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AAA consolidates our archiving expertise into the Archiving Handbook to support and empower artists and art spaces to preserve their creative legacies. The handbookis available for free on our website. The Archiving Handbook isan introductory guide to archiving for artists and art spaces. Alongside fundamental archiving principles, the handbook combines AAA’s twenty-five years of experience with feedback from a year of Archiving Workshops for arts practitioners.

Join Asia Art Archive’s Curatorial team as they introduce key concepts and selected materials from the new library exhibition, At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part II. Celebrating our 25th anniversary, this exhibition highlights four renowned contemporary artists from across Asia: Salima Hashmi, Holly Lee, Bahc Yiso, and Raqs Media Collective. It showcases our rich collections and collaborative networks across Asia, as well as the working methods and ideas that guide us.

Join us for a guided tour, original film footage showcase, and conversation with Jeebesh Bagchi of Raqs Media Collective, as part of At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part II. For At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part II, Raqs Media Collective has created a new commissioned artwork that revisits the very first project they set out to make together as a collective of young documentary filmmakers in 1993—a film that remains unrealised.

Asia Art Archive presents At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, Part II as the concluding chapter of its 25th anniversary exhibition series. Building on the guiding question, “What were you doing at 25?,” this chapter features Salima Hashmi (b. 1942), Holly Lee (1953–2024), Bahc Yiso (1957–2004), and Raqs Media Collective (formed in 1992). The exhibition presents their early life trajectories and art practices through a curatorial approach that is deeply engaged with art history and archival research.

Jointly organised by M+ and Asia Art Archive (AAA), this public programme marks the highly anticipated launch of Hong Kong Art: A Curator’s History (1987–2004), a new publication by veteran curator, art critic, and artist Oscar Ho Hing Kay. Produced by AAA and published by Rizzoli, the book offers an invaluable insider perspective on the city’s art and cultural history accompanied by a large number of images published for the first time.

Please join us for the launch of two zines from Try Try Zine Residency 2026: People in Paper City and Notes for Paper City by Kitman Yeung, and Blind Copy by Lau Sze Man. This year’s Try Try Zine residents have been nomadic and contemplative. Lau has been sketching and corresponding with Lee Kit and Ivy Ma. She inserts found materials from her studio, such as blotting paper and sticky paper flytraps, in her mail-sketchbook zine.

[Skip to content] [Skip to main navigation] [Skip to secondary content] [Skip to quick links] [Go to accessibility information] Delhi by DESIGN is a three-part exhibition series that restages conversations on and around the city of Delhi from Design magazine (1957–88), and locates them in our contemporary contexts and conditions.

[Skip to content] [Skip to main navigation] [Skip to secondary content] [Skip to quick links] [Go to accessibility information] Asia Art Archive (AAA) and Para Site are delighted to announce the twelve recipients of the Unconditional Trust: Impact Grant for Central Asia, generously supported by Ms Virginia Yee, with additional support from Octone Foundation: Artcom Platform (Kazakhstan), Astral Nomads Heritage (Kazakhstan), BiSCA (Kyrgyzstan), DAVRA (Uzbekistan), Kyzyl Tractor (Kazakhstan),...

[Skip to content] [Skip to main navigation] [Skip to secondary content] [Skip to quick links] [Go to accessibility information] To celebrate AAA’s 25th anniversary, we present this exhibition to showcase our rich collections, our collaborative networks across Asia, as well as the working methods and ideas that guide us. It begins with a simple question: What were you doing when you were 25? At 25, life and career are usually just beginning.

Researchers Sooyoung Leam, Hyejung Jang, and Jung-Hyun Yeon introduce the contemporary art scene in Korea from the 1980s and 1990s onwards through the lens of art history and archiving. Sooyoung Leam | A Day Without Overtime: Jung Jungyeob’s Art and Society This talk examines the works of artist Jung Jungyeob (정정엽, b. 1962) within the broader framework of social movements and women’s art collectives in South Korea during the 1980s and 1990s.