Past
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Wei Leng Tay: Staring into voids and blues
14 September - 27 October 2024 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Wei Leng Tay. Comprising photographic prints and installational forms, this exhibition continues Tay’s focus on how photographic and visual documents influence memory and our perception of history. Developed over the past year, these pieces rework archival images through... Read more -
Shayne Phua: A roast of Asian nine tails topped with broken femur and bile, accompanied by more curious ingredients
A solo exhibition by Shayne Phua 20 July - 1 September 2024 Ceramic artist Shayne Phua's objects are mischievous oddities. For her first solo exhibition with Yeo Workshop, she has fashioned a series of sculptures that are defamiliarized, fantastical forms, from multi-tailed fox spirits as incongruous bearers of Confucian morality, to candleholders in the shape of broken bones, to lights shaped like... Read more -
The Not Singapore Art Project: Migration to the Internet Country and Portable Identity.
Some paintings at play: a flash solo by NG Joon Kiat 18 May - 30 June 2024 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present The Not Singapore Art Project: Migration to the Internet Country and Portable Identity by Ng Joon Kiat, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Working with the material language of paint as thought and conceptual processes, Ng constantly strives to liberate his... Read more -
Storytellers: Mythic Journeys and Modern Realities
17 February - 12 May 2024 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present ‘Storytellers: Mythic Journeys and Modern Realities’, featuring artists Citra Sasmita, Filippo Sciascia, Quynh Dong, Maryanto, Fyerool Darma, and Anum Mohamed. Through both traditional techniques and innovative mediums, these storytellers weave narratives that connect ancient mythologies, mythic wisdom and contemporary reflections. The exhibition invites viewers... Read more -
PRIYAGEETHA DIA & MARYANTO: ARCHIVING LANDSCAPE
63 Kim Yam Road 17 - 28 January 2024 Venue: 63 Kim Yam Road, Singapore 239364 Opening: Wednesday 17 January 2024, 3-7pm Artist in Dialogue: Friday 19 January 2024, 10am (RSVP HERE ) Exhibition Dates: 17 - 28 January 2024, 12-6pm, Open Daily except Mondays Singapore Art Week 2024 - With the support of the Yenn and Alan Lo... Read more -
TABLET: New Paintings by Filippo Sciascia
13 January - 10 February 2024 In a returning solo exhibition at Yeo Workshop, Bali-based artist Filippo Sciascia presents new photo-realistic paintings that feature a return to his iconic “cracked” painting series. Painstakingly detailed, these works explore his long-standing fascination with light as an anthropological catalyst, where various scenes portray light’s transformative role in the development... Read more -
Marcin Dudek: Game Time Choices
7 October - 31 December 2023 Marcin Dudek explores themes related to the politics of identity, social structures, and human experiences, often working from football fan cultures as a point of departure. In his multidisciplinary practice, he draws inspiration from his life in Poland, where he witnessed the transformation of society as it transitioned from communism... Read more -
Brandon Tay: Form & Agency
26 August - 1 October 2023 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Brandon Tay, a Singaporean artist whose practice is concerned with the emergent complexities related to digital materials. Primarily working through digital media, mediated sculptures, and the moving image, Tay’s works often complicate the distinctions between the tangible and the incorporeal,... Read more -
Citra Sasmita: Atlas of Curiosity
29 July - 20 August 2023 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present Atlas of Curiosity by Citra Sasmita, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. This new body of work stems from her long-term ongoing research project Timur Merah, meaning ‘The East is Red’, which traces historical narratives around the Malay-Indonesian archipelago (also known as... Read more -
Jonathan Nichols: The Inside of Painting
24 June - 23 July 2023 Yeo Workshop is presenting the first solo exhibition in Singapore of Melbourne-based artist and curator Jonathan Nichols. The exhibition was initially scheduled for June 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nichols, who lived in Singapore for six years, draws extensively upon the direct experience of local painters... Read more -
Entangled Attachments
A Solo Exhibition by Aki Hassan 13 May - 18 June 2023 “solidarities can be initiated and expressed through bodily cues that we mutually exchange by coexisting nearby one another” Aki Hassan Yeo Workshop is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Aki Hassan, a Singaporean visual artist whose work is concerned by the varying forms of dependencies evolved within kinships... Read more -
