Films on Artmaking in Southeast Asia: Batik National Gallery Singapore 2026-09-22 | Films on Artmaking in Southeast Asia: Batik
“Magic Maids”, a work-in-progress sharing by Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-26 | Worlds Apart, Strangers Together | "Magic Maids", a work-in-progress sharing by Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera"Magic Maids" was a work-in-progress sharing from artists Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera, featuring excerpts of their research on witch hunts and migrant domestic labour. Delving into the origins of the exploitation and extraction of women's labour from the Global South, Jocson and Perera made visible the connection between the history of migrant labour and the European witch hunts.Furthermore, this sharing explored the wider social-political implications of colonial and patriarchal violence on migrant workers. Using broomsticks as a metaphor, Jocson and Perera endeavoured to sweep open and laid bare the realities of the systems and structures that govern the movement of migrant workers and labour across borders and regions.The programme took place on 24 March 2024 as part of the symposium “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together”. Full performance of "Magic Maids" will be premiered at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt in September 2024, and at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore in October 2024.-About the ArtistsEISA JOCSON is a choreographer and dancer from the Philippines, trained as a visual artist, with a background in ballet. She exposes body politics in the service and entertainment industry as seen through the unique socioeconomic lens of the Philippines. She studies how the body moves and what conditions make it move – be it social mobility or movement out of the Philippines through migrant work. In her creations – from pole to macho dancing to hostess work to princess and the zoo – capital is the driving force of movement pushing the indentured body into spatial geographies. She is a recipient of the 2018 Cultural Centre of the Philippines 13 Artists Award, the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2019 winner, the SeMa-HANA Award 2021 (Seoul MediaCity Biennale) and recently the Tabori International Award 2023 in Germany.VENURI PERERA is a choreographer, performance artist, curator and educator from Colombo. She subverts frameworks of existing ritual through performative experiments in public space, theatres and galleries. Through exploring the power dynamics of looking, she attempts to destabilise how we perceive the ‘other.’ Her solo and collaborative works deal with violent nationalism, border rituals, colonial heritage and class. Her works have been invited to festivals/biennales/symposia across Europe, South and East Asia, Middle East and Africa since 2010, including Zurcher Theaterspektakel, Art Basel, National Arts Festival SA, SIFA Singapore, TPAM Yokohama, Dhaka Art Summit, Colombo Art Biennale, Asia Triennial Manchester, Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe. She has closely collaborated with choreographers Geumhyung Jeong (SK) and Natsuko Tezuka (JP).-About the SymposiumHeld alongside the exhibition “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”, “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together” was a two-day symposium held on 23-24 March 2024 that expressed South-South solidarities and reconsidered the conception of the “Global South,” both within the legacies of modernism and in light of post-colonial debates.The programme included a diverse range of lectures, screenings, performances, talks and dialogues, featuring artists, thinkers, and art historians including Manthia Diawara, Solange Farkas, Atreyee Gupta, Yuki Kihara, Partha Mitter, Eisa Jocson, and Venuri Perera.-About “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America.-Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! -DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #Tropical #Symposium #MagicMaids #EisaJocson #VenuriPerera
Worlds Apart, Strangers Together | Atreyee Gupta on The Non-Aligned Movement National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-26 | Worlds Apart, Strangers Together | Atreyee Gupta on The Non-Aligned MovementIn a 1965 poem dedicated to the avantgarde Indian painter Jagdish Swaminathan (1928–1994), Mexican poet Octavio Paz (1914–1998) connected dissonant temporal and spatial arcs of decolonisation through an astounding juxtaposition: the blue-black Indian Indigenous mother goddess who was first assimilated into the Brahmanical canon as Kali in the 5th century only to emerge in the 8th century as the principal deity in esoteric Tantra and the dark-skinned Aztec fertility goddess Tonantzin whose transformation into the fair protectress Virgin Mary of Guadalupe occurred in the 16th century after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. Paz’s words cipher deeply felt, albeit transhistorical, attachments that conjoined far-flung countries of India and Mexico in the wake of the 1955 Asian-African conference at Bandung, Indonesia.In this lecture, art historian Professor Atreyee Gupta suggested that this emotive slant produced particular aesthetic effects that provoked a rejection of the frailties of the Third World political project in favour of an anterior time that, once imaginatively actuated, returned to the third world avant-garde all the revolutionary energies allegedly lost to the 1960s North Atlantic neo-avant-garde.This programme took place on 24 March 2024 as part of the symposium “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together”.-About the SpeakerATREYEE GUPTA is Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art and South and Southeast Asian Art in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her area of expertise is Global Modernism, with a special emphasis on the aesthetic and intellectual flows that have cut across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the twentieth century onwards. Gupta’s books include "Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India, ca. 1930–1960" (Yale University Press, forthcoming in 2025), which focuses on the artistic and intellectual resonances of the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War era and the interwar anti-colonial Afro-Asian networks that preceded it, and "Postwar—Towards a Global Art History, 1945–1965" (coedited with late Okwui Enwezor, Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2025). Tentatively titled "One Hundred Years in Present Tense: Art in South Asian America, ca. 1893-1993", her current book project links Third World political, artistic, and cultural currents to trace the long diasporic arc of South Asian art in the United States.-About the SymposiumHeld alongside the exhibition “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”, “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together” was a two-day symposium held on 23-24 March 2024 that expressed South-South solidarities and reconsidered the conception of the “Global South,” both within the legacies of modernism and in light of post-colonial debates.The programme included a diverse range of lectures, screenings, performances, talks and dialogues, featuring artists, thinkers, and art historians including Manthia Diawara, Solange Farkas, Atreyee Gupta, Yuki Kihara, Partha Mitter, Eisa Jocson, and Venuri Perera. -About “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America.-Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! -Disclaimer This video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #Tropical #Symposium #AtreyeeGupta
Worlds Apart, Strangers Together | Solange Farkas on Transcultural Curation National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-26 | Worlds Apart, Strangers Together | Solange Farkas on Transcultural Curation Hear from Solange Farkas as she shared about how to curate exhibitions involving different art ecologies and geopoetic conditions.This lecture took place on 24 March 2024 as part of the symposium “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together”.-About the SpeakerSOLANGE FARKAS is founder of Associação Cultural Videobrasil and has been the artistic director of the festival and biennial Sesc_Videobrasil since its first edition in 1983. She was director and chief curator of the Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (2007–2010) and guest curator of Sharjah Biennial 10 (United Arab Emirates, 2011), the 16th Cerveira Biennial (Portugal, 2011), Videozone V—International Video Art Biennial (Israel, 2010), FUSO—Mostra Anual de Videoarte (Portugal, 2011–2014 and 2017) and Dak’Art—Biennial of Contemporary African Art (Senegal, 2016). She also curated "Reviravolta" (MAES and Galeria Homero Massena, Vitória, 2022) and was co-curator of "Dear Amazon: Brazil X Korea The Anthropocene" (Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, 2019).-About the SymposiumHeld alongside the exhibition “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”, “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together” was a two-day symposium held on 23-24 March 2024 that expressed South-South solidarities and reconsidered the conception of the “Global South,” both within the legacies of modernism and in light of post-colonial debates.The programme included a diverse range of lectures, screenings, performances, talks and dialogues, featuring artists, thinkers, and art historians including Manthia Diawara, Solange Farkas, Atreyee Gupta, Yuki Kihara, Partha Mitter, Eisa Jocson, and Venuri Perera.-About “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America.-Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! -Disclaimer This video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #Tropical #Symposium #SolangeFarkas
