2014

Broached Commissions and Asialink Arts present Broached Retreat, the first design show to be commissioned for exhibition at the prestigious Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing.

Curated by Australian based design studio Broached Commissions, Broached Retreat brings together a group of highly acclaimed international designers from Melbourne, Tokyo, Beijing and London.

The UCCA exhibition extends Broached Commissions unique practice of inviting international designers to collaborate on discussions surrounding the history of design, and research into concerns such as colonialism and globalization. Broached Retreat explores Australia's unique position as a mediator between European cultural traditions and a longstanding intellectual engagement with its East and Southeast Asian neighbours.

Broached Retreat takes the studio's first two highly successful collections, Broached Colonial & Broached East, and places them in a new context- a pavilion made from paper and stone.

Creative Director: Lou Weis, Broached Commissions'

Exhibition Design : Chen Lu

Designers: Adam Goodrum, Trent Jansen and Charles Wilson (AU). Azuma Makoto, Keiji Ashizawa (Tokyo), Naihan Li (Beijing), Max Lamb (London) and Susan Dimasi (Melbourne).

Exhibition dates and venue: May 24 - August 29, 2014. Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing

Partner: Broached Commissions`

PUBLICATIONS

Broached Retreat Publication

Room Brochure (CH)

Room Brochure (EN)

KEY IMAGES

Australian artist Daniel Boyd joined 93 artists from 30 countries at the second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India.

Titled Whorled Explorations, the 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale was  curated by artist Jitish Kallat and  ran from 12 December 2014 until 29 March 2015.

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale takes place at multiple venues in the city of Kochi in Southern India. Drawing on the rich traditions of public action in Kerala, the Biennale strives to be a form of intelligent and creative responses to the realities we inhabit.

Curator: Jitish Kallat

Artist: Daniel Boyd

Dates and venue: 12 December 2014 - 29 March 2015, Venue Durbar Hall, Pallimukku, Ernakulam, Kerala, India

Catalogue

Daniel Boyd Catalogue

Key Images

Vertigo, an exhibition curated by Claire Anna Watson, presents works by ten Australian contemporary artists: Boe-lin Bastian, Cate Consandine, Simon Finn, Justine Khamara, Bonnie Lane, Kristin McIver, Kiron Robinson, Kate Shaw, Tania Smith, and Alice Wormald.

The artists interrogate contemporary life, exploring the fracture, chaos and dislocation that arises in the human condition and in a world which is imbued with flux and change. The experience of dizziness and a loss of perspective are explored within a world that is gripped by an acceleration of time and pace.

Presenting sculptural works, collage, drawing and video, the artists disrupt the ordinariness that can pervade life, building new narratives of human experience. By conveying feelings of anxiety and humour, or by using absurd gestures, the artists in Vertigo attempt to make sense of the world around them, with dizzying effects.

Artists: Boe-lin Bastian, Cate Consandine, Simon Finn, Justine Khamara, Bonnie Lane,  Kristin McIver , Kiron Robinson, Tania Smith, Kate Shaw and Alice Wormald

Curator: Claire Anna Watson, BLINDSIDE

Exhibition dates and venues:

• Indonesia: 20 March – 15 April 2014, Galeri Soemardja – Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung
• Taiwan: 9 May – 8 June 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei
• South Korea: 23 July – 27 August 2014, POSCO Art Gallery, Seoul

Asialink Arts presents artist David Haines and curator Jasmin Stephens in the 2014 Kuandu Biennale. Taking place for the third time and with an audience of over 200,000, the 2014 Biennale is titled Recognition System and presented by Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan. Haines and Stephens are joined by nine other artists and curators from Taiwan, South Korea, China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Thailand and Hong Kong.

Curator: Jasmin Stephens

Artist: David Haines

ITINERARY

Biennale dates and venue: 26 September – 14 December 2014, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan.

Catalogue

Kuandu Biennale

2014 Kuandu Biennale Participants:

Taiwan: Kao Chung-Li (curated by Liu Yung-Hao), Taiwan: Chang Yung-Ta (curated by Guo Jau-Lan), Korea: Jang Suk-Joon (curated by Sul Wong-Gi), China: Li Gang (curated by Wang Huang-Sheng), Australia: David Haines (curated by Jasmin Stephens), Japan: Mami Kosemura (curated by Toyomi Hoshina), Indonesia: Sayiful Garibaldi (curated by Grace Sambo), Thailand: Pisitakun Kuantelaeng (curated by Pichaya Aime Suphavanij), India: Valay Shende (curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki), Hong Kong: Kwan Sheung-Chi (curated by Anthony Yung).