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12/03/2009 - 31/05/2009 Casa Asia Headquarters, Exhibition Hall - 2nd Floor, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "China. Portrait of a Country (1949-2008)"

This exhibition gathers file images that document the history of China in the complex historical period that goes from 1949 until the present recovering, this way, the living history of a country through images that have become authentic symbols of history.

05/02/2009 - 14/06/2009 Casa Asia Centre - Madrid, Palacio de Miraflores, Carrera de San Jeronimo, 15, Madrid

Exhibition "Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History"

This exhibition collects the work of 10 Indian artists (Jitish Kallat, Reena S. Kallat, Nalini Malani, Sheba Chhachhi, Ravinder Reddy, Bharti Kher, Subodh Gupta, Ranbir Kaleka, Shilpa Gupta and Vivan Sundaram) representative of the strategies that dialogue adopts in defence of a new poscolonial identity. "Memory and History" merge with each other, sharing the function of legitimate stories which promote the creation of sceneries dwelled by a "translocal" subject in a global world.

12/06/2008 - 15/09/2008 Casa Asia Centre - Madrid, Palacio Miraflores, Sala Manila, Carrera de San Jerónimo, 15, Madrid

Exhibition "Rong Rong & inri: The Power of Ruins. Between Destruction and Construction"

The exhibition that Casa Asia presents aims at displaying part of the photographic route of the work of the Chinese artist Rong Rong (1968, Zhangzhou, province of Fujian, China), between 2000 and 2008. He is one of the most relevant figures of the avant-gardes of the end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties of last century.

09/05/2008 - 14/09/2008 Casa Asia Headquarters, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition "The Disappearance. Crossing the Deserts: From Gobi to Atacama"

The project that is presented is a coproduction of Casa Asia and CDAN (Centre of Art and Nature of Huesca), that Magdalena Correa has carried out in the course of the last two years, after her trip to the Patagonia as a result of which her previous work «Austral» was created. The antecedents must be searched for in the interest the toponymical figure of "desert" and its different variables present for the artist.

17/04/2008 - 15/06/2008 Casa Asia Headquarters, Transasia Space, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition by Bosco Sodi: "Forms of what's pictorial"

The exhibition by Bosco Sodi, presented by Casa Asia, would like to show the work carried out by this Mexican artist, who shares his residence between Barcelona, Berlin and Mexico City, during his recent stay in Japan after having been given the grant Tokyo Wonder Site.

07/02/2008 - 13/04/2008 Casa Asia Headquarters, Transasia Space, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "Contemporary Iranian Art Graphics"

This exhibition includes 27 posters of 21 authors. It is the most important particular collection of graphic design from Iran. It belongs to Reza Abedini, which is not just a collector, but also a designer. The works belong to a period that goes from 1970 to 2006 and its authors belong to different generations of designers that have caused progress and transformation of society on the basis of design.

01/02/2008 - 27/04/2008 Barcelona: Casa Asia Headquarters, Exhibitions Hall, Av. Diagonal, 373 / Madrid: Casa Asia Centre - Madrid, Palacio de Miraflores, Carrera de San Jerónimo, 15

Exhibition: "Raghu Rai"

The exhibition of the Indian photographer Raghu Rai would like to be the most complete anthological display carried out by the artist until today in Spain and it covers the crucial period of the history of contemporary India, between 1964 and 2007. Coinciding with the great exhibition the artist will open at the National Gallery of New Delhi, Casa Asia will display share out between Barcelona headquarters and Casa Asia Centre - Madrid.

09/10/2007 - 24/11/2007 Casa Asia Centre - Madrid, Palacio de Miraflores, Carrera de San Jerónimo, 15, Madrid

Exhibition: "Murakami"

Casa Asia presents a group of lithographies, objects and gadgets by Takashi Murakami, a Japanese artist that has transformed the object art into a product of consumption at the reach of broad public all over the world. The interest the artist causes comes from the procedure he uses for his production and the way he diffuses his work, using mechanisms of the market and with a broad invasive offer that has achieved an unconditional clientele.

