Welcome to Kolektif Chills, the Gallery's first Halloween-themed Youth Social! The season often features the ghoulish and horrible, but this October, we want to talk about the dead and the haunted. Expect to explore the exhibitions with a stranger, adorn yourself with art and engage in intimate chit chat about your deepest fears. Come decked […]
Welcome to Kolektif Chills, the Gallery's first Halloween-themed Youth Social! The season often features the ghoulish and horrible, but this October, we want to talk about the dead and the haunted. Expect to explore the exhibitions with a stranger, adorn yourself with art and engage in intimate chit chat about your deepest fears. Come decked […]
Spearheaded by Kolektif, the experimental youth arm of the Gallery that aims to empower young people to bring their creativity and concerns to art museums, this year's The Kolektif Takeover at Light to Night Festival features a youth trivia night! Look forward to a superb range of general knowledge questions on topics ranging from pop […]
Displayed for the first time in Asia in the exhibition Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese American artist Dinh Q. Lê’s installation Crossing the Farther Shore (2014) is a rare record of the everyday lives of Southern Vietnamese people in the pre-Vietnam war period, reflected through abandoned images collected by the artist himself. In […]
Sat 25 Feb | 3 PM | Supreme Court Wing, Level 4M, Glass Room How can contemporary art create new ways of understanding the past? This panel explores the turn toward history in Southeast Asian contemporary art practice, how it offers models for the ways in which we understand the past and the work that […]
Join us on a journey back in time to find out and explore the history of video installation art. This two-part series offers a fascinating look at the pivotal moments when video installation first emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, staged and recreated at the latest See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia […]
This symposium will consider the writing of art in Southeast Asia within and across national boundaries in the region. Speakers will respond to the development of the landmark publication "The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader", touching on issues of modernism and modernity, regionality, vernacular expression and post-coloniality. They will discuss the locus and […]
The exhibition "See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia" explores the emergence of video installation art in the region during the 1980s and 1990s through the restaging and reproduction of significant works by ten artists. Join us for a discussion between artists Dr Baharudin Mohd Arus and Jean Marie Syjuco, and exhibition […]
The early history of photography in Southeast Asia is largely defined by an ethnographic approach that attempted to “fix” the colonised body. In these images, the subject often remained rooted in space and in (developmental) time, while the photographer was highly itinerant. But what happens when the itinerant photographer is also the subject, or when […]
Gallery Keynote is a series that invites the world’s visionaries, thinkers and industry and opinion leaders to consider issues fundamentally relating to the future of museums and their role in culture and society. Kaywin Feldman (Director, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.) leads an institution of intriguing paradox: The National Gallery of Art […]
