Kah Bee Chow 🐝

Invigning av offentlig konst i Brunnshög – Kah Bee Chow presenterar sina första permanenta verk i Lund 📆Tid: tisdagen den 12 maj, kl 11–13 📍Plats: Kunskapsparken, därefter Portkvarteren i Brunnshög 🎤 Program: Invigningstal av Sebastian Jaktling, ordförande i kultur- och fritidsnämnden i Lund. Efterföljande samtal med Kah Bee Chow, konstnär och Sara Rossling, kurator på Lunds konsthall. Varmt välkommen på invigning av två nya offentliga konstgestaltningar av konstnären Kah Bee Chow: We Do Not Part (2025) och Citadel i, ii, iii (2025). ”När jag fick uppdraget började jag med en känsla av att sjunka ner genom landskapet.” – Kah Bee Chow Kah Bee Chow arbetar skulpturalt med utgångspunkt i hur arkitektur och rumslighet möter sociala sammanhang och formar liv. Genom att undersöka hur former både kan skydda och avgränsa utvecklar hon verk som öppnar för nya sätt att uppleva och förstå en plats. I Brunnshög konkretiseras dessa idéer i två sammanhängande gestaltningar i Kunskapsparken och Portkvarteren. I Kunskapsparken presenteras We Do Not Part, ett skulpturpar i havsgrön terrazzo. De mjukt rundade, sittvänliga formerna är placerade i dialog med landskapet och bjuder in till vila, interaktion och kontemplation. Gestaltningen hämtar inspiration från sköldpaddsformade gravar i Malaysia, där arkitekturen symboliserar skydd och omsorg. Titeln artikulerar en existentiell dimension: människans vilja att hålla fast vid det förflutna. I de nybyggda Portkvarteren möter besökaren tre grönpatinerade bronsskulpturer – Citadel i, ii, iii. Dessa verk förenar sköldpaddans organiska form med citadellarkitekturens defensiva logik, och refererar till mytologiska berättelser där sköldpaddan bär världen på sin rygg. Verket lyfter teman som stabilitet, uthållighet och minne, och knyter an till skulpturerna i Kunskapsparken. Kuratorer: Emil Nilsson, Sara Rossling #lundskonsthall #kahbeechow @kbc___ #offentligkonst #brunnshög #lundskommun @saraross____ @limenilsson

The Singapore Biennale 2025 concluded yesterday, and with that Études at Tanglin Halt closed its shutters for the last time. I want to say thank you again to Selene Yap @seleneysh and to Rachel Zuzarte @xradz for all your work and care in helping bring this work to life. I also want to extend my gratitude to all the sitters, guards and volunteers who have helped in looking after this off-site space - it would not have been possible without you, the team managing the logistics, care and maintenance of this work over the last five months and now its travel and restoration. Thank you all so much. Thank you so much to everyone who traveled to Tanglin Halt to see the work. Thank you to the Singapore Art Museum @singaporeartmuseum @sgbiennale . Thank you to the Konstnärsnämnden @swedish_arts_grants_committee @iaspis.se for your support towards making this possible. All images by Grace Baey @gracebaey Études (Tanglin Halt) as part of Singapore Biennale 2025: Pure Intention curated by Selene Yap, Duncan Bass, Hsu Fang Tse, Ong Phuay Kim. Developed for 49 Tanglin Halt Road, #01-357, formerly a traditional Chinese medicine shop, Études translates the site’s remaining features into a working score. These include custom wood, glass and mirror shelving, and marks on the walls and floors. The artist treats these elements as givens for composition. Here, the system adapts to the unit’s specific architecture and residual fittings. The installation comprises sequences of laser-cut acrylic piano keys, vinyl components on glass, printed material and translucent casts. A piano examination form provides a structuring logic of grids and annotations that assign proportion and placement. During installation, these rules are applied, adjusted, or set aside. Études (Tanglin Halt) 2025 Vinyl, laser-cut plexiglas, cast polyester, digital prints on paper, bronze cast, glass, steel hooks, LED candles, brackets and pot plants. Effeminacy 2012 Digital video (colour, sound) 14 min 5 sec

Welcome, Kah Bee! Kah Bee Chow will spend six months at Künstlerhaus Bethanien as part of our International Studio Programme. She works primarily with installation and sculpture, developing a practice grounded in close attention to the particularities of space and site. Her process begins with careful observation of a location’s charge, tempo, and atmosphere, alongside its architectural proportions, material conditions, and spatial character. Kah Bee Chow’s residency is funded by IASPIS. Photo by Galya Feierman @galyafeierman @kbc___ @iaspis.se

