Singapore Pavilion 2024

Artist - Robert Zhao Renhui

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Robert Zhao Renhui (born 1983, Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intricate relationships between nature and culture through installation, photography, video and sculpture. His practice centres on the diverse beings and objects that make up the living world and the knowledge they bring to our collective existence.

Zhao has held solo exhibitions at Gillman Barracks and Shangart Gallery Shanghai, and his recent commission Albizia (2023), a performance installation by the Esplanade, continues to push the boundaries of his practice. A recipient of the NAC Young Artist Award (2010), he has been featured in major international biennales including Busan, Singapore, Taipei, Jakarta, Sydney and the Asia Pacific Triennial, and was a finalist of the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award (2017).

Curator - Haeju Kim

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Haeju Kim (born 1980, South Korea) is a Senior Curator at Singapore Art Museum (SAM), with a research focus on contemporary art practices across Singapore, Southeast Asia and Asia. Her curatorial approach centres on the body, time and memory, shaped by a longstanding interest in performance and collaboration with performing arts institutions — viewing exhibition-making as the creation of shared bodily and temporal experiences.

Prior to SAM, Kim served as Artistic Director of the Busan Biennale 2022 and Deputy Director at Art Sonje Center in South Korea. Her current research spans migration and language, coexistence, ecological perspectives, and the relationship between locality and its planetary connections. Notable works include We, on the Rising Wave (Busan Biennale 2022), solo exhibitions at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, and Moving/Image, a three-chapter exhibition and performance programme presented across multiple Seoul venues from 2016 to 2020.

Commissioner - Low Eng Teong

Low Eng Teong is the former Chief Executive of the National Arts Council , overseeing policies, planning and key strategies across Singapore's visual, literary and performing arts sectors. His portfolio also encompasses arts education in schools, as well as the development of training, career pathways and leadership programmes for arts practitioners.

Prior to NAC, Mr Low held senior leadership roles in Singapore's education service, spanning school leadership and curriculum planning, including establishing the Ministry of Education's Arts Education Branch responsible for arts curriculum and co-curriculum in Singapore schools. He currently serves on the boards of the Singapore Art Museum, STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre and Singapore Chinese Orchestra.