Art Industry Insights With Reena Devi

  • Para Site Hong Kong’s Junni Chen On Leading An Independent Art Space Today

    Next year, Para Site, one of Asia’s oldest independent art spaces, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary, an age that is near-mythic for a non-profit in these financially constrained times. Yet Junni Chen, currently Interim Executive Director at the institution, approaches its future with a strong sense of its DNA being rooted in change.

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  • The Real Heist Of The 21st Century: How The Global Economy Exploits Creative Labour

    If you are working in the arts today, you are part of an unprecedented crisis due in part to a globally weakening labour market. A slew of multinational companies, including tech conglomerates IBM, Meta, and Amazon, have announced massive job cuts.

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  • Leading Mongolian Curator Gantuya Badamgarav on XAOS & Transformation

    Running from 10 to 30 October 2025, the second edition of XAOS – International Festival of Experimental Music and Visual Art is currently in full swing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with an apt curatorial theme, no less. Transformation, the word of the millennium.

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  • Anatomy Of A Dead Pitch: Can You Speak Rejection?

    “I think suffering will become more visible,” Francisco Berzunza, Mexico City-based curator and historian, uncannily predicted in a December 2023 interview. His upcoming exhibition this fall at the Museum of Mexico City attempts to explore the notion of rejection across personal, historical, and political registers.

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  • The Multipolar Art World Is Here. Who Gets To Draw The Map?

    When leading Saudi artist Ahmed Mater debuted his solo show at UCCA Edge, Shanghai, as part of Saudi-Chinese Cultural Year 2025, it signified more than soft power guised as a cultural milestone. His artistic foray into China hinted at a centuries-old tradition of Eastward curiosity, now resurfacing in a rapidly multipolar world.

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