deputy editor & deputy publisher, ArtAsiaPacific
2020
Ho Rui An, Student Bodies : AAP 117, Spotlight
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2020: Editor’s Letter, Festivals, Exhibitions, Books
2019
Liu Chuang, Bitcoin Mining and Field Recordings of Ethnic Minorities : AAP 116, In Depth
Judy Freya Sibayan, “Meta Self Hyper Inter Textual Parody”: AAP 116, feature
Dylan Mira, 밤시각 Night Vision: AAP 115, In Depth
“ACT Festival 2019: FoodHack,” Asian Cultural Center, Gwangju: AAP 115, reivew
Wu Shanzhuan, “Today Became a Holiday,” Long March Space, Beijing: AAP 115, reivew
Aichi Triennale 2019: “Taming Y/Our Passion”: AAP 115, longform review
Haegue Yang, Anthology 2006–2018 : AAP 114, book review
Larissa Sansour, In Vitro : AAP 114, In Depth
58th Venice Biennale, “May You Live in Interesting Times”: AAP 114, longform review
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Specter of Ancestors Becoming : AAP 113, In Depth
Sharjah Biennial 14, “Leaving the Echo Chamber”: AAP 113, longform review
Suki Seoyoung Kang: AAP 112, Where I Work
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Blue: AAP 112, In Depth
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2019: Editor’s Letter, Festivals, Exhibitions, Books
2018
Hayoun Kwon: AAP 111, Young & Emerging
Gwangju Biennale 2018: “Imagined Borders,” AAP 111, longform review
Özgür Kar: AAP 110, Young & Emerging
Zao Wou-ki: “Space is Silence,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: AAP 110, review
Mary Maggic Tsang: AAP 109, Young & Emerging
Emre Hüner: AAP 109, Where I Work
Haegue Yang, “ETA: 1994–2018,” Museum Ludwig: AAP 109, longform review
Waqas Khan: AAP 108, Young & Emerging,
Cevdet Erek: AAP 108, feature
Biennale of Sydney: AAP 108, longform review
SALT Beyoğlu reopens in Istanbul: news
Bangkok Biennale reveals artists list: news
İnci Eviner picked for Turkey Pavilion at 2019 Venice Biennale: news
Jumana Emil Abboud: AAP 107, feature
Karrabing Collective: AAP 107, special feature
Jawad al-Malhi: AAP 107, Where I Work
“Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” at Guggenheim Museum: AAP 107, longform review
Busan Biennale names 2018 directors: news
“Koloni”: Kaos GL exhibition, Istanbul: review
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2018: Editor’s Letter, Festivals, Exhibitions, Books
2017
Geng Jianyi: obituary
Monir Museum opens in Tehran: news
UCCA Beijing finds buyers: news
Chung Seoyoung: AAP 106, feature
Osman Kavala Arrested: news
Sharjah Biennial 13, Beirut: part 1, part 2
Videobrasil, Sao Paulo: review
Yapı Kredi Cultural Center opens in Istanbul: news
14th Istanbul Biennial: blog, part 1, part 2
Sharjah Biennial 13, Ramallah:
Documenta 14 (Athens & Kassel): AAP 105, longform review
Lamia Joreige: AAP 105, feature
Tehching Hsieh: Interview: part 1, part 2
57th Venice Biennale “Viva Arte Viva”: AAP 104, longform review
Kunié Sugiura: AAP 104, feature
Art Basel in Basel, 2017: blog
Ei Arakawa works stolen from Skulptur Projekte Münster: news
Documenta 14, Kassel: blog, day 1, day 2, day 3
Eungie Joo appointed curator at SFMOMA: news
Sharjah Biennial 13, Istanbul: review
57th Venice Biennale, blog: day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4
Rana Hamadeh: AAP 103, new currents
Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj – Act 1: AAP 103 review
Yüksel Arslan, 1933–2017: obituary
Guggenheim Middle East Exhibition Cancelled in Shanghai: news
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 3: review
Sharjah Biennial 13: March Meeting, day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5
Birmingham Museum of Art, “Third Space”: catalogue essay
Director of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Resigns: news
Jerusalem Show VIII “Before and After Origins”: AAP 102, review
Noor Abuarafeh: AAP 102, new currents
Korean Cultural Minister Charged & Artists Sue South Korean President: news
Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916–2017): obituary
Sharjah Biennial 13: Dakar, “Vive L’Independence de l’Eau”: review
United States Travel Ban Roils Art World: news
Pannaphan Yodmanee Wins Benesse Art Prize: news
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2017: Editors Letter, Festivals, Exhibitions, News
2016
