Ana Teresa Barboza: Rimac Seguros Collection

Congratulations to Ana Teresa Barboza’s work “Historias del Rímac”, to be collected by Rímac Seguros, the oldest insurance company in Peru. In “Historias del Rímac”, Barboza re-weaves the territories, presenting how water articulates the soils we inhabit. In this work, the artist uses natural yarns and local plants as dyes from the Andes of Cuzco and Lambayeque. Through integrating materials from regions and communities, Barboza interweaves the power between the artist and territories. 

Mr. Lin’s Mobile Museum: Artwork × Health Facility

In the project “Mr. Lin's Mobile Museum: Artwork × Health Facility,” through our assistant, artworks are donated to hospitals in Taiwan by our collector. Recently, we have finally completed the third donation of this project. Jui Chien Hsu’s work “Ten Folds×2” has been donated to Changhua Christian Hospital. Now sitting in Changhua Christian Hospital, “Ten Folds×2” gives off an atmosphere of healing, bringing warmth to the people suffering from illness.

Hsu Che-Yu: Hong Kong M+ Museum Collection

Focusing on the world’s foremost collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture, M+ Museum will be opened this November. M+ has been collecting works from artists, designers, and architects since 2012. Though rooted in Asia, its collection examines from a global perspective and aims to discover and record diverse contemporary cultures and techniques. Recently, M+ has included Taiwanese artist Hsu Che-Yu's “Microphone Test: A Letter to Huang Guo-Jun” into its collection. Inspired by writer Huang Guo-Jun’s work Microphone Test, awards-winning artist Hsu Che-Yu uses fiction in place of reality to discuss death and collective memories in this work. 

Kao Ya-Ting Features at Chiayi Art Museum

Chiayi Art Museum’s current exhibition “A Rhythm of Tree Forming the Forest” is curated by Tsai, Ming-Chun, and Chen, Hsiang-Wen, aims to look back at the history and discuss the relationship between forests and cities. Chen, Hsiang-Wen said, “We can see how artists see the forest industry, for example, through their thought of how a log becomes a timber or issues regarding deforestation in Taiwan.” Featured in this exhibition, Kao Ya-Ting had used the renowned sea of clouds in Alishan as the theme and utilized various image materials for “Sea of Clouds in Alishan.” Through the process of repainting oil on canvas and collaging the image of the sea of clouds, Kao used her restrained contours and colors to create the sea of clouds in her eyes and the cultural context contained in the forest.

Environmental sustainability project of artists-"Weaving The Ocean" by Ari Bayuaji

This 6-minute short clip elaborates how artivism brings the community together.

Living and creating in Montreal, Canada, Indonesian artist Ari Bayuaji accidentally discovered a large number of plastic ropes tangled in the roots of mangroves near the coast in Sanur, Bali. Thus, he developed “Weaving the Ocean” project, weaving plastic rubbish into art with local residents in Bali.

Besides putting environmental sustainability into practice, Ari employed local residents as his assistants, to help the people in Bali who are severely impacted by the pandemic. The works created in the project “Weaving the Ocean,” the colors are the original colors of the plastic threads. Regardless of the limited color choice, Ari composed settle and gentle color tone in these abstract works.

Through the "Weaving the Ocean” project, step by step, Ari leads the people in Bali to use the substantial power of art to change this town. “I have been sending messages to fellow Balinese about what we can do when business from tourism is no longer available. The answer is to be found in nature,” said Ari Bayuaji.

Congrats to Jui-Chien Hsu for exhibiting at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Taiwan

 Photo credit ： Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art 

 Photo credit 圖片來源： Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art  毓繡美術館

 Photo credit 圖片來源： Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art  毓繡美術館

 Photo credit 圖片來源： Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art  毓繡美術館

Taiwanese artist Jui-Chien Hsu’s works are currently presented at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art group exhibition “The Poetic Realm,” which “poetic” indicates the way of perceiving the world, and the process of dealing with things by its flexibility. In Jui-Chien Hsu’s featured works, the artist transforms and conducts approachable materials, in search of the focus and release of the energy generated by these materials and body movements, inquiring about the relationship of the substance and action.

