Con più di 150 mostre, conferenze ed eventi di arti visive, questa dodicesima edizione offre un'opportunità senza precedenti per esplorare la diversificata scena artistica di Singapore, impegnandosi anche in dialoghi sull'arte nel sud-est asiatico e riflettendo sulla produzione artistica contemporanea che modella il panorama visivo della regione.
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Highlights include:
Ho Tzu Nyen: Time and the Tiger
Singapore Art Museum
A mid-career survey exhibition of the artist’s practice, Ho Tzu Nyen: Time and the Tiger spans two decades worth of paintings, films, theatrical performances, and video installations. Ho’s works often draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos and mythical stories to investigate the construction of history, the narrative of myths, and the plurality of identities. The exhibition also features a new commission that reflects on the embodied and heterogeneous experiences of time. Ho Tzu Nyen: Time and the Tiger is co-organised between Singapore Art Museum and Art Sonje Center.
Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America
National Gallery Singapore
Exploring how art can be a vehicle for resistance and transformation, Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America traces how artists from the two regions forged connections and nurtured solidarities in the 20th century, defiantly reclaiming their place within the story of art. It represents the world’s first large-scale exhibition to survey the regions' shared solidarities, which emerged in the aftermath of colonialism. Featuring more than 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, performances, and sensorial installations, Tropical presents work by more than 70 artists, many on view for the first time in Singapore.
Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics
Gillman Barracks
Presented by The Institutum and curated by Zoe Whitley, Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics explores the dynamic connections and affinities shared between African and Asian diasporas via a major exhibition that will feature 100 internationally acclaimed artists. This will be the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the vibrant and interconnected narratives of these demographics to be held in Singapore and Southeast Asia. The exhibition draws from private collections across the region and provides a rare opportunity for audiences to engage intimately with an array of mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, moving image, textile, installation, and performance. Artists include Sonia Boyce, Theaster Gates, Do Ho Sun, Ogawa Machiko, Zanele Muholi, The Otolith Group, Martin Wong, and many more.
VH AWARD
Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
Initiated in 2016 by Hyundai Motor Group, the VH AWARD is Asia’s leading award for new media artists who are engaged with the context and future of Asia. The 5th edition of the VH AWARD Exhibition presents work by Grand Prix recipient Subash Thebe Limbu (Dharan), as well as award finalists Zike He (Guiyang), Riar Rizaldi (Bandung), Su Hui-Yu (Taipei) and zzyw (based in New York). The works examine novel approaches to interaction with technology, encompassing a wide range of topics such as social and environmental concerns, the emergence of artificial intelligence, and the formation of identities that transcend historical boundaries. The artists explore speculative prospects for contemplating time, humanity, and cross-cultural collaboration, alongside unique perspectives on the future and the intersection of art and technology.
Art Takes Over
This year’s edition of Singapore Art Week sets out to captivate audiences with meaningful visual arts encounters in spaces both familiar and unexpected, including:
Art After Dark | Gillman Barracks
Sonic Sessions | Tanjong Pagar Districtpark
Light to Night Singapore 2024
Simryn Gill & Charles Lim: The Sea is a Field
Eat Play Love | Tan Ngiap Heng
Together, Hue & Me | Elisa Liu & Cheng Jin An
INTERWOVEN | Telok Kurau Studios
Off the Wall | Modern Wisdoms curated by Zarina Muhammad, presented by Art Outreach Singapore and OCBC Bank
New programmes by established and emerging Singaporean artists that reflect on the shaping of identities and shared affinities feature:
Keys Under the Sofa
Geometria Situ | h0t.house
Alternative Ecology: The Community | Wang Ruobing
Refraction Index | Daniel Chong
Acknowledging Intuition (AI) | Huijun Lu, Joscelin Chew
Immortal Words | Boedi Widjaja
With Singapore Art Week Dialogues, there are numerous opportunities for discussion and discovery, from forums and talks to art fairs, including:
Creative Cities, Creative Regions
Creative Cities, Creative Regions
National Arts Council Singapore hosts the Art Thought Leadership Forum 2024 with a keynote presentation from Andy Pratt, UNESCO Chair of Global Creative Economy.
ART SG
The second edition of ART SG, presented by founding and lead partner UBS, features an exceptional line-up of leading international galleries and rising art spaces and is accompanied by a curated programme of daily talks, large-scale installations, film and moving images.
S.E.A. Focus
The sixth edition of S.E.A. Focus, a leading showcase and art market hub dedicated to Southeast Asian contemporary art, is curated by John Tung. Titled Massively Parallel, it presents a curated assembly of regional artworks, each offering profound insights into our intrinsic human identity in the midst of an impending technological confluence.
The second edition of ART SG, presented by founding and lead partner UBS, features an exceptional line-up of leading international galleries and rising art spaces and is accompanied by a curated programme of daily talks, large-scale installations, film and moving images.
S.E.A. Focus
The sixth edition of S.E.A. Focus, a leading showcase and art market hub dedicated to Southeast Asian contemporary art, is curated by John Tung. Titled Massively Parallel, it presents a curated assembly of regional artworks, each offering profound insights into our intrinsic human identity in the midst of an impending technological confluence.
