‘The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial’
Dec 2006 -
May 2007

'The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' (APT5) was the opening exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and the refurbished Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) building, with displays across both sites making the exhibition twice the scale of previous Triennials.
APT5 included around 353 works by 35 individual artists, filmmakers and performers, as well as two multi-artist projects. Highlights included commissioned works by artists Ai Weiwei (China), Dinh Q Lê (Vietnam) and eX de Medici (Australia), as well as the Triennial's strongest representation of Pacific artists to date. Curated cinema and performance programs brought a dynamic new dimension to APT5, and allowed an exploration of these media on a scale never before presented by the Triennial.
For APT5 the Gallery undertook an intensive acquisitions program, with approximately 70 per cent of works displayed acquired for the Collection.
FEATURE IMAGE: Zhou Xiaohu / China b.1960 / Utopian theatre 2006 / 11-channel video and fired clay installation, 11 DVDs (1:00 minute each, colour, stereo), 11 television monitors, 10 sets of headphones / Purchased 2007. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund / Collection: QAGOMA / © Zhou Xiaohu
ARTISTS: AI Weiwei | Khadim ALI | Jackie CHAN | Beck COLE | Justine COOPER | eX DE MEDICI | Jitish KALLAT | Anish KAPOOR | Bharti KHER | Sutee KUNAVICHAYANONT | KWON Ki-soo | Dinh Q LE | LONG MARCH PROJECT | Djambawa MARAWILI | Nasreen MOHAMEDI | Tuan Andrew NGUYEN | Dennis NONA | Eko NUGROHO | Tsuyoshi OZAWA | PACIFIC TEXTILES PROJECT | Stephen PAGE | PAIMAN | Michael PAREKOWHAI | John PULE | Nusra Latif QURESHI | Rashid RANA | Sangeeta SANDRASEGAR | Kumar SHAHANI | Talvin SINGH | Michael STEVENSON | Masami TERAOKA | Yuken TERUYA | Sima URALE | VIET LINH | Gordon WALTERS | Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL | YANG Fudong | YANG Zhenzhong | YOO Seung-ho
Collection artworks featured in ‘The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Light and easy no. 15 2002
- YANG Zhenzhong - Creator

Dangau pui 2006
- NONA, Dennis - Creator

Fala pati (Mat) 1988
- KAAFI, Susana - Creator

Proposal for a Vietnamese landscape #3: Link Sao, day manh cong nghiep hoa, cong nghe mang tinh nhan ban (Link Sao, push industrialisation, human technology) 2006
- NGUYEN, Tuan Andrew - Artist
- HA, Phu Nam Thuc - Collaborating artist
- LINK-FISH - Collaborating artist
- YELLOW, Ca Sau - Collaborating artist
- GIL - Collaborating artist
- NGO DONG - Collaborating artist
- HUANG, Jason - Collaborating artist

Making for Sheppey 2004
- STEVENSON, Michael - Creator

Light and easy no. 24 2002
- YANG Zhenzhong - Creator

O Tamaiti 1996
- URALE, Sima - Creator

Untitled 1998
- PULE, John - Creator

Lagaki (To lift) (series) 2000-05
- PULE, John - Creator

Light and easy no. 5 2002
- YANG Zhenzhong - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1971
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Gutian (from 'Assembly hall series no.6') 2006
- MU Chen - Collaborating artist
- SHAO Yinong - Collaborating artist

Xibaipo (from 'Assembly hall series no.6') 2006
- MU Chen - Collaborating artist
- SHAO Yinong - Collaborating artist

Blind me 2005
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Azalina Othman 1 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Code 22 - Azalina Othman 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Tengku Mahalel 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Pahamin Rejab 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Nik Aziz 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Samy Vellu 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Idris Jusoh 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Mahathir Mohamad 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Code 21 - Najib Tun Razak 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Tun Abdul Razak 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Code 14 - Raja Aziz Addruse 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Kerk Kim Hock 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Mazzaru 2006
- NONA, Dennis - Creator

I'm lost in my mind 2004
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Is anybody still care? 2005
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Nobody 2005
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Still Life 2001
- URALE, Sima - Creator

Ibe vakabati (Mat) c.2001
- UNKNOWN - Creator

The miniature long march 2002-05
- QIN Ga - Creator

yodeleheeyoo! 2006
- YOO Seung-ho - Creator

Notice - Forest 2006
- TERUYA, Yuken - Creator

Heroes with weapons 1 2006
- ALI, Khadim - Creator

Off shore accounts - II 2006
- RANA, Rashid - Creator

Boomerang 2006
- AI Weiwei - Creator

Tifaifai (Marquesan style) 2000
- TAMARII, Emma - Creator

Proposal for a Vietnamese landscape #1: Doan ket quyet thang, khat khao hon, Dinh (United and determined to triumph, thirst for more, Dinh) 2006
- NGUYEN, Tuan Andrew - Artist
- HA, Phu Nam Thuc - Collaborating artist
- LINK-FISH - Collaborating artist
- YELLOW, Ca Sau - Collaborating artist
- GIL - Collaborating artist
- NGO DONG - Collaborating artist
- HUANG, Jason - Collaborating artist

