ArtReview Asia Autumn 2026

In ArtReview Asia’s Autumn issue, Korean artist YoungEun Kim explores the politics of how humans giving shape to sound. Max-Crosbie Jones looks at the poetic films of Burmese artist Lin Htet Aung. Japanese ceramic artist Kazunori Hamana, in an interview with Chris Fite-Wassilak, talks about looking to handmade methods of the past to find a way forward. Also in the issue, Adeline Chia on Indonesian collective Taring Padi; Suraj Yengde on the collages of Buddhist author Stephen Batchelor; Pramodha Weerasekera on Raqs Media Collective’s first Indian solo exhibition in over a decade, in the mountainous Ladakh region. Plus an interview with Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho, who speaks about his origins as a street artist. Exhibition reviews include: Youth Palace at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, the 25th Anniversary exhibition at the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, and the Pattani Biennale. In books: Kohei Toyonaga’s Yukio Mishima Prize-winning Hakushimuruchi and Ibtisam Azem’s The Sleep Thief Art Interrogated The Interview Eko Nugroho by Adeline Chia Picturing Ethics by Suraj Yengde Art in Ladakh by Pramodha Weerasekera Art Featured YoungEun Kim by Mark Rappolt Kazunori Hamana by Chris Fite Wassilak Lin Htet Aung by Max Crosbie Jones Terminal Piece by Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe Taring Padi by Adeline Chia Art Reviewed Exhibitions & Books Youth Palace, by Yuwen Jiang Ellen Pau, by Marcus Civin Zhi Wei, by Yuwen Jiang At 25: Artists’ Early Worlds, by Stephanie Bailey Horizon Ablaze, by Adeline Chia Obscured Portraits, by Troels Steenholdt Heiredal Jumaadi, by Innas Tsuroiya (Mem)Bangun dari Tanah, by Adam Sudewo Rajinder Singh, by Sharmilla Ganesan Taiki Sakpisit, by Jean Hew Pattani Biennale 2026, by Max Crosbie-Jones Kulpreet Singh, by Mia Stern Machine Dreams: Rainforest, by Claudia Ross Sim Chi Yin, by Jenny Wu Manifesta 16 Ruhr, by Phoebe Blatton Candace Hill-Montgomery, by Lizzie Homersham Hakushimuruchi, by Kohei Toyonaga, reviewed by Taro Nettleton Meditations in Entropy: The Work of Kashef Chowdhury edited by Kashef Chowdhury, reviewed by Nirmala Devi The Sleep Thief, by Ibtisam Azem, reviewed by Nirmala Devi Tyeb Mehta: Bearing Weight with the lightness of being, edited by Roobina Karode and Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, reviewed by Mark Rappolt The Art of Opposition: On Hope, Resilience & Creative Expression Beyond the Mainstream, by Courttia Newland, reviewed by Mark Rappolt Ukrainian Lessons, by Charlotte Higgins, reviewed by Agata Pyzik