MARCH
This exhibition at Collectors Contemporary will showcase groundbreaking artworks created by Andy Warhol throughout his artistic career and presents the largest comprehensive and retrospective collection of Warhol’s art ever exhibited in Singapore. Visit http://www.collectors.com.sg for more information. APRIL“The Andy Warhol Effect”
“WHY WARHOL?”
A dialogue between a curator and two collectors
“The Absurdity of Aesthetic Decision-making”
“Warhol & Postmodern Aesthetics”
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Twin brothers Chun Kaifeng and Chun Kaiqun are displaying an art-as-child's-play aesthetic for their first combined solo exhibitions. At the heart of it all, both artists have much to say about the country they have grown up in. They lampoon amusement parks in an oblique way of questioning why Singapore's tourism image is driven by economic initiatives that can do with more imagination; why childhood past-times have evolved to a sterile, character-less ghost of yesteryear's dirt-under-fingernails' games; or why people are paying money to entertain themselves literally to a spiritual death. Whatever the answer, fun is definitely a main element in this exhibition - streaked with cruelty, danger and violence. Visit http://www.post-museum.org for more information.
Qiu Zhijie explores the basis of nationhood and of the geopolitical and psychological attachments to Nanjing City; in over 40 stunning works created at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI). Visit http://www.stpi.com.sg for more details.
This exhibition is a good example where a prominent Southeast Asian artist is introduced through thematic sections, which will render an intimate and striking portrait of the artist's life, works and practice in painting over the last decade. The exhibition desires to evoke and present a striking portrait of Masriadi through the displayed works and the exhibition design, seen through four thematic sections, each providing a different angle to understand different façades of Masriadi's personality, his commitment to painting and the formal and thematic aspects in his works. Visit http://www.singart.com for more information.
This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the founding of The Artists Village (TAV). Formed within a rural-scape (or kampung) at 61-b Lorong Gambas, Sembawang in 1988, TAV engendered radical shifts in generating new ways of thinking and making art in the history of contemporary art in Singapore.This exhibition provides a historical context to the development of contemporary art practice in Singapore and offers historical distance to evaluate and examine the significance of TAV as part of the Singapore Art Museum’s series of exhibitions on artists’ collectives. Visit http://www.singart.com for more information. SEPTEMBER
An exhibition relating to the history of Kampong Kapor, its current inhabitants and functions as well as opportunities and possibilities in its future. Featuring the works of students from the Architecture Faculty in the National University of Singapore. Visit http://www.post-museum.org for more information. Presented by Art Galleries Association Singapore
Art Walk 2008 is a self-guided art tour over two evenings that brings participants by bus to fifteen galleries. The walk allows art buyers and art enthusiasts to discover and enjoy artworks presented at AGAS galleries. The event also enables members of the public, who are keen to learn more about the visual arts, to visit galleries in a relaxed atmosphere. AGAS is a non-profit organisation of Singapore’s leading art galleries, which aspires to promote professional gallery practice based on high standards of connoisseurship and ethical practice.
Of the ambitions and desires of empires, nations, cities and individuals, Bound for Glory articulates the pursuit of recognition, presented through five works by the Malaysian contemporary artist Wong Hoy Cheong. Revealed in the works are reflections on aspirations for fame and glory sought through notoriety, geographical and imagined occupation, and nationalistic fervor; as well as the dilemmas and conflicts that a rapacious appetite for a place in history, influence and honour entails. Artworks presented in the exhibition include: Re:Looking (2002-2003), Chronicles of Crime (2006), Suburbia: Bukit Beruntung, Subang Jaya (2006), Anthem (2006), Aman Sulukule and Canim Sulukule / Oh Sulukule, Darling Sulukule (2007). Coming from Georgetown, Penang, the internationally-recognised artist's practice is inter-disciplinary, involving areas such as drawing, installation, theatre, performance and video. Recent exhibitions he has been invited to present his work at include the Taipei Biennale (2008) and Istanbul Biennale (2007). A publication, Shifts: Wong Hoy Cheong 2002 - 2007, documenting the artist's work since 2002, will be published by NUS Museum and GALERI PETRONAS in-conjunction with the exhibition.
