Curatorial Team Announced for 2024 Asian Art Biennial

The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, on March 7 revealed the curators of the 2024 Asian Art Biennial. Independent Taiwanese curator and critic Fang Yen-Hsiang was tapped to lead a curatorial team comprising Anne Davidian, of Armenia, who cocurated the Armenian pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale; Filipino curator Merv Espina, who lives and works in Manila; Seoul-based curator Haeju Kim, who is organizing the Singapore pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale; and Asli Seven, who divides her time between Paris and Istanbul.

Though no official theme has yet been announced, according to a press release, the exhibition will “unfold through collective dialogue” to rethink “the territory and definition of Asia,” focusing on the diversity of Asian artistic practices and perspectives. Speaking at a press conference, Fang noted that the curators “hope to develop the Biennial through collective discourse, to reconstruct the understanding of Asian art by breaking through racial, political and geographical boundaries in this international team.”

The Asian Art Biennial was launched in 2007 with the goal of exploring “how a multiplicity of perspectives have come to inform our contemporary reality, and how such reality, characterized by high degrees of equivocality, has in turn enriched the cultural perspectives of Asia.” The 2024 Biennial is slated to take place at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts between November 16 and February 28, 2025.