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Four Singapore artists have been invited to exhibit in the Singapore Pavilion. Each artist has strong individual careers and has stood out in their areas of practice. The selection provides a trans-generational survey of contemporary art practice in Singapore.
 Da Wu TANG (b.1943, Singapore) is a prominent leader in contemporary Asian art practice and is widely regarded as a pioneer of performance art in Singapore. In the 80s and 90s, TANG performed extensively throughout the U.K and as held numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally in Portugal, Japan, The Philippines, Indonesia, Poland, Malaysia and the U.K. He founded the Artists' Village (Singapore) in 1988, and in 1999 and 2000, participated in the first Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale and Gwangju Biennale respectively. TANG was the 1999 Laureate of the 10th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (Arts & Culture), Japan and has been hugely influential in shaping contemporary art in Singapore.
For the Biennale, Tang continues his exploration of folk myths in contemporary contexts. His work is a suite of drawn, photographic and filmic images as well as sound footage to present the experience of Venice as a city and an encounter evoked by the extracts of sounds, fleeting sensations and visual memories.
 Vincent LEOW (b. 1961, Singapore) is a pivotal figure in alternative art practices in Singapore. He co-founded UTOPIA with LIM (below), and helmed the contemporary artist-run space Plastique Kinetic Worms. LEOW has exhibited locally and internationally in Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, India, The Netherlands, France, China, Hong Kong Australia and the U.S.A. In 2002, he participated in the 3rd Gwangju Biennale. Cutting across genres and adopting multiple media in a long, prolific and often rebellious practice, LEOW's works are celebrated for capturing the energy, visual language and attitudes of the vanguard of its time.
With his signature odd and twisted sensibility, Leow dips into kitsch and pop culture to engage the mythos of the Palazzo's Chambers of Pleasure and masked intrigues, associated with Venice's reputation as a city of illusion and deception.
 Jason LIM (b. 1966, Singapore) is a leading contemporary ceramics sculptor and performance artist in Singapore. Noted as a 'maverick' in the field, LIM has radically shifted assumptions about ceramics as a discipline, pushing its potential as a media in installation and performance art pieces. He has also been at the forefront of performance art practices, and was co-Artistic Director of the performance event Future of Imagination. LIM has had several solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Australia and Japan. He has been invited to present performance art in many international performance festivals in Thailand, Japan, Germany, England, Poland, Vietnam and Greenland and to take up residency work periods in Japan, The Netherlands, Australia and the U.S.A. This year, he was awarded the Freeman Fellowship for his residency work period at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, U.S.A.
Lim creates a hybrid chandelier for the Biennale, a fictional apparatus that plays off charged symbolisms and ideologies evoked by vintage chandeliers in the Palazzo.
 Zulkifle MAHMOD (ZUL) (b. 1975, Singapore) is a prime figure in the emerging new media field in the visual arts of Singapore. A sonic or sound sculptor-artist, ZUL is an Associate Artist at the alternative art space The Substation, and has co-founded the art collective Studio 19 and sound-art collective Pink Ark. He has exhibited locally and internationally in Thailand, Germany, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, as well as in Norway and Finland, where he completed artist-in-residence programmes in 2001 and 2004 respectively. In 2006, he was invited to be part of the Ogaki Biennale in Japan. ZUL's practice signals a more encompassing and expanded visual arts sensory experience that includes the dimension of sound and aural sensations.
His sound installation Sonic Dome — An Empire of Thoughts is inspired by the Gothic design of the Palazzo, with the iconic quatrefoil design, insignia of the Lion, and an evocative archive of ambient and manufactured sounds.
 Lindy POH is a professional curator, writer and lawyer specializing in intellectual property, entertainment and media law. She is an advocate and solicitor and legal partner in a Singapore-USA law firm, Balkenende Chew & Chia, (in association with Samuel Seow Law Corporation) with a background in Construction Law and Intellectual Property. In the legal field, she works primarily with architects, artists, developers, writers, entertainers, playwrights, filmmakers, publishers, agents and photographers.
She is a founder of Silver Rue, a Singapore-based art consultancy (Reg in 1998) that provides visual culture consultancy. Formerly a curator at the Singapore Art Museum (1996-2000), she curates, produces and manages projects in the visual arts, culture and heritage for local and overseas exhibitions and events, including Hong Kong, Japan, and Italy. Her special interests include photography, film, printmaking, Southeast Asian art, contemporary art and art education.
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