{"id":11124,"date":"2025-11-13T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11124"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:39:34","slug":"how-2-new-asian-and-african-focused-cultural-institutions-are-decolonising-art-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11124","title":{"rendered":"How 2 new Asian and African-focused cultural institutions are decolonising art in London"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Last month, the Chinese art collector and patron Yan Du opened a non-profit art space in a magnificent Grade I listed building in Bedford Square, the 18th-century heart of London\u2019s Bloomsbury district.<\/p>\n

She has called it YDP \u2013 Yan Du Projects. Naming it after herself was \u201cjust a joke\u201d, she said at the press preview.<\/p>\n

But she also said that YDP and Asymmetry, her other non-profit project \u2013 launched in 2020 in London to support a new generation of Chinese and Sinophone curators \u2013 are \u201cguided by the same spirit: myself\u201d. That spirit wants to ensure Asian artists claim their place on the global arts scene.<\/p>\n

In the same week, in a Grade II listed building about 10 minutes\u2019 walk from YDP, Lina Lazaar opened an arts institution called Ibraaz.<\/p>\n

Like YDP, it is a UK-registered charity that describes itself as \u201ca brave space for art, culture, and ideas from the Global Majority\u201d. It, too, is the further amplification of an original concept.<\/p>\n

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YDP is in a listed building in Bedford Square, in the Bloomsbury district in London, the UK. Photo: Jooney Woodward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lazaar is the president of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, which was set up by her Tunisian-Swiss father in 2005, and Ibraaz, which means \u201cto shine a light on\u201d in Arabic, grew out of the 2011 Arab spring protests as an online platform for visual culture from the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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