Asianart.com | Associations | Articles | Exhibitions | Galleries | Message Board | Calendar


Asian Art Calendar of Events

Thursday, March 28, 2024


Exhibition Public - Asia

Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century

National Gallery
1 St. Andrew’s Road,
Singapore, Singapore
Mar 24, 2017 To Apr 30, 2017


Detail: Housed in the former Supreme Court building, the UOB Southeast Asia Gallery presents an exhibition on the art of Southeast Asia through shared artistic impulses across the region.

Starting in the 19th century, the history of Southeast Asian art is characterised by a continuous encounter with the new, inseparably linked to the region’s tumultuous social and political history. The meaning and expression of art was constantly negotiated as artists of Southeast Asia sought to incorporate and reinvent local expressions and aesthetic traditions as they grappled with modernity.

The curatorial narrative explores four main themes places in a broadly chronological sequence, each one critically examining the shared artistic impulse of the region for each period: Authority and Anxiety, Imagining Country and Self, Manifesting the Nation, and Re:Defining Art.

Phone No.: 6271 7000
Contact Email: [email protected]
Site URL: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/see-do/programme-detail/37/between-declarations-and-dreams-art-of-southeast-asia-since-the-19th-century

Wounded Lion
Wounded Lion
c. 1839

Asianart.com | Associations | Articles | Exhibitions | Galleries | Message Board | Calendar