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Drawn from the M+ Collections, this exhibition explores the complex connections between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world. Rotating displays will periodically renew the dialogues among the works and with the natural and urban environments beyond the museum itself.
Contemporary Japanese metalworking breathes life into traditional methods that have been passed down and practiced over generations. The artists featured in Striking Objects create masterpieces that combine tradition with creativity and innovation.
The snake, as one of the ancient totems of Chinese civilization, embodies fertility and the power of reproduction. In Chinese mythology, the human ancestors Fuxi and Nuwa are depicted with human heads and snake bodies. The snake may also serve as the primary model for the dragon totem. Chinese people often affectionately refer to snakes as“ little dragons”.
The exhibition features nearly 190 military artefacts from the Qing court in The Palace Museum’s collection, featuring a wide range of objects such as helmets, archery sets, sabres and swords, equestrian equipment, paintings, textiles, books, albums, and scientific instruments.
Touching the Divine: Love and devotion in Asian art explores aspects of love and devotion expressed through art created in sacred contexts across Asia.
A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection is now on view at the Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 222 from March 1st 2025 to January 4th 2026.
Over the course of three months, Jette Bang and ethnographer Klaus Ferdinand followed two Bedouin tribes in Qatar’s desert landscape. The outcome was over 1,200 photographs, both black and white and in colour, as well as footage for the documentary film Bedouins (1962).
Over the past four decades, Shanghai-born, Marin County–based artist Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961) has cultivated a unique practice that engages with the driving concepts and aesthetics of the Light and Space movement and East Asia’s tradition of ink painting.
Storytelling is a vital part of many Asian cultures. The works in this gallery were created by Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, Indian, Persian, and Armenian artists from the 1200s to 1800s. Drawing inspiration from Asian literature, religion, and history, these artists enliven stories with their dynamic visual narratives.
The Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) presents Anila Quayyum Agha: Geometry of Light from August 27, 2025 through April 19, 2026. In her Pacific Northwest debut, renowned contemporary artist Anila Quayyum Agha will mesmerize visitors with her ornate light and shadow installations inspired by Islamic and world art and architecture, inviting contemplation of identity and cultural belonging.
Rajput paintings evoke many moods and senses. They tell stories about the beliefs, desires, myths, poetry, and power that shaped the royal Rajput courts of northern India during the 16th to 19th centuries.
As the Sun Appears from Beyond celebrates over 20 years of contemporary Islamic art, illuminating its enduring legacy, creativity, and spiritual resonance. Making its North American debut after opening at the 18th Al Burda Award ceremony, which took place at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the exhibition is presented in collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Culture.
Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms offers a glimpse into the dynamic graphic design scene of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), showcasing how innovative Arabic and Persian typography contribute to global visual culture. On display in the Rasheed Dhuka and Nooruddin Khawja Family Gallery, Atrium, and external façade of the Museum, the artworks bridge tradition and innovation, demonstrating the continuity of historic Islamic art in contemporary design.
Through precisely inked and animated scenes, Shahzia Sikander’s video artwork The Last Post (2010) critically considers the legacy of British colonialism in Asia, using her signature approach of infusing Indo-Persian miniature paintings with a contemporary perspective.
Blue and white porcelain, which originated in the Tang Dynasty and matured during the Yuan Dynasty, rapidly rose to prominence in the Ming Dynasty replacing traditional celadon and white porcelain as the dominant ceramic ware.
At the heart of The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower stands capsule A1305, a fully restored unit from the Tower’s top floor. The exhibition also brings together original drawings and models with ephemera, photographs, and films to explore how this unconventional structure became a hive of creativity, debate, and community.
Colourful Korea: The Lea R. Sneider Collection is now on view at the Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 23 from July 26, 2025 to February 15th 2026.
North Wall, 2005 by renowned South Korean artist Do Ho Suh (born 1962) is an eight-metre large-scale fabric sculpture that appears to float in space, suspended from the ceiling in the heart of the Gallery’s building.
The Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM) presents a new special exhibition “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Treasures of the Mughal Court from the Victoria and Albert Museum” (“Treasures of the Mughal Court”), which will be open to the public from 6 August 2025 to 23 February 2026.