Partha Mitter on Reimagining Modernism: Picasso Manqué Syndrome and the Virtual Cosmopolitan National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-26 | Worlds Apart, Strangers Together | Partha Mitter on Reimagining Modernism: Picasso Manqué Syndrome and the Virtual CosmopolitanLionisation of a few artists from outside Euro-America in biennales and art auctions gives the impression that artists around the globe now share common values. Contrary to such optimism, the Western canon continues to dominate the art world to the exclusion of other traditions.Challenging this imbalance, the lecture by art historian Professor Partha Mitter strongly argued for reimagining modernism that would allow for heterogeneity and difference. Art history categorises non-Western art as derivative and existing in a different time frame from modernist art. The lecture proposed ways of revising art history by focusing on the nature of global exchanges under the rubric, ‘virtual cosmopolis’, aiming at reducing the hierarchical approach deriving from the global colonial and post-colonial order.This programme took place on 23 March 2024 as part of the symposium “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together”.-About the SpeakerPARTHA MITTER is a writer and historian of art and culture, specialising in the reception of Indian art in the West, as well as in modernity, art and identity in India, and more recently in global modernism. His publications include “Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art” (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977: Chicago University Press Paperback, 1992; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013); “Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850–1922: Occidental Orientations” (Cambridge University Press, 1994); “Indian Art, Oxford Art History Series” (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002); “The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde: 1922–1947” (Reaktion Books, London, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007).-About the SymposiumHeld alongside the exhibition “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”, “Worlds Apart, Strangers Together” was a two-day symposium held on 23-24 March 2024 that expressed South-South solidarities and reconsidered the conception of the “Global South,” both within the legacies of modernism and in light of post-colonial debates. The programme included a diverse range of lectures, screenings, performances, talks and dialogues, featuring artists, thinkers, and art historians including Manthia Diawara, Solange Farkas, Atreyee Gupta, Yuki Kihara, Partha Mitter, Eisa Jocson, and Venuri Perera.-About “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America.-Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! -DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#ParthaMitter #NationalGallerySingapore #Tropical #Symposium #ParthaMitter
Siapa Nama Kamu?: Reflections on DBS Singapore Gallery 1 National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-18 | Siapa Nama Kamu?: Reflections on DBS Singapore Gallery 1What does it mean to curate the art history of a nation? This panel will discuss the developments of National Gallery Singapore’s inaugural exhibition “Siapa Nama Kamu?: Art in Singapore in the 19th Century” and consider how it has evolved in response to changing museological and societal concerns.After the discussion, participants and speakers are encouraged to visit the exhibition to exchange ideas, reflections, and memories.The panellists include Cai Heng (Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore), Gertrude Tan (Docent, National Gallery Singapore) and Low Sze Wee (Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre). The panel is moderated by Adele Tan (Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore.)This programme took place at National Gallery Singapore on 16th March 2024 as part of the closing programmes for Gallery 1 of our inaugural exhibition ‘Siapa Nama Kamu?: Art in Singapore in the 19th Century’.-About the exhibition"Siapa Nama Kamu?" means "What is your name?" The inaugural exhibition of the DBS Singapore Gallery poses this question, inviting visitors to consider how art may relate to issues of self and community, and what it means to look at Singapore through its art.“Siapa Nama Kamu?” weaves together a rich and captivating narrative of artworks in a broadly chronological sequence, covering Singapore’s art history from the 19th century to the present day. Drawing on over 300 works, it explores the influences and practices that have shaped and transformed Singapore art. Each artwork provides insights into why and how an artist responded to his surroundings and circumstances. Taken as a whole, the wide range of artworks reflects the complexities involved in telling this extensive story. Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! -DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou #SiapaNamaKamu
At the Conservator’s Bench | When is a Painting Complete? National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-12 | Discover the stories of artworks hidden behind layers of paint with “At the Conservator’s Bench”!Travel back in time with us as we trace the transformation of one of Cheong Soo Pieng’s monumental paintings, “In A Balinese Village” from its original completion in 1953 to its reworking in 1964.Watch our curator and conservators at work as we tackle the question of “When is a Painting Complete?” using the careful analysis of archival materials, complemented by tools like infrared photography, and x-ray imaging.-About “At the Conservator’s Bench”What happens before an artwork is exhibited? “At the Conservator’s Bench” introduces you to the myriad of individuals that contribute to an artwork’s journey to the Gallery’s walls. Meet the people behind the scenes and glean new insights into conservation techniques in this series that documents the material story of Southeast Asian art that is only just beginning to unfold.-About “Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer”Regarded as a leading figure within Singapore’s art history, Cheong Soo Pieng is known for his distinctive style, which stemmed from a profound understanding of easel painting and Chinese aesthetics. Bringing the science of studying paintings to life, encounter the artist’s work alongside in-dept research into his artistic process and use of materials. Uncover untold stories behind selected artworks, and learn how an artist like cheong conceives, composes and puts an artwork together – layer by layer.-For more details, please visit https://www.nationalgallery.sg/cheongsoopieng. Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today!-DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#CheongSooPieng #AtTheConservatorsBench #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
At the Conservator’s Bench | What makes a Painting? National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-12 | Discover intriguing insights on Cheong Soo Pieng’s creative techniques revealed through processes like infrared photography and x-ray imaging in this video on the question of “What makes a Painting?”.Go beyond the surface and delve into Cheong's innovative method of layering, known as marouflage, and witness how it allowed him to achieve diverse textures and effects in his paintings.From a close appreciation of Cheong’s choice of canvas to exhibition labels, the artist’s signature, and clues about an artwork’s past owner, we encourage you to see beyond the painted image.-About “At the Conservator’s Bench”What happens before an artwork is exhibited? “At the Conservator’s Bench” introduces you to the myriad of individuals that contribute to an artwork’s journey to the Gallery’s walls. Meet the people behind the scenes and glean new insights into conservation techniques in this series that documents the material story of Southeast Asian art that is only just beginning to unfold.-About “Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer”Regarded as a leading figure within Singapore’s art history, Cheong Soo Pieng is known for his distinctive style, which stemmed from a profound understanding of easel painting and Chinese aesthetics. Bringing the science of studying paintings to life, encounter the artist’s work alongside in-dept research into his artistic process and use of materials. Uncover untold stories behind selected artworks, and learn how an artist like cheong conceives, composes and puts an artwork together – layer by layer.-For more details, please visit https://www.nationalgallery.sg/cheongsoopieng. Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today!-DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#CheongSooPieng #AtTheConservatorsBench #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
At the Conservator’s Bench | What is a Painting? National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-12 | Discover the intriguing world of painting with At the Conservator’s Bench! Join us as we attempt to answer the question "What is a painting?" through the innovative work of artist Cheong Soo Pieng.From every day and industrial materials like metal wires and rattan, Cheong's meticulous process is revealed through laboratory analysis and close observation, shedding light on his remarkable compositions.In this video, we uncover the secrets behind artworks labelled as "mixed media," like the stunning “Singapore Scenery” (1970) and expand the understanding of painting as a medium.-About “At the Conservator’s Bench”What happens before an artwork is exhibited? “At the Conservator’s Bench” introduces you to the myriad of individuals that contribute to an artwork’s journey to the Gallery’s walls. Meet the people behind the scenes and glean new insights into conservation techniques in this series that documents the material story of Southeast Asian art that is only just beginning to unfold.-About “Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer”Regarded as a leading figure within Singapore’s art history, Cheong Soo Pieng is known for his distinctive style, which stemmed from a profound understanding of easel painting and Chinese aesthetics. Bringing the science of studying paintings to life, encounter the artist’s work alongside in-dept research into his artistic process and use of materials. Uncover untold stories behind selected artworks, and learn how an artist like cheong conceives, composes and puts an artwork together – layer by layer.-For more details, please visit https://www.nationalgallery.sg/cheongsoopieng. Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today!-DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#CheongSooPieng #AtTheConservatorsBench #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Resonates With Residency | Residency Recap: Alina Ramirez National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-08 | Relive the magic of Alina Ramirez’s residency with us, where every beat, every note, and every movement came alive with exhilarating energy!Ramirez's residency at the Gallery comes to a close after 3 months of groovy performances and inspiring workshops, leaving us with the sweet sounds and vibrant rhythms of Southeast Asia and Latin America to reminisce on. Thank you for joining us on this euphonic journey across rich cultural tapestries and tropical regions. This concludes this cycle of the Gallery’s Resonates With Residency, but fret not! The Residency will return in a few months with exciting changes and a brand new cohort of resident artists. Can you make a guess at who they’ll be? Keep an eye out and discover more about the Residency here: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/resonateswithresidency#TropicalNGS #ResonatesWithResidency #NationalGallerySingapore
