Featuring Artists:
BIANCA TSE (HONG KONG) • BOEDI WIDJAJA (INDONESIA) • GOH CHUN AIK (SINGAPORE) • JAKE TAN (SINGAPORE) • JIN JIN XU (MACAU) • ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI (SINGAPORE) • SAMANTHA LEE (MALAYSIA) • SAREENA SATTAPON (THAILAND) • SEAHEE CHANG (SOUTH KOREA)
Curated by: Warren Wee
Curated by: Warren Wee
「ABOUT」
The Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter is Singapore's only surviving pre-war civilian shelter built in the 1930s. According to a press report dated 28 June 1939, this shelter was intended as a covered playing ground for children in normal times, but in times of emergency, it could readily be converted into an effective air raid shelter. In the twentieth century, continuing into the 1980s, Singapore had an active brick manufacturing industry and bricks by the now defunct Alexandra Brickworks can be found throughout the interior of the shelter amongst other relics. The shelter is generally closed to the public and this is a unique opportunity to experience a piece of Singapore's history.
「CURATORIAL STATEMENT」
99 years is presented by independent arts platform Digital Art Week Asia (DAWA) and will be held in the historically significant Air Raid Shelter in the Tiong Bahru neighbourhood of Singapore. This new media arts exhibition examines the reflective and contemplative theme of the temporal nature of life through the various artistic practices presented. The exhibition's title has a double meaning; in some countries, the longest practical term of a leasehold property is 99-years without it being considered perpetual. In contrast, the number 9 is considered auspicious in some cultures and has the same sound for the word long-lasting or eternity - an interesting juxtaposition when contextualised in this exhibition. This is the first time in the shelter's history that a new media digital arts exhibition would be held within its hallowed walls, a highly anticipated show not to be missed during Singapore Art Week in 2026!
「FEATURED ARTISTS」
Boedi Widjaja (b.1975) explores migration through the conceptual frames of house, home and homeland, engaging with space and semiotics. Trained in architecture and design, Boedi works across media—from bio art and performance to experimental photography and architectural installations—often combining scientific phenomena with poetic gesture.
Bianca Tse (b.1982) an artist from Hong Kong, combines her expertise in visual communication with a deep passion for documentary work. Growing up in a Temporary Housing Area, she developed a strong connection to the themes of chaotic urban life and poverty. Her fascination with the history of Kowloon Walled City and her hometown fuels her artistic vision. Bianca's style is rooted in storytelling, weaving together Hong Kong's collective memories with the limitless possibilities of AI as a creative medium. By blending authentic history with imagination, she creates a captivating juxtaposition between the familiar and the extraordinary, breathing life into forgotten narratives and presenting them in a unique light.
Goh Chun Aik (b. 1992) is a Singaporean artist whose practice situates itself within the convergence of individual and shared realities. Drawing from personal experiences, the immediate environment, and overlooked moments, he examines how we process reality as a way to reconsider our relationship with existing systems and structures. Through his works, he strives to craft encounters that translate individual perceptions into tangible forms – typically existing as images and texts, and at times realised through collaborations and exhibition-making. In doing so, he hopes to manifest the vast possibilities that emerge when different worlds overlap. Chun Aik also initiated an instructional art project Process: Roving Ideas (2023) during the Singapore Art Week 2023, and co-runs Queensway Television, an independent video art space.
Jake Tan (b.1994) is a New Media Artist whose artistic practice focuses on the intersection between nature, technology, and society, where he has exhibited and was part of artistic residencies in Singapore, Austria, Germany, Japan & Istanbul. To create Jake's New Media Art, typically involves technological research & development in the following realms: physically through microcontroller and electronics programming, 3D printing, and scanning. Digitally through programming, AR/VR/MR production through game engines, and intangibly through projection mapping and XR-focused user interface and experience design.
Jin Jin Xu (b.1994) is a Shanghai born, Macau and New York based artist whose "docu-poetics" practice interrogates mis/remembrance and self/erasure, bearing a poetics of witness to buried soundscapes, censored memories, and the hauntings within our most intimate relationships. JinJin’s debut poetry chapbook There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife was named by the New York Times as “a must-read when visiting Shanghai.” Solo shows include the How Art Museum (Shanghai), Butter Room (Macao); select group shows: the Macao International Art Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Beijing Sound Art Museum, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, and the Harun Farocki Institute. She received her MFA from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow; she is currently the Moving Image Diversity Fellow at Bard College, New York.
