「2021亞洲藝術雙年展」由高森信男擔任總策展人，與臺灣策展人侯昱寬、菲律賓策展人泰莎．瑪莉亞．奎松（Tessa Maria Guazon）、印度策展人安努舒卡．拉堅德蘭（Anushka Rajendran）、泰國策展人暨藝術史學者唐娜維．恰卜瑞蒂（Thanavi Chotpradit）組成多國跨域的策展團隊。
本屆雙年展將以「Phantasmapolis 未至之城」為展題，嘗試向建築家王大閎所撰寫的英文科幻小說《Phantasmagoria》（中譯：幻城）致敬，「Phantasmagoria」意為透過燈光幻影所建構的鬼魅之屋，自造字「Phantasmapolis」包含兩個希臘字：「phantasma」意指魅影、「polis」則是城邦之意。「未至之城」透過城市作為框架，嘗試探索「亞洲未來主義」，以及科幻題材於亞洲現當代藝術之中的脈絡。
2021 Asian Art Biennial organized by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) will open on October 30, 2021. Taiwanese independent curator Nobuo TAKAMORI is named to convene a multi-national, interdisciplinary curatorial team for this edition of the Asian Art Biennial with curators from various countries, including Taiwanese curator Yu-Kuan HO, Filipino curator Tessa Maria GUAZON, Indian curator Anushka RAJENDRAN, and Thai curator and art historian Thanavi CHOTPRADIT. This edition adopts the theme of “ ,” which pays tribute to celebrated architect Da-Hong WANG’s English sci-fi novel, Phantasmagoria (titled “幻城” in Mandarin). Whereas the word “phantasmagoria” refers to a building constructed of spectral, illusory light, the newly coined word “phatasmapolis” comprises “phantasma” and “polis,” which respectively mean “apparition or specter” and “city” in Greek. With the city as a framework, Phatasmapolis investigates the idea of “Asian Futurism” as well as the historical context of how sci-fi topics and materials have been utilized and represented in Asian modern and contemporary art.