On the occasion of The Textile Museum’s centennial, Enduring Traditions explores the cultural significance of treasures from the collection. From festival robes to palace carpets, these exceptional textiles reveal the traditions and values of communities across continents.
In celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Society, this exhibition features over 400 sets of precious Chinese artefacts from their collections, including Chinese painting and calligraphy, ceramics, bronzes, lacquerware, jades, bamboo carvings, furniture and snuff bottles, for the enjoyment, appreciation and enlightenment for all.
In the second half of 2025, we will hold a large-scale survey exhibition, “Lee Bul Solo Exhibition,” that will examine the world of Lee Bul’s work, which explores the relationship between humans and technology, utopian modernity, and humanity’s progressive aspirations and failures. This exhibition, jointly planned by Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art and M+ Museum in Hong Kong, will begin at Leeum in September 2025, continue at M+ in March 2026, and then tour to major overseas institutions.
Incorporating playable interactives, outdoor installations and more, Let’s Play! explores the rich history of games across Asia and the role they have played in shaping culture, identity, and community. Featuring works of extraordinary beauty and craftsmanship, the exhibition invites visitors to discover how the act of play continues to inspire, evolve, and connect people across time and place.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Asian Culture Center (ACC), Manifesto of Spring is an exhibition co-produced by M+, Hong Kong, and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, open to the public from Friday, 5 September 2025 to Sunday, 22 February 2026 at ACC.
Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation, on view at China Institute Gallery from September 10, 2025 to January 11, 2026, features contemporary work by 28 artists of Chinese descent—many making their U.S. debut—and explores themes of personal, cultural, environmental, and historical transformation through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video spanning the years 1974 to 2025.
Opening September 12, “Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries” offers a rare chance for New York audiences to experience the full breadth of her practice. At the heart of the exhibition is “Diary” (2025), a new site-specific commission commemorating the 80th anniversary of World War II, alongside seminal works from Shiota’s oeuvre exploring identity and her life between Japan and Germany.
Eye on the Weather: Atmospheric Metaphor in American Works on Paper is currently on show in Gallery 9 at the Honolulu Museum of Art. The exhibition will close on 4 January, 2026.
M+ presents Special Exhibition 'Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now' in September, inviting audiences to experience art through the mind and the body.
‘Self-portrait with a cat I don’t have’ is Bady Dalloul's first institutional solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates. Blending autobiographical anecdotes with stories of individuals he encounters, the artworks feature fragile heroes and ordinary people navigating systems larger than themselves.
Works from the QAGOMA contemporary Asian collection complement and extend this dialogue, through the juxtaposition of religious and vernacular iconographies with contemporary reflections on belief.
The Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) proudly presents the special exhibition, ¨National Treasures in CUHK: Rare Rubbings of the Song Dynasty donated by Bei Shan Tang〃, open to the public from 23 September to 28 December 2025.
The panoramic exhibition Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008 presents twenty-first century art that addresses changes in social realities in China and their impacts on the world.
The exhibition A Sounding of the Earth presents works by Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid.
By the late 19th century, the mantón de Manila had come to embody a dialogue between East and West, luxury and folk tradition, global commerce and local identity—a testament to the beauty born of cultural exchange.
In a new exhibition at the Salm Palace, the Collection of Asian Art of the National Gallery Prague presents a selection of 520 artworks from Asia and the Islamic world, spanning 5,000 years and set in the context of cultural relations with Central Europe.
The House of Pikachu: Art, Anime, and Pop Culture opens on October 17th at Asia Society Texas. Exhibition highlights Anime’s global influence.
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective is on from October 19th 2025 to February 7th, 2026.
24 Oct 2025 - 8 Feb 2026: 2/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
The Minneapolis Institute of Art presents the Royal Bronzes: Cambodian Art of the Divine from the October 25, 2025 - January 18, 2026.
Sopheap Pich’s ‘In the Prescence of’ opens on October 25, 2025 and runs until February 1, 2026, in the Sit Investment Associates Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
A Dialogue Between Two Distinguished Private Collections, Marking the Debut of Jade Masterpieces from the K Collection.
M+’s critically acclaimed Special Exhibition 'I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture' is on view at ALRIWAQ in Doha, the second stop of its world tour.
