The 2012 Kuandu Biennale, running till December 16, is featuring solo exhibitions by 10 Asian artists, engaging them in a dialogue under the theme “Artist in Wonderland.”
The artists from different cultural backgrounds are gathered here to showcase contemporary Asian art, as well as highlighting the freedom enjoyed by contemporary Asian art. Such freedom is enabled by contemporary Asian art’s peripheral position as supposed to mainstream Western art, and at the same time enables the strategy of having the peripheral putting the center under siege.
Ever since its debut in 2008, the Kuandu Biennale has maintained the practice of featuring 10 Asian artists from different cultural backgrounds in solo exhibitions in each of its editions.
The Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (KdMoFA) has established a platform for non-Western dialogue by holding the Asian Contemporary Art Forum on September 28, a day before the exhibitions started.
The Kuandu Biennale is meant to serve as a platform where all kinds of art communities and exhibition institutions – artists, curators, critics and artistic spaces – can be engaged in a multi-directional dialogue between Asian cultures. It also hopes to promote cross-disciplinary cooperation inside the contemporary Asian art scene.
The artists and curators at this year exhibitions are from Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, China, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, the Philippines and Japan. The exhibitions are being held at the KdMoFA.