Speaker Dr. Melissa Chiu, Director of Asia Society Museum and Vice President of the Global Art Programs, is a leading authority on Asian contemporary art. Dr. Chiu will share her reflections on how Asian contemporary art, in particular, Southeast Asian Art, can take on the challenges and opportunities in meeting a larger global audience, to become part of the dynamic process of globalisation, forwarding the message of dialogues and understanding between cultures. Visit http://www.singart.com for more information.
Jinnie Seo's latest installation transforms the newly constructed glass atrium of the National Museum of Singapore into a turbulent theatrical domain. The National Museum's modernist glass atrium, originally a transparent light filled environment, has become a dynamic multi-hued site dominated by the kaleidoscopic interplay of reds, blues, greens, grays and silvers. Utilising vinyl film sheets adhered onto the interior and exterior of the glass façade, Seo has designed a monumental mural inspired by the dark side of nature as manifested in a tropical storm. STORM has been commissioned by the National Museum of Singapore under its Art-On-Site programme. Visit http://www.nationalmuseum.sg for more information. Jointly Presented By the National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Jointly curated by Singapore Art Museum and National Art Museum of China, Beijing, Accelerate marks the 2nd collaboration between SAM and NAMOC in a series of bilateral cultural exchange projects between both institutions, the first being Encounters: Works from SAM Permanent Collection, which was on display at NAMOC in 2006. Accelerate will feature the latest trends in Chinese contemporary art seen through newest works by internationally renowned artists critiquing social and knowledge structures, and expressing new dimensions of human experience and social realities. The works, which are jointly selected by SAM and NAMOC, will feature artists including Xu Bing, Miao Xiaocun, Shi Jinsong and Lin Tianmiao Visit http://www.singart.com for more information.
In tandem with the SB2008 and its theme of Wonder, Confabulation explores the distorted narratives of our memories. Personal memories, as well as collective history, are often built upon the continuous falsification and manipulation of the supposed ‘truth’ of events. Aesthetic activities are frequently a subconscious response to false memories and souvenirs of life experiences. Confabulation presents provocative works by various artists who have been exploring the relationship between reality and personal memory. Artists: Chris Levine, Gottfried Helnwein, Derek Boshier, Kevin Bourgeois, Jim Christensen, Renée Stout, John Waters, David Gremard Romero, Steve Dryden and Andy Diaz Hope Artist Talk
"The Eye & the Gaze: Psychoanalysis in Art History"
A group exhibition of six artists – five painters and one sculptor – from the 82 Republic gallery in Hong Kong. All the artists were born in the 1980s and represent the new generation of contemporary artists from China. Without the political and social baggage as their predecessors, their works are fresh and original; full of wonder and intrigue. Artists: Chan Yu, Guo Hongwei, Wan Yang, Zhou Siwei, Li Shurui and Liu Jia
This three-part exhibition presented by the Singapore Management University and curated by Joanna Lee, showcases some of the most powerful and evocative expressions in recent Indonesian art. 'Out of Magelang' draws from Dr Oei Hong Djien's art museum collection for a survey of the historical and stylistic resonance of Yogyakarta as the leading centre of Indonesian art. Artists featured include S. Sudjojono, Hendra Gunawan, Widayat, Dadang Christanto, Made Djirna, Heri Dono, Edie Hara, Rudi Mantofani, Entang Wiharso, Nasirun and Jumaldi Alfi. Entang Wiharso's 'I Am Black Goat' and Nasirun's 'Wayang Zaman, Shadows of the Contemporary' are solo exhibitions of recent installations and large-scale paintings. As contemporaries from Yogya, their works express personal attitudes and strategies towards negotiating the miasmic conditions of contemporary geopolitics and assert subjectivity and agency through traditional folk and popular culture.
Showcase:Singapore a premium boutique art fair will premier during the opening days of the SB2008. Featuring the top 25 galleries from Asia, Europe and America, this highly exclusive art fair will showcase the current darlings of the art market and will see a gathering of dealers, collectors and artists engage in intimate exchange and dialogue on the business of art collection. Accompanying this will be an art investment forum that will serve as an important opportunity for collectors to dialogue, network and explore the wealth of Asian contemporary art. Developed together with our partner Fortune Cookie Projects, this will be the key nucleus in jump starting the art market in Singapore and the region, bringing together key collectors and dealers in one location during the time of the Biennale for exchange, trade and research. This new initiative will serve as the key catalyst to grow a larger base of High Networth Individuals and Upper Middle Class collectors, creating a stronger stratified consumer art market.