Hsu Che-Yu Will Participate In the 34th Bienal de São Paulo

34th Bienal de São Paulo

Taiwanese artist Hsu Che-Yu’s prize winning work “Single Copy” is going to be on view in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo “Faz Escuro mas eu canto” (“Though it’s dark, still I sing”).

The 2021 Bienal de São Paulo is titled “Though it’s dark, still I sing,” a reference to a 1965 poem by Thiago de Mello, and was conceived prior to the onset of the pandemic, aiming to inquire what art can do in this challenging time.

In Hsu Che-Yu’s work “Single copy,” the artist interprets the conjoined twins separation surgery experienced by two Taiwanese brothers Chang Chung-jen and Chang Chung-i, intertwining the individual memories and the collective memories of the political relationship of Taiwan and China at that time. This work will be shown along with works by other 90 artists, reflecting what forms of art and ways of being in the world are possible and necessary now.

Kees Goudzwaard at Club Solo

In this clip, Kees Goudzwaard’s works presented at Club Solo and his creating process are revealed.

“The power of Goudzwaard's work lies not in what he paints, but precisely in what he leaves out. It is about what takes place between the lines, in the white of the page.” Art historian Linda Köke mentioned this in her review “Poetic Emptiness.” Goudzwaard collages simple, unsightly fragments to compose. By replacing papers with oil paints, Goudzwaard captures the temporariness lying between the blank in his paints.

Credits: Joep de Boer, i.s.m. Raquel Vermunt (productie) en Richard Guenne (sound)

Petah Coyne at "Womanology. José Ramón Prieto Collection", The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Petah Coyne “Untitled #959 (1999-2000)” in Spain at The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum'

See Petah Coyne's Untitled #959 (1999-2000) in Spain at The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum's new exhibition Womanology which highlights works from the private collection of José Ramón Prieto.

In this exhibition, the curators have chosen works by women artists— of which there are many in Prieto's collection. Womanology showcases 43 works from 35 different artists working in a variety of media and touches upon various art historical movements and various female perspectives. Untitled #959 is a pristine white plaster sculpture, with plaster being a media Coyne worked most heavily with in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Congrats to Ana Teresa Barboza for joining Biennial de Arte Paiz Guatemala!

Ana Teresa Barboza at Biennial de Arte Paiz Guatemala

Ana Teresa Barboza at Biennial de Arte Paiz Guatemala

Ana Teresa Barboza at Biennial de Arte Paiz Guatemala

Our current exhibiting artist Ana Teresa Barboza is on the go! Right now, She is preparing for the opening of the 22nd Biennial de Arte Paiz, which will take place in Guatemala City and Antigua Guatemala.

Titled “Lost. In Between. Together”, the biennial invites artists and visitors to reflect on the environmental sustainability that affects the Global South. Through the works, the artists take a close look at their root and present, discovering the connection between art and environment. Creating with multiple materials, Ana Teresa Barboza will present her latest textile work, which contains the knowledge of nature and local culture, to discuss sustainability on earth.

Ana Teresa Barboza Will Participate Biennale of Sydney 2022

Ana Teresa Barboza "Ecosistema del Agua" (2019)

Ana Teresa Barboza "Ecosistema del Agua" (2019)

Ana Teresa Barboza "Ecosistema del Agua" (2019)

In addition to cross-media textile works, Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza is also skilled at making large-scale installations with natural elements that advocate environmental themes. Ana’s work "Ecosistema del Agua" (2019) had won her the MAC Lima National Award for Art and Innovation (Premio Nacional MAC Lima Arte e Innovación 2019) and the invitation of 2022 Biennale of Sydney.

Petah Coyne’s “Untitled #1243 (The Secret Life of Words)” currently on view at Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Photo Courtesy of Amorepacific Museum of Art, 2021, Photo credit: K2 Studio, 2021

Petah Coyne’s “Untitled #1243 (The Secret Life of Words)” is currently on view in "APMA, CHAPTER THREE", Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

APMA-- a museum run by Korea’s cosmetics giant Amorepacific Group -- has unveiled its collection of contemporary and antique art through three exhibitions since its opening in 2018. While "APMA, CHAPTER ONE and THREE" focus on contemporary, “CHAPTER TWO” showcases artworks spanning from paintings, folding screens, ceramics, ornaments to clothing from the prehistoric era to the modern times.

