ASEF Culture360 | Connecting Asia and Europe through arts and culture


By David Fernández

16 Jul 2024

Discovering sā: Asia's Highest Contemporary Land Art Exhibition

In the Pink. Doyel Joshi and Neil Goshe Balser © sā Ladakh

This month, David Fernandez travels to the city of Leh, in Ladakh (India) for sā, an initiative for cultural exchange and community engagement, focusing on ecological practices and conservation efforts.

By Claire Rosslyn Wilson

01 Feb 2024

Key highlights of Asia-Europe creative encounters in 2023

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What happened in the culture field between Asia and Europe in 2023? What were some of the opportunities that helped to connect artists and arts managers? As a platform that …

By Grey Yeoh

10 Apr 2023

Asia-Europe Cultural Festival Podcast Series: #2 Vignesh Melwani

Asia-Europe Cultural Festival Podcast Series Cover Photo

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The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival is a public arts festival organised by ASEF since 2018 to celebrate the artistic diversity of Asia and Europe and to promote dialogue and exchange amongst …

By Lidija Pisker

14 Mar 2023

The source of artisanal creativity is a click away

King Houndekpinkou is an artist from Paris, France, who uses ceramics to express his inner self and connect artists from different continents.

The Homo Faber Guide is a digital platform that places the world of superb craftsmanship at the fingertips of art collectors, travellers, and craft lovers.

By Claire Rosslyn Wilson

20 Feb 2023

Looking back at 2022: Bridging gaps between Asia and Europe

Looking back over the content published in 2022, ASEF culture360 takes stock of the major trends from the past year.

By Carina Merin

08 Feb 2021

NEW INSIGHTS, NEW FORESIGHTS: Musings on the Performance Curators Initiatives' Virtual International Symposium 2020

Last October, the Performance Curators Initiatives (PCI), a global network of performance curators based in the Philippines, held its second international symposium entitled "Conversations on Curation and Performance in the …

By SJ Armstrong

28 Jan 2021

Invisible Borders: How transnational artist residences are adapting to travel bans

Art transcends borders. Physical borders, mental boundaries, transnational highways that bind us in place. Travel has been savaged by the ‘new normal’.

By Judith Staines

15 Apr 2020

#StayHome #iorestoacasa #Quedateacasa - virtual tours of museums, online performances, webcams and more

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Many of us are confined at home #StayHome during the COVID-19 pandemic. Across Europe and Asia, masses of arts events have sadly been cancelled – festivals, conferences, performances, exhibitions, biennales …

By Antonio Carlos Ruiz Soria

02 Oct 2019

The power of connecting cultures digitally

Culture is an ever more important factor for international relations due to globalization and the advancement of the network society

EARS on Mumbai: Vibrant Platform for Cross-Cultural Collaboration & Networking Opportunities

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The Europe-Asia Roundtable Sessions (EARS) aims to provide a creative platform to support international collaboration and cross-cultural interaction between Europe and Asia.

By Benoit Jacquemet

02 Nov 2018

Exploring the Influence of Cultural Heritage on Contemporary Architecture

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​​​​​​​“A Conversation with Wang Shu and Paul Robbrecht” was the title of the architecture forum held on 22 October at the Centre for Fine Arts – BOZAR in the scope …

By Claire Rosslyn Wilson

08 Nov 2017

Circles of telling and listening: Storytelling between cultures

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“There is no story without a teller and a listener. The storytelling cycle expands and becomes “ripples of telling and listening, and telling and listening all over again”.

By Claire Wilson

26 Sep 2017

Writing transnationally: Poets on writing between places

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People’s lives are more mobile than ever with estimates that this will only increase. However, the need for feeling like one belongs in a place is even more relevant in …

By Fatima Avila

19 Apr 2017

Mobility First!-ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative supports Far East Film Festival Campus 2017 | Udine, Italy

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To commemorate its 20th anniversary, ASEF has recently launched Mobility First! - ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative, a new fund that supports the movement of artists & cultural professionals to be …

By Kerrine Goh

24 Jan 2017

Exploring Female Empowerment through Dance in Cambodia

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Ellen Steinmuller reports on the three-month artistic residency that she spent in Cambodia to develop a choreography addressing the issue of domestic violence with the first and only all-female contemporary …