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Shows to See in Korea, September 2026
With Gwangju, Busan, and Jeju hosting overlapping biennials this year, and Frieze and Kiaf returning in tandem in Seoul, here is a guide for must-see exhibitions across Korea in September. Louis Lu
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Art Fair Report: A Fraying Monopoly
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Ho Tzu Nyen: After Commemoration
For the artist-curator, to change one’s life is not to sever ourselves from the past, but to let it flow onward in other forms. Louis Lu
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Up Close: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
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Gwangju Biennale Agrees to Restore “Taiwan Pavilion” After Dispute
Taiwan’s exhibition at the 16th Gwangju Biennale will proceed as the “Taiwan Pavilion.” Louis Lu
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“A Score for a Human Life”: Wallace Chan at Shanghai’s Long Museum
Wallace Chan’s “Vessels of Other Worlds” in Shanghai expands his Venice presentation to monumental scale, meditating on transformation, permanence, and the passage of time. Louis Lu
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A Discipline of Feeling: On “Youth Palace” at the Rockbund Art Museum
The sprawling group show confronts a socialist legacy and turns it on the institution itself, exposing its machinery while imagining the museum otherwise. Louis Lu
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Ding Yi: Against the Image
On the evolution of the Shanghainese artist’s cross-hatched rhythms of urban and cosmic transformation. Louis Lu
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Up Close: Lotus L. Kang
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Seoul: “Spectrosynthesis Seoul”
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Dozens of Pavilions Close During Strike at 61st Venice Biennale
Approximately 27 of the exhibition’s 100 national pavilions closed fully or partially in solidarity with protesters demanding Israel’s exclusion from the event. LOUIS LU
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The Permanence of Refusal: Interview with Ding Yi
Ahead of Ding Yi’s first solo exhibition in Venice, ArtAsiaPacific sat down with the artist to discuss anti-monuments, cosmotechnics, and ancient spatiotemporal frameworks. LOUIS LU
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丁乙：拒絕的持續性
ArtAsiaPacific對談藝術家丁乙：石碑、宇宙技藝，以及古代時空觀。 Louis Lu
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Li Yi-Fan: Error and Effigy
Over the past decade, the Taipei- and Amsterdam-based artist has rendered the experience of the image-world from inside its machinery. Louis Lu