ArtAsiaPacific - ArtAsiaPacific Issue 148, May/Jun 2026

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ArtAsiaPacific’s Issue 148 launches just ahead of the 61st Venice Biennale, opening in May under the curatorial vision of the late Koyo Kouoh. Titled “In Minor Keys,” Kouoh’s central exhibition calls for listening to quieter frequencies: the relational, the improvisational, the abiding.
The issue opens with a cover Feature on Gala Porras-Kim, a recipient of the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship whose contribution to the Applied Arts Pavilion, developed with London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, unravels the extractive logic of the archive. Her drawings, sculptures, and subtle interventions remind us that care and conservation are not neutral but historically bound to the classification and containment of material cultures—often of marginalized communities.
The second Feature highlights Khaled Sabsabi, who represents Australia in the Giardini and appears in Kouoh’s main exhibition—a double presence achieved after a turbulent selection process.
In Profiles, we spotlight Gayane Umerova, a key architect of Uzbekistan’s cultural renaissance and commissioner of the country’s national pavilion since its 2022 debut, and artist Li Yi-Fan, whose darkly humorous animations probing 21st-century anxieties are featured in the Taiwan Pavilion.
For Where I Work, Ho Won Kim visited Hyeree Ro in her Brooklyn studio as she put the final touches on her sculptures for the Korea Pavilion. In Essays, art historian Reiko Tomii turns to Ei Arakawa-Nash, who, as a queer parent, reflects on artistic lineage and collectivity.
The Up Close section looks at recent projects by Liang Yuanwei, Yuko Mohri, and Mona Hatoum, while Inside Burger Collection foregrounds the decades-long career of the graphic designer and painter Tadanori Yokoo.
Elsewhere in the issue, curator Huang Jiehua files a Dispatch from Beijing, Natasha Tontey discusses her admiration for filmmaker Riar Rizaldi in One on One, while for The Point, ruangrupa’s Ade Darmawan contemplates survival in fractured times.