Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation co-founded by Claire Hsu and Johnson Chang in 2000 in response to the urgent need to document and make accessible the multiple recent histories of art in the region. AAA is a catalyst for new ideas that enrich our understanding of the world through the collection, creation, and sharing of knowledge around recent art in Asia.
Read MoreWith one of the most valuable growing collections, freely available from our website and onsite library, AAA builds tools and communities to collectively expand knowledge through research, residency, and educational programmes. Our collection comprises a vast range of documentation, including the personal archives of significant artists, educators, and art professionals, as well as key exhibitions and art spaces. Our library houses our physical collection, which encompasses reference books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, periodicals, and rare ephemeral materials.
We activate the collection by organising talks, workshops, conferences, symposia, residencies, and research grants; presenting regular programming and partnering with arts initiatives; creating teaching resources and partnering with educational institutions to look at how art is taught; and by commissioning and publishing essays and conversations. These programmes and partnerships generate new ideas and connections that fuel future collections and projects.
As AAA celebrates its twentieth anniversary, we are grateful for everyone’s continued support in making a more generous art history possible.
Ocula Feature Womanifesto: Crafting Communities at Asia Art Archive By Emily Verla Bovino, Hong Kong At Asia Art Archive, Crafting Communities charts the history of the Thai feminist biennial, Womanifesto.
Ocula Feature Exhibitions to See in Hong Kong By Tessa Moldan, Hong Kong As Hong Kong gradually reopens after lockdown, explore the exhibitions taking place this summer.
Ocula News Art Power HK Launches Campaign to Revive Hong Kong Art Scene Hong Kong, 16 March 2020 With art galleries, museums and events closing around the world, the campaign offers a way for art fans and professionals in the city to keep calm and carry on.
Ocula Insight | In collaboration with Asia Art Archive Gao Weigang’s Artwork ‘International Standard’ Under the Hammer By Sherry Paik, Hong Kong At first glance, Gao Weigang's International Standard (2018) looks like a regular wooden frame—rectilinear, with a cross bisecting each of its four sides, almost resembling the generic windows from children's drawings—except that it has been coated in 24-karat gold leaf. International Standard belongs to 'The International...
Related Press Hong Kong: Asia's Cultural Capital? 5 April 2019, The Business Times THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, when curator Tobias Berger arrived in Hong Kong, there were only two or three contemporary art galleries. Today, there are well over 100, including several renowned international galleries such as David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, Hauser & Wirth and Gagosian, each representing the biggest contemporary names.
Related Press Beyond Art Basel: 9 Non-Profit And Museum Shows To See In Hong Kong 19 March 2019, Hong Kong Tatler Hong Kong artist Hon Chi-fun, now in his late 90s, and American artist James Turrell, are featured at the Asia Society. Hon is renowned for co-founding the Circle Art Group in the 1960s, a pioneering collective of artists hailed for bringing modern art to Hong Kong.
Related Press Nicholas Gamso considers Ren Hang’s engagement with urban space and queer body politics 24 January 2019, Asia Art Archive Chinese wealth is everywhere—land, bonds, productive power, contemporary art. Its financial and cultural influence defines much of what we call globalisation. As the curator Philip Tinari recently suggested, the concept of 'Rushi,' or China's 'Entering the World' (a term used to describe the country's admission into the World Trade...
Related Press When Worlds Collide: Benjamin Cha's New Role At The Asia Art Archive 27 December 2018, Hong Kong Tatler Like many people, Benjamin Cha found his first encounter with conceptual art a little bewildering. 'I remember seeing On Kawara's work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in the mid '90s. I was a student at the time,' Cha recalls. 'It was a room full of over 100 of Kawara's date paintings. I walked in and had a moment where I thought...
Related Video & Audio Lee Wen Archive 5 March 2019, Asia Art Archive This archive covers the span of Lee Wen's practice as an artist, organiser, and writer, starting in the early 1980s: his solo and collaborative projects, his notebooks and sketchbooks, his formative period with The Artists Village, his writings and correspondences, and his extensive documentation of art collectives and festivals in Asia and...
Related Video & Audio Ha Bik Chuen Archive 13 July 2018, Asia Art Archive This archive consists of a continuously growing selection of the artist's collage books, exhibition documentation, and catalogues. It provides a singular window into Hong Kong's art history through international exchanges, exhibition history, and the circulation of artistic practices and reading materials. Primarily known as a sculptor and...
Related Video & Audio Salon Natasha Archive 13 July 2018, Asia Art Archive This archive contains over 4988 records related to the Salon Natasha exhibitions and projects, collected over 20 years of activity. It includes exhibition invitations and catalogues; artist CVs and statements; project concept descriptions; and correspondence between curators and artists, press, and media reviews. Salon Natasha was a meeting...