Tour of Tehran MoCA Collection Canceled : news
Ahmet Güneştekin’s “Konstantiniyye” Sculpture Removed in Istanbul: news
Nara Gets Sued by Korean Cosmetics Company: news
Contemporary Istanbul Raided by Islamist Group: news
“Connect 1: Still Acts” @ Artsonje, Seoul (Lee Bul, Chung Seoyoung, Sora Kim): review
Gwangju Biennale 11, “The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?): review
Halil Altindere, “Space Refugee” @ NBK Berlin: review
Kim Yong-ik, “Closer . . . Come Closer . . . ” @ Ilmin Museum, Seoul: review
Ilmin Museum Chief Curator To Step Down After Sexual Harrassment Complaint: News
Qalandiya International : Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4
Sharjah Biennial 13 To Expand Far Beyond the UAE: news
Changes Ahead at SALT: news
Çanakkale Biennial Cancels Upcoming 2016 Edition: news
Mediacity Seoul 2016, Neriri Kiruru Harara: review
First Look: Gwangju Biennale 2016: slideshow
MMCA Seoul director Bartomeu Mari: interview
ArtAsiaPacific 100 interviews: Maria Lind, Yun Cheagab and Beck Jee-Sook
Vajiko Chachkhiani to Represent Georgia at 57th Venice Biennale: news
Zai Kuning to Represent Singapore at 2017 Venice Biennale: news
Shinro Ohtake @ STPI, Singapore: catalogue essay
Tsherin Sherpa @ Rossi & Rossi, London: catalogue essay
Tala Madani @ MIT List Center: review
Tehching Hsieh to Represent Taiwan at 2017 Venice Biennale: news
Samson Young to Represent Hong Kong at 2017 Venice Biennale: news
Deep Focus: The Photography of Abbas Kiarostami: interview
Lee Mingwei @ MCA Sydney : catalogue essay
Hale Tenger: “Tragedy & Farce”: feature
“A Separate Piece” based on “Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia” at Harvard Art Museums: essay
“Just Follow the Leaders: Gulf Labor, Jeddah Sculpture, Slavs & Tatars” : book review
Walid Raad @ ICA Boston: review
“But A Storm is Blowing in From Paradise”: review
3 exhibitions in Istanbul: Even magazine, issue 4: review
Art Basel in Basel: slideshow
Istanbul Officials Block Nightly Screening of Artist Işıl Eğrikavuk’s Video: news
Frieze New York: slideshow
“But A Storm is Blowing From Paradise” @ Guggenheim, New York: slideshow
“Bare, Naked, Nude” @ Pera Museum, Istanbul: essay
Jailed Iranian Cartoonist Atena Farghadani Will Be Released in May : news
Cevdet Erek to Represent Turkey at 2017 Venice Biennale : news
Guggenheim Breaks Off Negotiations with Gulf Labor Coalition : news
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige @ MIT List Center : review
Elmgreen & Dragset Announced as Curators of 15th Istanbul Biennial : news
Yana Peel Named CEO of Serpentine Galleries : news
“Not Not an Exit” for Şener Özmen’s “Unfiltered” @ Arter, Istanbul : catalogue essay
20th Biennale of Sydney : slideshow
Nairy Baghramian @ Museo Tamayo: review
Caline Aoun: new currents
Akbank Sanat censors its own exhibition, Istanbul : news
Maliheh Afnan : obituary
Kikuo Saito : obituary
Tenzing Rigdol’s “Our Land, Our People” in “Entry Points: A Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice, no 1”: essay
SALT Beyoğlu Closed for Renovations: news
Esra Ersen: Tarabiya Residency: catalogue essay
“Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933–57” @ ICA Boston, in Frieze no. 176 (Jan/Feb, 2016) : review
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2016: Editors Letter, Turkey, Yemen, Five Plus One, News, Festivals, Exhibitions
2015
Hema Upadhyay: obituary
Palestinian artist-poet Ashraf Fayadh sentenced to death: news
Bartomeu Mari appointed director of Seoul’s MMCA: news
“How Did We Get Here” @ SALT, Istanbul: review
Cengiz Çekil: obituary
ACAW Field Meeting: blog
Museum Season in Beirut: news
“The Long Shadow” — commemorating the centennial of the Armenian Genocide in three Istanbul exhibitions: essay [pdf]
14th Istanbul Biennial: longform review
Dane Mitchell: feature
Art International, Istanbul: art fair report
Christine Tohmé named Sharjah Biennial 13 artistic director: news
14th Istanbul Biennial: preview & photo tour
Shigeko Kubota: obituary
On Kawara “Silence” @ Guggenheim, New York: review
Art Basel 2015: art fair report
Haro Cümbüşyan : profile
56th Venice Biennale : longform review
“Hong Kongese” @ Duddell’s, Hong Kong : review
Parviz Tanavoli @ the Davis Museum, Boston : review
