AXA XL is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with ART SG, taking place from 19 – 21 January 2024 (VIP Preview and Vernissage, 18 January) at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
Coinciding with ART SG 2024, ArtScience Museum presents New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed, showcasing the work of twenty-four Asian women artists and collectives, to offer fresh insights on a genre premised on envisioning alternative futures and imaginary realms. ART SG speaks to the exhibition’s curatorial team about the exhibition and the Museum’s upcoming season of science fiction.
ART SG announces the five artists exhibiting in PLATFORM in 2024, a curated exhibition for dynamic, large-scale installations.
Recently opened at Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is a triple bill of exhibitions, featuring renowned Singapore artist Jane Lee’s first museum solo; a presentation of Factory of the Sun, Hito Steyerl’s installation at the German Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale; and the inaugural edition of SAM Contemporaries: Residues & Remixes, featuring nine artworks by the next generation of Singapore-based artists.
Razor-sharp sickles from Indonesian blacksmiths, rubber slippers from inmates in Singapore and used blankets from anonymous citizens in Busan. These are just a handful of the unusual materials that Filipino artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan use to create installations, which explore ideas of memory, displacement and home.
Running through 27 June at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Sounds of Blackness is a landmark exhibition bringing together the work of artists from the African diaspora, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and anchored by works from the collection of Filipino collector Timothy Tan.
ART SG speaks to collector and ART SG Advisory Group member Pierre Lorinet about his collecting philosophy, his views on what it will take for Singapore’s art ecosystem to flourish in the next decade and ART SG’s role in the region. Pierre also shares insights on ‘From Western Minimalism to Asian Political Abstraction’, a significant curation of works from his private collection that audiences will be able to see in January, during Singapore Art Week.
ART SG visited the home studio of Ashley Bickerton (1959 – 2022), who enjoyed what he described as “a long and often breathless career”, creating artworks spanning all manner of mediums and visual languages. Oscillating between dream and dystopia, beauty and the grotesque, Bickerton’s vibrant and intoxicating works cast a keen eye on humanity, culture and consumerism, and our place within the wider arc of time and history. Bickerton’s works will be presented with Gajah Gallery at ART SG in 2023.
Now in its seventh edition, the Singapore Biennale has become a distinctive event in the region’s art calendar, connecting artistic practices from the region with a larger global conversation. Helmed by June Yap, Binna Choi, Nida Ghouse and Ala Younis, the 2022 edition named ‘Natasha’ eschews conventions of titling in favour of giving the Biennale a name, which, in Yap’s words, “can produce a sense of familiarity or intimacy…suggesting a connection at a personal level”. ART SG looks at some of the highlights from this year’s Singapore Biennale.