CALENDAR 2024
Throughout the year Asian Art in London is proud to promote a wide range of art events across the UK. These include symposia, performances, gallery talks, openings, lectures, short courses and much more. London’s eclectic resources make it a hub for art-world professionals and enthusiasts. This page is regularly updated.
Asian Art in London 2024
Current and upcoming Events
Ashmolean Exhibition: KABUKI KIMONO: Costumes of Bandō Tamasaburō V
Six spectacular kimonos belonging to the kabuki actor Bandō Tamasaburō V will be on display in the Textiles Gallery for a year. Tamasaburō is the most popular and celebrated onnagata (male actor who performs female roles) currently on stage.The costumes selected reflect the wide variety of roles in this actor’s long and celebrated theatre career, […]
Dulwich Picture Gallery Exhibition: Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking
Meet the Yoshida dynasty of artists. Featuring over 75 exquisite prints, this exhibition journeys from the rich, nostalgic landscapes of the prolific artist and patriarch of the family, Hiroshi to the abstract work of the family’s later and current generations. The first of its kind in the UK – and Europe more widely – this […]
Geumhyung Jeong: Under Construction
Under Construction, a solo exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980, Seoul) features a newly commissioned installation of sculpture and video, and series of live performances. Working from her background in choreography and a studied interest in the role of objects and technology in our lives, Jeong uses her body and animatronic figures built from DIY […]
British Museum exhibition: Silk Roads
26th September 2024 to 23rd February 2025 This continent-spanning exposition unravels how the journey of people, objects and ideas formed an expansive web of trade routes that shaped cultures and histories. Working with 29 national and international partners to present objects from many regions and cultures alongside those from the British Museum, the exhibition offers a unique chance […]
British Library exhibition: A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang
This exhibition provides a rare glimpse into the ordinary lives of people long ago through the remarkable contents of the ‘Library Cave,’ part of the Buddhist cave complex of Mogao, where a wealth of manuscripts, documents and artworks remained sealed for nearly 900 years. Detailing life in and around Dunhuang during the first millennium CE, […]
Ubiquitous Technology: The Science of Aesthetics
The Inaugral Tsinghua Alumni London Art Exhibition.Nancy Zetian Zhang x UKTA. At a time when technology has penetrated every aspect of our daily existence, it transforms itself from the tools of our craft into a pervasive force of human experience, affecting the way we see and feel, the way we create and interact and come […]
SOAS exhibition: STRANGE WONDERS
Dreams, Desire & Daoism:Jizi and pioneers of contemporary ink from ChinaCo-curated by Chunchen Wang and Katie Hill An undulating cosmic scene sweeps across a horizontal plane, swirling clouds, an immersive vortex of movement leading into a central sphere. Lit up at intervals, the whole vision is one of light and darkness, floating perspectives of constant […]
ArtChina talk: Lotus meditation: Neo-Expressionist Art by Qi Yang
Lotus Meditation: Neo- Expressionist Art by Qi Yang 29th Oct – 4th Nov Daily @14.00 RSVP: aimin@artchinauk.co.uk
Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Fine Art talk: From École des Beaux-Arts del’Indochine to Vietnam Fine ArtsUniversity in Hanoi
Book launch and lecture by the author, Feng-Chun Ma: Thousand Years of HundredBoys in Chinese Art, 10th -20th century
Book launch and lecture by the author, Feng-Chun Ma 16.30–17.00 Arrival of guests 17.00 Lecture 18.00– 19.30 Book signing and drinks RSVP: fcma@fengchunma.com
Rolleston talk: ‘An Introduction to Chinese Export Porcelain, Enamel and Reverse- Painted Mirrors’
The Future of Wajima Nuri: Survival and Recovery
Wajima, on the Noto Peninsula, has long been a centre of urushi (lacquer) production. Its lacquerware, known as Wajima nuri is nationally recognized as an important intangible cultural property. Distinguished by its durable undercoating and its complex production process, Wajima nuri typically undergoes over one hundred intricate stages involving a specialized division of labour before […]
Gallery Stroll with Nimi: Asian Art in London
Visit 4-5 galleries together and grab a drink afterwards with the Nimi Collective – a community of art enthusiasts.
