Art What!: Prix Pictet Award goes on show in Shanghai and Beijing

Prix Pictet, the world’s leading prize for photography and sustainability, will present an exhibition in Shanghai and Beijing for the first time, featuring 12 leading photographers from eight nations shortlisted for the Prix Pictet’s eighth theme of ‘Hope’. The eighth cycle, themed around Hope, offers a wide range of creative possibilities and a strong set of connections to Prix Pictet’s overriding theme of sustainability. Recycling, … Continue reading Art What!: Prix Pictet Award goes on show in Shanghai and Beijing

Art What!: ArtScience Museum to open permanent VR Gallery this July

Following their latest exhibition about videogames as art, ArtScience Museum is set to dive even further into the digital realm with the launch of their new permanent VR Gallery. Opening on 10th July, the VR Gallery at Level 4 of ArtScience Museum celebrates curiosity, innovation and experimentation through virtual reality artworks. Equipped with state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) headsets and controllers, the VR Gallery invites visitors … Continue reading Art What!: ArtScience Museum to open permanent VR Gallery this July

Art What!: Art Galleries Association Singapore presents Exclusive Studio Conversations

Art Galleries Association Singapore (AGAS) launches AGAS Presents: Exclusive Studio Conversations, is a collaborative series that unveils the intimate relationship between artists and their representing galleries, providing a personal glimpse into an otherwise hidden process of a gallery’s role in supporting the professional development of the artists they represent. A first for AGAS, the series will see AGAS galleries coming together to present a cohesive … Continue reading Art What!: Art Galleries Association Singapore presents Exclusive Studio Conversations

Art What!: I Can’t Wait To Quit My Job at Woaw Gallery

HONG KONG – Woaw Gallery presents Sean Gannon’s solo exhibition, I Can’t Wait To Quit My Job, in collaboration with Ramp Gallery. Featuring 11 new works created in the past year, I Can’t Wait To Quit My Job is the Chicago-based artist’s first exhibition in Hong Kong. The show will run from 25th June to 25th July 2021 at Woaw Gallery Wanchai space. Informed by the Chicago Skyline … Continue reading Art What!: I Can’t Wait To Quit My Job at Woaw Gallery

Art What!: #SGFASHIONNOW at the Asian Civilisations Museum

Can contemporary fashion ever be held to the same standards as ancient artefacts and art? The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) certainly seems to think so, with #SGFASHIONNOW, their first ever display of contemporary Singapore fashion. Presented in collaboration with LASALLE College of the Arts’ School of Fashion and the Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF), #SGFASHIONNOW presents several showstopping outfits crafted by local designers, each modernising … Continue reading Art What!: #SGFASHIONNOW at the Asian Civilisations Museum

Art What!: Woaw Gallery x Avant Arte Presents WoP

HONG KONG – From 18th June to 7th July 2021, WOAW Gallery will be collaborating with Avant Arte to stage an exhibition of original works on paper, WoP, at 9 Queen’s Road Central in Hong Kong. Avant Arte have rapidly established themselves as a dynamic, disruptive force in the art world. Beginning as a contemporary art blog and now collaborating with world-leading artists like Cai … Continue reading Art What!: Woaw Gallery x Avant Arte Presents WoP

Art What!: Video games elevated to art at the ArtScience Museum’s Virtual Realms

One of my earliest video game memories was heading to the arcade at the nearby mall, inserting a few tokens into the Street Fighter machine, and then promptly proceeding to get completely whomped by the older boy playing against me. Yes, I cried, but in a time before the Internet was as prolific as it is today, video games were the best way for younger, … Continue reading Art What!: Video games elevated to art at the ArtScience Museum’s Virtual Realms

Art What!: SAM Mini Mobile Museum presents Jeremy Sharma’s ‘Slander!’

This June, Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will launch its fourth exhibition of the SAM Mini Mobile Museum, featuring Slander! by multidisciplinary artist Jeremy Sharma, a presentation of his research into Singapore’s films and popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition will open at Woodlands Regional Library from 9th June to 25 July 2021, and travel to Jurong and Tampines regional libraries on 28th … Continue reading Art What!: SAM Mini Mobile Museum presents Jeremy Sharma’s ‘Slander!’

Art What!: Tai Kwun opens earlier with Good Morning Tai Kwun

HONG KONG – Beginning this June, Tai Kwun will rise earlier each morning as part of their “Good Morning Tai Kwun” activation, with gates opening up to the public at 8am until 11pm, along with Tai Kwun restaurants Rise & Dine offers and Good Morning Tai Kwun – Urban Recharge wellness activities happening from late June. During these exclusive early hours, the historic grounds of Tai Kwun is the perfect … Continue reading Art What!: Tai Kwun opens earlier with Good Morning Tai Kwun

Art What!: Du Kun’s Scores of Landscapes at Mizuma Gallery

Mizuma Gallery has announced Scores of Landscapes, by Chinese artist Du Kun in his first ever solo exhibition in Singapore. The scrolls of landscape paintings in the series Scores of Landscapes look serene and ancient, as if they have frozen the history of thousands of years. But in fact, these landscapes themselves are pieces of nervous, sad, discordant, and unconventional music. Du Kun graduated with … Continue reading Art What!: Du Kun’s Scores of Landscapes at Mizuma Gallery