Gulf Labor Members Denied Entry to UAE : news
Venice Biennale 2015: blog (part 1), blog (part 2), blog (part 3)
Nevin Aladağ : feature
Sharjah Biennial 12 : review [pdf]
Sharjah Biennial 12 : slideshow
Semiha Berksöy @ Galerist, Istanbul: review
Apinan Poshyananda, Playing with Slippery Lubricants: book review
VS Gaitonde @ Guggenheim, New York: longform review
Füsun Eczacıbaşı: profile
“The Roaming Eye: Art from Southeast Asia” @ Arter, Istanbul: review
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2015: Turkey, Yemen, Five Plus One, Exhibitions, Festivals
2014
Lawrence Abu Hamdam: new currents
Gu Wenda: profile
Nevin Aladağ @ Art Space Pythagorion, Samos: review
Akram Zaatari, “Sentimental Dedication”: feature
Burçak Bingöl: new currents
Kesang Lamdark, Zürich: where I work
Art Basel Basel: art-fair report
Füsun Onur @ Arter, Istanbul: review
Joao Vasco Paiva @ Fundação Oriente, Macau: review
Hera Buyuktaşçiyan: new currents [pdf]
“Neighbors: Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond” @ Istanbul Modern: review
Extrastruggle @ Galeri Non, Istanbul: review
“Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary Chinese Art”: @ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: longform review
“Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary Chinese Art” @ Met, New York: slideshow
2013 Carnegie International @ Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: review
Ankara: field trip
Istanbul: Frieze city report [pdf] [link]
2013
Hajra Waheed, “Sea Change” @ Experimenta, Kolkata, India: catalogue essay [pdf]
Closing of TANAS, Berlin: news
Hale Tenger: “20/20: 1997: Where the Winds Rest” [pdf]
Art International, Istanbul: art-fair report
Sarkis @ Galeri Mana, Istanbul: review [pdf]
Carlos Marreiros: Macao Pavilion, Venice Biennale: interview [pdf]
FX Harsono, “This is History” : feature [pdf]
Istanbul Biennial 2013, “Mom am I a Barbarian?”: field trip
Vikram Divecha: new currents
Art Basel 2013: art fair report
Art Basel Basel 2013: blog [part 1] [part 2]
Report from Turkey: Frieze [response]
Venice Biennale: field trip [part 1] [part 2] [part 3]
Taipei: field trip
Meriç Algün Ringborg: new currents
Ibraaz Platform 5 : response
Fulya Erdemci: profile
Haegue Yang, “Raw, Unsentimental Dignity’ @ Singapore Tyler Print Institute: catalogue essay [pdf]
Hemali Bhuta: new currents
Emre Hüner @ Rodeo, Istanbul: review
Ashley Bickerton, Bali: where I work
Slavs & Tatars @ Art Space Pythagorion, Samos: review
Füsun Onur & Nilbar Güreş: influential & emerging
Nuri Kuzucan, “Delirious [City Name]” @ Eduoard Malingue, Hong Kong: catalogue essay
Ali Kazma: profile
Abraaj Art Prize 2014 recipients: news
Hassan Khan @ SALT, Istanbul: Portal 9 review
“Envy, Enmity & Embarrassment” @ Arter, Istanbul: review
Lee Bul: where I work
Abstraction (Etel Adnan, Byron Kim, Raafat Ishak, Fahd Burki, Masood Kamandy, Palden Weinreb): feature
Damien Hirst @ White Cube, Hong Kong: review
Haegue Yang @ Strasbourg Museums: review
Istanbul exhibitions: what’s up
Santral Istanbul closes: news
Burhan Doğançay: obituary
Vahap Avşar, “Design & Crime” : catalogue essay
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac: Turkey, Global Exhibitions, Festivals, 5+1,
2012
Erinç Seymen “Mirrored Menagerie” @ Rampa, Istanbul: catalogue essay:
Aslı Çavuşoğlu & Işıl Eğrikavuk: Full Art Prize, Istanbul: news
2012 Gwangju Biennale: review
Gwangju Biennale: field trip
KIAF: art fair
Seoul: field trip
Figuration (Tala Madani, Rokni Haerizadeh, İnci Eviner): feature
Nortse, “Dharma Underground” @ Rossi & Rossi, London: catalog essay
Burak Delier: review
Documenta 13: review
Documenta 13: field trip
Güneş Terkol @ Galeri Non, Istanbul: review
“Dream & Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey” [part 1] [part 2]
Mona Hatoum @ Arter, Istanbul preview [pdf]
Ayşe Erkmen: feature [pdf]
New York: field trip
Istanbul Modern censorship: news
Vahap Avşar: feature [pdf]
Janane al-Ani: feature
Museum of Innocence: review
Özlem Günyol & Mustafa Kunt: new currents
Pratchaya Phinthong: new currents:
“Archipelagoes of Fiction” in Aslı Çavoşoglu, art-ist publications İstanbul & Revolver, Berlin: catalogue essay
Ali Taptık: new currents
Mircea Nicolae: In Focus, in Frieze, no. 150, October, 2012.
Danh Vo: feature
Wassan al-Khudhairi: news
Doha, Qatar: field trip
Istanbul Biennial: “Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial)”: review
Rit Premnath: new currents
Dor Guez: profile
“What Is Jalal Toufic Talking About?”: essay
Hajra Waheed: New currents
Lhasa, Tibet: field trip
ArtAsiaPacific ALMANAC: Turkey, Global Exhibitions, Festivals, 5+1,
2011
Cevdet Erek: where I work
Palestine: No Occupation Without Representation: feature
The Exhibition of Design: blog
Hüseyin Alptekin & Friends: blog
SALT, Istanbul: a new kind of platform: blog
Picasso in Palestine: blog
Slavs and Tatars: feature
Jack Persekian fired from Sharjah Biennial: news
Ahmet Öğüt, “Getting Around”: feature [pdf]
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian @ Third Line, Dubai: catalogue essay
Hassan Khan: “Basically Your Mentality Is the Mentality of Slaves”: RES: Art World magazine: profile [pdf]
ArtAsiaPacific ALMANAC: Turkey, Global Exhibitions, Festivals, 5+1,
2010
Cengiz Çekil @ Rampa, Istanbul: review [pdf]
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, “Fractured & Dissolved into Brilliance” : feature [pdf]
“Aeolian Presence” in Fereydoun Ave: Sacred Elements, @ Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London: catalogue essay
Homai Vyarawalla, Pushpamala N., Dayanita Singh: “Photography in South Asia: The Rest of the Picture”: feature [pdf]
“Enlightenment Might Not Be Possible in This Lifetime: Strive For Your Own Liberation With Laughter and Diligence” in Tradition Transformed: Contemporary Artists from Tibet, Rubin Museum of Art, New York: catalogue essay
Danh Vo & Takashi Murakami: “Interior Decorum”: last word
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, “Agrarian Reincarnations of Cinema” : feature [pdf]
“Abu Dhabi: Disorientation II,” review [pdf]
Wu Guangzhong (1919–2010): obituary
Chosil Kil: where I work [pdf]
Homeworks 2010, Beirut, Lebanon: “An Epidemic of Archive Fever”: essay
Sigalit Landau: “Sugar-Rich Cannibalism” : feature [pdf]
Istanbul Art Scene Expands: news
March Meeting, Sharjah: essay
“Expanding the Process” in Palden Weinreb: This World is Flat @ Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, 2010
ArtTLV 2009, Tel Aviv, Israel: review [pdf]
Artist Evictions from Beijing Art Zones: news
ArtAsiaPacific ALMANAC
2009
Palden Weinreb, “Expanding the Process” @ Rossi & Rossi, London: catalogue essay
Guy Ben-Ner, “Solitary Refinement” : feature [pdf]
Walid Raad, “Those Who Lack Imagination Cannot Imagine What Is Lacking”: feature [pdf]
Raqs Media Collective, “The Talking Cure”: feature [pdf] [pdf]
Haegue Yang, “A Strange Kind of Optimism”: feature [pdf]
Yin Xiuzhen “The Fabric of Society”: feature [pdf]
ArtAsiaPacific ALMANAC
2008
An-My Lê, “Theater of Observation”: feature
“Biennials Gone Wild”: feature
Alia Syed: profile
An-My Lê @ Murray Guy: review
Mona Hatoum: feature
Yoko Ono: feature
Xu Zhen @ James Cohan, New York: review
Huma Bhabha @ Salon 94 : review
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac:
2003
Telluride Film Festival: wake review