Offered by Sotheby's Institute of Art – Singapore, this is the first of a planned series of Biennale and Art Fair courses in Asia. Aligned with the Singapore Biennale, one of the most exciting art events in Asia and the debut Showcase: Singapore, a premium boutique art fair that features top galleries from Asia, Europe and America, the three-day intensive educational course will feature special lectures, panel discussions and guided visits to the Biennale and Fair by Institute faculty, experts in the field, gallery directors, dealers and leading institutions. Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the development of modern and contemporary art and explore subjects ranging from the dynamics of Asian biennales to trends in the art market. The courses also offer a 'hands-on' experience through visits and guided tours. Designed for art professionals, collectors, and those interested in art, participants gain the opportunity to expand their knowledge of the Asian contemporary art scene. Lecturers will include Tony Godfrey, Director of Research, Sotheby's Institute of Art – London, Dr. Eugene Tan, Programme Director for Contemporary Art and Ho Tzu Nyen, Lecturer, Sotheby's Institute of Art – Singapore.
An exhibition of work by Jitish Kallat, a painter and installation artist who has shown his work internationally. Following on from other works by Kallat, which explore political oration, Public Notice II (2007) re-invokes the momentous speech delivered by Mahatma Gandhi on the eve of the historic 400 kilometre ‘Dandi March’ during the Indian Freedom Struggle. On March 11, 1930, prior to setting out to break the Salt Act instituted by the British, Gandhi laid out the codes of conduct for his fellow revolutionaries. He called for complete Civil Disobedience; the only restriction being that of maintaining ‘total peace’ and ‘absolute non-violence’. Jitish Kallat was born 1974 in Mumbai, India. He lives and works in Mumbai. From 1996 to 1997, he was a Fellow at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. From 1990 to 1996, he did his BFA in painting) at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. His recent exhibitions included the Passage to India, Initial Access Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK and Universal Recipient, Haunch of Venison, Zurich in 2008.
Adding a humorous twist to the newly minted theme of Singapore Biennale 2008 'Wonder', The Faculty of Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts presents various multi-disciplinary works in the exhibition titled No Wonder. The event consisting of exhibitions and performances ranging from a reverberating tectonic sound work to a whimsical rattan satellite dish hanging from the sky bridge, invites meditation over the real sense of wonderment which might not exist perhaps in the world perpetuating with diseases, wars, pollution and racial discrimination. Visit http://www.lasalle.edu.sg for more information.
Ronald Ventura in Mapping the Corporeal lays groundwork for an investigation of the commodification of the human body, paranoia and religious consciousness in modern societies. In his most recent series, the material existence of modern life is approached as a terrain that marks the regulation of social life from its interior, following it, interpreting it, absorbing it, and rearticulating it as a situation where the production and reproduction of life itself is at sake. Ventura expresses these 'tensions' in the form of sculptures, assemblages and hyperrealist paintings which are created mainly in graphite on canvas. Ronald Ventura was born in 1973 and studied painting at the Philippines College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Santo Tomas, Manila. The exhibition will be presented during the period of the Singapore Biennale 2008. OCTOBER
Recapture the innocence and wonderment of childhood; a time when toys were larger than life and jigsaw puzzles provided endless hours of fun, when imagination ruled and fantasy took flight. Enjoy works by an eclectic selection of artists, each capturing the essence of a forgotten world. Step through the looking glass and get reacquainted with your inner child. Artists: John Baldessari, Charles Bell, Enrique Chagoya, Andres Compagnucci, Ronnie Cutrone, Linda Frost, Tim Liddy, Crystal Liu, Michael Mew, Malcolm Morley, James Rosenquist, Thad Simerly, Al Souza, John Waters and Donald Roller Wilson
This is a major exhibition of paintings of Singapore’s public housing estates by foremost watercolourist and Cultural Medallion awardee, Ong Kim Seng. The presentation of the exhibition is multi-layered, taking viewers on a nostalgic journey of heartlands that Ong had intimate knowledge of with 17 early works and 12 impressively large scale works. Poems by Koh Buck Song as well as a video and photographs of past and present scenes complete the experience. All exhibits are accompanied with explanatory texts to capture significant aspects of Singapore history and the role played by the nation's public housing landscape as well as its resultant social heritage.This landmark project is accompanied by a book of the same title, lending deeper insight into the creative practice of the artist as perceived by poet-writer Koh Buck Song who uses text to accompany the works.