See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia | Dream World National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-02 | Vincent Leow’s Dream World, which features steel branches that emerge from a grid-like formation of concrete pillows and gravel, meditates upon the impact of rapid urban development on the natural environment.Learn more: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/seemeseeyou/explore/vincentleow/
See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia | The Language Lesson National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-02 | Ray Langenbach created The Language Lesson when he first arrived in Malaysia and was learning its language and culture. These new knowledges, which bore similarities and differences to that gleaned from American culture, surfaced within him a sense of cultural duality.Learn more: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/seemeseeyou/explore/raylangenbach/
See Me, See You | 12 Hours in the Life of Agung Rai, the Dancer National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-02 | Krisna Murti’s 12 Hours in the Life of Agung Rai, the Dancer explores how traditions can be represented through technological tools and natural materials sourced locally. Over several hours, Murti documented Agung Rai's daily routines, including his life and community beyond the stage.Learn more: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/seemeseeyou/explore/krisnamurti/
See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia | Choose National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-02 | Likely the earliest extant video artwork in Southeast Asia, Johnny Manahan’s Choose is the first video work in the region to challenge the viewer's capacity to pay attention to multiple screens at the same time.Learn more: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/seemeseeyou/explore/manahan/
See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia | Hoping to Hear from You Soon National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-02 | Created in 1992, Heri Dono’s Hoping to Hear from You Soon is a response to the last decade of President Suharto’s New Order regime in Indonesia, a period when subversive speech and writing were suppressed in public and educational spheres.Learn more: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/seemeseeyou/explore/heridono/
See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia | In the Precious Garden National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-02 | Inspired by the birth of his daughter, Hasnul Saidon explores cycles of growth and reproduction in In the Precious Garden. The motif of the circle, which symbolises the conception of life, wholeness and eternity, lies at the heart of the artwork and manifests in several ways.Learn more: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/seemeseeyou/explore/hasnulsaidon/
See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia | Sin of Apathy National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-02 | One of the earliest multi-channel video works made in Singapore, Chng Nai Wee’s Sin of Apathy questions the contemporary condition of Singaporean society and confronts the problem of indifference.Learn more: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/seemeseeyou/explore/chng/
See Me, See You | The Medium is the Message (After Marshall McLuhan) National Gallery Singapore 2024-04-02 | Baharudin Mohd Arus’s The Medium is the Message (After Marshall McLuhan) unveils a symbiotic relationship between video technology and the viewer. By incorporating a live stream component, Baharudin asserts that the viewer is not merely a passive receiver of images and messages; by appearing before the camera, the viewer becomes a partof the artwork and influences its meaning.Learn more: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/seemeseeyou/explore/baharudin/
At the Conservators Bench | Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer Teaser National Gallery Singapore 2024-03-21 | Teaser | "At the Conservator's Bench | Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer" Did you know that Cheong Soo Pieng’s renowned artwork “Drying Salted Fish” was made using different types of ink? This edition of “At the Conservator's Bench” introduces the artist's innovative techniques and versatile practice through the unique perspective of material analysis in art conservation. Visit the exhibition to watch and learn more! - About “At the Conservator’s Bench” What happens before an artwork is exhibited? “At the Conservator’s Bench” introduces you to the myriad of individuals that contribute to an artwork’s journey to the Gallery’s walls. Meet the people behind the scenes and glean new insights into conservation techniques in this series that documents the material story of Southeast Asian art that is only just beginning to unfold. - About “Cheong Soo Pieng: Layer by Layer” Regarded as a leading figure within Singapore’s art history, Cheong Soo Pieng is known for his distinctive style, which stemmed from a profound understanding of easel painting and Chinese aesthetics. Bringing the science of studying paintings to life, encounter the artist’s work alongside in-dept research into his artistic process and use of materials. Uncover untold stories behind selected artworks, and learn how an artist like cheong conceives, composes and puts an artwork together – layer by layer. - For more details, please visit https://www.nationalgallery.sg/cheongsoopieng. Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! - Disclaimer This video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission. #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou #CheongSooPieng #AtTheConservatorsBench #LayerbyLayer
In Conversation with Liu Kuo-sung and Eugene Y. Wang National Gallery Singapore 2024-03-11 | This post-screening dialogue between modern ink master Liu Kuo-sung and Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University Eugene Y. Wang, moderated by the Gallery’s Senior Curator Dr Cai Heng, took place on 5 August 2023 at National Gallery Singapore. The speakers discussed the “Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method” exhibition and catalogue, as well as “To the Moon”, an essay film directed by Professor Wang on the personal and artistic journey of Master Liu. The dialogue was followed by a screening of “To the Moon”. This programme was organised in conjunction with the exhibition, “Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method”, a retrospective show that traces Liu’s creative evolution through more than 60 paintings and 150 items from the artist's personal archive, highlighting his significant innovations and contributions to the development of modern Chinese ink painting. It runs from 13 January to 25 February 2024 at National Gallery Singapore. -About the Speakers Liu Kuo-sung (b. 1932, China) is a pioneering figure in modern ink painting. After graduating from the Fine Arts Department of the National Taiwan University in 1955, Liu became a founding member of the Fifth Moon Group, which made significant contributions to Taiwan’s avant-garde movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Liu has devoted his artistic career to exploring and advocating the modernisation of Chinese ink painting through his ink practice and writings on art. His influence has extended beyond Taiwan to Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore and other parts of Asia. He was also one of the most prominent Asian ink artists on the international art scene. As a leading, internationally recognised modern ink master, Liu has exhibited extensively across Asia, Europe and the United States. Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. He holds positions in the fields of History of Art and Architecture, Archaeology, Study of Religion, Theater, Dance, and Medium, and Inner Asia and Altaic Studies. A Guggenheim Fellow (2005), he is the art history editor of the “Encyclopedia of Buddhism” (2004). His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archaeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema. His book, “Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China” (2005), received the Sakamoto Nichijin Academic Award from Japan. His current research focuses on the cognitive study of art and consciousness as well as biocentric art that integrates visual, biological, and ecological systems. He is the founding director of Harvard CAMLab that explores the nexus of cognition, aesthetics, and multimedia storyliving. “To the Moon” is his first feature-length film. Cai Heng 蔡珩 is currently a senior curator at the National Gallery Singapore. Her recent exhibitions include “Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation as Method” (2023-2024), “Wu Guanzhong: Learning from the Master” (2021-2022), “Art Nurtures Life: Celebrating 100 Years of Wu Guanzhong” (2019-2020, Beijing), “Wu Guanzhong: Expressions of Pen and Palette” (2018-2019) and “Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hai Lou Collection” (2017). Counted among her publications are “Tradition unfettered: The story of Singapore ink,” in Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore Since the 19th Century (2015); “Beauty beyond form: The thought and art of Wu Guanzhong,” in Wu Guanzhong: Beauty Beyond Form (2015); and “The Xiu Hai Lou Collection: A Glimpse into the Evolution of Modern Chinese Painting,” in Rediscovering Treasures: Ink Art from the Xiu Hailou Collection (2017), and “Transnational Development in Georgette Chen’s Early Artistic Practice” in Georgette Chen: At Home in the World (2020) and Liu Kuo-Sung: Experimentation As Method(2023). Cai received a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Sydney.
