MEDIA KIT - Queensland Art Gallery - Queensland Government

30 July 2009
QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY TO HOST 6TH ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL
Image: Zhu Weibing, Ji Wenyu
People holding flowers (detail) 2007
The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer
Collection of Contemporary Asian Art.
Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
The Queensland Art Gallery today announced ‘The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial
of Contemporary Art’ (APT6), which will include for the first time contemporary
artists from North Korea (DPRK), Iran, Turkey, Tibet, Cambodia and Myanmar
(Burma).
Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood today said that APT6 would be
held at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and Queensland Art Gallery from
December 5, 2009 until April 5, 2010 and would profile new commissions and
recent work by more than 100 artists and filmmakers from over 25 countries
across the region.
‘The APT is the most extensive event on the international calendar for
contemporary art in Asia, Australia and the Pacific, and remains the flagship
exhibition for the Queensland Art Gallery. In APT6, we are thrilled to present
work from countries that have never before been represented in the Triennial.
In particular, the exhibition will focus on the importance of collaboration in art,
with contributions from several important collectives operating in the region.’
Mr Ellwood said.
APT6 will include three groundbreaking presentations: The Mansudae Art Studio project, co-curated with
filmmaker Nicholas Bonner (UK/China), the first presentation in Australia of contemporary art from North Korea
(DPRK); Pacific Reggae, co-curated with broadcaster Brent Clough (NZ/Australia), showcasing for the first time
music and music video by reggae artists from Hawai’i, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Papua
New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia; and The Mekong, co-curated with artist Rich Streitmatter-Tran
(Vietnam), featuring painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography and video from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
and Myanmar (Burma).
Australian artists presented in APT6 are the Philippines-born, Brisbane-based husband and wife team Alfredo
and Isabel Aquilizan; the Melbourne collective DAMP; Raafat Ishak (Melbourne); and Tracey Moffatt, who lives
and works in New York and the Sunshine Coast.
Internationally acclaimed directors Ang Lee (Taiwan/USA), Rithy Panh (Cambodia/France) and Takeshi Kitano
(Japan) are the artist-filmmakers, to be featured in the Australian Cinémathèque at the Gallery of Modern Art.
Mr Ellwood said the APT project remained unprecedented for Australian galleries in terms of its focus and
scale.
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