Exhibition / United States
Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden
May 1, 2016 - November 30, 2016
Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden, comprising 1,300 floating steel spheres, each approximately 12 inches in diameter (30 cm) will drift in the newly restored pond at The Glass House. The spheres will move with the wind and follow the pond's natural currents, forming a kinetic scultpure. The Glass House will also install Kusama's recently created enormous steel PUMPKIN (2015). Dots Obsession - Alive, Seeking for Eternal Hope will be a special installation for a limited time, September 1 through 26, where Kusama will create an "infinity room" experience with the Glass House itself covered with polka dots.
Grantee: Kusama Yayoi
Exhibition / France
UNIVERS' SALT
May 17, 2016 - November 30, 2016
Aigues-Mortes is a walled city with a remnant of medieval days in Southern France. It has a long history as a base town for crusade expeditions but today, it is known for its wine and salt production. The artist is going to work on two installations in a castle tower that was built in the 13th century.
Grantee: Yamamoto Motoi
But a Storm Is Blowing From Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa illuminates contemporary artistic practices in the Middle East and North Africa and the region's diaspora. Presenting a selection of newly acquired works for the Guggenheim's permanent collection, this exhibition will feature installations, photographs, sculptures, videos, and works on paper from a broad selection of artists. The exhibition is curated by Sara Raza, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Middle East and North Africa.
Grantees: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Amara Antilla
Hold your breath, dance slowly
May 12, 2016 - October 9, 2016
ACC support allowed Walker Art Center to host the first US solo museum exhibition of artist Lee Kit, which features work from the past five years. Originally from Hong Kong and based in Taiwan, Lee creates poetic object-based installations fashioned from everyday materials and household items such as soap, towels, cardboard boxes, and plastic containers, which he transforms through subtle gestures of painting, drawing, and placement.
Grantee: Walker Art Center
From the Smallest Leaf: Photographs by Koichiro Kurita
April 16, 2016 - September 1, 2016
ACC Grantee Koichiro Kurita directs his photography toward meditative expressions of his connection to nature. Kurita focuses upon his impressions of the natural world, extracting poetic details from the greater landscape and conveying these impressions by way of monochromatic prints, the result of platinum palladium, albumen and salt printing processes on Japanese and other papers.
Grantee: Kurita Koichiro
Exhibition / Japan
Xijing Men: Xijing is Not Xijing, Therefore Xijing is Xijing
April 29, 2016 - August 28, 2016
"Xijing" is a fictitious city-state. In 2007, the three artists, OZAWA Tsuyoshi (born in 1965 and currently residing in Saitama Prefecture), CHEN Shaoxiong (born in 1962 and currently residing in Beijing) and Gimhongsok (born in 1964 and currently residing in Seoul) formed a collaboration team called "Xijing Men" meaning people who come from Xijing. The team started a project which tells the story of a city-state somewhere in Asia that is not Beijing, Tokyo or Seoul where art-loving people reside. The story of Xijing can be interpreted as a story irradiating modern society, not just a story of a fictitious state removed from reality.
Grantee: Ozawa Tsuyoshi
Tadashi Kawamata. Under the water -Metz
This installation by Tadashi Kawamata is a recollection of the catastrophes and tsunami that severely hit Japan in March 2011.
Grantee: Kawamata Tadashi
Exhibition / China
The Shadow Never Lies
April 30, 2016 - July 31, 2016
Grantee: Wu Chi-Tsung
Exhibition / Hong Kong
Pseudo collection - what do artists collect
May 28, 2016 - July 22, 2016
Everyone has a habit of collecting, be it a fetish, a memory or other reasons. Collecting is not merely about storing things up for daily life use, but an act when individuals gather, conserve and categorize objects for a piece of memory or appreciation. Not limited to collectors who buy valuable art works, the common people is able to afford collections to various extents, from fast food restaurants' memorabilia to limited editions toys and sports shoes. These collectibles are not priceless in monetary value but important in another sense. They crystallize the lifestyle and culture of some individuals and specific communities.
With popularization of art fairs and collecting culture in this day and age, shall we have more imaginations and boundary-pushing practices towards "collection"? Possibilities and imaginations to "collection" are demonstrated in this exhibition via the showcase of artists' collections.
Grantees: Leung Chin Fung Jeff, Lam Tung Pang
Exhibition / Qatar
What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China
Internationally acclaimed New York-based Chinese artist and ACC Fellow, Cai Guo-Qiang, curated an exhibition featuring 15 contemporary Chinese artists working across disciplines and multiple media. What About the Art? presents each artist in individual galleries, a curatorial approach exemplifying each artist's unique language and methodology and highlighting the distinctive creative pursuit of each individual participant.
Grantees: Cai Guo-Qiang, Wang Jianwei, Liu Wei, Hu Xiangqian, Jennifer Wen Ma
Very Addictive-Re extension of Aesthetics in Daily Life
Animamix artworks created by artists from China Taiwan, Japan and South Korea will be displayed in the exhibition, which including comics, sculptures, installations and videos.
Hence, animamix goes beyond the limitation of races, religions, nations, gender and age, as contemporary artists starts to use cartoon figures and fictional scenes to express their feeling to the surroundings. Animation aesthetics become a bond between true life and dreamland, reality and imagination. At the same time, it also mention the aesthetics life in next century.
Grantees: Suzuki Hiraku, Kimura Taiyo
Exhibition / Philippines
Badong: Salvador Bernal Designs the Stage
Production designer and ACC Grantee Gino Gonzales co-curates "Badong: Salvador Bernal Designs the Stage" an exhibit about the life and work of his mentor, National Artist for Theater Design, Salvador Bernal.
Grantee: Gino Gonzales
Exhibition / Hungary
Body Imaging is an installation/performance/photography piece which affords a unique
collaborative occasion to make photos of all types of bodies, allowing people to
display as much/little exhibitionism as they wish in a protected, safe environment.
Grantee: Abby Robinson
March 19, 2016 - June 6, 2016
Afterwork is a project aimed at engaging the domestic worker community through collaboratively organized public programs and commissioned artist research. The exhibtion looks at Hong Kong's largest minority group, the migrant domestic worker community, and tells their stories of migration, labor, and displacement.
Grantee: Pang Sin Kwok Beatrix
Exhibition / Australia
Last Society Document
Innovative artist Yao Jui-Chung, also a curator, art critic and art historian, experiments with a broad variety of mediums, including installation, performance, photography, video and painting, creating works that are both aethetically beautiful and conceptually challenging.
Often appropriating imagery from the canon of Chinese art history, Yao's works question and contest Taiwan's complex politcal and historical past.
Grantee: Yao Jui-Chung