Performance

Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission

Performance

Presented by Lahore Biennale Foundation with the support of the Embassy of France in Pakistan and Pakistan International Airlines

Jury:
Takesada Matsutani – Artist
Kate Van Houten – Artist
Nathanaëlle Herbelin – 2019 Laureate
Jean-Philippe Bourgeno – Collector, Publisher
Tom Laurent – Art Critic
Finalists artists:
Liang Fu (Nicodim gallery)
Daiga Grantina (Emalin gallery)
Séquoia Scavullo (sans titre gallery)
Natsuko Uchino (Sorry We’re Closed gallery)

Performance

Presented by the French Agency for AlUla Development (AFALULA) and Arts AlUla

Conversation

Speakers
Hajra Haider Karrar, the Guest Curator of Colomboscope 2026
Basir Mahmood, Artist

Performance

Presented by Louis & Sack

Conversation

Speakers
Jay Junghee Kim, Artistic Director, Curator, Founder/Director PUSH TO ENTER
Mizuho Yamazaki, Independent Researcher, Curator
Arnaud Morand, Independent Curator, Member of Asia Now 2025 Curatorial Collective, Head of Arts AFALULA
Han Mengyun, Artist

Moderator
Sophie Mayuko Arni, Independent Curator, Founding Editor of Global Art Daily

Performance

Presented by Lahore Biennale Foundation with the support of the Embassy of France in Pakistan and Pakistan International Airlines

Conversation

Speakers
Annette Johansen, Director of  the Thorvaldsen Museum
Bharti Kher, Artist, represented by Perrotin, Hauser & Wirth and Nature Morte

Moderator
Kathy Alliou, Curator

Performance

Presented by the French Agency for AlUla Development (AFALULA) and Arts AlUla

Conversation

Speakers
Vittoria Matarese, Independent Curator, Artistic Director, Riyadh Art Week
John Tain, Curator, Lahore Biennale
Anissa Touati, Curator, Visiting Scholar at Brown University and Co-curator of the Biennale BCK in Greece

Moderator
Arnaud Morand, Independent Curator and Head of Arts at Afalula

Performance

Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission

Cinema NOW

Jess Kohl, Photographers in Focus: Yushi Li, 2020
Dan Zhao, NOWNESS China: One Day Someday, 2023 (featuring Leah Dou)
James J Robinson, Video Art Visions: On Golden Days, 2023
Khanh Nguyen & Lam Dao Dao, 0s, 2024 (featuring Antiart)
Kathleen Malay, Anatomy of an Artist: Natasha Tontey, 2024 (featuring Natasha Tontey, commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary)
Linda Brownlee, Simone Rocha Hong Kong Dress, 2015 (featuring Simone Rocha)
Kitty Yeung, Private View: Joshua Serafin, 2025
Haonan, NOWNESS Experiments: Intermission, 2025
Andrew Thomas Huang, Kiss of the Rabbit God, 2019
Roni Shao, Frontiers, 2019

Fun Fair / Atelier Enfants

Curated by Thanks for Nothing

Conversation

Speakers
Pierre Gautier, Commissaire des collections japonaises, Musée Cernuschi
Yoshimi Futamura, Artiste

Performance

Presented by Colomboscope

Performance

Presented by Lahore Biennale Foundation with the support of the Embassy of France in Pakistan and Pakistan International Airlines

Conversation

Speakers
Nav Haq, Senior Curator at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
Jamilya Nurkalieva, Director, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture

Moderator
Dr. Shwetal A. Patel, Founding Member, Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Performance

Presented by Cuturi Gallery

Conversation

Speakers
Aïda Adilbek, Multidisciplinary Artist and Curator, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Inga Lāce, Chief Curator, Almaty Museum of Arts, Kazakhstan
Jamilya Nurkalieva, Director, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture
Dilda Ramazan, Independent Curator, based in Paris, France

Moderators
Carolina Hernández Muñoz, International Networks Manager, AWARE: Archive of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions
Matylda Taszycka, Head of Research Programs, AWARE: Archive of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions

*This title comes from artist Saule Souleimenova’s 2019 eponymous work.

Performance

Performance

Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission

Cinema NOW

Films:
Pooya Razi (Iran/Uk) / Not Being / 9”
Pooya Abbasian (Iran/France) / Maltournée / 24”
Azin Feizabadi (Iran/Germany) / In Transit / 24”
Elahe Esmaili (Iran/Uk) / A Move / 26”
Parisa Aminollahi (Iran/Netherlands), A Place to Call Home / 10”
Siavash Naghshbandi (Iran) / Dissociative Amnesia / 6”
Mina Keshavarz (Iran/France) / Phobos / 15”
Sara Rajaei (Iran/Netherlands) / City of Poets / 21’22”
Sogol & Joubeen (Iran/France) / Slowly, We Drift Apart, 11’58”
Arash Fayez (Iran/Spain) / Yek Video-ye Bedoun-e Onvan), 5’40”

Performance

Presented by Colomboscope

Fun Fair / Atelier Enfants

Curated by Thanks for Nothing

Conversation

Speakers
Sumakshi Singh, Artist and Educator
Amin Jaffar, Director of The Al Thani Collection
Shubhankar Bharti, Curator and Co-founder of TAK Contemporary

