No Country Exhibition Opening Events

A red carpet evening of No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Ronnie C. Chan, Co-Chairman of Asia Society and Chairman Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Chi-Won Yoon, CEO of UBS Asia Pacific, Richard Armstrong, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, Kathy Shih, CEO of UBS Wealth Management Asia-Pacific, S. Alice Mong, Executive Director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator of South and Southeast Asia, Melissa Chiu, Museum Director of the Asia Society New York Center and Vice President of Global Art Programs, and Dominiq

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, artist, Dominique Chan, Exhibition Curator of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator of South and Southeast Asia, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, artist and Vincent Leong, artist

No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia opening dinner at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Speech by S. Alice Mong, Executive Director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, at the No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Opening Dinner at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Speech by Richard Armstrong, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, at the No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia opening dinner at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Speech by Chi-Won Yoon, CEO of UBS Asia Pacific, at the No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia opening dinner at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

S. Alice Mong, Executive Director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Richard Armstrong, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, Chi-Won Yoon, CEO of UBS Asia Pacific, June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator of South and Southeast Asia, Kathy Shih, CEO of UBS Wealth Management Asia-Pacific, Ronnie C. Chan, Co-Chairman of Asia Society and Chairman Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Melissa Chiu, Museum Director of the Asia Society New York Center and Vice President of Global Art Programs, and Dominiq

Richard Armstrong, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator of South and Southeast Asia, Ronnie C. Chan, Co-Chairman of Asia Society and Chairman Asia Society Hong Kong Center, and Melissa Chiu, Museum Director of the Asia Society New York Center and Vice President of Global Art Programs at toasting ceremony of the exhibition opening dinner

The Hong Kong New Music Ensemble’s performance at No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia opening dinner

No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia opening cocktail reception on Joseph Lau and Josephine Lau Roof Garden

No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Opening cocktail reception at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Speech by Ronnie C. Chan, Co-Chairman of Asia Society and Chairman Asia Society Hong Kong Center, at the No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Opening cocktail reception at Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Guest viewing of No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia exhibition at Asia Society Gallery (Former Magazine A)

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HONG KONG, October 31, 2013 - Asia Society Hong Kong Center has launched its latest exhibition No country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia exhibition on October 30. The exhibition is a part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, a multi-year collaboration charting contemporary art practice in three geographic regions and a cultural engagement of UBS. As the first touring exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, the Hong Kong exhibition features recent work by 13 artists from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. No Country presents some of the most challenging and inventive voices in South and Southeast Asia today.

In celebration of the exhibition’s opening, UBS, Soloman R.Guggenheim Museum and Foundation and Asia Society Hong Kong Center had hosted two evenings of red carpet events including an opening dinner on October 28 and a cocktail reception on October 29. Over 400 art lovers from Hong Kong and around the world attended the occasions that marked a successful beginning for the exhibition.

The exhibition and events were made possible with Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation and UBS’s tremendous support.