Some works from the @sgbiennale that I would recommend experiencing in person during @sgartweek . Hope you can find time to slowly experience the works across the different spaces. It’s a show that contains many gems if you take time to discover them. Give it a bit of time. 💖💖💖

Very chuffed to be here @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien for the next six months. Det är en riktig dröm! 💭 Thank you 🙏🏻 to @swedish_arts_grants_committee @kuenstlerhaus.bethanien @iaspis.se

Études (Tanglin Halt) at shoplot #01-359 Block 49 Tanglin Halt Road is on view as a part of the @sgbiennale Pure Intention: Singapore Biennale 2025 until 29 March 2026, curated by Selene Yap, Duncan Bass @duncanny_valley , Hsu Fang-Tze and Ong Phuay Kim @ong.khim 🙏🏻 What a gift of a space, with its stains and lines, surfaces, shelves and past lives. Especial thanks to Selene Yap @seleneysh for your immense care, trust and attention to detail, very grateful to Selene and Rachel Zuzarte @xradz for being such a vital part of bringing this work and all its strange facets to life. Thank you to Amanda, Khalil and the install team, and all the problem solving on site. Thank you the uncles and aunties of Tanglin Halt who kindly offered old newspapers and cleaning materials. Huge thanks to @swedish_arts_grants_committee for the generous support towards making this possible. Thank you to Jesper Drugge of @oresundkomposit , thank you to Oscar @oscarerikssonfurunes for loaning us your supply! @jo_a_na_pe_rei_ra for your wood! Thank you to @j_o_h_a_n__n_a_h_o_j and Carl Lindh for helping brainstorm contingency plans. Love to @brunozhu without whom the first iteration of Études at A Maior would not have been conceived, & Love to @bing___hao who wrote about Effeminacy in 2020 in a catalogue called Rushes of Time, among many other adventures 💕 Images 1 & 2 courtesy of @distantatlas 🙏🏻

#monsoonsurge 🌧️ 2. Hans recs 😁 3. Tapestry of Justice (1998-2004) Wong Hoy Cheong @singaporeartmuseum 6. 天天 Maxwell food court 7. Detail of The Wedding in Negros (1989) Norberto Roldan 8. H.R. Ocampo’s scrapbook 9. Detail of On Strike (1955) Tan Tee Chie 10. Ship (1960) Lai Foong Moi

Some impressions from the Penang Long Art Weekend: 1-3: Annabelle Ng’s open studio at Wells Café, w Janousch 💕 4-6: Dhavinder’s open studio, with a collaboration w @graydengoon 7-9: @kiahkiean beautiful welcoming workspace & cats 10-11: @banbankia @blankcanvas.penang Sia Boey 🩵 Yuki’s family history in Sia Boey 🩵 12-14: Ain’s solo exhibition at Blank Canvas 💕 tried to show how layered and textured the ash painting is but best seen IRL 15-16: @cultprint Thank you showing us your workspace 17-18: KY & Ivan @hinbusdepot @blankcanvas.penang 19: @silas.jpeg Thank you to everyone involved in the #penanglongartweekend - appreciate the massive effort 💕 Thank you to the artists who so generously opened up their private workspaces to share with the public 🩵 Thank you to everyone for their warm hospitality and generosity 💕

Last week of Liquid Paper’ at @bonneesperance1721 💙 The show is open today Saturday 4 Jan in Copenhagen from 12-4pm, and will close next Sunday 12 January 2025. 💙 ⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯ Thank you so much to everyone who came to the opening, really happy to see old faces and new 💙 everyone who have visited the show since 💙 Always an absolute pleasure to work and show alongside @ingridfurre and @thisserenemachine 💙 Thank you so much to @bonneesperance1721 @johanmartinchristiansen 💙 for taking such good care for us!!!💗 Many thanks to @louisesteiwer for your thoughtful text 💙 5🌟 to @bonneesperance1721 @johanmartinchristiansen - I am honestly so impressed with the care and seriousness with which you treat the space & artists alongside a practice that’s going full steam ahead. Thank you for having us!! 💗 📸 7&8 @mallegilbert 📷 @ingridfurre @louisesteiwer

