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 […]
Sat 10 Jun | 11am - 12pm | Meeting Point: Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery, Level 3, City Hall Wing Unpack the curatorial narratives of "Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia" and listen to behind-the-scenes stories with the exhibition's curators. Uncover the medium’s history in the region, and how it contributed to the development of Southeast […]
Sat 10 Jun | 1pm - 2pm | Meeting Point: The Ngee Ann Kongsi Concourse Gallery, Level B1, City Hall Wing, National Gallery Singapore By staging and recreating seminal works by ten artists, "See Me, See You: Early Video Installation of Southeast Asia" locates the moment when the form first emerged in the region in […]
Join this reading group and delve into Ink Master Liu Kuo-sung’s written text "On Abstract Paintings" (1960) as he unpacks modern abstract art in relation to Chinese aesthetic thought. Together, we will discuss and meditate on the visual sensation and perception of his abstract ink paintings. This reading group is led by Curatorial Assistant Tan […]
Sunday 11 June 2023 | 2.30pm - 4.30pm | National Gallery Singapore, Supreme Court Wing, Level 5, Glass Room *This reading group will be conducted in Mandarin. *The English reading group will be held between September and October. “The occurrence of an abstract concept is not foreign but has a deep root in our aesthetics […]
