icon center right icon bottom right

Promoting ASEAN Awareness Through Arts, Traditions and Values

The KONNECT ASEAN programme celebrates Southeast Asian arts using different platforms to explore and discuss social, political, economic, and environmental issues in the region.

  • All
  • Education & Conferences
  • Public Programmes
  • Publications & Archives
  • Residencies

Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art During a Cold War

Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art during a Cold War is a webinar series that expands the current discourses that shape the history and legacy of Afro-Asian solidarity by prospecting connections and imagined affinities between Africa and Southeast Asia as regional frameworks that emerged out of Cold War decolonisation projects. By examining cultural and […]

Fresh Take

In April 2021, Art & Market announced its second iteration of the ‘Fresh Take’ writing contest. This edition was held in partnership with KONNECT ASEAN, an ASEAN Foundation arts and cultural programme funded by the Republic of Korea, in search of new perspectives on the Southeast Asian or Korean art scene. We are pleased to […]

Virtual360 KONNECT Emerging Arts Leaders Virtual Residency Series

Asia-Europe Foundation through its arts website culture360.ASEF.org with the support of KONNECT ASEAN, an ASEAN Foundation arts and cultural programme funded by the Republic of Korea, invited proposals for a virtual residency series and online capacity building to support cultural exchange amongst emerging artists and cultural practitioners across all arts disciplines from the ASEAN region […]

KONNECT ASEAN Creative Futures Dialogue

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the world, with the International Monetary Fund predicting the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Arts and creative industries have suffered immensely as creative jobs in the broader economy become increasingly scarce. Strategies to survive and pivot in a rapidly changing global economy are essential. As national governments […]