March 2025 Round-Up
DECK, Wei-Ling Gallery and Wei-Ling Contemporary, Calle Wright, Hong Kong Super March, Arts and Disability Forum, and the 2025 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
By Alana Malika and A&M
unfurling murmurs
Installation view of ‘unfurling murmurs’ at DECK Open Ground. Image courtesy of DECK.
‘unfurling murmurs’ is a duo exhibition by Dylan Chan and Daniel Chong that draws from fleeting moments of queerness. The works incorporate images from queer online dating profiles with the faces and bodies of the users cropped. The sculptures featuring personless backgrounds convey how intimacy lingers, despite having only the outline of human figures.
‘unfurling murmurs’ is on view from 7 March to 6 April 2025 at DECK Open Ground in Singapore. More information here.
The Dichotomy of Opposites
Ivan Lam, ‘990,’ color markers and color pencils on canvas on board, 190cm x 117cm, 2024. Image courtesy of Wei-Ling Gallery.
Ivan Lam, ‘CACOPHONY,’ spray paint on canvas on board, 190cm x 117cm, 2024. Image courtesy of Wei-Ling Gallery.
Ivan Lam presents coupled exhibitions at Wei-Ling Gallery and Wei-Ling Contemporary titled ‘The Dichotomy of Opposites.’ The exhibitions are complementary, exploring Lam’s journey in grappling with order and disorder of life. At Wei-Ling Gallery, Lam will showcase works that convey the comfort of mundane scenes such as a cat cafe and an old pair of shoes. Meanwhile, Lam creates a different atmosphere at Wei-Ling Contemporary in a series of spray paint works that visualises spiraling thoughts of doubt.
‘The Dichotomy of Opposites’ will be on view from 18 February to 29 March 2025 at Wei-Ling Gallery and Wei-Ling Contemporary in Kuala Lumpur. More information here.
Pinagtaling buhok, kinatawang bigkas
Nurul Huda Rashid, ‘membadan mengatur’, 2025, photograph printed on A4 paper. Image courtesy of Calle Wright.
‘Pinagtaling buhok, kinatawang bigkas,’ which translates to ‘Hair tied together, embodied we speak,’ is a group exhibition that features Philippine artists Patricia Perez Eustaquio, Wawi Navarozza, Isola Tong, and Stephanie Syjuco, Singapore artist Nurul Huda Rashid, and Malaysian artist Yee I-Lann. Their artworks interweave the artists’ personal and community narratives using photographic practices and natural materials such as abaca, rope, rattan, batik, and glass. This showcase investigates cross-cultural stories of how the collective self emerges through artistic engagement with indigeneity, introspection, and community.
‘Pinagtaling buhok, kinatawang bigkas’ is on view from 15 February 15 to 15 March 2025 at Calle Wright, Metro Manila.
Hong Kong Super March
Art Basel Hong Kong. Image courtesy of Art Basel.
This month, Hong Kong will host Super March, a city-wide celebration of fine arts and culture. Most notably, Art Basel Hong Kong (ABHK), Art Central, and Hong Kong Arts Festival will run this month. Hong Kong has been the site of the only Art Basel show in Asia since 2013. This year, ABHK joins together 240 galleries from 42 countries and territories. Art Central will host their 10th anniversary at Central Harbourfront featuring a slate of eminent and emerging artists. And Hong Kong Arts festival has organised a diverse programme of performing arts in Asia, including 125 performances and over 300 events.
Super March will run in March at multiple locations in Hong Kong. More information here.
Arts and Disability Forum 2025
Promotional image for the Arts and Disability Forum. Image taken from artdis.org.
The Arts and Disability Forum (ADF) will be back for its sixth iteration this March. Organised by ART:DIS, and supported by the National Arts Council and the Cultural Matching Fund, ADF will explore inclusive arts engagement in Asia through discussions, workshops and more over five days. The first keynote panel, “Expanding Accessibility in the Arts and Beyond” sets the tone for the forum’s aims, and looks at approaches to accessibility and inclusion in the arts, including how to uncomplicate these ideas. The forum looks set to engender dialogue and contribute to discourse in this field of practice and research. It will bring together creatives, social sector professionals and public agencies, and create more understanding and opportunities to collaborate.
The Arts and Disability Forum will run from 25 to 29 March 2025 at multiple locations in Singapore. For the full programme, click here. Registration for the forum is free, and can be done here.
The 2025 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
Dawn Ng, ‘Volcano Blossoms,’ 2025, acrylic paint, dye and ink on wood, 123 x 123 x 5 cm. Image taken from sovereignartfoundation.com.
This year, the Sovereign Art Foundation has shortlisted 35 artists for this year’s Sovereign Asian Art Prize, which launched in 2003. The grand prize of USD30,000 will go to the artist with the highest aggregate score from the judges for their artwork. More than a dozen Southeast Asian artists were nominated for the award including Singapore artist Dawn Ng, Indonesian artist Maharani Macanagara, Thai artist Nawin Nuthong, Vietnam artist Ngo Dinh Bao Chau, and Malaysian artist Tan Zi Hao. The public can vote for their favourite artworks, and the artist who garners the most votes will win USD1,000. Some of the artworks can be purchased directly at the preview exhibition, which will take place for the first time at Phillips, from 21 to 29 March, while the rest will be sold at the “New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art and Design” sale, which will take place on 29 March. Proceeds will go towards Sovereign Art Foundation’s Make It Better programme, which offers expressive art therapy to children with special education needs.
For more information, and to cast your vote, click here. A&M is proud to be a media sponsor of the 2025 Sovereign Asian Art Prize.
