This exhibition focuses on the work of notable contemporary Korean artists and craftspeople, representative of a new generation invested in radical approaches to traditional Buncheong ceramics and ink painting. Blending political content and social issues with traditional motifs, techniques and aesthetics, these artists seamlessly remix cultural forms to question and critique our unsettled times. The exhibition includes ceramicists Hokyung Yon, Seungi Min, and Yukyung Sin, and painters Sinhye Kim and Hyunsoo Kim.

📍Mühlebachstrasse 14, CH-8008 Zürich

Annelies Štrba and the writer and literary translator Ilma Rakusa have been friends for many years. Time and again, Rakusa was inspired by the artist's images and wrote an insightful text for Štrba's monograph Shades of Time as early as 1997. Rakusa will read poems and short prose in the rooms of the exhibition. In German

Door opens 18:00

📍Mühlebachstrasse 12, CH-8008 Zürich

Yantras are contemplative mystic diagrams used to focus the mind, cultivate inner control, and free oneself from the habitual distractions that hinder connection with one’s true source and center.

This talk brings together artist Francine Mury and Maya Burger, professor of Indian Studies, to explore a collection of mystic diagrams—an artistic treasury that has inspired Mury’s work since the 1990s.

📍Mühlebachstrasse 14, CH-8008 Zürich

The Yangtze, stretching over 6300 kilometers, is the longest river in China and Asia, and is considered China's “mother river”. It crosses the Tibetan plateau, the Sichuan basin and the plain of the middle and lower Yangtze, giving rise to the brilliant cultures of Liangzhu and Wu-Yue. As a vital artery of transportation and economy in ancient China, the Yangtze witnessed many historical transitions, while fostering, along its course, a great diversity of ecosystems and a profound cultural richness.

Gao Xiang traveled along the Yangtze, documenting his observations through a series of sketches. During our discussion in Zurich, he will share his experiences and insights on the evolving landscapes and the lives of the people along the river.

Chinese painter Hengjin Aisin Gioro is a descendant of the Qing imperial family and was taught painting according to the family’s traditional methods. In her “Painting practices of the Qing Aisin Gioro imperial family” workshop, students will have the opportunity to learn from Hengjin how to paint with pigment and ink on paper and silk in the “elaborate style” (gongbi 工笔), the “boneless method” (mogu 没骨) and in “freehand sketching” (xieyi 写意). At the end of the class your will create your own painting.

An exclusive art tour for Asia Society Switzerland and its Passport Members

During the delightful evening, Luo Mingjun shared her life story with us and detailed the evolution of her creative process, in addition to presenting her latest exhibition, “No Way Back”, a series of works dedicated to water that developed quite naturally from two earlier ones, the Cloud series and the Magnolia series.