27/09/2007 - 16/12/2007 Casa Asia Headquarters, Exhibition Hall, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "The rebirth of a nation: Graphic of propaganda in Vietnam from the 60's until the end of the 20th century"

It is the first time that the original graphic works of the artists that were authors of the propaganda and advertising that currently are the most valuable documents for the reconstruction of the historic memory are shown outside Vietnam. These images do not only lead the process of political and economic recovery of Vietnam, but they are also representative of the functionality of the avant-garde art of this period.

26/07/2007 - 16/09/2007 Casa Asia Headquarters, Exhibition Halls, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "Projecting Life Indoors"

The Korean artist Kyungwoo Chun and the Spanish artist Ana Laura Alaez will unite for this exhibition hosted by Casa Asia, "Projecting Life Indoors", a display of video and photography conceived in Korea that reflect on the construction of an identity. This exhibition is presented within the framework of the Year of Korea in Spain and of an Asia Festival with this country of East Asia as the guest country.

21/06/2007 - 30/09/2007 Casa Asia Centre - Madrid, Palacio de Miraflores, Carrera San Jerónimo, 15, Madrid

Exhibition: "The invention of the present"

Six Chinese acknowledged artists representative of the new generations -Liu Zheng, Yan Huang, An Hong, Wang Qingson, Yang Fudong and Zhang Huan- make up this photography exhibition with which Casa Asia opens its delegation at the Palacio Miraflores of Madrid. It consists of a display made up of around fifty works that reveal the large material and social changes of contemporary China that take place from the decade of the 90's, as a result of the expansion of the ideology of consumption and mass culture.

27/04/2007 - 23/06/2007 Casa Asia. TransAsia Space. Av. Diagonal 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "Parts of a light world"

This exhibition displays a group of 27 poems by the critic, writer and poet Juan Bufill, accompanied by paintings with collage by Masafumi Yamamoto (1947), a Japanese artist established in Barcelona for 35 years who has closed an anthological exhibition of his works, 232 works, at the Yamanashi Museum of Art in Japan.

18/04/2007 - 20/07/2007 Casa Asia Headquarters, Pusan, Elcano, Palaos, Kobe and Rizal Halls, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "Hyperarchitecture and Hyperdesign: New Urban Models of 21st Century China"

The leitmotiv of the photographer and painter José Manuel Ballester's new work is to find poetry and beauty in the new dehumanized architecture of the 21st century. Through more than twenty large-format photographs, the public could accompany this Spanish artist on his trips to China to discover the urban landscape the skylines of new Chinese cities are drawing.

14/02/2007 - 20/05/2007 Fundación Telefónica. Gran Vía, 28, Madrid

Exhibition "Nam June Paik and Korea: From fantasy to hyperreality "

This exhibition devoted to Nam June Paik, the father of video art, is the first anthology held in Europe after his death in January 2006, which offers a broader understanding of the Korean roots of this artist. Some of his most famous works will be displayed, together with several works inspired in archetypes never exhibited outside Korea before.

17/01/2007 - 08/04/2007 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "Papers from Japan", by Àlex de Fluvià

'Papers from Japan' by Àlex de Fluvià were considered a visual diary by the artist, where the experience of a journey and change are the origin of a semantic collage that have a subsequent continuity in his pictorial work. Àlex de Fluvià originates from a beginning process that leads him to an abstraction model, where difference is produced as an effect of the repetition of a reason, whatever shape it adopts.

19/12/2006 - 08/04/2007 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "O chá da China"

Casa Asia, in collaboration with the Macao Science and Culture Centre, hosts the exhibition "O chá da China" ("China Tea"), a collection of 254 pieces of Chinese ceramics centred on the world of tea, which covers the 8th to the 18th century, by the Portuguese collector Luis Mendes da Graça.

18/07/2006 - 31/08/2006 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "India. Photographs by Tarun Chopra"

Casa Asia and Sonimagfoto present this photographic exhibition by the Indian artist Tarun Chopra. Through large-format black and white photographs, Chopra presents a vision of India from inside, reflecting diversity and interculturality that portray its culture and offer a personal and universal vision of the different facets of this fascinating country.

27/06/2006 - 09/07/2006 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "Mongolian Art in Barcelona"

This exhibition is organised by Solidary Medicine Foundation of Barcelona, in collaboration with Casa Asia, within the framework of a cooperation project made up of teaching and technology, aimed at fighting against cardiovascular illnesses, which will be developed in Mongolia between 2006 and 2007. Works of art by a series of Mongolian contemporary painters can be discovered and one of the artists Tsegmed Tserrennadmid will be at the opening celebration.