Symposium: Asian Art in London x SOAS Alphawood One-Day Symposium – Asian Art: Objects in Focus
This Symposium, co-hosted by the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art and Asian Art in London, brings together curators, scholars, artists and art market specialists to explore diverse perspectives on a range of media and materials across Asia; specifically: ceramics, textiles and metalwork. Panellists will speak about a range of artworks and objects which can […]
Christie’s talk: The Palmer Collection of Chinese Art
Lecturer: Rosemary Scott, Independent scholar
British Library Curators’ Lunchtime Lecture: A Silk Road Oasis
British Library curators, Melodie Doumy and Kitty Liu provide an insider’s view of the exhibition, A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang. They will walk you through the entire process, from shaping the exhibition’s narrative to the final touches. Discover how each object was carefully selected to highlight Dunhuang’s rich history of commercial, diplomatic, […]
Dore & Rees Talk: Susan Rumfitt: Passionate Collector – How the Asian Buyer is influencing the global Jewellery market at auction
Susan will uncover how Asian buyers are now being influenced by the provenance and creative elements of antique jewellery and looking beyond brand names, diamonds, Jade and coloured stones when buying for their collections. Considering global auction highlights and important collections, such as the Albion collection in Tokyo, Susan will illustrate how there is a new […]
Sotheby’s talk: Sir John Woolf – The Man and His Collection
A conversation between Jonathan Woolf and Henry Howard-Sneyd
Dore & Rees talk: Katharine Butler and Tuo Zhang:Can AI Understand Art? Recent research using VLMs (Visual language models) on Chinese Porcelain.
Large vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable abilities in understanding everyday content, however, their performance in the domain of art remains less explored. Evaluation of art, particularly in regard to its authenticity, can be approached from art historical, scientific and archival / provenance methods. This talk will discuss the advantages of applying AI to the […]
Bonhams : OCS Lecture:‘Searching for Knowledge’
Professor Christiaan Jörg will review his decades-long career, exemplified by his observations on a Tang-style cup from a Viking Tomb. This will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session
Rolleston talk: ‘An Introduction to Chinese Export Porcelain, Enamel and Reverse- Painted Mirrors’
Paul Ruitenbeek Chinese Art talk: ‘Objects of the Tang and Song: Exhibition Tour’
Bonhams: OCS Lecture: Dr Patrick Conner – ‘From China to the West: Martyn Gregory and the World of Chinese Export Paintings’
Museum tour: visit the Butler Museum
The Butler Museum is a 400 sqm, purpose – built museum near Blandford Forum in Dorset. It houses around 700 pieces of porcelain from the Butler Collection and exceptionally, the pieces are not behind glass allowing the very limited number of visitors to handle the porcelain and see it from all angles. Visiting the collection […]
Lunchtime Lecture: Fashion and the Floating World
This talk is part of the V&A Academy Lunchtime Lecture Series. No booking is required. The colourful woodblock prints of the late eighteenth and nineteenth century played a vital role in Japan’s vibrant fashion culture. Drawing on the V&A’s important collection, curators Anna Jackson and Masami Yamada reveal how these ukiyo-e, ‘pictures of the floating […]
British Library Discussion: Bettany Hughes, Islam Issa and Colin Thubron: Echoes of the Silk Road: Cities of Trade and Culture
The ancient cities along the Silk Road stretched across a vast and diverse region, connecting East Asia with the Mediterranean. These cities served not only as crucial hubs of trade but also as dynamic cultural crossroads, where ideas, religions, and technologies flowed alongside goods. Dunhuang, once a bustling oasis on the edge of the Gobi […]
The Japan Society – 400 Year Tradition of Takaoka Lacquerware in Toyama
The Japan Society is delighted to welcome Takeshi Musashigawa, fourth-generation head of Musashigawa Kobo, Toyama, to discuss his artisanal practice with Masami Yamada, a Curator in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Asia Department. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about Takaoka lacquerware and watch a demonstration of the mother-of-pearl inlay technique (raden).
Sainsbury Institute Conference: Looking Forward in Japanese Arts and Cultures
Saturday 9 November, 202410:00am GMT – 5:00pm GMT We are delighted to continue celebrations for our 25th anniversary with a special event in London. Bringing together an international panel of experts, this conference will explore a selection of themes about the future of studies of Japanese arts and cultures including: Art as a cultural resource; Art […]
Museum tour: visit the Butler Museum
The Butler Museum is a 400 sqm, purpose – built museum near Blandford Forum in Dorset. It houses around 700 pieces of porcelain from the Butler Collection and exceptionally, the pieces are not behind glass allowing the very limited number of visitors to handle the porcelain and see it from all angles. Visiting the collection […]