Everyday Things
Featuring Maisarah Kamal, and artworks by Fyerool Darma, Sarah Choo Jing, Maryanto, Santi Wangchuan 1 April - 7 May 2023 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present Everyday Things, a launchpad for the artworks of Maisarah Kamal (b. 1992, Singapore), alongside a selection of recent works by artists Fyerool Darma, Sarah Choo Jing, Maryanto and Santi Wangchuan. The show offers the five artists' ways of seeing the everyday, capturing the... Read more -
Sarah Choo Jing: Dancing Without Touching
7 January - 12 March 2023 SINGAPORE ART WEEK 2023 — Yeo Workshop spotlights Singaporean artist Sarah Choo Jing. Her solo exhibition presents an alternative perspective on movement and dance in the context of Singapore's 20th century amusement parks. The works in this immersive exhibition are created through a process of performativity and chance, and feature... Read more -
Geraldine Lim: Tales of the Metamorphosis of the Unnamed
29 October - 11 December 2022 female artist, nature, non-human relationships Read more -
Wei Leng Tay: View From This Side
17 September - 23 October 2022 View From This Side is the final and new segment of a constellation of works that artist Wei Leng Tay started in 2019. Developed from a bag of family slides dated between the late 1960s and 70s, these slides, on one hand, reveal a coming-of-age, charting her parents’ migratory path... Read more -
Wong Lip Chin: Mother Flippin’ Heavens! 翻天印 (fān tiān yìn)
6 August - 11 September 2022 Showcasing new paintings in the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, the exhibition shows Wong’s distinct painterly style that crosses pop culture and Chinese classical art, at once paying homage to and overturning their aesthetic lineage. The title 翻天印 (fān tiān yìn) bears a multitude of connotations, ranging from... Read more -
Priyageetha Dia: Forget Me Forget Me Not
21 May - 16 July 2022 In Forget Me, Forget Me Not, Priyageetha Dia transmutes traces, visual and textual that document the history of Indian labourers in rubber plantations in Malaya, into a totalising sensory environment. To oppose forgetting, the artist suggests, we need new forms of telling. We also need, the artists persists, an ethics of remembrance that does not perpetuate the violence to which historical documentation is tied. Combining computer-generated imagery with printed works on latex and satin, Dia constructs another type of archive. In this archive, narratives of exploitation of labour and natural resources are imprinted on land, rubber, and labourers’ bodies showing the continuities in the present and near future of past histories. Read more -
Cole Sternberg: to join the larger raindrop of the ocean
Opening Day: 26 March 2022 26 March - 14 May 2022 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Cole Sternberg , to join the larger raindrop of the ocean, which also marks the artist’s solo debut in Asia. A culmination of over five years of environmental exploration around large bodies of water, chiefly the Pacific Ocean, the exhibition... Read more -
Fyerool Darma: l♠nd$¢♠pΞ$
15 January - 27 February 2022 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present the fourth solo presentation of Fyerool Darma, l♠nd$¢♠pΞ$, with a series of new works. Fyerool perceives found images and texts, from digital and other archival sources as collaborators. Drawing equally upon illusion and allusion, he weaves, interlaces, embroiders and paints these varied materials together.... Read more -
Ornamental ⠂瓖 (xiāng)
Featuring Lizzie Wee, Santi Wangchuan, Shayne Phua, Stephanie Jane Burt and Quynh Dong 13 November 2021 - 9 January 2022 Ornamental ⠂瓖 (xiāng) highlights an attentiveness towards the physicality of art works as ‘objects’, where artists in the show rematerialise various forms of domestic, cultural and political constructs to transcend the notion of utility in favour of aesthetics. Read more -
INNATE
Featuring Aki Hassan, Fyerool Darma, Filippo Sciascia, Jonathan Nichols and Xue Mu 15 September - 7 November 2021 INNATE is a dialogue in the gallery that takes the pulse with five cognitive artists - Aki Hassan, Fyerool Darma, Filippo Sciascia, Jonathan Nichols, and Xue Mu - who create across various mediums and who have maintained a continual process-driven studio practice throughout the pandemic times. In this pluralistic exhibition, they articulate their latest findings and ideas in gestural movements present in the works that indicate the unseen processes that made them possible, highlighting the relationship between their works and themselves, or between the marks on the surface and their minds and bodies as the driving force behind them – the most indelible artist’s signature. Read more -
only losers left alive (love songs for the end of the world) - part two
7 - 29 August 2021 Yeo Workshop presents part one of only losers left alive (love songs for the end of the world).
