Nguyen Trinh Thi
47 Days, Sound-less
Singapore Art Museum
Jan 12–Apr 14

Known for her experimental moving-image work, Hanoi-based filmmaker Nguyen Trinh Thi continues to push the boundaries of film and video art. Produced as part of the Han Nefkens Foundation’s Moving Image Commission 2021, the multimedia video installation 47 Days, Sound-less (2023) explores sensuous worlds within landscapes. Humans appear as peripheral, complementary subjects, probing conceptions of ecological synergy.

Jane Jin Kaisen
Halmang
Esea contemporary, Manchester
Jan 20–Apr 21

For Jane Jin Kaisen’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, the Copenhagen-based artist and filmmaker will interrogate the spiritual endurance of oceans amid modernization. “Halmang” will showcase Kaisen’s recent, eponymous film from 2023, a culmination of her decade-long exploration of the communities and landscapes that make up Korea’s Jeju Island, where the artist has ancestral ties.

Yhonnie Scarce
The Light of Day
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Feb 2–May 19

Leading Kokatha-Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce’s “The Light of Day” will mark the largest ensemble of her large-scale, mixed-media installations in Australia to date. Working primarily with glass, Scarce creates chandelier-like artworks and an archival photography collection illuminates forgotten histories, from nuclear testing in her birthplace of Woomera and the persistent consequences of uranium mining.

Lee Mingwei
Rituals of Care
De Young Museum, San Francisco
Feb 17–Jul 7

Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei’s first major survey in the United States will present seven projects made between 1995 and 2024, including new commissions by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, inspired by grief and healing. Known for his participatory, mixed-media installations and performances, Lee creates projects that are exhibited in public spaces, inviting audiences to serendipitously connect.

Lala Rukh
In the Round
Sharjah Art Foundation
Feb 24–Jun 16

Born in Pakistan in 1948, the late Lala Rukh was both an artistic and a feminist trailblazer. Her first major survey, co-curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Natasha Ginwala, will feature more than 60 conceptual artworks spanning drawing, print, photography, video, and animation. Archival materials including interviews will also be displayed, contextualizing her sociopolitical organizing across South Asia.

Aki Sasamoto: Sounding Lines
Trevor Yeung: Soft Breath
Para Site, Hong Kong
Mar 16–Jul 28/Mar 16–May 19

Para Site’s twin exhibitions look to expand conversations about sculpture today, with Aki Sasamoto’s newly commissioned performance and moving-image works centered around sculpturally altered, found objects. Trevor Yeung’s “Soft Breath” features a soap-cast sculpture based on a tree at a popular London cruising spot.

Nicholas Mangan
A World Undone
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Apr 5–Jun 30

Nicholas Mangan’s first comprehensive survey, “A World Undone,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will present two decades of Mangan’s sculptural practice into the politics of the Earth’s geology and material cultures. The show culminates in his ongoing project Core-Coralations (2021– ), inspired by the Great Barrier Reef’s bleaching events.

IM Pei
Life is Architecture
M+, Hong Kong
Jun 29–TBA

In “Life is Architecture,” the first posthumous retrospective of Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei (Ieoh Ming Pei), M+ will survey Pei’s practice in close dialogue with sociocultural circumstances through his work and personal archives across different media. The exhibition will also include newly commissioned photographs of his architectural works by emerging artists in locations worldwide.

Anicka Yi
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
Sep 5–Dec 29

Interested in the potentials of technology, biology, and scent-making, the New York-based artist Anicka Yi will present her first solo exhibition in her hometown, at the Leeum Museum of Art. As part of the Leeum Museum of Art’s 20th-anniversary program, her projects will explore different modes of artistic experience through technology in order to engage the mind and the senses.

Mo Yi
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Sep 28–Dec 29

Born in 1958, Mo Yi has been recognized as a pioneering contemporary Chinese photographer since the 1980s. Using unorthodox, self-taught methods, Mo Yi captured the social fabric of 1980s China while defying the medium’s documentary traditions. His first major institutional exhibition at UCCA Beijing will focus on his early works.