30/05/2006 - 18/06/2006 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition and documentary series: "Kickin' up dust"

Casa Asia will host the exhibition Kickin' up Dust. Indigenous Australian: identity and diversity cultures, between the local tradition and the "global village". The diversity of aboriginal cultures of current Australia will be displayed through 40 photographs by Peter Eve, Michael Hutchinson, Liberty Seekee, Jillian Mundy, Adam Thompson and Vernon Graham. Parallelly, a documentary series about cultures of Indigenous Australians will be held.

11/05/2006 - 24/09/2006 Centro Conde Duque, c/ Conde Duque 9-11, Madrid

"Philippiniana"

Owing to the Year of Philippines - Spain 2006, Casa Asia and the Ministry of Culture present the exhibition Philippiniana, a large display of works of art (paintings, sculptures, photography, cinema, video and installations) and documentation, which analyses the "colonial" past and the "global" present of the Philippines, for the first time in Spain.

27/04/2006 - 30/08/2006 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Exhibition: "Manila" by Ricky Dávila

The Manila project is the result of five trips Ricky Dávila made to the capital of the Philippines. The author portrays this immense city with influences from the East and the West in a feature where the infinite cultural variety can be grasped from the experiences of its inhabitants.

20/01/2006 - 16/04/2006 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Pierre Gonnord, Asian portraits

Under the title "Asian Portraits", Casa Asia presents 24 photographs by the photographer Pierre Gonnord, internationally acknowledged by this way of covering photography "from the purity of a language without artifices". Parallelly, the Institut Français in Barcelona presents another exhibition by the same artist.

07/10/2005 - 22/01/2006 MARCO. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo

CHIKAKU. Time and memory in Japan

The Japanese word chikaku, made up of two characters: chi (knowledge) and kaku (feeling), represents thought and feeling. This is the title of a display that Japan Foundation and MARCO exhibit in Vigo, in collaboration with Casa Asia; an exhibition that analyses the evolution of Japanese art in the last fifty years through a selection of works of art of 16 artists from different generations with a special approach of three concepts: perception forms, sense of time and memory structures.

27/09/2005 - 10/01/2006 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

3 x Asia

This exhibition presents around a hundred paintings, drawings, murals, objects and video screening works of art made by three Basque artists: Judas Arrieta, Marta Cárdenas and José Llanos whose common path is their inspiration based on their interest for Asia.

24/05/2005 - 20/07/2005 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Sacred art in Indian traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism

This display includes 43 pieces of religious classic art from India, Himalayas and Southeast Asia. These works are part of different Spanish private collections, and they belong to historic periods from the first and fourth century to the eighteenth and they represent the three great religions of the Indian world.

11/03/2005 - 15/05/2005 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Poster exhibition of the Japanese graphic designer Yukiya Takakita

In the framework of the Exchange Year between UE and Japanese citizens, the Japanese graphic designer Yukiya Takakita will present a collection of original posters which will be displayed on the walls and bars of the stairs of Palace Baró de Quadras, Casa Asia Headquarters, on its four floors. The opening event will take place next 10th of March at 8pm. The artist will also attend this event.

25/02/2005 - 15/05/2005 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Bastards of Misrepresentation

Casa Asia has organized the exhibition "Bastards of Misrepresentation" by the Phillipine artist Manuel Ocampo which will be exhibited at the exhibition hall of Casa Asia from the 25th of February to the 15th of May of 2005. The works that will be displayed are 16 large format paintings and 11 drawings.

14/01/2005 - 13/02/2005 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Hong Kong

The exhibition hall of Casa Asia will show the photography exhibition "Hong Kong" from next Friday the 15th of January until the 13th of February, by the Belgian photographer Jean-Dominique Burton. 38 medium format blank and white pictures depict the author's impressions who travelled to the British ex colony in 2001 for observing the transformation this city had gone through after it had been given back to the Chinese government.

05/11/2004 - 23/12/2004 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Out of the Ordinary/Extraordinary: Japanese contemporary photography

This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Consulate in Barcelona, consists of a hundred photographs of 11 Japanese artists that propose a critical and reflexive look at today's Japanese society, at the country's changes of the last 50 years and at the consequences of the values of a capitalist system in crisis.

