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Asia Art Archive (AAA) announces spring 2025 programmes that spotlight research initiatives on gender in art history and independent art spaces. The Annual Artist’s Lecture features artist and educator Salima Hashmi, co-presented with the International Program of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. An exhibition at AAA’s library in Hong Kong explores women’s movements in South Asia through the contributions of artists Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh. In Taipei, AAA hosts an international symposium on independent art spaces of Asia, developed in collaboration with C-LAB.
Annual Artist’s Lecture: Salima Hashmi
March 27, 2025, 11am–12:30pm
AAA and the International Program of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, are honoured to welcome Salima Hashmi as our distinguished speaker for the Annual Artist’s Lecture. A prominent artist, educator, art historian, and activist based in Lahore, Hashmi shares her extensive experience in documenting, organising, and writing about the work of women artists in Pakistan. Hashmi’s lecture provides insights into her publications, her role as one of the founding members of the Women’s Action Forum (a women’s rights organisation in Pakistan), her efforts to foster regional alliances for gender justice, and her mentorship of generations of artists.
Exhibition: In Our Own Backyard
March 20–August 30, 2025
In Our Own Backyard explores the creative impulses and forms of gathering within the women’s movements in South Asia from the 1980s onward. Engaging with the personal archives of artists Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh—who played vital roles as organisers and documenters—the exhibition showcases their archival materials and artworks alongside contributions from a diverse community of feminist practitioners and organisations in the region. This project is part of AAA’s research initiative on gender in art history, highlighting narratives that emphasise communities and exchanges within the cultural field.
This exhibition is generously supported by Mimi Brown & Alp Erçil and the AAA Women and Gender Diversity Fund.
Media partners for In Our Own Backyard and Annual Artist’s Lecture: ArtReview Asia, Mousse
Symposium: The Histories and Archives of Independent Art Spaces of Asia
April 11–13, 2025
AAA, in collaboration with C-LAB, presents an international symposium concluding a three-year research project on Taiwan’s independent art spaces. Scholars and practitioners from across Asia convene to examine the evolving role of independent spaces, their complex relationships with institutions, and the vital networks they foster. Through thematic sessions and artistic interventions, participants explore histories of these crucial spaces through the lens of archives, and probe their vibrant futures with critical perspectives. Selected papers will be published with Afterall.
The symposium is a part of Independent Art Spaces of Taiwan, generously supported by Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Center.
New Research Collections
Research Collections are a growing repository of primary source material AAA develops in partnership with artists, art professionals, and researchers. Since 2010, AAA has been digitising these valuable resources and making them accessible for users worldwide. Recently launched Research Collections include Corner Culture Archive (Taiwan), Jyotsna Bhatt Archive (India), Project 304 Archive (Thailand), and Siu King Chung Archive (Hong Kong).
LIKE A FEVER
LIKE A FEVER is AAA’s online publishing platform of art and cultural criticism—obsessive, moody, and oriented towards cure. We publish essays, conversations, poems, translations, artist interventions, and more. Read recent contributions by Nereya Otieno, TJ Shin, Lee Weng Choy, and more.
Asia Art Archive is an independent non-profit organisation initiated in 2000 in response to the urgent need to document and make accessible the multiple recent histories of art in the region. With one of the most valuable collections of material on art freely available from its website and onsite library, AAA builds tools and communities to collectively expand knowledge through research, residency, educational programmes, and publications.
