ArtAsiaPacific Magazine - ArtAsiaPacific Issue 145, Sep/Oct 2025

In this issue

Art, at its core, is a dialogue with time and its centrality to the human condition. Our 145 issue begins with On Kawara, whose work is a meditation on time itself. For our cover Feature, Louis Lu reflects on the conceptual artist’s recent retrospective at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun.
Our second Feature focuses on another towering figure: ahead of Lee Bul’s major retrospective at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, Jiwon Yu traces her oeuvre, from her early performances confronting gender and power to her later architectural fantasies.
In Up Close, we look at Lee Kit’s solo show at the Fridericianum in Kassel; Meta Enjelita’s Inner Monologue (2025) at ArtJog in Yogyakarta; and Do Ho Suh’s Nest/s (2024) at London’s Tate Modern.
For Inside Burger Collection, Nick Yu sits down with Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, co-directors of Hamburger Bahnhof. In Profiles, Junni Chen talks with Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi about her curatorial approach as she embarks on the Aichi Triennale and the Biennale of Sydney, while Patricia Chen met with Indonesia’s Natasha Sidharta to discuss how the Jakarta-based art patron has quietly supported her country’s trailblazing artists.
Xintian Tina Wang files a Dispatch from New York, examining its cultural ecosystem’s adaptation and resiliency amid the Trump administration’s cuts to arts funding. Ryan Su’s essay explores sociocultural interpretations of intellectual property in Asia, contemplating whether Dafen art village and shanzhai counterculture have led to the democratization of art. As the art market deflates, Won Jae Park argues in The Point for reclaiming art’s soul and restoring its transformative essence.
As you immerse yourself in this issue, we hope you find inspiration in how artists challenge who we are and how we experience the world. Their works remind us that art offers ways of navigating our dynamic realities and of envisioning new ways of living together.