Guggenheim art show opens in HK today

Features artworks from 10 Asian countries.

The Asia Society Hong Kong Center today opens “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia,” the first touring exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. The show will run until February 16, 2014.

The exhibition features 18 paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and mixed-media works. It presents recent works by 13 artists from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is a multi-year collaboration charting contemporary art practice in three geographic regions (South and Southeast Asia , Latin America , and the Middle East and North Africa) encompassing curatorial residencies, international touring exhibitions, audience-driven education programming, and acquisitions for the Guggenheim's permanent collection.

All works have been newly acquired for the Guggenheim's collection under the auspices of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund.