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Museum Musings: Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again at NTU CCA

This March, the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Singapore presents Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again featuring the works of artists Ade Darmawan (Indonesia), ila (Singapore), Zac Langdon-Pole (New Zealand/Germany), Shubigi Rao (India/Singapore), Lucy Raven (United States), and Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia). Initiated from a conversation between Belgian curator Philippe Pirotte and Jakarta-based artist Ade Darmawan, the two were … Continue reading Museum Musings: Arus Balik – From below the wind to above the wind and back again at NTU CCA

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Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum to Celebrate A Year Of Chinese Art

Following last year’s focus on Southeast Asia, Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) has announced a brand new Season of Chinese Art set to run from June 2019 to mid-2020. A total of three blockbuster exhibitions in collaboration with leading Chinese institutions and artists will spotlight the best of Chinese art, from masterpieces of art, heritage, culture to even fashion from China and Singapore, as ancient Chinese traditions … Continue reading Museum Musings: Asian Civilisations Museum to Celebrate A Year Of Chinese Art

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Museum Musings: From Lost Roots to Urban Meadows at The Private Museum

This March, in celebration of International Woman’s Day 2019, The Private Museum presents a join exhibition by female artists Madhvi Subrahmanian and Nandita Mukand, featuring installation and sculptural works informed by their explorations into how nature inserts itself into the urban world. In From Lost Roots to Urban Meadows, the joint exhibition sees concepts of fluidity, nature, metaphysics and more. For Subrahmanian, the ceramics artist reflected on … Continue reading Museum Musings: From Lost Roots to Urban Meadows at The Private Museum

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Museum Musings: Planes & Enevelopes at UltraSuperNew Gallery

This March, UltraSuperNew Gallery is set to present Planes & Envelopes, a brand new exhibition by Hazel Lim and Ginette Chittick, brought together for the first time. Both artists are known for using simple materials such as yarn and paper to create woven artworks, primarily focusing on intersections of contemporary art, design and craft. Using pared down materials such as the kapok yarn and semi-translucent paper, they fashion … Continue reading Museum Musings: Planes & Enevelopes at UltraSuperNew Gallery

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Museum Musings: I Am You at UltraSuperNew Gallery

UltraSuperNew Gallery on Rowell Road is set to present their first exhibition of 2019 this February. Titled I Am You, the exhibition will feature the work of eclectic French visual artist Elodie Chandernagor, as she challenges the illusion of self and explores the divinity of the human body through her photography.  Major questions Chandernagor asked herself as she went through this exibition included definitions of the artist and … Continue reading Museum Musings: I Am You at UltraSuperNew Gallery

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Museum Musings: In Random Order at FOST Gallery

This year, FOST Gallery starts off 2019 with a brand new exhibition. At In Random Order, works by artists Kray Chen, Heman Chong, Grace Tan and Syagini Ratna Wulan are set to be featured, unified by functioning within a structure, physical or conceptual, in turn determined by a set of rules and a unified composite of interrelated and independent (possibly infinite) modular parts. Yet each … Continue reading Museum Musings: In Random Order at FOST Gallery

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Singapore Art Week 2019: ARTWALK Little India 2019

Taking on the theme of Image and Sound of Fragrance, popular multi-disciplinary arts festival ARTWALK Little India returns this Singapore Art Week for a grand celebration of the cultural precinct’s rich heritage via the arts. New highlights include an immersive exhibition at UltraSuperNew Gallery, five more public wall murals to add to Little India’s colourful vibrancy, and an extended programme lineup that lasts 16 days, the … Continue reading Singapore Art Week 2019: ARTWALK Little India 2019

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Singapore Art Week 2019: An Interview with Fajrina Razak, Curator of Of Wax, Dyes and Labour

The Indonesian tradition of Batik has a rich history stemming from the island of Java, an art form that involves wax-resist dyeing to create intricate recurring patterns on bales of cloth, these days considered a sign of class and often expensive. At the same time, locally at least, batik is an art form that’s fast eroding, with just a handful of practitioners left. Such was … Continue reading Singapore Art Week 2019: An Interview with Fajrina Razak, Curator of Of Wax, Dyes and Labour

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Singapore Art Week 2019: An Interview with Toh Hun Ping (Dance of A Humble Atheist @ Objectifs)

As far as hiatuses go, six years is pretty long. But for contemporary video artist Toh Hun Ping, that period of time has been spent carefully preparing for his triumphant return, with a solo exhibition set to premiere at Singapore Art Week 2019. Presented by Objectifs, Dance of a Humble Atheist marks Toh Hun Ping’s comeback with a multidisciplinary visual arts installation not only featuring brand new innovative … Continue reading Singapore Art Week 2019: An Interview with Toh Hun Ping (Dance of A Humble Atheist @ Objectifs)

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Museum Musings: Raffles In Southeast Asia at the Asian Civilisations Museum

What do we really know about Sir Stamford Raffles and his role in 19th-century Southeast Asia beyond what we’ve read in our social studies textbooks? What was the larger global and regional geo-political context in the lead-up to the so-called “founding” of modern Singapore?  Co-curated by Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) and The British Museum, as part of the Singapore Bicentennial commemoration in 2019, gear up … Continue reading Museum Musings: Raffles In Southeast Asia at the Asian Civilisations Museum

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