Asia Contemporary Art Forum & Asia Contemporary Art Week - ACAF & ACAW

09/17/2025

Our extraordinary “Thinking Pilgrimage” moving forum with 18 artists, curators, healers and creatives across Uzbekistan’s sacred, historical, and artistic sites as the 7th edition of FIELD MEETING has officially concluded with the last of us departing for our home cities today. Stay tuned for special posts, stories & reels chronicling the experiences, exchanges, activations and performances from this indescribable program and community in the coming months.

09/08/2025

FIELD MEETING Thinking Pilgrimage has arrived to Samarkand humbled and in awe!

08/28/2025

After months of planning, I am delighted to announce this beautiful program in Uzbekistan!

Asia Contemporary Art Forum presents FIELD MEETING: Thinking Pilgrimage.

03/03/2025

What’s On: Collecting Without a Center – Afghan Visual Arts & History (AVAH)

How can the vast and dispersed Afghan artistic diaspora be connected into a meaningful canon without a single geographic, national, or institutional center?

Join us for an evening of dialogue, film, and community with AVAH – Afghan Visual Arts & History members Parwana Haydar, Barry Sadid, and Moshtari Hilal, a collective of artists and cultural practitioners dedicated to cataloging and understanding Afghan visual culture and history. Moderated by Leeza Ahmady, director and curator of Asia Contemporary Art Forum and Week, they will explore the nuances of art-making, curation, and collecting—“not as a means of preserving a singular nation-state narrative, but as a way to embrace the pluralities of our stories.”

Sunday, March 9th, 2025 | 4:00 – 8:00 PM
Join us for a promising evening with conversation, films, food—and even a curious ghost!
Harlem, New York City. Space is limited, please DM us for RSVP and address.
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Moshtari Hilal, “Untitled (Collage),” 2022

01/31/2023

We celebrate ACAW Field Meeting 2014 and 2019 presenter, artist Burcak Bingol, on recently exhibiting her new collection of ceramics at Tate St Ives, UK.
‘Minor Vibrations on Earth’ showcases the outcome of her 2022 residency in St Ives; in this exhibition we see the combination of traditional ceramic making, influenced by her Turkish background, combined with a more modern approach to style and form.

‘Bingöl’s work embraces the mistakes and accidents that occur during the process of making. The action of rebuilding from these accidents becomes a metaphor for the continued disintegration and reconstruction of cultural traditions and heritage. Evoking this feeling of transformation, her installation at Tate St Ives resembles a kiln during the firing process, full of fragile clay objects which appear broken, melting or incomplete.’ Tate St Ives Press Release Burçak Bingöl: Minor Vibrations on Earth, October 2022.

The exhibition is curated by Anne Barlow, Director of Tate St Ives, with Giles Jackson, Assistant Curator.
Burçak Bingöl, ‘Minor Vibrations on Earth’ installation shot, Tate St Ives, 2022
Burçak Bingöl, ‘Minor Vibrations on Earth’ installation shot, Tate St Ives, 2022
Burçak Bingöl in her studio at Tate St Ives, 2022

01/25/2023

We wish everyone a happy new year of the Rabbit with an image by artist Xiao Kegang who is presenting his first solo exhibition “Detour” at Eli Klein Gallery in New York.

“Xiao Kegang’s practice has centered around the observation of the world from different perspectives and principles, or “cognitive alternatives.” A half-face of an owl could resemble an ionic column. A left foot could invoke a right-leaning shrub. These paintings are visually harmonic, but cognitively puzzling. Xiao Kegang expects viewers to tour through his canvas, identifying their own objects of interest.” Eli Klein Gallery Press-Release. 2023
Xiao Kegang, ‘Water in Creek,’ 2022.

#2023

10/06/2022

Works of Aki Sasamoto, ACAW Field Meeting Presenter, are presented at Okayama Art Summit 2022 as a part of a group exhibition available through November 27, 2022. Make sure to check them out: https://www.okayamaartsummit.jp/2022/en/artist/?artist=18

09/28/2022

Reena Kallat, ACAW Field Meeting Presenter, will be participating in a number of group exhibitions in the upcoming year. Please find the schedule below:

Leaking Lines
Firstsite, UK
15th October 2022 – April 2023

Tomorrow’s Tigers
Sotheby’s, UK
22nd – 29th November 2022

Sydney Modern Project
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
3rd December 2022

Thinking Historically in the Present
Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
7th February – 11th June 2023

https://reenakallat.com

09/22/2022

The 17th Istanbul Biennial sees more than 500 contributors tackle the economic, political, social and ecological issues consuming our planet, from artistic censorship to urbanisation, fractured political systems to shrinking civic spaces

09/21/2022

A traveling exhibition “Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From”, featuring the work of Jeanno Gaussi, ACAW Field Meeting Presenter, will be on display at Orlando Museum of Art November 2022 - March 2023.

The project was developed in collaboration between Fondazione Imago Mundi and Aga Khan Museum in Toronto and showcases artworks that explore artist’s personal stories of immigration carried through generations.

https://fondazioneimagomundi.org/en/progetti/exhibition/dont-ask-me-where-im-from-2/