Gallery Benefit 2023 National Gallery Singapore 2024-03-06 | Gallery Benefit 2023 presented an opportunity for like-minded individuals, artists, collectors and patrons to come together for an evening of wonderful conversation and art appreciation. We deeply appreciate our generous committee members, supporters and donors who made the event possible.
Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine | Festival Video National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | One of the marquee events of Singapore Art Week and an annual highlight in Singapore’s cultural calendar, Light to Night Singapore is a Civic District–wide visual arts festival that aims to inspire audiences to forge deeper connections with art through engaging and progressive programmes. Centred on the concept of play, ideas and innovation, the festival commissions public installations and light projections on building façades, as well as a range of interdisciplinary programmes that feature artists and creative talents from Singapore and abroad. The theme of this year’s Light to Night Singapore festival, "Reimagine," invites festivalgoers to engage with art and space in new and innovative ways, which spark creativity and encourage reflection. Visitors will be taken on a journey through a host of dynamic and interactive experiences, each taking inspiration from our nation’s history and artworks from the National Collection.Light to Night Singapore is organised by National Gallery Singapore in collaboration with five of the Civic District’s most iconic cultural institutions: Asian Civilisations Museum, The Arts House, Victoria Theatre & Concert Hall and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.#LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: Arahmaiani X Wayang Merdeka X Milosh Luczynski | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | Arahmaiani is an Indonesian artist well known for her performances and environmental activism. Since the 1990s, her practice has focused on social and political issues that impact women. Formed in 2022, Wayang Merdeka is an independent group based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia that organises “wayang kulit” (shadow puppetry) puppet-making workshops using recycled materials, which educate the younger generations on “wayang kulit” and recycling. Milosh Luczynski is a Paris-based multi-disciplinary visual and intermedia artist. Known for his monumental multimedia installations, live media performances and immersive kinetic spaces, Luczynski has exhibited his works across the globe.-“Temple of Love” depicts the story of a monster who appears in the middle of the night, wreaks havoc and mercilessly devours the world. This catastrophe leads to the destruction of buildings and nature, causing upheaval within the community. After a long, tiresome battle with the monster, Mother Nature appears and heals the earth with her powerful hands, endless love and nurturing energy, and the world is rejuvenated, healed and fertile once again.Arahmaiani, Wayang Merdeka, and Milosh Luczynski’s light projection “Temple of Love” is part of Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District. #LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: Teo Eng Seng X Milosh Luczynski | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | A prolific artist and recipient of the Cultural Medallion in 1986, Teo Eng Seng (1938–) is most recognised for his invention of “paperdyesculp”—dyed papier-mâché shaped into artworks. Milosh Luczynski is a Paris-based multidisciplinary visual and intermedia artist. Known for his monumental multimedia installations, live media performances and immersive kinetic spaces, Luczynski has exhibited his works across the globe.-“Teo Eng Seng: Living the Life” is a celebration of an artist whose life and practice are defined by an openness and curiosity, and who continues to inspire and challenge us today. With their riotous compositions and vivid colours, Teo’s works invite us to see life in new ways, to experience the immediacy and spontaneity of everyday reality, and to embrace the beauty of imperfection.Teo Eng Seng and Milosh Luczynski’s light projection “Teo Eng Seng: Living the Life” is part of Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District. #LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: Whisperlodge | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | Melinda Lauw and Chia Kwa are Whisperlodge.Melinda Lauw is an artist and experience designer working across art and immersive experiences. She co-created the hit immersive ASMR production “Whisperlodge”, which has been performed internationally since 2016. Chia Kwa is an award-winning interdisciplinary designer, photographer, actor, and maker in physical and digital spaces. They have collaborated on developing cult immersive hits, “Whisperlodge” and “Bottom of the Ocean”.-Imagine what it would be like to indulge in escapism, not by heading out, but by heading in. In the multi-room installation “Wishful Thinking”, visitors discover unexpected textures and sounds as they dive deep within themselves to heighten self-awareness and sensory perception. On selected nights during the festival, visitors also enjoy soothing ASMR interactions or a performance by trained ASMR guides.Whisperlodge’s installation “Wishful Thinking” is part of Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District. #LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: Nikkei | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | Nikkei is a Singaporean illustrator and designer who enjoys creating self-indulgent works that range from intense and fantastical to silly, sexy and weird. Their current work exists primarily as risograph prints. Their interests include colourful toys, stressful shows and decorative borders. “The Gachapartment Complex” is a riotous and colourful guide that runs along the Funan B2 Underground Pedestrian Link till 3 March 2024. The Complex offers a glimpse into a hidden utopia where toys live complex lives akin to ours. This installation features an augmented reality component developed by Temasek Polytechnic students (Rachel Tan, Jochebed Chong and Celeste Ng), which was created during a mentorship programme with the artist. Nikkei’s installation “The Gachapartment Complex” is co-commissioned by National Gallery Singapore and CapitaLand for Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District.#LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: SISTRUM | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | SISTRUM is an interdisciplinary collective of three artists: sound designer Ramesh Krishnan, graphic designer Lim Shu Min and architect Laura Miotto. They create installations, exhibitions and digital platforms that explore the narrative quality of sound and the environment.“Embroidered Landscapes” draws inspiration from the costumes and music of 街戏, or “jie xi”, a type of Chinese Opera, which is disappearing from the streets of Singapore. Each opera costume is like a landscape in and of itself. Using generative visuals and electronic music, this project reimagines the Victoria Theatre façade to create new cityscapes combining vernacular and contemporary art forms.SISTRUM’s light projection “Embroidered Landscapes” is part of Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District.#LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: Knuckles & Notch | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | Established in 2013, Knuckles & Notch, founded by Goh Yun Jin (Marl) and Djohan Hanapi, crafts uniquely colourful and bizarre art with analogue charm. Their works often blend traditional with contemporary references and techniques.“Winter Sonata, Summer Mookata” takes you on a surreal and mind-bending journey that explores the intricacies of human existence and spiritual consciousness with trippy visual imagery. Drawing inspiration from pop culture, comics, films, anime, science fiction and philosophy, and using a combination of digital and analogue animation techniques, the artists invite viewers into a strange and captivating world that shifts between the tactile and the intangible.Knuckles & Notch’s light projection “Winter Sonata, Summer Mookata” is part of Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District.#LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: Sarah Choo Jing | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | Sarah Choo Jing is known for her interdisciplinary approach to photography, video and installation. Her works depict identifiable moments and characters within contemporary urban society, which suggest a plethora of private and often solitary narratives. Inspired by archival text, “Symphony of Order” explores the intricate interplay of "order" and "unspoken laws" within social settings. The captivating fictional narrative within this immersive experience is brought to life with a meticulously staged dining scene, captured using a 360-degree camera. “Symphony of Order” is supported by Yan Restaurant at National Gallery Singapore, and is part of Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District.#LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: Victor Tan | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | Victor Tan is known for his unusual and persistent choice of medium: wire. Coupled with his unique techniques, he investigates existential ideas about humanity, the isolation of the human emotions in the moment and the passage of time and life. To him, sculpture is a way of exploring and experiencing the constant change and movement around him. For Tan, each change, movement or experience represents a new possibility.“Rapture” is an artwork that consists of eight life-sized human figure wire sculptures. Drawing inspiration from the biblical notion of rapture—the act of ascending to a realm beyond our own—the sculptures represent the transition from the earthly to the spiritual, symbolising a surrender to the divine. This work is a testament to the enduring nature of the human spirit, its capacity for transcendence and the unwavering belief that there is a brighter, more compassionate reality awaiting us beyond the horizon. Victor’s installation “Rapture” is part of Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District.#LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Spotlight: Kumari Nahappan | Light to Night 2024 National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | Kumari Nahappan’s interdisciplinary work spans painting, sculpture and installation. She has forged a reputation for reconciling the language of “international contemporary art” with her own visual vocabulary and developing a creative identity that is decisively shaped by her cultural roots and beliefs. Kumari’s artwork “Wings of Change” features an enormous saga seed, an object that has endless possibilities. Her luminescent saga seed symbolises energy and hope, and draws attention to the saga tree, whose population has declined over the years. It speaks of the urgent need for preservation, conservation and sustainability in today's world, particularly in the context of climate change. Next to the seed is a pod, a massive reservoir of energy that is waiting to be harnessed, standing as a powerful endorsement for climate action and reminding festivalgoers of their role as stewards of the planet. Kumari’s installation “Wings of Change” is part of Light to Night Singapore 2024: Reimagine, which was held from 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024 across Singapore’s Civic District.#LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
