Presented by The Culture Story
14 December 2024 – 30 May 2025
Guided tour on 14 December by Mr Chong Huai Seng from 2.30pm.
Open daily during Singapore Art Week, 17 – 26 January 2025, 11am – 5pm
All other visits by appointment.
“The Second Sex” is inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s classic book and will feature over 20 artworks by 16 Singaporean and international female artists. These works were collected over the last ten years by Mr. Chong Huai Seng and Ms Ning Chong, the co-founders of The Culture Story. In recent art discourse, feminism has taken on a new voice and women power has reasserted itself in the 21st century, from politics (Angela Merkel, Kamala Harris) to pop music (Taylor Swift, BlackPink) to the visual arts (Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama). Museums all over the world are now actively collecting and promoting more female artists as they try to fill the gaps in their collection and exhibition programmes respectively. In contemporary art especially, women artists are no longer viewed any differently from their male counterparts, resonating strongly amongst the millennial female collectors. We hope this exhibition will encourage further conversations about female representation in the canon of global art history.
Presented by The Culture Story
14 December 2024 – 30 May 2025
Guided tour on 14 December by Mr Chong Huai Seng from 2.30pm.
Open daily during Singapore Art Week, 17 – 26 January 2025, 11am – 5pm
All other visits by appointment.
“The Second Sex” is inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s classic book and will feature over 20 artworks by 16 Singaporean and international female artists. These works were collected over the last ten years by Mr. Chong Huai Seng and Ms Ning Chong, the co-founders of The Culture Story. In recent art discourse, feminism has taken on a new voice and women power has reasserted itself in the 21st century, from politics (Angela Merkel, Kamala Harris) to pop music (Taylor Swift, BlackPink) to the visual arts (Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama). Museums all over the world are now actively collecting and promoting more female artists as they try to fill the gaps in their collection and exhibition programmes respectively. In contemporary art especially, women artists are no longer viewed any differently from their male counterparts, resonating strongly amongst the millennial female collectors. We hope this exhibition will encourage further conversations about female representation in the canon of global art history.
“The Second Sex” is inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s classic book and will feature over 20 artworks by 16 Singaporean and international female artists.
The Culture Story presents Rajesh P Kargutkar’s solo exhibition “Cramped Space”, a new series of paintings that captures the dynamic daily life and rich stories within Mumbai’s historic chawls, which act as a stage for everyday life where individuals traverse, connect, and shape their own narratives.
Featuring a small careful selection of new works from Wong Keen’s Singapore studio – recent works which depict burger, nudes and abstraction, we are thrilled to present circa-1968 collages which have been part of the artist’s estate, stored in his home in California.
Aesthetic Responses weaves together works from three very disparate collectors of contemporary South Asian art. While the works presented here are embedded in and richly informed by the cultural and social history of South Asia, they also speak to the ongoing socio-political events that are playing out on the global stage.
The Culture Story and Munich-based Micheko Galerie are proud to jointly present “Pop and Beyond: The Diversity of Japanese Art”. This exhibition marks the gallery’s first pop-up project in Singapore, presenting seven Japanese artists who have not shown in Singapore before – Katsumi Hayakawa, Kenichi Yokono Norihiko Terayama, Mari Ito, Toru Fukuda, Eri Ōta (listed by age) and Masako Inoue (age unknown).
Curated by Charmaine Toh, this selling exhibition presents the work of four Singaporean artists – Sookoon Ang, Darren Soh, Sufian Samsiyar and Tang Da Wu – they come from different generations with vastly differing practices and concerns. Shown together for the first time, these objects remind us of the sensory power of the work of art and the way they might lead us past our everyday experiences and transport us to a different reality.
