Man Mei To obtained her Bachelor of Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) and Hong Kong Arts School in 2017, majoring in painting. Man is the selected artist of Tai Kwun Artists’ Studio Programme 2021 in Hong Kong. She has participated in numerous local and international group exhibitions including Gathering of Consciousness, The 29th Asian International Art Exhibition at Fukuoka (2021), The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite at Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong (2020), Zoo […]
Born in 1989, Beijing, Luka Yuanyuan Yang is a visual artist and filmmaker. She does visual storytelling through film, photography, artist books and performance. Yang received awards internationally from organisations such as Art Power 100 (2019), Asian Cultural Council (2017), Huayu Youth Award (2016), Rencontres d’Arles (2015), Magenta Foundation (2013) and Three Shadows Tierney Fellowship (2012). Her recent solo exhibitions include Shanghai Low at OCAT, Shanghai (2020), Dalian Mirage at AIKE, Shanghai (2019), Theater of Crossroads at Chinese America Arts […]
Li Qingyue is a Shanghai-born illustrator who creates illustrations for novels, and occasionally picture books, where she reinterprets folk stories through the language of contemporary art. In 2021, her picture book Magic Cloth was awarded Diploma under the Best Picture Books category in Image of the Book, an international contest for book illustration and design. Lee Qingyue has held solo exhibitions including Magic Cloth (2021) and Records of the Buddha: Giugiu’s Travelogue (2016) at the Shanghai Mass Art Center, and […]
Lee Kai Chung performs artistic research on history and historiography, systems, and ideology. In his early years, Lee was inspired by the lack of proper governance over public records, so he developed his own archival research methodology as his key artistic practice. Through research, social participation and engagement, Lee’s work reflects upon historical narratives and demonstrates an individual’s transition between politics and art. Lee received the Altius Fellowship from Asian Cultural Council in 2020 and the Award for Young Artist […]
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Kato Tsubasa is an artist currently living and working in Tokyo. The common characteristic of Kato’s multimedia projects, including performance, structures and video, is communal practice: his representative Pull and Raise (moving a large structure with ropes in public space) relies on spontaneous participation. Since completing a project in Fukushima after the 2011 disaster, his work has become more satirical in nature, playing with social boundaries, such as They Do Not Understand Each Other on an uninhabited island between Korea […]
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Born in 1984 in Kanagawa, Japan, Kamata Yusuke graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Inter-Media Art from the Tokyo University of Arts in 2013. He exposes the distortion inherent in history through his work built upon extensive research of the connection between war and culture as well as the architectural and modern histories of Japan. Kamata’s recent exhibitions include The Ongoing Dialogue at Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa (2019), Compiling Behaviors, Digesting Actions at Tokyo Arts and Space […]
Jeon Gisun/Matsuda Motoyoshi is a cultural translator and earthbag builder currently based mainly in Japan. As the director and coordinator of a team of cultural translators and editors that he established in 2015, he developed a unique cultural approach through co-organising a wide range of projects addressing lifestyle, community, art, food and craftmanship throughout Asia. As a member of 5 mutual aid communities, he continues to expand his living design practices through his characteristic architectural and woodworking techniques. Born and […]
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Ho Rui An Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Through lecture, essay and film, he examines the systems of governance in a global age. He has presented projects at the Bangkok Art Biennale; Asian Art Biennial; Gwangju Biennale; Jakarta Biennale; Sharjah Biennial; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Singapore Art Museum; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan. Ho […]
Isaji Yugo is a visual artist based in Tokyo and creates works with ready-made products. Born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1985, he graduated from Tama Art University in 2008. In 2019, he became the Pola Art Foundation’s fellowship recipient for a research project in Sweden. ‘Our lives are surrounded by flat floors and straight walls. It feels cramped to stay there all the time, so it’s a good idea to go for a walk in the forest or mountains. […]
Chen Yiyun is currently based in Shanghai. She graduated with an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art (London, UK) and obtained a BA in Digital Media Design at Tongji University (Shanghai, China). She also holds a diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Using the language of speculative critical design, her multi-media practice probes the relationship between men and their bodies, and the interrelation between emerging technologies and everyday lives. She […]