Robert Zhao Renhui (b. 1983) is a Singaporean visual artist who works chiefly with photography but often adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, presenting images together with documents and objects in the form of textual and media analysis, video and photography projects. His artistic practice investigates man’s relationship with nature, utilising convincing narratives to invoke doubts in its audience towards the concept of truth and its portrayal. His works has been exhibited globally, including solo exhibitions in Singapore, China, Japan, Australia, Italy, and U.S.A., as well as participating in various biennales and photo festivals. He represented Singapore in their national pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.
Samantha Lee (b. 1993) is a new media artist and creative technologist, working across video, sculpture, installation, and computational systems. Her work explores how technologies shape perception, memory, and the construction of the self. Her works intentionally resist easy documentation. Dimly lit and slow to unfold, they invite viewers to stay with what can’t be easily shared or replayed.
Sareena Sattapon (b. 1992) is a Thai visual artist who has recently completed a PhD in Global Art Practice at Tokyo University of the Arts. Sattapon works with various mediums such as performance, installation and painting. She gets her artistic inspiration from her experiences and ordinary life. Sattapon’s current interest is in performative spatial dynamics, relating to human’s connection and dis-location. She has had exhibitions internationally: in Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, China, Indonesia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Norway, Sweden and Japan and has been awarded with numerous prestigious awards, including the Grand Prize at the CAF Award 2022, the Second Prize at the Tokyo Midtown Award 2024, and the Nomura Art Award, among others.
Seahee Chang (b. 1989) is a South Korean media artist whose practice investigates the intersection of movement, bodily perception, nature, climate, technology and the human inner world. Her early experience in dance fostered an embodied understanding of movement, which has since evolved into a central expressive language across video, hardware-based media, and installation. Her work spans a wide range of formats including art films, interdisciplinary performances, and brand collaborations, characterised by a fluid approach that traverses the boundaries of genre and media. Notably, "The Air House" - a music festival set in nature, conceived through her sensitivity to climate change and ecological thought- functions as an extension of her artistic practice beyond the conventional exhibition space, offering a collective platform where culture, art, sensory experience, and emotion coexist.
The Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter is Singapore's only surviving pre-war civilian shelter built in the 1930s. According to a press report dated 28 June 1939, this shelter was intended as a covered playing ground for children in normal times, but in times of emergency, it could readily be converted into an effective air raid shelter. In the twentieth century, continuing into the 1980s, Singapore had an active brick manufacturing industry and bricks by the now defunct Alexandra Brickworks can be found throughout the interior of the shelter amongst other relics. The shelter is generally closed to the public and this is a unique opportunity to experience a piece of Singapore's history.
「CURATORIAL STATEMENT」
99 years is presented by independent arts platform Digital Art Week Asia (DAWA) and will be held in the historically significant Air Raid Shelter in the Tiong Bahru neighbourhood of Singapore. This new media arts exhibition examines the reflective and contemplative theme of the temporal nature of life through the various artistic practices presented. The exhibition's title has a double meaning; in some countries, the longest practical term of a leasehold property is 99-years without it being considered perpetual. In contrast, the number 9 is considered auspicious in some cultures and has the same sound for the word long-lasting or eternity - an interesting juxtaposition when contextualised in this exhibition. This is the first time in the shelter's history that a new media digital arts exhibition would be held within its hallowed walls, a highly anticipated show not to be missed during Singapore Art Week in 2026!
「FEATURED ARTISTS」
Boedi Widjaja (b.1975) explores migration through the conceptual frames of house, home and homeland, engaging with space and semiotics. Trained in architecture and design, Boedi works across media—from bio art and performance to experimental photography and architectural installations—often combining scientific phenomena with poetic gesture.
