SINGAPORE.- Since its official opening in October 2013,
CCA Singapore is strengthening its position as a regional arts centre with an international perspective by bringing together exhibitions and residencies of established artists who had shown previously at Documenta, Venice Biennale and leading museums such as MoMA and Guggenheim in New York, TATE Modern, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris and MACBA, Barcelona. This exposes audiences in Singapore to wider global developments in contemporary art and current artistic practices. The research driven platform of CCA Singapore on the other hand, provides arts practitioners and researchers greater access to critical discourses in Southeast Asia.
Led by Founding Director, Professor Ute Meta Bauer, the CCA Singapore is playing a pivotal role in the development of the region’s arts infrastructure and Singapore’s rise as a global arts hub.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
EXHIBITIONS
Features artists of international caliber many of them showing for the first time in Southeast Asia. Each exhibition is accompanied by a solid programme of lectures, artists’ talks and exhibition tours led by curators and academics of various backgrounds, providing an opportunity to explore the exhibition from different perspectives.
“Paradise Lost” (18 January-30 March)
CCA Singapore’s inaugural exhibition brought together major installations by critical international artists of Asian descent, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Zarina Bhimji and Fiona Tan, whose works explore narratives of travel and migration, place and displacement and the personal intertwined with colonial history.
“No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia” (10 May-20 July)
Curated by June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, this was the first touring exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, a multi-year collaboration that charts contemporary art practices in three major geographic regions: South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa. Presenting recent works by artists from countries such as Thailand, India and Indonesia, introducing audiences to some of the most challenging and inventive voices in South and Southeast Asia today.
“Theatrical Fields” (22 August-2 November)
This exhibition introduces theatricality as a critical strategy in performance, film and video featuring a line up of seminal international artists who exerted a strong influence on contemporary art and theoretical discourse such as Judith Barry (USA), Stan Douglas, (Canada), Joan Jonas (USA), Isaac Julien (UK) Eva Meyer & Eran Schaerf (Germany/Israel) and Constanze Ruhm (Austria).
As a university centre, CCA Singapore finds it crucial to engage artists who are also involved in arts education or academia.
RESIDENCIES
In July 2014, CCA Singapore launched its first cycle of 18 artists from around the globe.
In addition to artists, the programme also invites curators and researchers from various disciplines such as architecture and the humanities, thus opening a new gateway for accessing practices and discourses.
• Artist-in-Residence Koh Nguang How’s open studio the “Singapore Art Archive Project” features archival material reflective of Singapore’s arts evolution with material dating back to the 1930s and reached out to more than 3,000 visitors to date.
• Artist-in-Residence Charles Lim is representing Singapore at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
• Upcoming Artist-in-Residence Luke Willis Thompson is the winner of the Walters Prize 2014, New Zealand’s acclaimed contemporary art award.
• Researcher-in-Residence Apolonija Šušteršič, an architect and visual artist whose work revolves around urban revitalisation.
• CCA’s First Research Fellow, T. K. Sabapathy is Singapore’s foremost art historian, curator and critic. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Architecture in the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Education is an essential mission of CCA Singapore and its public programmes are committed to bringing deeper and meaningful public engagement with its exhibition and residencies. The public programmes are underpinned by a rigorous understanding of the work of international contemporary artists and are of an innovative, multi-layered approach to address various audiences such as the academic community, the artistic community as well as the wider public.
As of today, CCA Singapore has organised over 50 public programmes and garnered more than 25,000 visitors since its opening. A notable initiative is the collaboration with Post Museum “More than [show] business:Post PopUp at CCA” running artistic events and experiments from 13 June-2 November 2014. This was supported by the National Arts Council Singapore.
WHAT’S NEXT
SINGAPORE ART BOOK FAIR (SABF) 14-16 NOVEMBER 2014
The Singapore Art Book Fair (SABF) organised by Books Actually and HJGHER, returns for its second edition this November after a successful inauguration last year, establishing itself as a premier event for contemporary art books and zines in the region. CCA Singapore is the Presenting Institution that is hosting the book fair and contributing a specially curated programme exploring recent developments in the field of arts publishing. These include contributions from Magdalena Magiera, (Curator and Editor at e-flux, Co-founder of mono.kultur) Aimee Lin, (Editorial Director of ArtReview Asia), Charwei Tsai (Artist, Founder Lovely Daze Taipei), an installation by Danné Ojeda engaging graphic design, art practice and theory, and Studio Session with CCA Artist-in-Residence, Bani Haykal (Singapore) recognised for his experimental audio-visual practice.
YANG FUDONG: “INCIDENTAL SCRIPTS” 12 DECEMBER – 1 MARCH 2014
CCA Singapore presents a solo exhibition of Yang Fudong, one of China's best known contemporary artists who has gained international acclaim for his photographic, film and video works. The exhibition presents four of Yang’ emblematic works demonstrating the artist’s multi-faceted approach towards the creation of visual imageries that complicates our understanding of realities and fiction and our experience of time and space.
SINGAPORE ARTIST RESOURCE PLATFORM LAUNCH IN JANUARY 2015
As a bedrock of CCA Singapore research arm, the “Singapore Artist Resource Platform” aims to provide a selection of key Singaporean artists and their practices to visiting curators, critics and art historians. The resource platform views Singapore’s arts ecologies through a focused and critical lens, featuring artists who work within contemporary art, and who actively contribute and participate in local and international arts communities.
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