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Aaina Bhargava

Aaina Bhargava

Hong Kong
Reporter, Culture
Aaina Bhargava joined the Post 2019-2020 after working as an Editor for the online art platform CoBo Social. She studied Art History, specialising in contemporary art, and has extensive experience working for a range of art institutions. She has contributed to art/design publications including Design Anthology, Artomity, Asian Art News.
Aaina Bhargava joined the Post 2019-2020 after working as an Editor for the online art platform CoBo Social. She studied Art History, specialising in contemporary art, and has extensive experience working for a range of art institutions. She has contributed to art/design publications including Design Anthology, Artomity, Asian Art News.
Areas of Expertise:
Visual Arts, Design, Architecture
Languages Spoken:
English, Mandarin, Hindi

How Wong Kar-wai’s noir films inspire Nicole Eisenman’s Hong Kong view

Ahead of her first Asia solo exhibition, held at Hauser & Wirth, the artist trades global headlines for moodier, introspective canvases.

From Kazakh warrior sculptures to speculative films by Andrew Thomas Huang and Ayoung Kim, these are the artworks defining this year’s programme.

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The Oakland native moved to Hong Kong in 2010 and started the XXX Gallery. Now he curates a listening experience for thoughtful Hongkongers.

Best known for coming-of-age comic Gleem, Freddy Carrasco is now putting on his first Hong Kong exhibition, ‘Return to Nothing’, at WKM Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang.

The son of a respected academic, Abbas’ installations are complex and ambiguous in ways that challenge visitors to rethink their relationship to physical space.

Hong Kong DJ Gia Fu first discovered Latin music in Chinese culture while working for Wong Kar-wai’s production company – since then, she’s played Glastonbury and opened for Marc Anthony.

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Former classmates Samuel Swope and Sarah Lai have found a meeting point for their distinct practices, with a new collaborative exhibition in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Artists such as Mak Ying-tung 2 and Wu Jiaru are weaving elements of tarot, astrology and feng shui into their works as the role of such concepts moves beyond superstitious hobbies.

The Sars epidemic, China’s nine-dash line in the South China Sea and the ‘fear of now’ – Hong Kong art inspired by the city’s modern history is on show, unusually, at commercial galleries in the city.

Architect David Adjaye has a firm admirer in artist Adam Pendleton, with whom he shares an exhibition opening in Hong Kong in which they ask questions about identity.

In the short film Magic Kingdom, Hong Kong filmmaker Nelson Ng recalls how the promise of a visit to Disneyland was used by Chinese parents in the 1990s as a pretext for what was a one-way trip to begin a new life in America.

Chinese-American mines history of pestilence and of 19th century Chinese labourers in America’s sugar, tobacco, and opium industries – expressed viscerally in her choice of materials such as a charcoal made from burning animal bones, once used to refine sugar cane.

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