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  • Art Garden 2012

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 18-May-2012 to 12-August-2012

    The much-loved “Art Garden” returns this May for the third year running with an engaging range of contemporary artworks by Singaporean and international artists that will appeal to you and your young ones. SAM has used this opportunity to commission Singapore artists, such as Justin Lee and Loh Sau Kuen, to [...]

  • “Panorama”: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 20-April-2012 to 25-December-2012

    Contemporary art is often a dialogue with the social, economic and cultural issues of the present. The explosion of art produced in Asia since 2000 can thus be a window allowing us a view or vista into the epochal changes happening around us. Cultures melt into each other, while urbanisation has transformed once familiar landscapes [...]

  • Not Against Interpretation

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 24-March-2012 to 02-September-2012

    “Not Against Interpretation” is an experimental platform to nurture an appreciation for contemporary art. The projects created on this platform exploit the ‘openness’ of contemporary art, the fact that it can be interpreted in many ways, as an opportunity to engage with people from varied backgrounds. The first artwork to be presented under this series is [...]

  • Lee Wen: “Lucid Dreams in the Reverie of the Real”

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 20-April-2012 to 10-June-2012

    “Lucid Dreams in the Reverie of the Real” is an exhibition of works by Cultural Medallion recipient Lee Wen based on the theme of dreams. Loosely inspired by a book he published in 1981 entitled A Waking Dream, Lee recreates some key works spanning two-and-a-half decades of his artistic career, alongside [...]

  • The Collectors Show: Chimera

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 14-January-2012 to 25-March-2012

    “The Collectors Show: Chimera” brings together major works of Asian contemporary art from private collections around the world. A tribute to the art patrons of today, the exhibition offers an insight into the breadth and richness of private art collections, introducing visitors to the personal visions and passions that shape them. Titled [...]

  • The Singapore Show: Future Proof

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 14-January-2012 to 15-April-2012

    Since the birth of contemporary practice in Singapore, signalled by the formation of The Artists Village, 5th Passage and the landmark exhibition, Trimurti, artists here have been exploring various genres of creative work – from sculpture and paintings to performance art, site-specific installations to graphic design and interactive media. The Singapore Show: Future [...]

  • “Walter” by Dawn Ng

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 01-October-2011 to 30-November-2011

    “Walter” by Dawn Ng is a series of guerrilla installations of a curious colossal bunny which pops up across Singapore’s landscape. Walter reminds us of the unexpected and extraordinary in the humdrum of everyday life. Ng spent a month identifying spaces for her ‘popup’ installations of Walter, and two such locations were from [...]

  • “Bookshelf” by Torlarp Larpjaroensook (Hern)

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 20-September-2011 to 07-November-2011

    Torlarp Larpjaroensook (Hern), born in 1977, is an emerging Thai artist based in Chiang Mai. At the age of 16, he enrolled at the College of Fine Arts in Bangkok and later graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty at Chiang Mai University with a BA (Visual Art) in Painting and Printmaking. [...]

  • Hyung Koo Kang: “The Burning Gaze”

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 14-October-2011 to 25-December-2011

    Korean artist Hyung Koo Kang is highly regarded for his intense and seemingly photorealist self-portraits, and paintings of well-known personalities such as Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, and Audrey Hepburn, among others. Portrait painting aims to depict the visual appearance of a subject, usually a person. Historically, portraiture has often been [...]

  • Amanda Heng: “Speak To Me, Walk With Me”

    Singapore Art Museum, Singapore    From 07-October-2011 to 07-July-2012

    One of Singapore’s most prolific woman artists in 1990s contemporary art, Amanda Heng is known both locally and internationally for her multidisciplinary practice which traverses the domains of installation, photography, performance and public art. To Heng, art can be used as a critical way of activating society to engage with social concerns. Speak To Me, Walk [...]