In “Skellet”, a mouse says, “we need to take idealism to the level where it  belongs - which is where we all sit down and talk together - figuring out what we want,” rather than tying our ideals to the basic capitalist act of buying something, standing in a supermarket choosing between something more or less humane, something more or less ethical. It seems obvious but it is something I find myself learning and relearning again. We screened “Skellet” by Anne-Mette Schultz & Louis Scherfig @louissance__ ( rec 💗it’s on youtube) on the last day of the Landing Thoughts workshop in Växjö late November.  The space for gathering, “where we all sit down and talk together, figuring out what we want” feels hard to come by somehow, precious and vital in these times - it also doesn’t simply happen, even with intention and practise, it’s a mystery.   It’s been a blessing to be with this crew @landing_thoughts_ this year, thank you so much to Kate Moss for inviting me to come aboard the ship for 2024, thank you to all the 🌟 brilliant stars 🌟of the crew who made Landing Thoughts what it was this year. We closed out officially a few weeks ago with this last workshop but judging by the self-organising prowess of this group, it won’t be the last of us 😉 I wish the BEST karaoke 🎤 duet partner Kate Moss @gonetothebeachman and the fam @happy_as_a_herring 💕Bon Voyage! 💗 I will miss you guys so much!! All love and power to your future adventures in Perth 💕 P.S. Sidenote: Kate will be having a show @spikspace opening this Friday lunchtime in Malmö 💕 1. Group pic November 2024 2. Never have I ever heard a more heartfelt version of Wind Beneath My Wings delivered than in @monovaxjo by @gonetothebeachman 3. Ekotemplet 4. Delicious vege gluten-free kroppkakor @monovaxjo 5. Emotions running high @monovaxjo 6. BIG PLANS AHEAD 7. Self organizing prowess @jennyannakall 8. Back to the very start in Jan 2024 @italienskapalatset 9. Group pic Jan 2024 10. Legend of the Moss @kkvbohuslan May 2024 📷 thanks to @annaspettersson @kate_rebecca_price

“Libera Palestina! Libera Libano!” These were Anna’s parting words as @teatringestazione & friends concluded their 12 hour passage on foot from Bari to Polignano A Mare at the Museo Pino Pascali on Saturday evening. I can still feel all the emotions in that room, even those of us in the audience were hugging each other and crying after, for everything unfolding at the moment, our dear friends’ families and lives, and this beautiful pilgrimage we were able to share in at its end. @teatringestazione @leonardodelmonte @moonshiner_dan @gabfanelli & all the walkers, bravo! Saturday was deeply surreal in every way. The weather threw up its own surprises. Every single weather app promised us bountiful sun, not a worry in the sky but when it came time to install on the rooftop, the rain, which began with a drizzle, proceeded to pound relentlessly. We all threw our hands up in the air, everyone drenched and soaked right through. I brought in the lamps from the terrazzo so that they were not flooded beyond repair. We all hoped the walkers would be okay. Delayed by the rain, we sat inside the museum waiting for it to stop, I brought out the bronze cast sculptures/instruments to @fulvia.almeida @urbanpoethics @teresadasilva.dasilva and asked them to help me play them. I instructed them to simply strike the tip and leave them to resonate for five seconds. I didn’t actually know what else to do with them even though I had made them, I didn’t really know how else they could be played. But Fulvia and Farah and Theresa did, they showed me so much else, so many other sounds they could produce, how they could be played like a string instrument instead of percussion, that they could be layered with our voices, there were so many other ways I simply did not know myself, I did not even frankly imagine. We huddled together like a band of witches inside the building playing these bronzes anchored by Theresa’s otherworldly voice.

Thankful to have been a part of the @landing_thoughts_ workshop last week with Kristian Vistrup Madsen and Magni Moss @gassemala_air_official @happy_as_a_herring in Gässemåla. So precious to be able to deep dive into a range of artistic practices with care, depth and time, to be reminded to remain open and to consider a word, a practice, a text or a work in different ways - for myself especially to not default into reactive reflexes, looped inwards by known knowns. I felt it was important for me to learn about Inge Svensson, a deeply committed artist for over the last 60 years or so whose CV currently reads : 1942, born in Denmark. Such clarity and stamina. What a legend. Also this question of how to train your concentration as an artist, how to be in the world. so much noise. And here I am, making more. The group show with Inge curated by Kristian opens @charimgalerie in Vienna next week, please go see it if you can! I am so glad to be working with Kate Moss @gonetothebeachman and Laura Piasta @laurapiasta.studio of @landing_thoughts_ this year, it truly has been (and continues to be) such a gift to be a part of this crew. Thank you to Magni and Kate for hosting us in your beautiful home and allowing all us riff raffs to make a mess. Thank you to everyone who could join at Gässemåla, I’m so happy to have shared these days with you - you are all stars!!! Shoutout to @ingridfurre for driving the Malmö crew to and fro! 📸 @k_________bengtsson @ladigogo_ #ingegrünwaldtsvensson