Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
The Singapore Art Museum is housed in a restored 19th century mission school. Opened in 1996, it is focused on contemporary art from Singapore and South East Asia situating them within a global context. The museum has amassed one of the most significant collections of contemporary art from the region, showcasing the diversity and distinct aesthetics of artistic traditions.
Drawing from its own collection and collaborations with leading international institutions, SAM presents exhibitions of local and international art and also promotes art from the region within its traveling exhibition program. With the extension building, SAM at Q8, opening in 2008, SAM can now present the full diversity of contemporary practice ranging from painting and sculpture, to installation, film & video, photography, new media, performance art and sound art. SAM offers an in-depth experience of the work and ideas of living artists of Southeast Asia, and the region's unique aesthetic and social context.
SAM is also organiser of the Singapore Biennale.
Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Report 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life 15 Feb 2019 : Natalie King for Ocula 'Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.' Marlene Dumas' poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours on view in Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the southern state of Kerala, India (12 December 2018–29 March 2019).Dumas' new series...
Ocula Conversation Serge Tiroche Co-founder, the Tiroche DeLeon Collection With an ultra slick website that enables easy navigation of its 400 plus artworks from many of the leading artists of today, the Tiroche DeLeon Collection is unique in its focus and ownership structure. Established in 2011 by Serge Tiroche and Russ DeLeon, the collection is focused on artworks by both recognised masters, and emerging talent from...
Ocula Report Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection 5 Jun 2015 : Jane O’Sullivan for Ocula Yang Zhichao’s Chinese Bible is both unyieldingly monumental and humble. In the latest presentation of the work in Sydney, all 3,000 of the diaries he has collected from Beijing’s fleamarkets are placed in neat rows on a large, rectangular plinth. Dated from 1949 to 1999 they record 50 turbulent years in China’s...
Related Press Thai artist Kamin Lertchaiprasert on the BKK metro Art Radar : 11 September 2017 Lertchaiprasert was first approached about this project in December 2016 by Pranitan "Pete" Phornprapha, co-founder of Thai arts, music and environmental festival Wonderfruit. Lertchaiprasert and Phornprapha developed the idea of creating a moving art installation that would reach the Thai community in an accessible, free and easy manner....
Related Press 'An Atlas of Mirrors,' Singapore Biennale 2016 art agenda : 22 November 2016 Under the artistic direction of Susie Lingham, Director of the Singapore Art Museum, and nine other curators, the fifth edition of the Singapore Biennale, An Atlas of Mirrors, showcases sixty artists and three artist collectives from nineteen countries and territories around South, East, and Southeast Asia.Spanning eight venues in close...
Related Press 'An Atlas of Mirrors': Ten highlights from Singapore Biennale 2016 Art Radar Journal : 21 November 2016 Organised by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), the fifth Singapore Biennale is titled An Atlas of Mirrors and features contemporary works by 63 artists and art collectives from 19 countries in Southeast Asia, and East and South Asia. The mega exhibition, which had its first edition nine years ago, started with an international outlook but has...
Related Press Two Projects Revisit Historical Images with a Calm and Critical Eye Hyperallergic : 10 November 2016 There are photographs that strike me as insurmountable. An image of presumable lovers, falling hand in hand from the World Trade Center as it burned. The image of a Vietnamese girl, screaming from the burning effects of napalm. The pain these photographs elicit is debilitating and the experience of seeing them is voyeuristic, not productive. The...
Related Video & Audio Dialogues in Asian Contemporary Art: Jitish Kallat, Boon Hui Tan & Leeza Ahmady Asia Contemporary Art Week : 19 June 2018 As a prelude to Asia Contemporary Art Week 2018, ACAW presented a wide-ranging discussion with internationally noted, Mumbai-based artist, Jitish Kallat, on the occasion of his exhibition "Decimal Point" at Sperone Westwater, with Vice President of Global Arts & Programs and Asia Society Museum Director, Boon Hui Tan and Independent...
Related Video & Audio JITISH KALLAT, Covariance, Galerie Templon Galerie Templon : 30 September 2017 Galerie Templon, Brussels 7 septembre–28 octobre 2017 / September 7–October 28 2017
Related Video & Audio Jitish Kallat, The Infinite Episode, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Templon : 22 September 2015 September 5–October 31, 2015 5 septembre - 31 octobre 2015
