Contemporary Visual Arts Asia
Reimagining Asia through Contemporary Art
Building on our established track record in transcultural exchange, we are evolving the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) into Contemporary Visual Arts Asia (CVAA), expanding our research scope while maintaining our roots in China.
CVAA aims to generate new understandings and perspectives on contemporary art, design, and visual culture in Asia – particularly, in China, Japan and Korea – through interdisciplinary research and practice. Through an extensive network of regional and international partnerships, CVAA brings together artists, designers, curators and researchers to share expertise, facilitate exchange, and advance innovative modes of knowledge production within the globalised art world.
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Find out moreCCVA Asia PhD Forum 2025
This CCVA Asia PhD Forum is designed as a UK-wide platform to support PhD students further, enhance intellectual exchanges of ideas and critical debates, expand participation of young generation scholars, and celebrate our achievement of up-to-date doctoral research.
Our video seminar series
The Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts Asia has hosted a number of seminars covering a broad range of artistic areas.
Beyond Calligraphy: New Approaches in Contemporary Times
This conference on 15th-16th October 2026 welcomes papers that can advance critical analysis and broaden multidisciplinary perspectives on the emergence of these new forms of calligraphy and writing practises in contemporary China. Deadline for papers is 2nd February 2026.
