The 10th Anniversary of Asia NOW!
The 10th anniversary edition of Asia NOW opens this week at La Monnaie, in Paris. The fair, which features 70 participating galleries, site-specific performances and a specially curated exhibition, is open to the public from October 18-20th.
The 2024 edition of Asia NOW will feature an engaging, performative program of dance, video, music, oral tradition and offerings, in addition to the presentation of 70 galleries featuring solo or duo shows by artists from 28 territories across Asia, from Central Asia to the Asia-Pacific region. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Asia NOW has also invited the Radicants, an international curatorial cooperative founded by Nicolas Bourriaud, to curate a special exhibition.
Founded by Alexandra Fain, Asia NOW is the only fair in Europe dedicated to the presentation of historic and emerging artists from across Asia. Since its launch in 2015, the mission of Asia NOW has been to offer a unique platform for artists and creatives to showcase their work through special installations, dialogues, and performances.
Building on the success of last year, Asia NOW continues to spotlight the NOW ON section dedicated to young galleries showcasing emerging artists including Square Street Gallery (Hong Kong), A.I. (London), Lkham Gallery (Ulaanbaatar), Biscuit Gallery (Tokyo) and IDOLON Gallery (Taipei).
A video section will soon be unveiled, featuring standout works such as Diary of Love by Quynh Dong presented by Yeo Workshop, Polit-Sheer-Form Office by BANK, Saroot Supasuthivech from Nova Contemporary and a program curated by Prameya Foundation, with more to come.
Newcomers include Esther Schipper (Berlin / Paris / Seoul), Sabrina Amrani(Madrid), carlier | gebauer (Berlin / Madrid), Zilberman (Istanbul/ Berlin/ Miami), WINDOW PROJECT (Tbilisi), FOST Gallery (Singapore), Kaikai Kiki Gallery (Tokyo), Nao Masaki (Nagoya), Side 2 (Tokyo), Shrine Empire (Delhi), Lkham Gallery (Ulan Bator), O Art Space (Lahore) Tommaso Calabro (Milano / Venezia) to name a few. Some of the returning participants include Perrotin (Paris /Dubai /New York /Hong Kong/ Seoul /Tokyo / Shanghai), Galleria Continua (San Gimignano /Beijing /Habana /Roma/ Sao Paulo/ Paris/ Dubai), Yeo Workshop (Singapore), The Drawing Room (Manila), NIKA Project Space (Dubai, Paris), Galerie Marguo (Paris), MOU PROJECTS (Hong Kong), Galerie BAQ (Paris).In addition to the presentations by 70 international galleries, including many new galleries as well as long-time participants, Asia NOW invited the Radicants to curate a special exhibition, which explores the concept of ceremony. “From culinary rituals to the communal exuberance of festivals, these moments are charged with meaning, blending the sacred and the profane: celebrations of ancestral wisdom, essential tools for interrogating and redefining established traditions and power dynamics, rituals reinforce social structures but can also transform them. The artists invited by Radicants explore the unifying power of community celebrations – including dances, processions and festivals – as vectors for interpreting shared human experience.”
Asia NOW! has also commissioned two site-specific installations – one by Britto Arts Trust, a Dhaka-based artist-run non-profit, titled Soul Kitchen, which invites visitors into an ecological, social and diasporic space shaped by the Bengali palan and pakghor. The other installation is by Sumayya Vally, an artist and founding architect of Counterspace, whose performative installation is titled “Water in One Hand and Fire in the Other.”
On October 17th, the winner of the 2024 Matsutani Prize will be awarded and the winner’s work will be presented in a special installation during the fair. Since its creation in 2017, the Matsutani Prize of the SHŌEN endowment fund has been awarded annually by artists Kate Van Houten and Takesada Matsutani.The prize aims to support artists in the development of their work, with a grant of €15,000 in 2024.
Asia NOW 2024, is open from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 October 2024,
at Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, 6ème arrondissement
For a full list of events and participating galleries visit:
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