Petah’s “Untitled #1243 (The Secret Life of Words)”(2007) takes its name from the award-winning 2005 movie about a war-ravaged, deaf female Bosnian refugee and a blind man. Directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet, the film alludes to the lost cause, thwarted lives, and the healing between souls. The “Untitled #1243", with a sagging net catching the frosty, divine, drooping blossoms, seems to capture the similar vulnerability and allow one to pay tributes to those dear friendships and support that ever happened in one’s life.

New York artist Rona Pondick's sculptures “Head in Tree“ at Nasher Sculpture Center, USA.

〈Head in Tree｜樹上的頭〉

Rona Pondick｜羅娜．龐迪克, 2006-2008, Stainless Steel｜不鏽鋼, 105 x 42 x 37 inches,

〈Head in Tree｜樹上的頭〉

Rona Pondick｜羅娜．龐迪克, 2006-2008, Stainless Steel｜不鏽鋼, 105 x 42 x 37 inches,

〈Head in Tree｜樹上的頭〉

Rona Pondick｜羅娜．龐迪克, 2006-2008, Stainless Steel｜不鏽鋼, 105 x 42 x 37 inches,

"If you can't defeat the nature, why not join them?"— Rona Pondick

New York artist Rona Pondick's sculptures “Head in Tree” is now exhibiting in the "Nasher Mixtape" group show, in Nasher Sculpture Center, USA.

In late 90s', Rona started to make mold from her own head and combine it with stylized animal and tree bodies that she hand modeled. These hybrid animal/human forms go back to Neolithic times and appear through every period in art history and all kinds of myths.

"Head in Tree" was the first tree/human piece where Rona's head was life-size. The master of materials talked to, Catherine Craft the Nasher Sculpture Center Curator, about this work and said: "In my tree human pieces, the matte and rough surfaces of the bark make a contrast with my smooth, shiny head. Playing on the concept of narcissism, the mirrored surfaces draw viewers into looking at themselves. I like the way these contrasting, contradictory surfaces come together and make metaphoric meanings."

Kaspar Bonnén’s SMK Group Exhibition

Image credit: Statens Museum for Kunst, SMK,

Statens Museum for Kunst, SMK, has launched outdoor exhibition “Berørt | Touched” from March 11th. SMK, Red Cross, Coop Denmark, and Hjaltelin Stahl─part of Accenture Interactive, invite three Danish artists, including Kaspar Bonnén, to create 3 outdoor installations, reminding us this difficult year we’ve all been through. 

“I THOUGHT WE SHOULD BUILD SOMETHING UP TOGETHER, BUT I KEPT ON DIGGING.” By building  this sentence

out of bricks outside the museum to deliberate the unsettled society during pandemic, and the reflection of humans to our environment.    

“It is in this context as a complex statement about how you act in an intimate social context, but also in a broader sense how we as humans try to build up things, that also tends to collapse...” ——Kaspar Bonnén

Icelandic artist Thordis Adalsteinsdottir is featured at Reykjavík Art Museum’s group show “Raw Power”

“Raw Power” presents Icelandic pop art master Erró and 15 selected Icelandic contemporary artists’ works, Thordis Adalsteinsdottir also participated to pay tribute to Erró and unveil Erró influence on Icelandic art. Both Erró and Thordis were extensively recognized in foreign countries; the master had lived in France and Spain, and Thordis has established her artistic career in New York. Thordis mentioned there’s a lot of New York in her painting. Yet, people in Chelsea talked about how there's Icelandic elements in the works .

Where and how Erró’s and Thordis Adalsteinsdottir’s works intersect? Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson, the curator of “Raw Power”, mentioned Erró’s works alongside his fellow artists in the exhibition, their practice, attitudes, and solid presence are just as Jeanettte Winterson’s words about poetry – a finding place, not a hiding place, and truly and duly have the raw power required.

