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uproot | rootless: An Interview with The Substation Artistic Director Ezzam Rahman, and artists of SeptFest 2022

There was a time when arts venue The Substation had a massive Malayan Banyan Tree growing along the walls of Timbre. Considered an iconic part of The Substation, the tree had been there even before the founding of the venue in 1990, and became the site for countless events, gigs and performances, representing the ongoing connection between art and nature. But come 2015, the Banyan … Continue reading uproot | rootless: An Interview with The Substation Artistic Director Ezzam Rahman, and artists of SeptFest 2022

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Art What!: An Interview with Ali Shabaz, Chief Creative Officer of M&C Saatchi Group, on new art prize ‘Art For Change’

In partnership with Saatchi Gallery in London, M&C Saatchi Group have launched a global Art Prize to identify the next generation of emerging artists, in line with the partnership’s aim to deepen access to contemporary art, broaden learning opportunities for young people in the UK and worldwide and identify the next generation of artists influencing real societal change. Together they believe in the power of … Continue reading Art What!: An Interview with Ali Shabaz, Chief Creative Officer of M&C Saatchi Group, on new art prize ‘Art For Change’

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Art What!: Al Taylor – Playing with Color at David Zwirner Hong Kong

HONG KONG – David Zwirner has announced an exhibition of works by Al Taylor at the gallery’s Hong Kong location, the first presentation of the visionary American artist in Asia. Spanning the mid-1970s through the late 1980s, the works on view will demonstrate Taylor’s transition from painting on canvas to making the three dimensional constructions for which he became known. Moving fluidly between media, Taylor … Continue reading Art What!: Al Taylor – Playing with Color at David Zwirner Hong Kong

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Art What!: Cuttings at Mizuma Gallery

Mizuma Gallery is pleased to announce Cuttings, an exhibition by Singaporean artists Ang Song Nian, Marvin Tang, Robert Zhao Renhui, Sarah Isabelle Tan, thesupersystem, and Woong Soak Teng. Cuttings presents new commissions by six Singaporean artists inspired by the natural world. The exhibition considers interactions with environments across history, geography, and personal experiences. A cutting often refers to a horticultural act of propagating a new plant by … Continue reading Art What!: Cuttings at Mizuma Gallery

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Reprogramming the anthropocene: Patricia Piccinini’s ‘We Are Connected’ at ArtScience Museum

“It’s some kind of weird exhibition.” That’s the message I spy out of the corner of my eye that an older man, maybe in his 50s, types exasperatedly on his phone, before hitting send. He’s not entirely wrong – we’re standing in front of one of Patricia Piccinini’s most renowned works, The Young Family (2002), which depicts a sculpted dog-human hybrid creature, as her young … Continue reading Reprogramming the anthropocene: Patricia Piccinini’s ‘We Are Connected’ at ArtScience Museum

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Art What!: Escape Everything! at UltraSuperNew Gallery

This July and August, UltraSuperNew Gallery presents ESCAPE EVERYTHING! a group exhibition by artists Christine Lok, joaen and Natalie Ng navigate the seemingly inescapable maze of their post-pandemic thoughts.  In the past few years, life as we know it changed drastically. Routines were interrupted, we were trapped in our homes (the yearning for bubble tea was REAL) and Trace Together tokens were all the rage. … Continue reading Art What!: Escape Everything! at UltraSuperNew Gallery

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Art What!: ╡║╞ Studies of Automobility at 136 GOETHE LAB

Goethe-Institut Singapore presents ╡║╞ Studies of Automobility, a solo exhibition by Bruce Quek, as part of the second phase of projects presented at 136 GOETHE LAB. A ponderous dance of vast, multi-lane intersections; twirling, intersecting ribbons of overpasses and underbridges. This is the landscape of automobility, a chorus in concrete, asphalt, and steel. Approaching these structures in mute incomprehension, ╡║╞ is an attempt to understand … Continue reading Art What!: ╡║╞ Studies of Automobility at 136 GOETHE LAB

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Art What!: Patricia Piccinini – We Are Connected at ArtScience Museum

ArtScience Museum presents one of its most evocative exhibitions to date – from 5th August, Patricia Piccinini: We Are Connected will draw visitors into a strange and wondrous reality where animal-human hybrids exist. Staged in collaboration with the Institute for Culture Exchange, Germany, this exhibition brings together more than 40 important artworks, making this Patricia Piccinini’s first major solo showcase in Southeast Asia. Regarded as … Continue reading Art What!: Patricia Piccinini – We Are Connected at ArtScience Museum

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Art What!: New arts space Haus217 makes debut with queer art show ‘With Pride’

For most countries, June means LGBTQ+ Pride Month, where members of the queer community come together to celebrate queer culture and history in all its diversity, brilliance, its ups and downs. For Singapore, where discrimination based on sexual orientation and criminalisation of gay sex between men is still part of the Penal Code, Pride in any form of is welcome, an act of standing up … Continue reading Art What!: New arts space Haus217 makes debut with queer art show ‘With Pride’

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Art What!: Eye of the Storm by BITTO at UltraSuperNew Gallery

In “Eye of the Storm”, Filipino artist BITTO presents a series of works that are tense and yet manages to evoke jest, while capturing his viewpoint from the still and quiet centre of a storm. It shifts from observing the thick atmospheric mess of social media: online misinformation and disinformation, shaky verification of truths, and alternative facts among others, to the political climate of the Philippines … Continue reading Art What!: Eye of the Storm by BITTO at UltraSuperNew Gallery

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