At Home Abroad

At Home Abroad brings ‘home’ recent works by Singaporean artists whose art practices are largely or partially based abroad, and who have exhibited frequently on overseas platforms. The 'home-coming' of these artworks adds a different dimension to local art discourse, in particular the migratory nature of contemporary art practice. The exhibition and its dedicated website will serve as a documentation of how these various artworks have been received, both at home and abroad .

Showcasing a variety of approaches and new media that interest these contemporary Singaporean artists, At Home Abroad features work by Choy Ka Fai, Jason Lim, Ming Wong, Sookoon Ang, and Zulkifle Mahmod.

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8Q-Rate: School is the inaugural exhibition at 8Q sam, the Singapore Art Museum's new contemporary art space which opened in August 2008. Put together by 8 curators working closely with 8 local artists, the exhibition catalogue features site-specific installation works by Ahmad Abu Bakar, Chong Li-Chuan, Jahan Loh, Donna Ong, :phunk Studio, Grace Tan, Tan Kai Syng and Jason Wee. These works all make reference to the personal and generic experiences of school and school days, and expand on the themes of education, cultivation of knowledge, art as a discipline or field and changes in movements and schools over time. This catalogue features curatorial essays, artist statements and full colour photography of the installation art pieces.

This 196-page Post-Doi Moi publication is therefore the first of a series of three planned for the exhibition project. The remaining publication, Symposium on Modern and Contemporary Vietnamese Art Proceedings is also expected to be on sale early next year.

The Artists Village (TAV) was formed within a rural-scape (or kampung) at 61-B Lorong Gambas, Sembawang in 1988. TAV engendered radical shifts in generating new ways and manners of thinking and making art in the history of contemporary art in Singapore. They are also known for producing works that are intellectually challenging and engaged with current issues in the late 1980s, a period marked by a sense of urgency and impetus for artists to critically re-look and examine existing assumptions, values and concepts of art-making. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the TAV’s establishment and offers historical distance to evaluate and examine the significance of it as part of the Singapore Art Museum’s series of exhibitions on artists’ collectives.
This catalogue includes critical essays by noted art historians curators and critics such as C.J. Wan-Ling Wee, T.K. Sabapathy, Russell Storer and others. Documentary materials such as newspaper articles on TAV and archival photographs of performances and other events organized by TAV will also be featured in the catalogue.

Jointly organised by Singapore Art Museum and Xu Beihong Museum, this exhibition features about 90 works, selected from both public and private collections from around the world. It serves as an unprecedented opportunity to examine many of Xu's most important works completed in Southeast Asia and India, a number of which have never been publicly exhibited before.

Telah Terbit (Out Now) Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Practices During the 1960s to 1980s
by Ahmad Mashadi

This publication is the documentation of the exhibition held at the Singapore Art Museum from 1 Sept - 12 Nov 2006. Presented as a special exhibition of the Singapore Biennale 2006, Telah Terbit was intended as a historical background to contemporary art in Southast Asia, featuring works from the collections of Singapore Art Museum, National Art Gallery of Malaysia, National Museum and Ateneo Art Gallery of the Philippines, artists and private collectors.

Thomas Yeo: A Retrospective
by Sabapathy, T.K.

A first full-length detailed study of the art of Thomas Yeo covering 39 years of his practice.Yeo is known as an abstract artist.The beginnings of his art are found in representional schemes;it also reveals his deep involvement in the depiction of the human figures.Yeo's art is characterised by continuous,consistent development producing a body of distinctive works