The Kolektif Takeover: The Project National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | For the third time, Kolektif returned to take over the museum by storm – The Kolektif Takeover: The ___ Project took place back in October 2023 in conjunction with the opening of See Me, See You: Part 2—An Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia. This season’s rendition featured their youth perspective and ideas on key social issues, all of which were heavily inspired by the exhibition works. Kolektif, the experimental youth arm of the Gallery that aims to empower young people to bring their creativity and concerns to art museums.For more info, check them out at https://linktr.ee/kolektif.sg#NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Step Inside “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” National Gallery Singapore 2024-02-28 | Step Inside “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”We invite you to take a look inside “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”, as we delve into the stories, entanglements and futures which emerged from the practices, manifestoes and approaches of artists active across Southeast Asia and Latin America.Told through a range of perspectives, the video is accompanied by textual excerpts which introduce key highlights and curatorial pathways, foregrounding the shared experiences of both regions, uniquely animated by their struggles against colonialism during the 20th century. -About “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America.-Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today!-DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #Tropical
In Conversation with Ho Tzu Nyen National Gallery Singapore 2024-01-31 | This post-screening dialogue between Singapore video artist Ho Tzu Nyen and "See Me, See You" exhibition curator Clarissa Chikiamco took place on 14 October 2023 at National Gallery Singapore. It was part of the "See Me, See You" moving image programme, which presented a selection of single channel works by Southeast Asian artists that reveal the workings and effects of the television apparatus, specifically, the ways in which it has blurred the distinction between subject and object, the viewer and the viewed. On 14 Oct, the programme drew attention to the role of video and television in the formation of a culture of passive spectatorship in the broader society, as well as its potential to bring about a shift. The work screened was "4x4 - Episodes of Singapore Art" (2005) by Ho Tzu Nyen, an artistic intervention that employs the television apparatus to address the lack of critical engagement with the visual arts in Singapore. More information about the work can be found here: tinyurl.com/smsyfilmdayone -About the speakers Ho Tzu Nyen (b. 1976, Singapore) is an established artist whose works are steeped in numerous Eastern and Western cultural references ranging from art history to theatre, and from cinema to music to philosophy, blending mythical narratives and historical facts to mobilise different understandings of history, its writing and its transmission. The central theme of his œuvre is a long-term investigation of the plurality of cultural identities in Southeast Asia, a region so diverse that it is impossible to reduce it to a simple geographical area or fundamental historical base. This observation is reflected in his pieces which weave together different regimes of knowledge, narratives and representations. From documentary research to fantasy, his work combines archival images, animation and film in installations that are often immersive and theatrical. One-person exhibitions of his work have been held at the Hammer Museum (2022), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (2021), Crow Museum of Asian Arts (2021), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (2021), Edith-Russ Haus for Media Art (Oldenburg, 2019), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2018), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018), Asia Art Archive (2017), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015), Mori Art Museum (2012). He represented the Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011). Clarissa Chikiamco is a curator with research interests in the moving image and post-war art in Southeast Asia. She was the acquisition curator of the inaugural collection of video art at the Philippine modern art museum, the Ateneo Art Gallery. At National Gallery Singapore, she has co-curated exhibitions "Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century", "Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna, A Fact Has No Appearance: Art Beyond the Object", "Chua Mia Tee: Directing the Real", and "Nam June Paik: The Future is Now". She is a PhD candidate in film studies at King’s College London, writing her thesis on the moving image in Philippine art.
Stories Artists Tell Us | Forum National Gallery Singapore 2024-01-30 | Stories Artists Tell Us | Forum“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America.During the opening weekend, participating artists and collaborators told stories, read poetry and celebrated the coming together of these two regions. Featuring Boedi Widjaja, Circe Henestrosa, Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan.-About the SpeakersBOEDI WIDJAJA's practice contemplates the concepts of house, home and homeland through long-running, interdisciplinary series that are developed in parallel with each other. Widjaja was trained in architecture and has worked in graphic design. Past exhibitions include “Cladogram: KMA’s 2nd International Juried Biennial” (2021), the 6th Singapore Biennale (2019–2020), the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (2018–2019), “MAP1: Waterways” (2017), and at the Diaspora Pavilion in the 57th Venice Biennale amongst others. Recent solo exhibitions include “Kang Ouw” 《侠客行》(2022), Esplanade Tunnel, Singapore; “Declaration of” (2019), Helwaser Gallery, New York; “Rivers and lakes Tanah dan air” (2018), ShanghART Singapore; and “Black—Hut” (2016), Singapore Biennale Affiliate Project, ICA Singapore.CIRCE HENESTROSA is a Mexican independent fashion curator and is Head of the School of Fashion at LASALLE University of the Arts in Singapore. Henestrosa curated the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving” (2012) at The Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico. She also curated the blockbuster exhibition “Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up” at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (2018), the Brooklyn Museum in New York (2019), the Fine Arts Museum DeYoung in San Francisco (2020) and the Palais Galliera in Paris (2022).ZINNY-MAIDAGAN (DOLORES ZINNY and JUAN MAIDAGAN) is a Berlin-based duo whose large-scale installations investigate architecture through the history of a site, challenge traditional notions around exhibition space and create new meanings. Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan are visual artists born in Rosario, Argentina, and work as a duo as well as independently. Zinny-Maidagan has held solo exhibitions at the Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (2016), CAC Gallery at University of California, Irvine (2013) and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2009). They have been awarded Berlin’s DAAD Artist in Berlin Program (2002), the Pollock Krasner Fellowship (2000) and the John Simon Guggenheim Scholarship (1998). Dolores Zinny is Director of Rinehart School of Sculpture, the MFA granting sculpture programme at the Maryland Institute College of Art.-About “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America.-Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! -DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #Tropical
In Conversation with Tan Pin Pin National Gallery Singapore 2024-01-29 | This post-screening dialogue between Singapore filmmaker Tan Pin Pin and "See Me, See You" exhibition curator Cheng Jia Yun took place on 15 October 2023 at National Gallery Singapore. It was part of the "See Me, See You" moving image programme, which presented a selection of single channel works by Southeast Asian artists that reveal the workings and effects of the television apparatus, specifically, the ways in which it has blurred the distinction between subject and object, the viewer and the viewed. On 15 Oct, the programme looked at bodies mediated by video—how it has represented, contemplated and shaped other people’s bodies as well as one’s own—and how different forms of intimacy are created as a result, consequently transforming the technology itself. Works featured include Tan Pin Pin’s "9th August", Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s "Haunted Houses", Eric Khoo’s "Home VDO" and Tad Ermitaño’s "Cathode Jam". More information about the works can be found here: tinyurl.com/smsyfilmdaytwo -About the speakers Tan Pin Pin (b. 1969, Singapore) is an award-winning film director who has spent over two decades chronicling her country’s history, memory and representation in thoughtful and self-reflexive works that have screened in Singapore and abroad. Her works have been invited to major film festivals such as Berlinale, Busan, Hot Docs, SXSW, Visions du Reel and at the Flaherty Seminar. Nearer home, they have been presented at M+, Parasite, CUHK, Rumah Attap, Sa Sa Art Projects, and the Jakarta Biennale. Her practice has also been featured in retrospectives at RIDM (Montreal), Liberation Docfest (Bangladesh) and Dok Leipzig. Tan started her career in the arts as a photojournalist, but when video cameras became more affordable, she made the leap to the moving image with her first film, "Moving House" (1996). Her latest work, "walk walk" (2023), is a site-specific public art installation exhibited at the Kampong Bahru Bus Terminal, commissioned by Singapore Art Museum. Consisting of several parts—a 27-minute video and two word-sculptures in the bus drivers’ canteen and boarding hall—the work is available for viewing daily until 2025. Cheng Jia Yun is a curator at National Gallery Singapore, where she researches the post-war art of Southeast Asia. Her projects include "Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s", "Suddenly Turning Visible: Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia 1969–1989", "Chng Seok Tin: Drawn Through a Press", and "Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America".
