Transvaluation Across the City
4 November – 4 December 2025
The sixth edition of Asia Triennial Manchester (ATM6) unfolds across multiple venues in Manchester, bringing together more than thirty international artists and collectives. Curated under the theme Transvaluation, the triennial explores how value is made, challenged and reimagined. It asks how artistic practice might move beyond economic systems to consider new ways of living, relating and creating meaning.
From exhibitions at Manchester Metropolitan University to partner venues across the city, ATM6 invites visitors to experience a constellation of artworks, performances, screenings and events that reflect on social, ecological and cultural transformation.
On Campus at Manchester Metropolitan
The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art
Featuring work by Tiong Ang & Company (Andreea David, Kexin Hong, Ingrid Sanghee Edwards, Diego Ferrari, Li Xiangdong, Jan Yongdeok Lim, Changli Cui Luo, Andrés Novo, Heekyung Ryu and Xue Wang Sophia), Chia-Wei Hsu, Dondon Houmwm, We Are Komachi (Jeffrey Angles, Sae Esashi, Hiromi Itō, Yuko Kaseki, Tomoko Mori and Kanoko Nishi) and Ziliä Qunsará.
The exhibition brings together installation, performance and moving image works that explore transformation, collectivity and the shifting conditions of contemporary life.
Image credit: ‘Tiong Ang & Company ERASE (Rrrhytms) 2025‘
Modal Gallery, School of Digital Arts (SODA)
Featuring Jui-Chang Yao, Chien-Chi Chang, and Yang Ah Ham.
These artists work across film, animation and digital media, reflecting on how technology shapes perception, intimacy and global connection.
Image credit: ‘Jui-Chung Yao, Psychic Geography, Yanshui Catholic Church, 2025‘
Link Gallery, Manchester School of Art
The Link Gallery which connects the Lowry Building to the Grosvenor East building presents work by Ting-Tong Chang, whose practice examines time, memory and material transformation through digital image and motion.
Image credit: ‘Ting-Tong Chang, SOAP, 2020‘
Manchester Poetry Library
Shur-Tzy Hou presents a project rooted in language, translation and poetic exchange, bridging personal narrative and collective experience through the spoken and written word.
Image credit: ‘Shur-tzy Hou, Out of Place 2009–2022-1‘
Grosvenor East Ground Floor Entrance
Occupying the four large screens in the Grosvenor East Ground Floor Entrance is a video artwork by Yi-Ting Hsu.
Image credit: ‘Yi-Ting Hsu, Floating Bodies, 2015–2025‘
Across the City
esea contemporary
A partner exhibition at esea contemporary, ‘Marcos Kueh: Smooth Sailing, 一路順風’, and curated by Jo-Lene Ong, debuts an immersive textile installation work, co-commissioned by esea contemporary, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong SAR. The exhibition explores the symbolism of woven textiles as carriers of identity, labour and postcolonial memory.
Image credit: ‘Marcos Kueh, detail of ‘福祿壽-Three Contemporary Prosperities: Woven Talisman #5 The Perfect Celebrity’, 2025, 170cm x 235cm, polyester. Courtesy of Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam. © Marcos Kueh‘
HOME
A series of film screenings celebrates the work of Tsai Ming-liang, including a conversation with Professor Andy Willis, interpreted by Clare Liu. The programme reflects on time, desire and the human condition through Tsai’s distinctive cinematic vision. Find out more here.
Image credit: ‘Tsai Ming-liang, No No Sleep, 2015‘
Manchester Art Gallery – gallery 5
Yu-Chen Wang presents a research-based artwork Sea Forest, 2023-25,
exploring the ecological and symbolic significance of mangroves, reflecting on resilience, interdependence and renewal. The starting point for this project is a botanical specimen collected in Formosa (now known as Taiwan) in 1864 by Richard Oldham (1837 – 1864), a botanist born in Macclesfield, now known as Kew Garden’s last collector.
Image credit: ‘Yu-Chen Wang, Sea Forest (Kandelia obovata, Tamsui River), 2023‘
Plan Your Visit
Dates
4 November – 4 December 2025
Opening Hours and Locations
Manchester Metropolitan University galleries – Manchester, M15 6BX – Tuesday to Saturday, 11am – 5pm
Manchester Poetry Library – Manchester M15 6BG – Monday, Thursday and Friday 10am – 4.30pm; Tuesday and Wednesday 10am – 7pm; Saturday 11am – 5pm
esea contemporary – 13 Thomas Street, Manchester M4 1EU – Tuesday to Saturday, 10am – 5pm; Sunday, 12pm – 5pm
HOME Manchester – 2 Tony Wilson Pl, Manchester M15 4FN – see here for screening times
Manchester Art Gallery – Mosley St, Manchester M2 3JL – Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 5pm. Late opening Wednesday 26 November, 10am – 9pm
Admission
Free