This group exhibition is a two-part project with a central proposition: if our world were to come to a screeching halt tomorrow, what would we be left with? Read more -
only losers left alive (love songs for the end of the world) - part one
10 - 31 July 2021 Yeo Workshop presents part one of only losers left alive (love songs for the end of the world), curated by Louis Ho. This group exhibition is a two-part project with a central proposition: if our world were to come to a screeching halt tomorrow, what would we be left with? Read more -
Moi Tran: I Love A Broad Margin to My Life
15 May - 27 June 2021 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present ‘I Love a Broad Margin to My Life’, its first solo exhibition of the works by Vietnamese diaspora artist Moi Tran. Read more -
Filippo Sciascia: All We Have
6 March - 30 April 2021 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present “All We Have”, its second solo exhibition of the works of Bali-based Italian artist Filippo Sciascia. Read more -
Threads and Tensions
Featuring Cian Dayrit, Cole Sternberg, Fyerool Darma, Marcin Dudek, Maryanto 16 January - 28 February 2021 Yeo Workshop presents a group exhibition featuring five international artists (Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Brussels and America) working with textile: Cian Dayritt, Fyerool Darma, Maryanto, Marcin Dudek and Cole Sternberg. Read more -
Mike HJ Chang: Calendar of Dilation
7 November 2020 - 9 January 2021 Yeo Workshop is proud to present Calendar of Dilation, an upcoming solo exhibition by SingaporebasedTaiwanese-American artist Mike HJ Chang and curated by Alfonse Chiu. This exhibition marks the second solo collaboration between Chang and Yeo Workshop, following 2015's Dog and Butterfly. Finding its conceptual roots in Chang’s experiences aboard the... Read more -
Wong Lip Chin: Sometimes i (you) don't dive hard enough
6 September - 1 November 2020 This show comes with a digital exhibition in the form of a video game, taking you through a dazzling city of the artist's design, available to play in the gallery and in a downloadable app. Click here to play the Mac or PC version. Curated by Louis Ho Digital Exhibition... Read more -
Stephanie Jane Burt: What is the current that presents a behaved waist?
14 March - 19 April 2020 What is the current that presents a behaved waist is the second solo exhibition of Singaporean artist Stephanie Jane Burt. Adapted from Gertrude Stein’s poetry, the title prefaces a shared inquiry into the very conditions that enable specific ways of looking and behaving to surface. What is this current, Stein... Read more -
Citra Sasmita: Ode to the Sun
10 January - 29 February 2020 Prepare to have all your preconceived notions about Balinese art upended as the Yeo Workshop presents Ode to the Sun, a solo exhibition featuring artwork by the maverick young Balinese artist Citra Sasmita. A rare exception in the otherwise male dominated world of Balinese art, Citra Sasmita challenges the patriarchal... Read more -
Maryanto: Journey of Forking Paths
21 September - 27 October 2019 A Journey of Forking Paths is Maryanto’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring latest monochromatic canvas and paper works by the Yogyakarta-based artist. Hauntingly dark yet sublime, Maryanto’s typical oeuvre depicts landscapes with dualities of once idyllic spaces that have been corrupted by systems of power. The landscapes are... Read more -
Solamalay Namasivayam: Points of Articulation
16 September - 22 December 2019 Solamalay Namasivayam: Points of Articulation is a retrospective exhibition dedicated to showcasing the legacy of Namasiavayam. While his significant contributions as one of the pioneers of figurative art in Singapore was previously overlooked, the gallery aims to bring his works and life as an artist-educator to light through this exciting... Read more -
Filippo Sciascia: GODSPEED
17 August - 15 September 2019 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present GODSPEED , a forthcoming solo exhibition featuring latest works by Bali-based Italian artist Filippo Sciascia. In his fourth solo exhibition in Singapore, and the first with the gallery, Filippo Sciascia presents new mixed media paintings inspired by the popular expression “Godspeed”. Readdressing the meaning... Read more -
Fyerool Darma: Sunny, your smile ease the pain
