ArtReview Asia Spring 2026

In the Spring issue of ArtReview Asia, Travis Jeppesen profiles Li Yi-Fan ahead of the Venice Biennale, where Li will be presenting Taiwan’s collateral event, a project set to focus on AI and sure to feature the weaponised humour on view in the artist’s freewheeling, free-associative videos and performance lectures, which all seem to start from the position that ‘the machine is not our friend’. Max Crosbie-Jones reports from Bangkok, currently experiencing one of its regular waves of art-scene exuberance, and asks how well founded the excitement is. Anandi Mishra, recently relocated from Delhi to Gothenburg, Sweden, writes on the unexpected challenges and pleasures of being a reader in each of these cities. Adeline Chia explores Taiwan’s cultural ecology under the influence of a string of ambitious museum developments, including the Taichung Green Museumbrary complex. Artist Abdul Halik Azeez presents a project addressing some of the less visible forces behind development in Colombo’s Galle Face. Yuwen Jiang visits an exhibition in London featuring an eighteenth-century botany project that lays bare the complicated roots of colonialism. And Mark Rappolt annotates The Travels of Ibn Battuta, the latest entry in the magazine’s ‘Eternal Returns’ series. Plus exhibition and book reviews, and the word ‘justice’ – defined. Art Previewed Together Forever by Mariacarla Molè Bookish by Anandi Mishra New Typologies by Adeline Chia Loan Sharks by Sarah Jilani Art Featured Li Yi-Fan by Travis Jeppesen On the Spot in Bangkok by Max Crosbie-Jones Galle Facing Artist project by Abdul Halik Azeez The Travels of Ibn Battuta by Samuel Lee annotated by Mark Rappolt Flower Power by Yuwen Jiang Art Reviewed Exhibitions & Books Biennale Jogja, by Adeline Chia Singapore Biennale, by Mark Rappolt Sasaoka Yuriko, by Ophelia Lai Yang Fudong, by Yuwen Jiang Chobi Mela, by Parsa Sanjana Sajid Thailand Biennale, by Max Crosbie-Jones Guangzhou Image Triennial, by Yuwen Jiang (In)visible Presence, by Max Crosbie-Jones Chang-Ching Su and Rhett Tsai, by Yue Ren Diriyah Biennale, by Rahel Aima Kochi-Muziris Biennale, by Kai Jabir Friese Taipei Biennial, by Mark Rappolt Ripples in the Pond, by Bharat Sikka, reviewed by Upasana Das Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes: A Selection of Books as Muses, by John Morgan, reviewed by Mark Rappolt Why Are We in Okinawa? A History of Violence, by Jon Mitchell, reviewed by Max Crosbie-Jones The Renovation, by Kenan Orhan, reviewed by Mark Rappolt Hooked, by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton, reviewed by Chris Fite-Wassilak Patchwork Dolls, by Ysabelle Cheung, reviewed by Fi Churchman