Garangali 2006
- MARAWILI, Djambawa - Creator

Fala su'i (Mat) c.1984, reworked 2004
- POUTASI, Laupule - Artist
- LUAFUTU, Tusi - Artist

Light and easy no. 9 2002
- YANG Zhenzhong - Creator

Ibe vakabati (Mat) 2003
- LEDUA, Filiti Leya - Creator

Proposal for a Vietnamese landscape #2: Doc Lap Tu Do, Gil, Toc Luon Vao Nep (Independence and freedom, Gil, your hair back into place) 2006
- NGUYEN, Tuan Andrew - Artist
- HA, Phu Nam Thuc - Collaborating artist
- LINK-FISH - Collaborating artist
- YELLOW, Ca Sau - Collaborating artist
- GIL - Collaborating artist
- NGO DONG - Collaborating artist
- HUANG, Jason - Collaborating artist

Dropping a Han dynasty urn 1995
- AI Weiwei - Creator

Oh! Darling 2005-06
- YOO Seung-ho - Creator

The farmers and the helicopters 2006
- NGUYEN, Tuan Andrew - Collaborating artist
- HA, Phu Nam Thuc - Collaborating artist
- LE, Dinh Q. - Artist

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1978
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1970
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1968
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Maoping (from 'Assembly hall series no.6') 2006
- MU Chen - Collaborating artist
- SHAO Yinong - Collaborating artist

Yangjialing (from 'Assembly hall series no.6') 2006
- MU Chen - Collaborating artist
- SHAO Yinong - Collaborating artist

Rahim Tamby Chik 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Chandra Muzzafar 1 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Daim Zainuddin 1 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Tun Salleh Abbas 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Hassan Merican 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Muhammad Taib 1 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Ungku Aziz 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Kamaruddin Meranun 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Tunku Abdul Rahman 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Subramaniam 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Chin Peng 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Eric Chia 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Long March in Panjiayuan B 2004
- HONG Hao - Creator

Welcome back virus 2004
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Untitled (1) 2005
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Trust me 2005
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Utopian theatre 2006
- ZHOU Xiaohu - Creator

Ibe vakabati (Mat) 2005
- YALI, Repeka - Creator

The Theory of Everything 2005
- de MEDICI, eX - Creator

Eoheung - Once upon a time 2006
- YOO Seung-ho - Creator

Silent spaces 1 2005
- QURESHI, Nusra Latif - Creator

Heroes with weapons 3 2006
- ALI, Khadim - Creator

Live the (Big Black) Dream 2006
- de MEDICI, eX - Creator

Couronne du Roi (The King's crown) 2003
- TAMARII, Emma - Artist
- TAMARII, Marie-Therese - Collaborating artist

Void (#13) 1991-92
- KAPOOR, Anish - Creator

Baraltja 2005
- MARAWILI, Djambawa - Creator

922 rice corns 2000
- YANG Zhenzhong - Creator

Light and easy no. 17 2002
- YANG Zhenzhong - Creator

Painted vases 2006
- AI Weiwei - Creator

Light and easy no. 16 2002
- YANG Zhenzhong - Creator

Table with two legs 2004
- AI Weiwei - Creator

Light and easy 2002
- YANG Zhenzhong - Creator

Angel in pink (fala su'i) c.1980-85
- UNKNOWN - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1981
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1972
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1971
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1971
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Untitled c.1958
- MOHAMEDI, Nasreen - Creator

Acts II 1994
- PAREKŌWHAI, Michael - Creator

Mao Zedong and Mao Zedong 2003
- WANG Wenhai - Creator

Sessere 2004
- NONA, Dennis - Creator

Changgang (from 'Assembly hall series no.6') 2006
- MU Chen - Collaborating artist
- SHAO Yinong - Collaborating artist

Qixianzhuang (from 'Assembly hall series no.6') 2006
- MU Chen - Collaborating artist
- SHAO Yinong - Collaborating artist

Story of the Red Army 2004
- LIU Jieqiong - Creator

Rashid Maidin 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Musa Hitam 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Nazri Aziz 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Syed Ahmad Jamal 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Lim Kit Siang 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Muhammad Taib 2 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Sharir Samad 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Muhammad Taib 3 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Code 54 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Code 58 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Rahim Noor 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Marina Mahathir 2005
- PAIMAN - Creator

Long March in Panjiayuan A 2004
- HONG Hao - Creator

Untitled (2) 2005
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Free as a gun 2005
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Trick me please 2006
- NUGROHO, Eko - Creator

Ibe vakabati (Mat) 2005
- KUDRUVI, Seruwaia - Creator

I yara yara (Baby mat) 2005-06
- MARA, Finau - Creator

Personal archive 2004-06
- STEVENSON, Michael - Creator

Lotusland 1999
- LE, Dinh Q. - Creator

Backdrops II 2001
- QURESHI, Nusra Latif - Creator

Conversations II 2001
- QURESHI, Nusra Latif - Creator

Afterthoughts 2001
- QURESHI, Nusra Latif - Creator

Pillar through round table 2004-05
- AI Weiwei - Creator

Tairiiri (fan) 2005-06
- BROADBENT, Tungane - Creator
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