It’s a great time to visit our National Visual Arts Gallery, with two blockbuster retrospectives (Long Thien Shih and Anuar Rashid) and a tight regional exhibition in the Reka Gallery (Immaterial Frontiers), including works by contemporary artists from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.

And, also catch the Art-in-a-Book Fair running from 27-30 September, from 10am to 6pm. Our sister bookshop Rogueish will be there!

A Solo Exhibition by Anurendra Jegadeva (J. Anu)
at Wei-Ling Gallery (Brickfields). The installation was shown earlier at Art Stage in Singapore this year, so it was an opportunity to those who was not at Art Stage to see this in Malaysia.
Exhibition closing soon!

Popped down to Singapore to catch Yee I-Lann’s Tabled exhibition – her first solo on the island, featuring new works that have been travelling around Europe. The show runs to 7 September – for better pictures, visit the gallery site.

Caught two big shows at Singapore Art Museum, Medium at Large and Sensorium 360 [degrees]. Medium at Large is a good opportunity to view some strong new works in the collection. You can download the exhibition guide from the website.

We are so glad that we made it up to Penang to catch the exhibition, it is indeed an exhibition worth traveling for.

Congratulations to the team behind the exhibition for a job well done!

The exhibition is ongoing until 31st August 2014, so catch it with the Georgetown Festival if you can! For more information on the exhibition, please visit the organiser’s website here.

Art Basel in Hong Kong was held last week from 15-18 May 2014 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) with numerous parallel events. We kicked off our art week in Hong Kong on Tuesday (13 May) with a quick visit to Hong Kong Art Centre’s Second Contemporary Collectors exhibition Passion/Possession featuring works from 10 Indonesian collectors curated by Agung Hujatnikajennong and ended our evening with Art Gallery Night (in the Central and Sheung Wan area). After the Art Basel Vernissage it was followed up by a post party event at Absolut Art Bar with Ming Wong’s performance inside Nadim Hassan’s Apocalypse Postponed installation on Wednesday. Thursday night was Wong Chuk Hung Art Night (gallery hopping in the Aberdeen area), and the artists and designers who live and work in Chai Wan opened their doors to the public for Chai Wan Mei Open Studios on Friday and the weekend. While there were many day events at the fair – with talks and workshops organised by Art Basel, but we attended Asia Art Archive Brunch & Talk by Wong Hoy Cheong on ‘Rage, Hope and Love: Working with Communities & Housing’, followed by a visit to Para/Site‘s exhibition ‘Ten Millions Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong’, and finally Xu Bing’s ‘It Begins with Metamorphosis‘ exhibition at The Asia Society Museum.

No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, part of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, and curated by June Yap, has just opened at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Gillman Barracks, Singapore, following its debut at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and tour to the Asia Society in Hong Kong. The exhibition runs to 20 July 2014.

The artists in the Singapore presentation are:
Amar Kanwar (India), Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo (Indonesia), Bani Abidi (Pakistan), Navin Rawanchaikul (Thailand), Norberto Roldan (The Philippines), Poklong Anading (The Philippines), Reza Afisina (Indonesia), Sheela Gowda (India), Shilpa Gupta (India), Sopheap Pich (Cambodia), Tang Da Wu (Singapore), Tayeba Begum Lipi (Bangladesh), The Otolith Group (United Kingdom), Tran Luong (Vietnam), Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Vietnam) and Vincent Leong (Malaysia).

Sopheap Pich, Morning Glory, 2011

Tang Da Wu, Our Children, 2012

If there is only enough time to catch one exhibition in Singapore in April/May, this is definately worth that visit at Gillman Barracks. The exhibitions ends on 31 May 2014.

Just a few pics of the Southeast Asian Platform, part of the Platforms initiative at Art Stage this year:

Sarah Choo and Jolene Lai (Galerie Sogan & Art)

Aneida Yoeu Ali (JavaArts) & Chua Chye Teck (iPreciation)

MA-NA-VA-REH – Love..; Kolam by Anurendra Jegadeva (Wei-Ling Gallery)

Book Land by Haslin Ismail (G13)

Eternal by Mark Justiniani (The Drawing Room)

Non-Being by Itself by Kamin Lertchaiprasert (Numthong Gallery)

Wrong Activity by Ruangsak Anuwatwimon (Gallery VER)

Installation shots of our latest project, for Helu-Trans in Singapore: Southeast Asia/Contemporary, the first of a Helu-Trans Collectors series.

We had a wonderful time working with the four private collections involved, and with the Helu-Trans team. Thanks to everyone who came for the opening and panel discussion last weekend, especially friends from Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia.

For more info, see the Exhibition page, and for launch pics, visit us on Facebook. A post-exhibition catalogue will be out early 2014.

The 4th Singapore Biennale: If The World Changed. 27 curators, 82 artists and collectives from 13, predominantly from Southeast Asia, at Singapore Art Museum, 8Q, the National Museum and the Peranakan Museum. Go to the Biennale website.

We caught the Biennale in parts during opening week… apologies for the limited pics…

Anggun Priambodo, at the entrance of 8Q

Nasirun, Between Worlds, at SAM

There was an awful lot going on that week.

At Gilman Barracks:

Arin Rungjang at Future Perfect

Shooshie Sulaiman at Tomio Koyama Gallery

At NUS Museum:

Charles Lim’s Search of Raffles Light exhibition at NUS Museum

Michael Lee’s installation at NUS Museum

At ICAS:

‘Lost to the Future : Contemporary Art from Central Asia’, curated by Charles Merewether at ICAS

Lost to the Future at ICAS

At Sculpture Square:

Lee Wen’s performance in the courtyard of Sculpture Square

[caption id="attachment_3030" align="aligncenter" width="667"] Loo Zihan, Ray Langenbach’s Archive, at Ghost: The Body at the Turn of the Century