Koo Jeong A : 2O2O

Since the late 1990s, with a belief that ‘nothing is merely ordinary,’ Koo Jeong A has been incorporating ephemeral everyday objects in her works to whimsically interfere in familiar spaces to highlight the poetic aspect of the mundaneness. Composed of disparate mediums—ranging from still and moving images, sound, to smell—Koo’s artworks allow the co-existence of contrasting states such as visibility and invisibility, the imaginary and actuality, and the existence and nonexistence, thus providing possibilities beyond their boundaries. Music Produced by Studio360 Group. DJ Soulscape

Up close and personal with the Hanoians shaking up Vietnam’s film industry

From Chaos to Creation with Antiantiart: the cover stars of NOWNESS PAPER ASIA's inaugural issue are introspective and vulnerable in a new short film by Khanh Nguyen & Lam Dao Dao.

The first black dancer to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy

Gabe Stone Shayer spent more than half of his high school years in Russia under the tutelage of what many consider to be the best ballet school in the world—the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. Shayer, who is a Philadelphia native, was the first black dancer to graduate from the Academy; and is now making his mark on the ballet world as he dances for the esteemed American Ballet Theatre in NYC.

In the Studio with Nevena Prijic

Nevena Prijic earned her BFA and MFA in Painting from The University of Novi Sad, Academy of Fine Arts, Serbia. Prijic immigrated to the United States in 2017. Her work has recently been exhibited at Mrs.New York City, NY; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Public Gallery, London, UK; Bozomag and M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Prijic lives and works in Los Angeles and has been represented by M+B since 2023.

Javanese Batik

Javanese batik artisans and workshops, filmed in Pekalongan, Java, Indonesia in June 2017 by Sheena Sood, for abacaxi.

painting a big oil painting

On this big linen canvas which stands 100x180cm Anouk / Atelier Aha paints.

Yuichi Hirako • New Home

“How we interact with nature and how we think about it is very different from a hundred years ago. It will be different a hundred years from now and that’s natural, so I make work considering the changes that will come. I've been working on this subject for a long time.” — Yuichi Hirako Gallery Baton is pleased to announce 《 New Home 》 , a solo exhibition of Yuichi Hirako, from 5th June to 13th July 2024 in the Hannam-dong space, Seoul. Hirako deals with the coexistence and interdependent relationship between nature and humans through his original style of depiction, in which metaphors and symbols stand out. In this second solo exhibition with Gallery Baton, Hirako manifests his interests and particular subjects in richer expression by organically combining painting with sculpture or installation and selectively applying traits of diverse media.

I Mountain. I Snow Whenever I Want.

Annea Lockwood - a Film About Listening

Annea Lockwood is a New Zealand-born American composer and academic musician. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her range is vast and often includes microtonal, electro-acoustic soundscapes and vocal music, as well as recordings of natural found sounds.

MAFF ♥s 🇬🇪: SEED FLO BURO

Gvantsa Jishkariani’s ‘𝓘 𝓗𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓻𝔂, 𝓸𝓻 𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓣𝓸 𝓑𝓮 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂’.

The Why Not Gallery presents Gvantsa Jishkariani’s solo show. With the intensity characteristic to the artist, the exhibition turns into a total installation, where the viewer gets lost in the whirlwinds of information flows and visual stimulation. The main source of inspiration for the artist is her immediate environment, the socio-political situation that forms the reality around - a busy, DIY chaos, at times toxic, uneven, disordered, all-engulfing tsunami that one tries to survive in vain. Although this dichotomy between the collective and the individual, between the normative and the non-standard, is a subject of constant research and inspiration for the artist, it has never before been illustrated with such intensity in her work. The chaos in the exhibition space is superimposed with gentle, aesthetic works filled with special sensitivity. Beautiful giant mosaic flowers grow out of now trash newsreels; timeless, sublime landscapes offer a refuge; bold paintings drawn with free brushstroke promise a different reality.

MAFF ♥s 🇬🇪: Nika Qutelia

Georgian artist working in the direction of digital art. In the past, the artist was actively involved in music, soon decided to devote himself entirely to visual art, from collages on a mobile device to abstract 3D renders. He calls his self-expression "Phantom bridges between the past and the future." Through his works, the artist shows a subtle connection between violent fantasy and everyday reality, between innermost memories and our self.