15 June - 14 July 2019 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Fyerool Darma, Sunny, your smile ease the pain. Developed as a tribute to his parents, the title is appropriated from Boney M.’s ‘Sunny’, a song released in 1976, which his parents enjoyed in their youth. Growing up, Fyerool often conflated... Read more -
The Body and The Seed
Featuring Mike HJ Chang and Edward Clydesdale Thomson 28 April - 27 May 2018 For the exhibition entitled The Body and the Seed, Yeo Workshop is delighted to bring together the work of Mike HJ Chang and Edward Clydesdale Thomson. With bright hues and hints of play, the gallery presents work that considers the body’s orientation within space and the landscape. The human body... Read more -
Marcin Dudek: Sovereign Heads
9 March - 22 April 2018 Yeo Workshop is delighted to announce a solo presentation of by Marcin Dudek, Sovereign Heads, curated by art historian Przemyslaw Strozek. Inaugurating the exhibition with a bang on the opening night, Marcin Dudek wilI perform a new work that will leave its traces at the doors of the gallery. A... Read more -
Sarah Choo Jing: Accelerated Intimacy
19 January - 4 March 2018 For Singapore Art Week 2018, Yeo Workshop is pleased to announce its representation of Sarah Choo Jing with a solo exhibition entitled Accelerated Intimacy. Sarah Choo Jing’s multi-disciplinary practice is premised on the moving image. She is counted among the most interesting of Singapore’s emerging generation of artists, and was... Read more -
Fyerool Darma: Monsoon Song
9 September - 29 October 2017 Yeo Workshop is pleased to present ‘Monsoon Song’, the second solo exhibition by Fyerool Darma. Drawing from the aesthetics of urban subcultures, traditional ceremonies and the folk craft of Singapore, Malaysia and the region, this exhibition brings into collision a range of seemingly hostile sounds, images and objects, and gives... Read more -
Maryanto: Story of Space
28 March - 31 May 2017 From drawings and paintings, to sculptures and installations, Maryanto’s exhibitions visualise themes of environmental exploitation and its political consequences. Read more -
Xue Mu: Liquid Truth
10 January - 19 March 2017 As an artist working across different mediums, Xue Mu conceptualises and materialises alternatives to a conventional life experience. Viewers are embraced in monochromatic and minimalist installations and confronted with large-scale drawings and photographs, demanding attention and contemplation. Deconstructing Rodin’s The Thinker and Michelangelo’s David, Liquid Truth presents a body... Read more -
Stephanie Jane Burt: O Dear What Can The Matter Be
2 September - 23 October 2016 Yeo Workshop is proud to present O Dear What Can The Matter Be, the first solo exhibition by Singaporean artist Stephanie Burt. She will transform the gallery into an interior environment where intimacies, vulnerabilities and instabilities are left to unfold through a material language of the domestic, the decorative, and... Read more -
Quynh Dong: Long Journey
19 January - 28 February 2016 Yeo Workshop proudly presents the first video-based solo exhibition in Singapore by Contemporary Vietnamese artist Quynh Dong. A selection of three major video-works, inclusive of one new piece, will be complemented by a body of intricate ceramic sculptures. The gallery boldly displays the extensive range of crafted skills by this... Read more -
Loke Hong Seng: A Social Portrait of Singapore The Critical Years
3 July - 6 September 2015 In concurrence with Singapore’s 50th National Day, “A Social Portrait of Singapore: The Critical Years” aims to introduce you to the impactful works of Loke Hong Seng. Notably recognised for his creative engagement in street photography during 1963 and 1985, the selection of works depict a culmination of 20 previously... Read more -
Maryanto: Space of Exception
17 January - 1 March 2015 Space of Exception , Maryanto’s first solo presentation in Singapore, will consist of charcoal drawings and sculptural installation. Referencing Italian Philosopher, Giorgio Agamben’s ‘state of exception’, ‘space of exception’ involves taking a position outside the existing natural state, a space beyond or outside the normal order, where normal law does... Read more -
Xue Mu: A Childish Nothingness
21 November 2014 - 11 January 2015 The exhibition presents the most recent body of work by Xue Mu. It visualises the artist’s current investigation on value paradox through an otherworldly perceptual experience. Large abstract charcoal drawings, juxtaposed against a series of still-life photographs, together with a formation of small objects and flows of silk banners; all... Read more