Tales That Turn | Curatorial Sharing National Gallery Singapore 2024-01-23 | Tales That Turn | Curatorial SharingThroughout the 20th century, the evocative term “tropical” made its way into architecture, design and city planning, serving as a climatic, aspirational and futuristic reference. It found its place in the intricate realms of visual art as a location, trope and motif, exemplified by the pastoral and baroque. Moreover, for artists, poets, and musicians in Southeast Asia and Latin America, it often became a foundation for contesting dominant norms, debating cultural essentialism and even registering liminal subjectivities.Our curators Cheng Jia Yun, Patrick Flores, Qinyi Lim, Teo Hui Min, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, and Anissa Rahadiningtyas delved deep into the many words and phrases associated with the mind-bending “tropical.” Together, they explored how it continues to morph and mutate, offering a speculative reading of modern art and its tendencies.This programme took place at National Gallery Singapore on 1 Dec 2023.--About the SpeakersCHENG JIA YUN is Curator at National Gallery Singapore, where she researches post-war art of Southeast Asia with a focus on Singapore and Thailand. Recent projects include "Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s" (2018–2019), "Suddenly Turning Visible: Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia 1969–1989" (2019–2020), and "Fú Chá" (2020), the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission by Cao Fei.PATRICK FLORES is Deputy Director of Curatorial & Research at National Gallery Singapore. Up till 2022, he was Professor of Art History and Criticism at the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003. He was also concurrently the curator of the Jorge B. Vargas Museum. In 2015, he curated the Philippine Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. In 2022, he was Curator of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.QINYI LIM is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She completed the de Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam in 2012. Qinyi has held curatorial positions at Singapore Art Museum, NUS Museum and Para Site, Hong Kong. Past exhibitions include Jakarta Biennale 2021: ESOK, “Antony Gormley” (2021), “Afterwork” (2016), “A luxury we cannot afford” (2015).TEO HUI MIN is Curator at National Gallery Singapore where she contributes to the curation of “Siapa-Nama Kamu?” and “Beyond Declarations and Dreams”, long-term exhibitions of Singapore and Southeast Asian art from the 19th century to the present. Other exhibitions she has co-curated include “Mohammad Din Mohammad: The Mistaken Ancestor” (2021), “Georgette Chen: At Home in the World” (2020) and “Lim Cheng Hoe: Painting Singapore” (2018).SHABBIR HUSSAIN MUSTAFA is Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore and Singapore Art Museum. At the Gallery, he leads the curatorial team overseeing “Between Declarations and Dreams”, a multi-year exhibition that surveys Southeast Asian perspectives from the 19th century to the present. His recent projects include “SEA STATE: Charles Lim Yi Yong” for the Singapore Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale; “The Sunwise Turn”, a meditation on Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy at the Dhaka Art Summit 2018; and “Ahmad Fuad Osman: AT THE END OF THE DAY EVEN ART IS NOT IMPORTANT” (1990-2019) at the Balai Seni Negara.ANISSA RAHADININGTYAS is an art historian who earned her Ph.D. in Art History at Cornell University for her research on the position and question of Islamic religiosity, rituals, and performances in works of modern and contemporary art in Indonesia. She is currently Curator of Islamic aesthetics in modern and contemporary Southeast Asia at National Gallery of Singapore. Her research interests include comparative modernisms, Indian Ocean studies, postcolonial and decolonial theories, gender and feminism, environmentalism, and Islamic studies.-About “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America.- Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today!-DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #Tropical
Stories Artists Tell Us | Richard Hassell, co-founder of WOHA National Gallery Singapore 2024-01-22 | Stories Artists Tell Us | Richard Hassell, co-founder of WOHAIn 1968, the renowned Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi unveiled her “crystal easels,” a groundbreaking design approach for displaying paintings at the São Paulo Museum of Art. For “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”, the Gallery actively engaged with Bo Bardi’s designs within the exhibition as a strategy to bridge industrial histories, material expertise and distinct building techniques from the Global South. To bring this vision to life, the Gallery has collaborated with the architectural firm WOHA to engage with Bo Bardi’s designs. WOHA has been at the forefront of innovations in architecture and urbanism through their futuristic buildings that remind us we exist within the natural world, not outside of it. In this wide-ranging talk, Richard Hassell, one of the co-founders of WOHA, offered insights into the exhibition’s design ethos and reflected on burgeoning questions around postmodern tropicality, urbanism and architecture. The lecture was followed by a discussion with the exhibition’s co-curator Shabbir Hussain Mustafa. This programme took place at National Gallery Singapore on 25 Nov 2023.--About the SpeakerRICHARD HASSELL founded Singapore-based architecture firm WOHA in 1994 with Wong Mun Summ. The firm focuses on the integration of environmental and social principles at every stage of the design process. WOHA have received several international awards for their work, and have won seven separate categories in the World Architecture Festival, including the 2018 World Building of the Year for Kampung Admiralty. WOHA launched “Garden City Mega City: Rethinking Cities for the Age of Global Warming” (Pesaro, 2016) at the 2016 Venice Biennale, which shares strategies for the exploding megacities of the tropical belt. Their book ‘WOHA: New Forms of Sustainable Architecture’ (Pesaro, 2022) documents the complete corpus of WOHA's pioneering sustainable and built work. --About “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”“Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America” explores the vibrant narratives of artists, dreamers and writers who challenged conventions and fostered solidarities across these two regions. Their unwavering quest to reclaim their rightful position within the story of art forms the core of this exhibition. Featuring over 200 artworks, it is the world's first large-scale exhibition to take a comparative approach between artistic expressions from Southeast Asia and Latin America. -Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today!-DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #Tropical #RichardHassell
Resonates With Residency | Residency Recap: Tactility Studies National Gallery Singapore 2024-01-08 | We danced. We wiggled. And danced somemore. Here's a little look back on our time with Tactility Studies as they filled the Gallery with lively family-friendly performance activations and workshops over the last 3 months! During their residency, the young and young at heart explored the “body” of various artworks from the “Gallery Children’s Biennale" and experimented with how people can relate to them. Thank you to everyone who moved with us on this playful journey! It's now time for this cycle's final resident artist. Keep up with this space for more details coming soon. #ASenseOfBody #ResonatesWithResidency #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Light to Night 2024 | Collective Canvas: A Tour Reimagined National Gallery Singapore 2023-12-22 | Join our reimagined Gallery tour where artworks leap to life through your imagination! Led by expert guides, journey through the galleries' hidden stories and go on a unique exploration of the unknown in this 30-minute interactive experience. As the tour unfolds, become co-creators of a narrative that transcends time, culture and canvases. You're not just a spectator – you're a co-creator, shaping an experience beyond the ordinary through the canvas of your imagination.Tickets go for $8 per session. Limited slots available at www.lighttonight.sg #LighttoNightSG #SingaporeArtWeek #SAW2024 #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Light to Night 2024 | Dungeons & Dragons: The Art Quest National Gallery Singapore 2023-12-19 | Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons... in the Gallery? Step into a magical world where fantasy meets art and embark on a groundbreaking quest, led by skilled Dungeon Masters! Unravel mysteries, discover artworks, encounter creatures, and solve riddles inspired by masterpieces from Raden Saleh and Pratuang Emjaroen!Adventurers, ready for some magic? 