The Guangdong-based GAFA Art Museum commits itself to the cultural and art research spanning from the Pearl River Delta and Southern China to Southeast Asia and beyond, with the Trans - SEAsia Triennial series as a research platform.
Throughout the duration of the Triennial, a series of exhibitions, workshops and other public events will be staged across multiple online and offline sites, as a result of long-term research and site-specific collaborations facilitated by the Triennial.
At a later stage of the Triennial, all work will be revisited and reconstructed in the museum site to form new ways of conversations and dissemination, through a gathering exhibition.
Since the 2000s, more and more artists inSoutheast Asia are engaged in research processes inspired by the socialsciences, working as historians, archivists, archaeologists or sociologists,yet applying freely the methodologies of work of these disciplines. The outcomeof the artis... More...
Engine – 20KM, variable matrix of 20 photographsView of the exhibition at The Guild, Mumbai, India 2025.All images courtesy of the artist and the Guild Art GalleryElse All Will Be Still is an ensemble of works, mainly photographs and videos, derived from Ravi Agarwal’s long-term fieldwork among fishermen in a small coastal village of Tamil Nadu, India.[1] The series offers a multitude of perspectives ... More...
246247596248914102516 … And then there were none (2017), installation view of the sculpture. All images courtesy of the artist Arin Rungjang’s 246247596248914102516 … And then there were none (2017) was created for Documenta14. It consists of two different and independent parts, one which was exhibited in Kassel, Germany and one which was exhibited in Athens in Greece. This article focuses on the ... More...
Installation view at the Sharjah Biennial, 2019.All images courtesy of the artist The Specter of Ancestors Becoming (2019) by Vietnamese artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen is a 4-channel video installation created for the Sharjah Biennial 14.[1] It deals with the Vietnamese community living in Dakar, Senegal, and in particular with the descendants of the Senegalese soldiers who took part in the Indochina War ... More...
Still image from One or Several Tigers (2017). (tiger sun)All images courtesy of the artist One or Several Tiger (2017) is Ho Tzu Nyen’s last piece of a series of artworks dealing with tigers in Southeast Asia. His research began in 2012 and led to the creation of four different artworks revolving around this real yet mythical animal figure: Like The song of the Brokenhearted Tiger (2012), a heavy ... More...
Image: Kris Project I: The Never Ending Tale of Maria, Tin Mine, Spices and the Harimau Installation view installation view, Fotoaura Institute of Photography in Tainan, Taiwan (2017).All images courtesy of the artist. Kris Project I: The Never Ending Tale of Maria, Tin Mine, Spices and the Harimau is a video installation by Malaysian artist Au Sow Yee. The 15-minute film tells the story of Maria,... More...
Rodel Tapaya working in his studio. Courtesy of the artist The Folk Narrative is a series of neo-traditional paintings by Filipino artist Tapaya Rodel. It started in 2007 with the artist’s desire to explore and research local, traditional, folktales and to give them life through an artistic transformation. Drawing from a particular fable, mythological figures, belief or historical event, the artist ... More...
Spirit of Friendship 1975-2021 Vietnamese artist collectives Historical TimelineCriteria For Artist Group Inclusion Artists who share time and space in the mutual thinking of artistic ideas, and known by their community as a group who work, play and think togetherFriendship between artists, as a means of initiating artistic activity under one identity, but also sustaining the group’... More...
Varsha Nair 《Standing here》 Ananya PatelRashmimala《Making a salad》 Urna SinhaAnuradha Upadhyaya《HOW SOLITARY IS THE MOON》 Amruta Patel.《The Frustrations of a Feminist Statistician who believes in Unicorns》 Mrudula Kunatharaju 《Daughter to her mother》 Nizora 《The Spring》 ... More...
HISTORICAL TIMELINE* This historical timeline was last updated in January 2021 1975The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is proclaimed. Saigon is re-named Ho Chi Minh City. Thousands flee by sea from the South, many of whom subsequently returned in the 1990s and continue to do so. The ‘southern section’ of the Vietnam Fine Art Association is formed, presided over by Sout... More...
WomanifestoBaroda gatheringVarsha Nair, Ananya Patel, Rashmimala, Urna Sinha, Anuradha Upadhyaya, Ku- natharaju Mrudula and Amruta Patel. Urna Sinha Varsha Nair 《Standing here》Rashmimala 《Making a salad》 Amruta Patel《The Frustrations of a Feminist Statistic... More...
Host: Guangzhou Academy of Fine ArtsOrganizers: Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts / Research Center for New Art Museum Studies, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Collaboration with: Womanifesto, The Factory Contemporary Arts Center Special Thanks: Asia Art Archive Duration of project: One yearStage I: March 8 to May 10, 2021 ( Exhibition preview: March 8 to 25, 2021... More...
REPETITION AS A GESTURE TOWARDS DEEP LISTEINGThe first Trans—Southeast Asia Triennial research exhibition series #IHost: Guangzhou Academy of Fine ArtsOrganizers: Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts / Research Center for New Art Museum Studies, Guangzhou Academy of Fine ArtsCollaboration with: Womanifesto, The Factory Contemporary Arts CenterSpecial Thanks: Asia Art Archiv... More...
Conceivedby:BiljanaCiricCollaborators:WomanifestoandTheFactoryContemporaryArtCentreDurationofproject:OneyearStageOne:March8thtoMay10th2021Exhibitionpreview:8Marchto25March2021Exhibitionofficialopening:25March2021StageTwo:Endof2021(Final dateTBD)Host:GuangzhouAcademyofFineArtsOrganizers:ArtMuseumofGuangzhouAcademyofFineArts ResearchCenterforNewArtMuseumStudies,Guangzh... More...
Friction Current, 2019. installation view at the Asian Art Biennial, Taichung. Friction Current: Magic Mountain Project is a multi-media research-based installation by Thai artists duo Jiandyin created for the 2019 Asian Art Biennial. Inspired by the Biennial’s theme of Zomia, and by the mountainous zones overarching various states of Southeast Asia, the work delves into the illegal jade and drugs ... More...
Robert Zhao Renhui: When Worlds Collide (2017-2018) and the Institute of Critical Zoologists Robert Zhao Renhui, Rock Pigeon (Columba livia), diasec inwooden frame 42x29.7cm, 2018All images courtesy of the artist and ShanghART Gallery. When Worlds Collide (2017-2018) is amultimedia installation created by Singaporean artist Robert Zhao Renhui(b.1983) for the 2018 Taipei Biennial.[1] The work, which ... More...
Timoteus Anggawan Kusno: the Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies (2013 - ) and the Rampog Macan Javanese rituals The Untold Stories ofArchipelago,2017 View of the exhibition Power and Other Things: Indonesia & Art (1835-now) curated by Charles Esche and Riksa Afiaty. Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Bozar), Belgium.2017.Courtesy of Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies and the artist. In 2013, Indonesianartist ... More...
Khvay Samnang, Preah Kunlong (2017) Digital C-Print, 80 x 120 cm. Courtesy of the artist.For Preah Kunlong,Cambodian artist Khvay Samnang (b.1982) spent months in the Areng Valley in the southwest part of Cambodia, trying to understand the possible impact of the construction of a hydropower dam in the region. From there, the artist found inspiration from his encounter with the local inhab... More...
The artists at work, modifying and painting over archival photograph from the colonial era. Courtesy of the artist “The Name” (2008 - ) by Burmese artists couple Wah Nu and Tun Win Aung is probably the first research-based artwork from Myanmar. Based on modified archival photographs, this sound and image installation features 33 portraits of important Burmese figures who lived between the first ... More...
