Asia Art Archive 2026 Annual Fundraiser
Over 50 Artworks in Support of Archival Innovation
Asia Art Archive (AAA) hosts its 2026 Annual Fundraiser, bringing over 50 works generously donated by artists, galleries, and patrons to auction. Running online from 22 October to 6 November, there will be a public preview hosted at H Queen’s in Hong Kong from 22 to 25 October. Proceeds directly sustain AAA’s mission to preserve, document, and connect contemporary art histories across Asia while expanding open-access educational resources.
Since its inception in 2000, AAA has evolved from a localised initiative into a repository of information. Expanding its scope beyond collection-building, the organisation actively develops systems, partnerships, and professional training programmes to safeguard Asia’s art histories, currently led by Executive Director Özge Ersoy.
The opening of its dedicated digitisation lab and archiving facility in 2025 marked a major milestone, doubling operational capacity and facilitating the digitisation of over 10,000 records in the past year alone. This brings AAA’s freely accessible online library to over 150,000 records.
Recent milestones include the launch of the Archiving Handbook in August 2026—a practical resource for artists and independent spaces developed through workshops held across Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Riyadh, and Ho Chi Minh City. Looking forward, AAA will launch New Archive: Hong Kong at the Forefront of Preserving Arts and Culture in late 2026. Supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme, this two-year programme focuses on digital preservation, professional training, and technical experimentation.
As an official media partner of the annual fundraiser, Art & Market would like to highlight the following artworks by Southeast Asian artists available at auction:
Mit Jai Inn, Untitled, 2024, oil on canvas, 120 × 120 × 3.7 cm. Donated by the artist.
Chiang Mai-based master Mit Jai Inn continues his exploration of paint as a tactile, sculptural medium. In Untitled, the artist applies hand-mixed pigments, combining oil and acrylic paints, gypsum powder, and linseed oil onto unstretched canvas. Using palette knives and his hands, he presses dense circular mounds into radiant, overlapping discs that extend across the surface. The physically rigorous, meditative process gives the composition a sculptural presence that reflects Mit's commitment to color as an active, open-ended physical experience.
Poklong Anading, water table (no. 10), 2022, etched mirror, 65 × 65cm. Donated by the artist and Silverlens.
In water table (no. 10), Manila-based artist Poklong Anading etches the bare crown of a tree onto the reverse side of a mirror. Extending his water table series, Anading investigates perception, memory, and natural ecosystems. While his earlier photographic works used reflective surfaces to redirect light and obscure identity, this series conceals the mirror's reflective surface under a web of etched branch networks. The result is a quiet contemplation on the underlying interconnectedness of natural forms.
Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Ebolusyon, 1976, 67.5 × 49.8cm. Donated by the artist and Silverlens.
Imelda Cajipe Endaya is a pioneering figure in Philippine feminist and social realist art. Ebolusyon is a rare 1976 serigraph print. Belonging to a three-part print series, the work employs silkscreen stencils and layered color tones to map abstract representations of ocean surfaces, skylines, and shifting sunlight. Oscillating between geometric blocks and fluid, organic shapes, Ebolusyon captures the cyclical, restorative dynamic between human life and the natural environment.
Jakkai Siributr, YOUR HISTORY IS NOT OURS, 2022, glass and plastic beads on a paint-splattered vintage Japanese denim jacket, 76 × 45cm. Donated by the artist and Flowers Gallery.
YOUR HISTORY IS NOT OURS is a work created as part of the Phayao-a-Porter project that leading Thai artist Jakkai Siributr initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Designed to support displaced artisans in Phayao province, the project provided fair employment, healthcare welfare, and educational scholarships. Siributr invited local seamstresses and dressmakers to embellish pre-used garments with intricate beadwork, embroidering messages about social equity and localized histories. Hand-beaded over a paint-splattered vintage Japanese denim jacket, the garment functions as both a wearable canvas and a poignant critique of marginalised narratives.
The auction further features key works by modern and contemporary figures across Greater China and South Asia, including Song Dong, Gu Wenda, Salmi Hashmi and more. The public preview takes place from 22 to 24 October from 11am to 7pm and on 25 October from 11am to 3pm at 11/F, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong. Online bidding takes place from 22 October, 10.30am to 6 November, 10.30pm via aaa2026auction.com.