Moderator
Sayali Mundye, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art

Conversation

Speakers:
Kate Van Houten, Artist, Co-founder and Vice President of the SHŌEN Foundation
Tom Laurent, Art critic, Head of support for creation and publications at the SHŌEN Foundation
Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Artist, Winner of the Matsutani Prize in 2019 and Member of the jury in 2025

Moderator
Liyu Yeo, Asia NOW VIP Ambassador

Conversation

Speakers
Dr. Shwetal A. Patel, Founding Member, Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Nikhil Chopra, Artist & Curator of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025
Anissa Touati, Researcher at Brown University, USA, Co-Curator of the Biennale BCK in Greece

Conversation

Speakers
Céline Paul, directrice du Musée national de Céramique Manufactures nationales – Sèvres; Mobilier national

Conversation

Speakers
Victoire de Pourtalès, Curator, Fondatrice de 91530 Le Marais
Désiré Moheb-Zandi, Artiste
Marion Flament, Artiste
Emanuele Coccia, Philosophe

Moderator
Benjamin Eymère, Co-fondateur, 91530 Le Marais

Conversation

Speakers
CRO – Alexis Loisel-Montambaux, Curator and Writer
Vivien Zhang, Artist

Moderator
John Tain, Curator, Art historian, Writer

Conversation

Speakers
Ying Kwok, Senior Curator at Tai Kwun
Yao Qingmei, Artist
Han Qian, Artist

Cinema NOW

Artists
Chan Hau Chun
Ma Qiusha
Jordan Wong
Zhang Xiao

Performance

Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission

Fun Fair / Atelier Enfants

Curated by Thanks for Nothing

Performance

Presented by Lahore Biennale Foundation with the support of the Embassy of France in Pakistan and Pakistan International Airlines

Conversation

Speakers
Anthony Phuong, Co-founder and Director of A2Z Gallery
Pierre-Antoine Donnet, Journalist and Editor, Founder of Asia Magazine
FU Liang, Artist, Matsutani Prize Candidate

Moderator
Jean-Michel Dumont, Co-founder and General Secretary of Asia Society France

Lecture-performance

Presented by BAIK ART

Conversation

Speakers
Marie Martraire,  Curator and Director of Collections & Special Programs of KADIST
Yuan Fuca, writer, curator, and researcher, Associate Program Director for China at Kadist.
Eunice Tsang, Curator and founder of Current Plans
Clara Che Wei Peh, Independent curator and writer

Conversation

Speakers
Sébastien Borget, Co-fondateur, The Sandbox
Sébastien Devaud (Agoria), Artiste et musicien
Victoire de Pourtalès, Fondatrice 91.530 Le Marais

Moderator
Benjamin Eymère, Fondateur, Soilonic

Ceremony of the RAK Art Prize Foundation, honoring two artists chosen by a distinguished jury from among the participants of Asia Now.
Jury composed of Benedica M. Badia de Nordenstahl, Art Patron (Argentina-USA-Singapore); Emre Baykal, Director of Arter Foundation (Turkey); Dr. Sara Raza, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Tashkent, (Uzbekistan); Salma Tuqan, Director of Nottingham Contemporary (United Kingdom); and Anissa Touati, Researcher at Brown University (United States) and Co-Curator of the Biennale BCK, Greece.
In the presence of Yasmin Sharabi, Director of the RAK Art Foundation (Bahrain).

Cinema NOW

Following the inaugural edition of Artists’ Cinema / Artist’s Cinema at the Jaipur Centre for Art in the summer of 2025, curator Dr. Shwetal A. Patel will present a special screening of seminal moving image works by the New Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective at Asia NOW.

Fun Fair / Atelier Enfants

Curated by Thanks for Nothing

Conversation

Speakers
Hoa Dung Clerget, Artist
Noor Mahnun (Anum), Artist
Macha Pangilinan, Artist

Moderator
Chelsea Pettitt, Director of the Bagri Foundation

Conversation

Speakers
Golzar Yousefi, Curatorial Advisor, MACS MTO®
Nirvana Assili, Member of Zendeh Delan ensemble

Performance

Music by:
Sahar Akrami (Harp)
Payam Akrami (Daf)
Aida Eftekhari (Tar)
Muriel Bocarra (Guitar & Vocals)
Sama: Afsoon Rezaei and Golzar Ojani

Cinema NOW

Complementing Lahore Biennale Foundation’s presentation of artworks in the Monnaie de Paris, Asia Now also presents a video program from Of Mountains and Seas, the 2024 edition, featuring video commissioned by the Lahore Biennale Foundation from Bani Abidi, Stolon Press (Simryn Gill and Tom Melick), Niamat Nigar, Fazal Rizvi, and Zheng Bo, as well as works by Gidree Bawlee, Salma Jamal Mousham and Kamruzzaman Shadhin.  The program, like the works on view throughout the Monnaie de Paris, offer a vision of ecological awareness from Asian perspectives. Powered by the French Embassy to Pakistan.

Zheng Bo, Phoenix, 2024
Gidree Bawlee, Salma Jamal Mousham, Kamruzzaman Shadhin, Lost Shadows, 2021
Nigar Niamat, The Blinks, 2024
Rizvi Fazal, How to Become a Rock – a fall, a poem, a wish, a score, a manifesto, 2024
Sin Wai Kin, The Fortress, 2024
Abidi Bani, KM-32, 2024
Stolon Press (Simryn Gill & Tom Melick), Hustle Culture, 2024

Performance