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Nominees for the US $30,000 prize hail from 18 countries across Asia and the Pacific.

Rather than present an amalgamation of international artists as is commonplace in biennales, its curatorial team chose to only include regional artists.

Contemporary art has broken down the boundaries of its traditional mediums, which points us in the direction of where a 21st-century museum should be going.

Because we are an institution being born in the 21st Century, we cannot but be a global institution.

Under the artistic direction of Susie Lingham, Director of the Singapore Art Museum, and nine other curators, the fifth edition of the Singapore Biennale, An Atlas of Mirrors, showcases sixty artists and three artist collectives from nineteen countries and territories around South, East, and Southeast Asia. Spanning eight venues in close...

Tell me a story sounds like a demand, but it is not a request for the truth. The exhibition is concerned with disrupting the narratives through which places are constituted. The choice of words is a warning too; this is not easy art with anecdotes and colourful locals, but art about how a change in perspective can produce a different territorial...

Hawaii has a population of more than 1.4 million people but not a single museum is dedicated to contemporary art, said Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, a co-founder of the first Honolulu Biennial, which will open in spring 2017. “We can both highlight our tremendous local talent as well as bring in national and international contemporary artists...