Peter Zimmermann’s Rhapsody on A Theme of Organism

Who doesn't want to work in such an office?! Peter Zimmermann built a full installation for the newly completed building at HZI Campus Braunschweig, Germany, a public research institution that belongs to the largest non-university scientific organization in Germany: Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. Emitting light and glowing, colored three-dimensional structures of different sizes cluster together, float away and meander above the wall of the HZI as if they have settled here and are constantly multiplying. biological. These mysterious objects call to mind micro creatures that may refer to the observation of bacteria and viruses that the research center specializes in and demand viewers' consideration in the most inspiring way.

Toru Kuwakubo Solo at Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa

Toru Kuwakubo solo at Chigasaki City Museum of Art.

Toru Kuwakubo's Solo Exhibition is currently taking place at Chigasaki City Museum of Art. As he carefully depicts the famous artworks in art history and ruminates over the art masters’ thoughts and emotions, we see, in the reconstruction of space-time, a superimposition of the west and the east and reflection of art market, self-identity and art positioning. We are very excited to see Toru Kuwakubo's new works, where he once again interleaved art history and time with his contemplation.

Hsu Che-Yu Receives Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award

Image：Fundació Joan Miró website

Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award is established by the Han Nefkens Foundation in collaboration with Loop Barcelona and the Fundació Joan Miró in 2018. The award is devoted to support Asia artists’ production in the video art field.

After receiving $15.000USD funding from Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award for producing new work, which will be showing at public institution such as Fundació Joan Miró, Loop Barcelona, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, MOCA Taipei, ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur for the next two years.

Hsu Che-Yu states: “I’m honoured to be awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award this year. Most of my works explore the relationship between individual and collective memories from Taiwan. I'm happy these efforts find positive reactions outside my hometown and looking forward to collaborating with Han Nefkens Foundation in the coming year.”

Kees Gouzwaard Solo Exhibition by Club Solo

Kees Gouzwaard solo exhibtion held by Club Solo. Club Solo

Renowned Dutch artist initiative: Club Solo has puts the artist's work at the centre by organizing solo shows and cooperated with well-known Dutch and Belgian museums and curators, for example those of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and the museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. They regularly exhibit solo in the historical art space in Breda, southern Netherlands. Since 2014, 27 wonderful exhibitions have been held; the current 28th solo (from November 19, 2020 to January 10, 2021) is exhibiting Kees Gouzwaard.

Newly created works are shown in conjunction with works from the past fifteen years: an organically growing quest for ways of dealing with reality. "Colored fragments are tones. Linear and circular movement are relevant. The relation between grid and improvisation too." The artist once said.

Rona Pondick’s Work Exhibit at Kunstmuseum, Germany

Rona Pondick, Little Bathers, 1990-91, Pigmented and painted resin, Unique, Overall Dimensions 3 x 63 x 202 in, 500 elements, 2 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 4 in (6.35 x 12.06 x 10.16 cm)

Rona Pondick, Little Bathers, 1990-91, Pigmented and painted resin, Unique, Overall Dimensions 3 x 63 x 202 in, 500 elements, 2 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 4 in (6.35 x 12.06 x 10.16 cm)

Rona Pondick, detail from Dirt Head, 1997, Earth, wax, and thermoplastic, Unique, 400 elements, each approximately, 3 x 3 x 3 1/2 in (7.62 x 7.62 x 8.89 cm),  with 10 tons of earth

Rona Pondick, Dirt Head, 1997, Earth, wax, and thermoplastic, Unique, 400 elements, each approximately, 3 x 3 x 3 1/2 in (7.62 x 7.62 x 8.89 cm),  with 10 tons of earth

New York artist Rona Pondick is now exhibiting her “Little Bathers” in exhibition “In Aller Munde (On Everyone’s Lips)” at Kunstmuseum. Moreover, this Rona’s signature piece from 1990s is invited to show on collaterals and outdoor ads as exhibition key visual. With the symbolic and metaphoric reading of teeth, “Little Bathers” lead us to examine and explore various dissents in response to agendas in our days.

Founded in 1994, Kunstmuseum has prominent collection of contemporary arts and often hosts exhibitions that reflect the environment in which it exists.

Information：
▎In Aller Munde (On Everyone’s Lips)
Duration: October 31, 2020 - April 5, 2021