This exhibition realises the artist's Cultural Medallion grant awarded in 1990 by the National Arts Council.
Visit http://www.nhb.gov.sg/SAM for more information.
For the past year Jack Youngblood has been artist in residence at Ksatria Gameworks (a Singaporean computer games design company). The work that he has done during this time he is now presenting in this one-man show. Its themes reference heavily the lurid and dramatic imagery of which contemporary computer games are frequently composed. The work also addresses such notions as ‘the hero’, ‘the beauty’, death and loss and is a development of the ‘old spaceman’ imagery that has constituted his other shows in Singapore. Though the work will mostly consist of digital painting, oil painting and sculpture will also be on view. His work is very technically accomplished (he is known as something of a ‘Photoshop Jedi’) and, during the show, as part of Post-Museum’s outreach programme, he will give demonstrations on the technical issues surrounding the work’s manufacture as well as talking about the ideas that inform Visit http://www.post-museum.org for more information.
Held annually in Singapore, ARTSingapore 2008 presents the largest, Asian contemporary art collection for the international art connoisseurs and buyers. Running for the 8th year and positioned as the established trade fair for contemporary Asian art, for the first time, this year s event is at its largest attracting about 110 exhibitors from 16 countries. Providing a wide spectrum of the visual arts, such as paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs and editions, as well as video and digital art by more than 800 artists, ARTSingapore 2008 has long established itself as the platform to sought for artworks produced by both renowned and emerging artists. Since its inception, the fair has also seen new artists making their marks and gaining foothold into the industry market. ARTSingapore 2008 creates the opportunity for gallery owners, collectors, artists and art aficionados gather to forge business alliance, acquire new contemporary artworks, share ideas and exchange information all under one roof. Visit http://www.artsingapore.net for more information.
39 Pounds of Love (2005) (PG) by Dani Menkin
39 Pounds is an inspirational and humorous non-fiction account of a remarkable man and a remarkable journey that will truly leave you in awe of one man’s ambition to live his life to the fullest. Amil Ankilewitz, a 3–D animator in Israel was diagnosed with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, later diagnosed as Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) , and was predicted to survive only to the age of 6. However, now thirty years later, he returns to the United Stated to confront the childhood doctor who predicted his early demise, during this journey he comes to terms with a major incident from his past and pursues a lifelong dream: to ride a Harley Davidson. 39 pounds of Love takes you on an unforgettable journey that is both fascinating and impressive with an outstanding character like Amil who embodies the very term, carpe diem!! Ushpizin (2004) (PG) by Giddi Dar
A holiday miracle befalls an ultra–orthodox Jewish couple during the festive holiday of Succoth. Moshe Bellenga, a devoutly religious man finds himself broke and unable to buy the necessary religious items for the festival. However to the wonderment of him and his wife, they receive an anonymous gift of $1,000 from a local charity organization and they are overjoyed. Soon later they are visited by surprise guests who turn their house topsy-turvy. The film is disarmingly funny and startles in its universality, depicting members of the ultra –orthodox community in scenes of ordinary living, drinking, smoking, dancing, arguing, reconciling, listening to popular music & grappling with their faith.
For Drawing Out Conversations, curator Lim Kok Boon brings together a diverse group of artists at work in Singapore in order to illustrate their concerns with drawing and its relationship with their varied practices. The exhibition is a presentation of contemporary artworks that engage the activity of drawing as the most essential and elemental component of all art and mark-making, without forfeiting the complexity of ideas and issues they may embody Artists: Genevieve Chua, Chun Kai Feng, Chun Kai Qun, Joo Choon Lin, Khiew Huey Chian, Parvathi Nayar, Tang Da Wu, Tang Ling Nah
An exhibition of 30 original prints from the Singapore Art Museum Tyler Collection, highlighting the collaboration between Josef Albers and Kenneth Tyler that paved the way for innovative contemporary print-making. Held in conjunction with the launch of Hermès' first limited edition on silk, Hommage au Carré, faithful reproductions of six works from Albers' best known series, Homage to the Square. NOVEMBER
Reflections 2008 – Republic Polytechnic's Community Arts Festival is back again with its stellar line-up of local artistes like Hossan Leong, T'ang Quartet, The Main Wayang Company, Channel U Project Superband Winner Milubing and many more starting this November! Check out http://www.rp.sg/trcc for the full details. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
