Museum Musings: Ota Fine Arts Singapore Presents Firoz Mahmud’s Drawing Revolution

Ota Fine Arts Singapore presents a new solo exhibition by Firoz Mahmud featuring his drawings, paintings and wood carvings. Based in New York City, Firoz takes inspiration from Bangladeshi history and the region. Many of Mahmud’s works explore colonial narratives of Bangladesh and its capital, Dhaka, and how they have been transformed by colonialism. Works such as Traitor of Faith [Plot #2 Shiraj & Mir] (2010) … Continue reading Museum Musings: Ota Fine Arts Singapore Presents Firoz Mahmud’s Drawing Revolution

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Dawn Ng’s Perfect Stranger

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA “It often strikes me that when someone says they miss something, they ordinarily allude to a person, time or place; when what they truly miss is a version of themselves, which they can never get back to again. After all, what is each of us, but a vessel of vanishing selves?” After catching a glimpse of her new work at DISINI 2018, Sullivan+Strumpf … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Dawn Ng’s Perfect Stranger

Bahrain Art Week Singapore: An Interview with ArtBAB Founder Kaneka Subberwal and Artists Jamal Abdul Rahim and Faika Al Hasan

The Kingdom of Bahrain holds an enviable 5,000 year history. Naturally then, they’ve had plenty of time to grow their artistic landscape, evolving from the traditional to the contemporary and now equipped with a diverse range of distinctive styles across the board. But as with any ‘product’, it is key that the world becomes aware of Bahrain art and artists for them to become aware of … Continue reading Bahrain Art Week Singapore: An Interview with ArtBAB Founder Kaneka Subberwal and Artists Jamal Abdul Rahim and Faika Al Hasan

Museum Musings: Embodiment | Sentience at The Private Museum

In conservative Singapore, it’s next to impossible to find an exhibition dedicated almost entirely to a gallery of nudes. But perhaps that’s where The Private Museum comes into the picture, most recently daring to do the extraordinary, and providing an avenue for art on the margins to be displayed in its fully glory. Commemorating the 5th anniversary since the passing of one of Singapore’s great … Continue reading Museum Musings: Embodiment | Sentience at The Private Museum

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf Presents Ramesh Mario Nithyendran’s R@MESH: Volume II

Sullivan + Strumpf Singapore will be presenting works by Sri Lankan-born Sydney-based artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran this October. Nitiyendran’s R@MESH: Volume II will showcase iconoclastic clay sculptures that explore gender, religion, popular culture, exoticism and outsider aesthetics, received with critical acclaim as these odd figures have made their way across Asia. Known as an unorthodox clay artist, Nithiyendran has developed a unique sculptural language which has … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf Presents Ramesh Mario Nithyendran’s R@MESH: Volume II

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Sydney Ball’s Infinex V

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – This October, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney presents one rainbow of a show, with a showcase of Infinex V, the first exhibition of the late Australian abstract artist Sydney Ball since his passing. Considered Australian’s greatest colourist, the exhibition was initially planned to mark the artist’s 85th birthday, and presents large scale works from Ball’s previous Infinex series, which was unseen during his lifetime. The series was fabricated … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Sydney Ball’s Infinex V

Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Alex Seton’s Cargo

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – In their latest exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf will be presenting Alex Seton’s Cargo, an exhibition of new marble sculptures depicting highly compressed bales of clothing reminiscent of those found in the second-hand clothes industry. Each cube is tightly packed into a single volume, comprising a mass of stories and history that makes up a tangled mass of humanity, representing the mesh of needs and concerns, environments … Continue reading Museum Musings: Sullivan + Strumpf (Sydney) Presents Alex Seton’s Cargo

Museum Musings: FOST and SILVERLENS Collaborate for Depth of Surface in the Philippines

MAKATI CITY, PHILIPPINES – Singapore’s FOST Gallery and the Philippines’ SILVERLENS are collaborating for the first time ever with Depth of Surface, an all new group exhibition that will bring together works from Heman Chong (Singapore), Phi Phi Oanh (Vietnam) and Donna Ong (Singapore). Held at SILVERLENS Gallery in the Philippines, the exhibition seeks to explore how the artists treat the two-dimensional plane, with its paradoxical … Continue reading Museum Musings: FOST and SILVERLENS Collaborate for Depth of Surface in the Philippines

Finding A Home in the Unfamiliar: Young Talent Programme 2017/18 Winners’ Solo Exhibitions @ ION Art Gallery

When is a house considered a home? Is is simply a place to rest our heads, or does a home necessitate recognising certain icons that make it your own, knowing the building’s secret corners or quite simply, having created unforgettable memories? While no overarching theme was stipulated, somehow, all three of the ION Art Gallery’s 2017/18 Young Talent Programme winners have emerged to create solo … Continue reading Finding A Home in the Unfamiliar: Young Talent Programme 2017/18 Winners’ Solo Exhibitions @ ION Art Gallery

Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme to be Presented at the Singapore Pavilion at 58th Venice Biennale

To be given a chance to represent Singapore at an international level is a rare and incredibly prestigious opportunity, be it in the realm of politics, sports or the arts. So to do so at one of the oldest and most renowned Biennales in the world is certainly a golden opportunity, and at the 58th Venice Biennale held from 11th May to 24th November 2019, that position … Continue reading Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme to be Presented at the Singapore Pavilion at 58th Venice Biennale