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TAASA is proud to share external events supporting, encouraging and enjoying Asian arts, in Australia and around the world.
To keep up to date with the latest TAASA events, please visit our TAASA Events page.
NSW
Elemental and Correspondence
Ongoing
Art Gallery of NSW
In the lower gallery, the exhibition Elemental investigates the natural elements of earth, water and fire, to which some traditions add wood, metal, void, and wind or air. The works on display illuminate our understanding of each of these elemental groupings, and the vital connections between them.
On the ground level, Correspondence highlights the role of contact, contestation and exchange across geographical and cultural boundaries, revealing connections between people and places which at times result in tension and unrest. See pp4 -7 in the December 2022 issue of the TAASA Review.
Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature
Ongoing
Chau Chak Wing Museum, China Gallery
Carved from a diverse range of natural materials to represent figures, plants, animals and everyday objects, these carvings are mostly on loan from the Powerhouse collection, one of the world’s largest collections of Chinese toggles donated to the museum by Hedda and Alastair Morrison.
Lee Ufan
31 August 2024 – September 2024
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Within spaces designed by the artist, this exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery. Lee’s sparing use of simple materials, including stone, steel and canvas, has a quiet force that encourages contemplation and consideration of the physical and intellectual self in relation to the work.
Maedup, Korean Knot
26 July – 27 September 2024
Korean Cultural Centre Australia
The Korean traditional decorative knot holds a timeless allure, blending artistic finesse with symbolic significance. This exhibition celebrates the artistry, skill and cultural significance of knot-making in Korean history, from the dedicated beauty of traditional hanbok accessories to adornments for ceremonial purposes.
Japanese Film Festival - online
5 June – 3 July 2024
Japan Foundation
Will feature 23 films and two TV drama series with subtitles, streamed for free.
ACT
Discovering Ancient Egypt
Until September 2024
National Museum of Australia
The history and culture of ancient Egypt is explored in this exhibition from the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden). Displays ornate sculptures, rare Book of the Dead scrolls and exquisite jewellery, along with 10 coffins, which reveal insights into the everyday life and culture of the ancient Egyptians.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Misty Mountain, Shining Moon: Japanese landscape envisioned
29 July 2023 – 28 July 2024
Art Gallery of South Australia
From the austerity of brush and ink painting to vivid woodblock prints, Misty Mountain, Shining Moon expresses the beauty of the Japanese landscape as represented by some of the world’s most celebrated artists. Presenting works of art made from the 16th century to the present, Misty Mountain, Shining Moon offers an evolving dialogue between artists and nature.
QUEENSLAND
I Can Spin Skies
5 August 2023 – 23 June 2024
QAG
Spans historical and contemporary textiles and art influenced by textile practices from across Asia. The exhibition takes its title from 15th century Persian poet Rumi’s reflection on the humble silkworm’s ability to spin the thread that makes one of the most prized fabrics in the world. Works are shown in dialogue with historical scrolls, photographs, woodblock prints and Buddhist sculpture,
signifying the connections between fabric and life across time and continents.
Birds of Passage: Ian Fairweather and Paul Jacoulet
24 February 2024 – 26 January 2026
Queensland Art Gallery & Galleries 7 & 9 (Philip Bacon Galleries)
The journeys of migratory birds across Asia and the Pacific influenced the work of these two artists, both in its content and ways of making. This display illustrates the influence of travel and cross-cultural experience on their respective works. Fairweather had a deep knowledge of Chinese art, while Jacoulet was committed to the craft of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and these qualities allowed both artists to act as a bridge between cultures.
VICTORIA
Pharaoh
14 June – 6 October 2024
NGV International, Melbourne
The NGV partners with the British Museum to present Pharaoh, an exhibition that celebrates three thousand years of ancient Egyptian art and culture. Through more than 500 works, including monumental sculpture, architecture, temple statuary, exquisite jewellery, papyri, coffins and a rich array of funerary objects, the exhibition unpacks the phenomenon of pharaoh, those all-powerful kings claiming a divine origin.
Victoria’s Goldfields: Chinese Curiosities from Heritage Victoria
24 November 2023 – 10 November 2024
Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo
A collaborative exhibition between Golden Dragon Museum and Heritage Victoria. It presents small vignettes of the Chinese presence across Victoria from the mid-1800s into the 20th century and showcases the significant collection of artefacts held by Heritage Victoria that relate to and show evidence of the Chinese diaspora across the state.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Look, Look. Anna Park
20 April – 8 September 2024
Simon Lee Foundation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Anna Park’s first museum exhibition outside the United States presents a new body of her signature large-scale black and white drawings that feverishly capture the spirit of contemporary life. Concerned with the perpetual visibility and alienated self-awareness prevalent in our times, Park is a major new figure in drawing today.
International
Delightful Luxury: The Art of Chinese Lacquer
From 17 November
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Explores highlights from the museum’s superb collection of Chinese lacquer, including court accessories, scholars’ objects, luxury items and household furniture.
Jegi: Korean Ritual Objects
6 August 2022 – 15 October 2023
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Features the various types of ritual vessels and accessories that were used for performing ancestral rites (jesa) during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) and entombed, as well as the kinds of musical instruments played at state events. In contemporary Korean society, no longer constrained by prescriptive state rules, jegi inspire contemporary artists and influence the form of everyday tableware.
Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia
2 December 2022 – 20 August 2023
National Gallery, Singapore
Explores the changing roles of photography in Southeast Asia—from its beginnings as a tool of European exploration to the ‘performance’ of studio portraits; from the incomplete realities of war to the rise of fine art; and finally to the memes and selfies that saturate social media today.
Japanese Prints 1860 – 1890
25 May 2022 – 24 July 2023
Fondation Baur, Geneva
This exhibition presents, through three distinct topics, an overview of the great diversity of subjects and styles that characterize Japanese prints of the second half of the 19th century.
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Peranakans and Photography: Invention, Reinvention and the Camera’s Role in Cultural Disorder
Peranakans and Photography: Invention, Reinvention and the Camera’s Role in Cultural Disorder
Images of Peranakans from the dawn of photography to the present, expose the long and complex relationship between cameraman, camera and subject. The dynamic negotiations between these three principal elements produced diverse results.
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VILLAGE WEAVING IN CAMBODIA – PAST AND PRESENT
VILLAGE WEAVING IN CAMBODIA – PAST AND PRESENT
Gill will discuss her encounters with recent initiatives in maintaining traditional village silk
weaving practices, particularly of the renowned weft hol (ikat), in Cambodia. The focus will
be on the individuals and NGOs who are at the forefront of this support. Gill will highlight
the continuity of techniques in both dyeing and weaving, despite rapid changes in society
and economic circumstances.
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PAPER, INK, AND EMPATHY: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF EPHEMERA & TAASA AGM
PAPER, INK, AND EMPATHY: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF EPHEMERA & TAASA AGM
Sally Burdon of Asia Bookroom, Canberra, will discuss how seemingly modest artifacts such as pamphlets, personal papers, propaganda handouts and maps often reveal rich narratives and cultural insights. She will be showing select examples of the ephemeral material she handles while speaking on the philosophy that guides Asia Bookroom.
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