Search and Discover: The Joy of Collecting – Selections from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection

Exhibition Information

Opening Day	Thursday, 22 October 2020, 10AM – 9PM
Period	22 October - 23 December 2020
Location	The Private Museum,

The Private Museum (TPM) Singapore is pleased to present Search and Discover: The Joy of Collecting – Selections from the Yeap Lam Yang Collection. TPM revisits its foundation of bridging the private and the public in this year’s final and largest exhibition that forms part of the museum’s 10th anniversary programming, featuring an array of private collections in Singapore.

Co-curated by Aaron Teo and Beverly Yong, the exhibition features 65 carefully selected works by 35 artists from the Asia-Pacific region from the Yeap Lam Yang collection, spanning over three decades. While the works are categorically small—the exhibition’s curatorial theme intentionally limits the size of the works to 60 cm by 60 cm—there is nary a “smallness” in their significance. Each work is precious and treasured, each a symbolic step into the collector’s foray into the art world as a patron and supporter of the arts.

Search and Discover: The Joy of Collecting unravels the process of exhibition-making and reveals the joy of collecting; discovering and revisiting artists, a rekindling of old relationships, and a forging of new ones. Yeap Lam Yang’s apt reminder that “there is good art everywhere waiting to be uncovered” is an invitation to all viewers to chart their individual, personal journeys in search and discovery of art and artists, new and familiar.

Programme Documentation

Programme Media

About the Collaboration

Private Collection

Yeap Lam Yang,

Artist

Birdhead, Chang Fee Ming, Chen KeZhan, Chou Yu-Cheng, Kirsten Coelho, Dang Xuan Hoa, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Gan Siong King, Guo Hongwei, Han Sai Por, Dusadee Huntrakul, Hu Yun, Roslisham Ismail Ise, Mella Jaarsma, Kuo Yu-Ping, Sarah Lai, Michael Lee, Lee Wen, Richard Lewer, Lin Yen Wei, Noel McKenna, Latiff Mohidin, Ryo Naruse, Ni Jui Hung, Ni Youyu, Aditya Novali, Alvin Ong, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Shi Hu, Wilson Shieh, Arpita Singh, Wong Hoy Cheong, Yunizar, Robert Zhao Renhui,

Co-curated by Aaron Teo of The Private Museum (Singapore) and Beverly Yong, co-founder of RogueArt, the exhibition features 65 carefully selected works by 35 artists from the Asia-Pacific region from the Yeap Lam Yang collection, spanning over three decades. The collection features a range of contemporary and modern works by local, regional and international artists. While the works are categorically small—the exhibition’s curatorial theme intentionally limits the size of the works to 60 cm by 60 cm—there is nary a “smallness” in their significance. Each work is precious and treasured, each a symbolic step into the collector’s foray into the art world as a patron and supporter of the arts.

Programme Outreach

21 November 2020, 3 PM

Online via Zoom

Join curators Aaron Teo and Beverly Yong for a “walk-through” of the exhibition with collector Yeap Lam Yang as they share in the stories behind the selection of works from his collection. The virtual tour will be conducted via Zoom.

20 to 22 November 2020

As part of the SG Art Gallery Weekend, The Private Museum is organising a series of guided tours and workshops of the museum for the whole family to enjoy during the weekend. The workshop caters to children ages 6-12, for them to enjoy creating their own artworks. Art materials will be provided, so just bring your creative juices along!

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