Bianca Tse (b.1982) an artist from Hong Kong, combines her expertise in visual communication with a deep passion for documentary work. Growing up in a Temporary Housing Area, she developed a strong connection to the themes of chaotic urban life and poverty. Her fascination with the history of Kowloon Walled City and her hometown fuels her artistic vision. Bianca's style is rooted in storytelling, weaving together Hong Kong's collective memories with the limitless possibilities of AI as a creative medium. By blending authentic history with imagination, she creates a captivating juxtaposition between the familiar and the extraordinary, breathing life into forgotten narratives and presenting them in a unique light.
Goh Chun Aik (b. 1992) is a Singaporean artist whose practice situates itself within the convergence of individual and shared realities. Drawing from personal experiences, the immediate environment, and overlooked moments, he examines how we process reality as a way to reconsider our relationship with existing systems and structures. Through his works, he strives to craft encounters that translate individual perceptions into tangible forms – typically existing as images and texts, and at times realised through collaborations and exhibition-making. In doing so, he hopes to manifest the vast possibilities that emerge when different worlds overlap. Chun Aik also initiated an instructional art project Process: Roving Ideas (2023) during the Singapore Art Week 2023, and co-runs Queensway Television, an independent video art space.
Jake Tan (b.1994) is a New Media Artist whose artistic practice focuses on the intersection between nature, technology, and society, where he has exhibited and was part of artistic residencies in Singapore, Austria, Germany, Japan & Istanbul. To create Jake's New Media Art, typically involves technological research & development in the following realms: physically through microcontroller and electronics programming, 3D printing, and scanning. Digitally through programming, AR/VR/MR production through game engines, and intangibly through projection mapping and XR-focused user interface and experience design.
Jin Jin Xu (b.1994) is a Shanghai born, Macau and New York based artist whose "docu-poetics" practice interrogates mis/remembrance and self/erasure, bearing a poetics of witness to buried soundscapes, censored memories, and the hauntings within our most intimate relationships. JinJin’s debut poetry chapbook There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife was named by the New York Times as “a must-read when visiting Shanghai.” Solo shows include the How Art Museum (Shanghai), Butter Room (Macao); select group shows: the Macao International Art Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Beijing Sound Art Museum, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, and the Harun Farocki Institute. She received her MFA from NYU, where she was a Lillian Vernon Fellow; she is currently the Moving Image Diversity Fellow at Bard College, New York.
Robert Zhao Renhui (b. 1983) is a Singaporean visual artist who works chiefly with photography but often adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, presenting images together with documents and objects in the form of textual and media analysis, video and photography projects. His artistic practice investigates man’s relationship with nature, utilising convincing narratives to invoke doubts in its audience towards the concept of truth and its portrayal. His works has been exhibited globally, including solo exhibitions in Singapore, China, Japan, Australia, Italy, and U.S.A., as well as participating in various biennales and photo festivals. He represented Singapore in their national pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.
Samantha Lee (b. 1993) is a new media artist and creative technologist, working across video, sculpture, installation, and computational systems. Her work explores how technologies shape perception, memory, and the construction of the self. Her works intentionally resist easy documentation. Dimly lit and slow to unfold, they invite viewers to stay with what can’t be easily shared or replayed.
Sareena Sattapon (b. 1992) is a Thai visual artist who has recently completed a PhD in Global Art Practice at Tokyo University of the Arts. Sattapon works with various mediums such as performance, installation and painting. She gets her artistic inspiration from her experiences and ordinary life. Sattapon’s current interest is in performative spatial dynamics, relating to human’s connection and dis-location. She has had exhibitions internationally: in Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, China, Indonesia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Norway, Sweden and Japan and has been awarded with numerous prestigious awards, including the Grand Prize at the CAF Award 2022, the Second Prize at the Tokyo Midtown Award 2024, and the Nomura Art Award, among others.
Seahee Chang (b. 1989) is a South Korean media artist whose practice investigates the intersection of movement, bodily perception, nature, climate, technology and the human inner world. Her early experience in dance fostered an embodied understanding of movement, which has since evolved into a central expressive language across video, hardware-based media, and installation. Her work spans a wide range of formats including art films, interdisciplinary performances, and brand collaborations, characterised by a fluid approach that traverses the boundaries of genre and media. Notably, "The Air House" - a music festival set in nature, conceived through her sensitivity to climate change and ecological thought- functions as an extension of her artistic practice beyond the conventional exhibition space, offering a collective platform where culture, art, sensory experience, and emotion coexist.
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