ArtAsiaPacific Issue 145 Explores Temporality, Identity, and Place Through Global Artists

ArtAsiaPacific's 145th issue examines artists engaging with time, identity, and place. A retrospective of On Kawara's Today series, which began in 1966 and continued until his 2014 death, was featured at Hong Kong's Tai Kwun in the exhibition "Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules." Lee Bul will present a major retrospective at Seoul's Leeum Museum of Art, with her work tracing from early performances to architectural fantasies. Lee Kit showed new work at Kassel's Fridericianum, while Meta Enjelita presented textile installation Inner Monologue (2025) at ArtJog in Yogyakarta. Do Ho Suh's Nest/s (2024) appeared at London's Tate Modern. Hamburger Bahnhof co-directors Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath discussed their institutional transformation and upcoming curation of the Taipei Biennial in November. Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, preparing for the Aichi Triennale opening in September and the 2026 Biennale of Sydney, spoke about her curatorial approach through Sharjah Art Foundation. The issue includes a New York dispatch on cultural resilience amid funding cuts, an essay on intellectual property traditions, and a review of the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah. Photographer Greg Girard reflected on Paul Bowles's writings.