipei Biennial to Show Online With Ocula

Ocula News Taipei Biennial to Show Online With Ocula Taipei, 18 November 2020 Images of every artwork in the exhibition will appear online, along with artist profiles and more.

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Pierre Huyghe’s Brain Scan Art Shows Online, Minus the Flies

Ocula News Pierre Huyghe’s Brain Scan Art Shows Online, Minus the Flies London, 21 September 2020 Exhibited by Hauser & Wirth, the works are made using an fMRI machine and artificial intelligence.

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Taipei Lowdown: Shows to See in 2020

Ocula Feature Taipei Lowdown: Shows to See in 2020 By Tessa Moldan, Taipei As Taipei Dangdai returns for its second edition, we list a selection of shows across the city.

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Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director

Ocula Conversation Pierre Huyghe: The Artist as Director By Stephanie Bailey, Okayama Pierre Huyghe discusses his approach to directing the second edition of the Okayama Art Summit, where he created an exhibition that was formulated as a porous, 'living entity'.

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RoseLee Goldberg: Performance Then and Now

Ocula Conversation RoseLee Goldberg: Performance Then and Now By Fawz Kabra RoseLee Goldberg discusses the history of performance art and her ongoing support of artists in realising ambitious live performance work through the Performa Biennial, which is set to launch its eighth edition in New York on 1 November.

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Aichi to Okayama: Art in Japan Looks to the Future

Ocula Feature Aichi to Okayama: Art in Japan Looks to the Future By Stephanie Bailey, Okayama There has been a flurry of triennial and biennial activity in Japan, including Pierre Huyghe's Okayama Art Summit.

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Frieze London 2019

Ocula Photolog Frieze London 2019 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.

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58th Venice Biennale: May You Live In Interesting Times

Ocula Feature 58th Venice Biennale: May You Live In Interesting Times By Mohammad Salemy, Venice Mohammad Salemy reviews the 58th Venice Biennale, May You Live In Interesting Times (11 May–24 November 2019), where 'Lithuania demonstrated how it is possible to be both socially relevant while pulling off one of the most likeable national pavilions in recent memory.'

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Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019

Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019 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.

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Frieze London 2018

Ocula Photolog Frieze London 2018 Frieze London returns to Regent's Park this October to present the best of international contemporary art by emerging and established artists, featuring more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries.

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