26/07/2004 - 12/09/2004 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Asian mega cities, urban emergent life styles and forms. Beijing. Shangai. Tokio. Hong Kong.

This proposal, made of 60 medium size panels, shows the project on urbanism "Asian cities of Soho", which has been designed by the Hong University Megacity investigation team, for Beijing, Shangai, Tokio and Hong Kong.

20/04/2004 - 30/06/2004 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Iran under the Skin: An Encounter with Iranian Cultures

Iran under the Skin is a timely initiative given the present political and social situation in the country and is presented at both the CCCB and Casa Asia. It includes interventions in the space, exhibitions, a number of talks, a film festival and a season of documentaries, and offers a new vision of the numerous facets of contemporary Iranian culture.

12/03/2004 - 15/04/2004 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

GAIJIN, dress of ideas. Manuel Valencia

The artist presents the result of three years of creation in Casa Asia, that he divides in two parts. In the first part, he shows a reflection of Zen influence in Western art of the 20th century, and renovation effects of avant-garde art and contemporary art. The second part deals with an intimate reflection on trips and writing, always under the same Oriental influence.

29/01/2004 - 02/03/2004 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Japanese design. Posters (1193-2000)

75 large-format posters, representative of Japanese advertising design in the last decade, make up this exhibition presented by Casa Asia in collaboration with the Japan Foundation. The aims of the exhibition are to enable the public to discover Japan through its advertising, and to contribute towards disseminating a genre that stands out for its communicative and aesthetic values as well as its use of new technologies.

12/12/2003 - 01/03/2004 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

India-Mexico. Parallel Courses

This exhibition contains images of India and Mexico which, despite the distance between the two countries, draw them closer and break down the differences that characterize their individuality, while respecting each one's identity.

21/10/2003 - 06/12/2003 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

The Red Box

Artists Manuel Cáceres and José Luis Miranda share canvases in "The Red Box", an exhibition presented by Casa Asia that brings together 28 large-format paintings in Indian ink on oil and acrylic backgrounds, reproducing images from China's Cultural Revolution with "pop-art" techniques.

17/09/2003 - 12/10/2003 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Garden. Silence. Symbol. Jaime Zóbel

Casa Asia presents, in collaboration with the Embassy of Philippines, the exhibition "Garden, Silence, Symbol", by the Philippine photographer, Jaime Zóbel. The exhibition shows 46 photographs, chosen among the artist's previous and new collections, and he suggests a route through the different stages of progression of human life.

17/07/2003 - 09/09/2003 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373 Barcelona

The unstable Archive. Key Word: Iran. Scenes of Contemporary Iranian Culture.

«The unstable Archive. Key Word: Iran», a proposal that centres its look in Iran with the works of some Iranian authors, plastic artists, film makers, photographers and journalists.

03/07/2003 - 09/09/2003 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Frederic Amat. Papers from India

The exhibition gathers around a hundred works the artist from Barcelona acquired throughout the two years he stayed in India. This exhibition shows the trace of these trips to India: stains, strokes, palimpsests... colour and shape printings that the artist shows us on different mediums.

27/03/2003 - 22/06/2003 Casa Asia, Av. Diagonal, 373, Barcelona

Divine Presence. Art in India and the Himalayas

Divine Presence: Art in India and the Himalayas honours the artistic richness of one of the areas in the world with more talent for aesthetic representation. The art works of this exhibition have arrived from twenty six public and private collections in Europe and North America; they can be considered legitimate cultural ambassadors because each art work inherently has the marks of the place and of the periods of when it was carried out.

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11/12/2002 - 19/01/2003 Pavilions of the Güell House of Pedralbes, in Barcelona

Gaudi seen from the Japanese look

"Gaudi seen from the Japanese look" is the contribution from Casa Asia to the 2002 International Gaudi Year. The exhibition considers contacts between Gaudi and Japan with the work of three Japanese photographers that contribute three personal perspectives of the work of the brilliant Catalonian architect.

04/12/2002 - 12/01/2003 Centro Cívico Convent de Sant Agustí

Toyo Ito Arquitect

Casa Asia has presented the exhibition "Toyo Ito architect" that would like to approach one of the most important projects made by this Japanese architect to the public. He is considered one of the most original and innovative architects of the latest decades.

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