How to Desire Differently is a group exhibition that imagines complex representations of bodies of difference. In looking at “choreographies” of race, gender, and sexuality, artists Zulkhairi Zulkiflee and Farizi Noorfauzi reframe prevailing issues of identity as informed by their practices through artworks ranging from photography to paintings. Here, the group exhibition considers facets of diverse […]
17 July 2020 (Fri) – 2 August 2020 (Sun) The Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries 1 & 2 NAFA Campus 1 (80 Bencoolen St, Singapore 189655) Free admission, 11am – 7pm, closed on Mondays and Public Holidays Enquiries: wjshen@nafa.edu.sg / +65 6512 4118 Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) is proud to present the Best of […]
As part of an ongoing series on featuring the arts of Southeast Asia and the Asian region for the academy, Exploring Southeast Asia highlights works that offer a rich visual research relating to cultural identity. Seen through the eyes of both contemporary younger artists and the more established generation, exploring Southeast Asia through these works remains a […]
In 2019, the academy-wide project left Angkor Wat in Cambodia behind to embark on Ayutthaya as the next Southeast Asian crucible for research, inspiration and making. The project proposed to a particular site and aspects of its legacy as a creative stimulus, fuelling new dimensions in thinking, imagining, design, making and outcomes. This 2020 capsule […]
reTHINGing Materiality — Contemporary Sculpture 2021 is part of the Sculpture Society Singapore (SSS) 20th Anniversary Show that aims at exploring the extended definition of sculpture making and 3D art in the contemporary art scene. As a collaboration with NAFA, the exhibition will represent the practices of both NAFA alumni and SSS members. More than 30 artworks […]
Live sessions: Day 1, 28 July: 14:00 – 16:00 Day 2, 29 July: 14:00 – 16:30 Day 3, 30 July: 14:00 – 16:30 On demand content available on microsite throughout entire duration of the Forum Southeast Asian Arts Forum 2021: Schoolhouse Mavericks offers us ways of thinking back to smaller hothousing, finding new ways to both […]
Featuring the works of three prominent practicing artists in Malaysia and introducing an emerging talent alongside, The Field Beyond presents works that focus on the painstaking labours of process and of making an art object. Stories and concepts help us to shape art in our imagination. At the same time, it is the process of making that […]