💫Tickets go for $20 per person for a 45-minute session. Limited slots available. Get yours at www.lighttonight.sg#DungeonsAndDragons #LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Light to Night 2024: Reimagine | Trailer National Gallery Singapore 2023-12-18 | Get ready to reimagine art and space as Light to Night Singapore returns to the Civic District! From 19 Jan to 8 Feb 2024, the Civic District as we know it transforms into a realm of over 60 immersive day-to-night programmes, electrifying performances, and engaging activities. 2024's theme is ‘Reimagine’. What does art mean to you? How can it reshape your world? Get ready to redefine your art encounters and embark on an extraordinary ride that transcends the boundaries of imagination.Ready to challenge the status quo and explore the limitless possibilities of art and space?Explore more at www.lighttonight.sg and join us on this journey to the extraordinary! #LighttoNightSG #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Artist Talk by Heri Dono National Gallery Singapore 2023-12-18 | Artist Talk by Heri DonoOne of the first artists in Southeast Asia to work with video projection, Heri Dono's artistic practice features significant material and media experimentation. This is evident in his work "Hope to Hear from You Soon", which alludes to traditional shadow puppetry and roadside eateries commonly seen in his hometown in Indonesia. In this talk, we discover how the artist utilised the screen as a tool for artistic expression and the processes behind his practice, including his mixed-media artwork “Political Clowns”.This programme took place at National Gallery Singapore on 5th November 2023 as part of the "See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia" exhibition.-About the ArtistHeri Dono (b. 1960, Indonesia) combines the traditional art form of “wayang kulit” (shadow puppet) with contemporary artistic modes and mediums, including painting, installation and performance art. He weaves characters from Indonesian folklore into his own tales, blending them together with contemporary themes and motifs. He is known for artworks that comment on culture, society and humanity through distortion and humour. Dono has participated in international festivals including the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Venice Biennale, Guangzhou Triennial, Gwangju Biennale and Asia Pacific Triennial.-About the exhibitionJoin us on a journey back in time to find out and explore the history of video installation art. This two-part series offers a fascinating look at the pivotal moments when video installation first emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, staged and recreated at the latest See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia exhibition.Through experimentation, these ten Southeast Asian Artists combined installation, performance, audience participation together with video, leading to a new form of art as a result of their interdisciplinary approach.The first part featured works by Apinan Poshyananda (Thailand), Baharudin Mohd Arus (Malaysia), Chng Nai Wee (Singapore), Johnny Manahan (Philippines) and Jean Marie Syjuco (Philippines), which ran till 17 September 2023.The second part, which runs till 4 February 2024, showcases works by Heri Dono (Indonesia), Hasnul Saidon (Malaysia), Ray Langenbach (USA/Malaysia), Vincent Leow (Singapore) and Krisna Murti (Indonesia).For more details, please visit nationalgallery.sg/SeeMeSeeYou Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today!-DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou #SeeMeSeeYou #VideoInstallation #SoutheastAsia
Visage of Violence: A Lecture-Conversation with Indira Arumugam and Cera Tan National Gallery Singapore 2023-12-14 | Visage of Violence: A Lecture-Conversation with Indira Arumugam and Cera TanSurrounded by the metropolitan landscape of Singapore, “Untitled” by Mumbai artist Shilpa Gupta depicts a dualistic present and invites us to reflect on the visage of power, conflict and violence in everyday life.In this lecture-conversation, speakers Indira Arumugam and Cera Tan tapped into the complexity of violence from anthropological and philosophical perspectives. Arumugam questioned assumptions on violence and analysed how power is exercised in various forms of oppression, while Tan examined the violence that emerges from games of classification. Unravelling the logic on which these games operate, she demonstrated how “undecidability” haunts and subverts this logic obtained in the security and maintenance of sovereign borders. Following that, the speakers engaged with curator Adele Tan in an in-depth discussion.Held in conjunction with the “Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Untitled by Shilpa Gupta”, this programme took place on 4 November 2023.-About the SpeakersINDIRA ARUMUGAM is an anthropologist who works in Tamil Nadu, South India and among the Tamil diaspora in Singapore and Southeast Asia. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include vernacular political imaginaries, ritual theories and practices, intimate economics of (re)production, modalities of sacrality and monstrosity, play and pleasure and popular Hinduism. Her writings on animal sacrifice, divine agency, rituals, the gift and kinship have appeared in leading journals of anthropology, religion and Asian Studies. Her book “Politics: Intimate Imaginaries of Power in South India” is forthcoming. CERA Y.J. TAN is a PhD candidate in a joint-degree program in Literature at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Digital Humanities at King’s College London (KCL). She holds a BA and MA from NUS in English Literature. Her research fields include critical theory, continental philosophy, and critical algorithm studies with a view to biopolitics and technology. She has published in the journals “Cultural Politics and Media Art, Study and Theory”. Her current research pertains to philosophy’s “undecidables” and the predicament of critique in an age of automated reason. She is interested in thinking through how violence before the algorithm can be proven if deductive modes of algorithmic reasoning have given way to abductive truths without proof.ADELE TAN received her PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and is Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia and China. She also lectures in Art History at the National University of Singapore. She curated the “2019 annual Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission” with artist Charles Lim Yi Yong and also the 2023 commission by Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta. She is currently working on a forthcoming retrospective exhibition on Kim Lim in 2024. -- About the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission This series invites leading international artists to create site-specific installations at the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery, made possible through a gift from Far East Organization. Previous participating artists include Cao Fei, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Danh Vo and Antony Gormley.-Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! -Disclaimer This video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#NationalGallerySingapore #ShilpaGupta #IndiraArumugam #CeraTan
Video Vanguard: Channelling Body, Society and Spirit in Southeast Asia by Dr Edwin Jurriëns National Gallery Singapore 2023-11-09 | Keynote Lecture | Video Vanguard: Channelling Body, Society and Spirit in Southeast Asia by Dr Edwin Jurriëns In his keynote lecture, Dr Edwin Jurriëns (Convenor & Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne) provideds various concepts and contexts for the interpretation of the works in the See Me, See You exhibition. He argued that the artists and their works are part of a Southeast Asian creative vanguard of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dr Jurriëns proposed that this pioneering quality is reflected in their capacity to break with the notion of the autonomy of art, and reconnect with the praxis of life, presenting artistic innovation and imaginative visions for a better world. Moreover, the works set in motion dynamic processes of creation and reflection in which audiences play an active part. Rather than constituting static objects or technological tools, they can be seen as forms of corporeal, social, and spiritual channelling. -About the Speaker Edwin Jurriëns is Convenor and Associate Professor of Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne. His main research interests are in environmental and socially engaged art and media. His publications include the monographs The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons (Routledge, 2023) and Visual Media in Indonesia: Video Vanguard (Routledge, 2017) and the edited volume Digital Indonesia: Connectivity and Divergence (ISEAS, 2017). He is editor of the Asian Visual Cultures book series of Amsterdam University Press and regional editor of The Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). He has had fellowships with the Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University, Monash Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University in Melbourne, The Graduate Institute in Geneva, The University of New South Wales in Canberra, and IIAS in Leiden. He was co-convenor of the 2016 Indonesia Update of the Australian National University in Canberra. -About the See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia Join us on a journey back in time to find out and explore the history of video installation art. This two-part series offers a fascinating look at the pivotal moments when video installation first emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, staged and recreated at the latest See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia exhibition. Through experimentation, these ten Southeast Asian Artists combined installation, performance, audience participation together with video, leading to a new form of art as a result of their interdisciplinary approach. TheIn its first installment, featureding works by Apinan Poshyananda (Thailand), Baharudin Mohd Arus (Malaysia), Chng Nai Wee (Singapore), Johnny Manahan (Philippines) and Jean Marie Syjuco (Philippines). The second part , opening in October, will showcases works by Heri Dono (Indonesia), Hasnul Saidon (Malaysia), Ray Langenbach (Malaysia), Vincent Leow (Singapore) and Krisna Murti (Indonesia). - Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! - Disclaimer This video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission. #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou #SeeMeSeeYou
The Impact of Liu Kuo-sung’s Ink Art Revolution in Mainland China 刘国松在大陆——刘国松水墨艺术革命在中国大陆的影响 National Gallery Singapore 2023-11-03 | Online Lecture | The Impact of Liu Kuo-sung’s Ink Art Revolution in Mainland China 线上讲座 | 刘国松在大陆——刘国松水墨艺术革命在中国大陆的影响 Ink Master Liu Kuo-sung played a pivotal role in Chinese art in the 20th century. In the 1980s, with China in the midst of economic reform and cultural modernisation, Liu held solo exhibitions across the country. His advocation for the modernisation of Chinese painting inspired younger generations of ink artists to pursue experimentations with materials and textures in painting. In this online lecture, Professor Lin Mu will share the influence of Liu's ink practice and experimentation in the art scene of mainland China, as well as his contributions to the modern development of ink painting. This talk was recorded on 25 July 2023, in conjunction with the exhibition “Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation As Method”. 水墨大师刘国松是20世纪中国画革命创新思潮中的重要人物之一。上世纪80年代的中国，正值改革开放初期，刘国松的个展走遍中国大陆东南西北。他倡导的中国画现代化鼓励了很多年轻水墨艺术家去实验水墨画发展的无穷可能性。 本次线上讲座特邀林木教授，细谈水墨大师刘国松的水墨实验对中国大陆艺坛的影响以及他对水墨画现代发展的重要贡献。 作为展览《刘国松：实验悟道》的学术项目之一，本次讲座于2023年7月25日录制。 - About the speaker 关于讲者 Lin Mu is Professor at Sichuan University, a researcher at the Qi Baishi International Research Centre under the China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Fine Art Research Institute of the China National Academy of Painting, as well as a founding committee member for the Chinese Painting Institute. He has contributed to and edited numerous anthologies on Chinese art history including the ones on Liu Kuo-sung. 林木，四川大学教授，中国文旅部齐白石艺术国际研究中心研究员，中国国家画院美术研究院研究员，中国画学会创会理事。林氏撰写与主编了包括刘国松研究在内的诸多中国美术史著作。 - About “Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation As Method” “Liu Kuo-sung: Experimentation As Method” is a major retrospective show that celebrates the ink master’s artistic career spanning 70 years, from the 1950s to the 2010s. With a selection of over 60 works tracing his creative evolution, the show highlights the artist's significant innovations in modern Chinese ink painting, focusing on his experiments with the materiality of ink and paper, which were inspired by his own reading of Chinese art history beyond orthodox narratives. 关于《刘国松：实验悟道》 《刘国松：实验悟道》 是礼赞刘大师从1950年代至2020年横跨70年之艺术 生涯的大型回顾展。展览以精选的 60件作品追溯 大师创作的演变历程， 突出他对现代中华水墨画的重大革新。刘国松研究中国 艺术史，但不囿于其正统叙述。他由此获得启迪而展开发挥纸墨实体 特性的各种尝试， 亦是这次展出的焦点。 - Go to www.nationalgallery.sg for more content and to plan your visit today! - Disclaimer This video has been edited for clarity and concision. The opinions expressed in this video may not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. Copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission. #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou #LiuKuoSung
Resonates With Residency | Introducing: Tactility Studies National Gallery Singapore 2023-10-16 | An open invitation to be soft, to wobble, to stretch, and to uncoil.Introducing our new Resident Artists, Tactility Studies, made up of the talented Chong Gua Khee and Bernice Lee! Drawing inspiration from the “Gallery Children’s Biennale: Let’s Make A Better Place” exhibition, Tactility Studies presents “A Sense of Body” — a series of family-friendly performance activations and workshops that invites audiences to explore the connections between our own bodies and the “bodies” of various GCB artworks.Join Tactility Studies as they bring children and adults alike on a playful journey of discovery. Find out more about their upcoming performance: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/resonateswithresidency #ASenseOfBody #NationalGallerySingapore #ResonatesWithResidency #LetArtSurpriseYou
A 50-Year Journey through Ink | Zhuang Shengtao National Gallery Singapore 2023-10-09 | A 50-Year Journey through Ink | Zhuang ShengtaoOver five decades, leading Singapore ink artist Zhuang Shengtao’s artistic pursuits have led him to France, the United States, and subsequently Suzhou, China––the birthplace of classical ink art. This dialogue with Gallery Senior Curator Cai Heng maps Zhuang’s practice within the context of China’s 5000-year cultural history and multicultural Singapore.This talk was conducted in Mandarin.-About the SpeakerZhuang Shengtao (born in Chaozhou, China), moved to Singapore in 1955 where he enrolled in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Zhuang also studied Chinese painting and calligraphy under the tutelage of renowned Singaporean calligrapher, See Hiang To. Being exposed to many years of education in the Chinese classics gave him a steadfast grounding in Chinese literature, brushwork and the philosophy of Taoism. Zhuang’s years of study in Europe and the United States, along with his extensive travels, broadened his perspectives and inspired him to seek new ways to contemporise traditional Chinese calligraphy and ink painting.-About Ink Masters 2018Over two weekends, the Ink Masters 2018 programme series highlighted the development of modern ink painting in Singapore and Taiwan through encounters with leading local ink artists Zhuang Shengtao and Hong Sek Chern, and renowned Taiwanese ink master, Liu Kuo-Sung. These events were held in conjunction with the Wu Guanzhong: Expressions of Pen & Palette exhibition at National Gallery Singapore.-DisclaimerThis video has been edited for clarity and concision. The comments and opinions expressed in this video do not represent the views of National Gallery Singapore. Every effort has been made to obtain permission for the material in this video. All copyright within this video belongs to its respective owners and shall not be reproduced without permission.#inkmasters #zhuangshengtao #chineseink #inkart
Resonates With Residency | Residency Recap: Zai Tang National Gallery Singapore 2023-10-08 | Relive the mesmerising sounds of Zai Tang's residency with us! Tang presented "Sonic Medi(t)ations", a series of performances experimenting with the idiosyncrasies of different musical instruments and drawing inspiration from the "See me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia" exhibition. Part 2 of the exhibition opens on 13 October.Watch this space for more information on our next resident artist: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/resonateswithresidency#SonicMeditations #ResonatesWithResidency #NationalGallerySingapore #LetArtSurpriseYou
Gallery Children’s Biennale | Artist Interview: Arahmaiani National Gallery Singapore 2023-10-03 | Arahmaiani is an Indonesian artist. She was born in 1961 in Bandung, Indonesia. Arahmaiani used to study in Holland. While she was there, she discovered the German artist Joseph Beuys, who believed that art could help to transform society. Arahmaiani also uses her art to ask us to think about stuff happening in the world around us. --- Gallery Children’s Biennale 2023: Let's Make A Better PlaceThe Gallery Children’s Biennale has been a key programme of National Gallery Singapore since 2017, embodying the Gallery’s commitment to inspiring young, curious minds with art. It aims to explore the many ways that children can learn and play while also engaging more with the world around them. This year, the Biennale features 11 interactive and immersive artworks responding to the theme of “Let’s Make A Better Place,” inviting children and adults to discover how we can create a world built upon this year’s core values of care, respect, imagination and collaboration. To learn more, please visit childrensbiennale.com