5 Nov 2025 - 8 Feb 2026
2/F, Fung Ping Shan Building, UMAG, HKU, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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2025 to 8March 2026
Jameel Arts Centre
8 November 2025–26 April 2026
Galleries 2 and 3, Photography Gallery, Al Manakh, Sharjah
Collecting is a timeless passion—an enduring way to preserve memories, express one’s taste, and safeguard traditions for generations to come. Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared honors this practice by presenting a remarkable selection of masterpieces generously donated to the Korean nation by the family of Lee Kun-Hee, the late chairman of Samsung Group.
Named after Maya Angelou’s famous collection of poetry, And Still I Rise brings together a group of culturally diverse women artists living in Australia, many of whom are internationally recognised, if less familiar at home.
This exhibition, in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is based on our both Museums' collection of later bronzes and is enriched by loans from numerous other major museums in China, South Korea, and across Europe and America. With a total of approximately 178 pieces or sets, this is the most epic-scale exhibition of later Chinese bronzes to be held in recent years, both domestically and internationally.
M+ presents Robert Rauschenberg and Asia, the first exhibition dedicated to the artist’s travels across Asia, opening in November 2025/
The Met's collection has become a key resource for the study of Chinese painting and calligraphy. This exhibition presents a rich selection of works from the collection arranged in a largely chronological display.
This exhibition presents nearly 20 kaleidoscopic Chinese patchwork textiles, which are rarely seen outside the villages where they are made. The textiles, coming from the Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Gansu, and Shaanxi provinces, reveal a wide variety of compositions, patterns, and techniques, which reflect local styles and individual aesthetics alike.
Discover how a once-coveted cloth reshaped global trade, inspired revolutions, and changed the course of history in Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution, opening at Bowers Museum on December 13, 2025. This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the story of Indian chintz—painted and printed cottons that revolutionized the way the world dressed and drove the development of modern industry.
Spanning a wide variety of media (including paintings, sculptures, video, and site-specific works), the exhibition uncovers the fragmented truths carried within us and reimagines the interconnectedness of all beings across time.
Launched by an association of established and esteemed professionals, the Civilisations Brussels Art Fair unites distinguished international galleries every year for the Winter and Spring Edition.
Architecture’s connections to concepts and mindsets known from anthropology, archaeology and geology are spotlighted in the exhibition with the two studios DnA Architecture and Design (Beijing) and ATTA – Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects (Paris).
Experience a line-up of leading international and regional galleries showing the best in contemporary art alongside exclusive events, parties, museum and gallery openings, private collection visits and unique art, food and wellness experiences throughout the week.
Save the date for the fourth edition of ART SG, presented by Founding and Lead Partner UBS. Southeast Asia’s leading international art fair will return to Singapore from 23 to 25 January 2026 (VIP Preview and Vernissage on 22 January), at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands.
“Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal” explores these popular prints’ origins and powerful impacts. When Indian artists encountered the new printmaking technology of lithography in 19th-century Calcutta (today Kolkata), then the capital of British India, they used it to reinvent devotional art.
Discover the reality behind a millennium of myth at this sweeping exhibition on the legendary Japanese warriors. Tuesday, February 3 to Monday, May 4, 2026.
India Art Fair is returning for its 17th edition to the NSIC Grounds in New Delhi from 5—8 FEB, 2026. Continuing our legacy of showcasing the very best of modern and contemporary art in South Asia, we’re calling on the most cutting-edge and visionary arts organisations to join us!
In spring 2026, Japan Society Gallery will present Kawai Kanjirō: House to House , an exhibition celebrating the remarkable life and artistic career of folk potter and avant-garde artist Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966) for the first time in the United States.
Singapore Biennale 2025: More than 80 Artists to Active the Everyday with ‘Pure Intention’. Artists and thinkers enliven residential neighbourhoods and the urban core across four distinct areas of the city, inviting the public to reimagine Singapore’s rapid change through everyday encounters.
Save the date for Art Dubai 2026, the pre-eminent art fair for the Middle East, returning to Madinat Jumeirah from 16 – 19 April for its 20th anniversary edition.
Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist whose work has shaped contemporary culture for more than seven decades, will be celebrated at The Broad in Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California, organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London.
In this renewed momentum, Printemps Asiatique Paris is already looking ahead to its next major event: The 9th edition will take place from June 3 to 12, 2026.
