ShanghART Singapore Revisits Radical First Show for 10th Anniversary
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- 23 Sep 2022
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In 2012, painter Zhang Enli shocked ShanghART founder Lorenz Helbling by limiting the new gallery space to just a few square metres near the entrance.
Artist Zhang Enli made a bold decision for the opening of ShanghART Singapore in 2012. He restricted the newly renovated exhibition space to just a few square metres near the entrance, saying this 'leaves the gallery and me room to do more in the future'.
ShanghART founder Lorenz Helbling said the most memorable thing about the show was that, 'we couldn't show off our space!'
'It was hard,' he said. 'At the same time, it was a reminder that exhibitions can be done in many ways, and they don't have to be determined just by the space. In the recent, difficult years, we got back to thinking about this again more and more.'
Since then, ShanghART Singapore has staged a number of memorable events and exhibitions. Helbling recalls both Melati Suryodarmo's performance Transaction of Hollows (2018) and the 2019 show Arin Rungjang: They Beat Your Father as 'new, intense experiences for me.'
Goh Chun Aik, Director of ShanghART Singapore, also mentioned the gallery's Southeast Artist residency exchange — which brought Chinese artists Birdhead, Hu Jieming, Hu Weiyi, and Tang Maohong to Singapore — and pop-up projects such as Zhang Ding's Enter the Dragon in 2016 and Robert Zhao Renhui's outdoor light box installation in 2018. Read More…
