Ong Kian Peng | 王建斌

Honoured to be part of this edition of "The Spirits of Maritime Crossing", an official collateral event of the 61st La Biennale di Venezia. Thank you Dr Apinan Poshyananda @apinanposhyananda for the invitation. The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026 brings together artists from Southeast Asia and beyond, tracing routes of migration, memory, spirituality, and renewal across cultures and histories. Marina Abramović (Serbia / USA)
Ruangsak Anuwatwimon (Thailand)
Arahmaiani (Indonesia)
Martha Atienza (the Philippines)
Nadiah Bamadhaj (Malaysia / Indonesia)
Amanda Coogan (Ireland)
Yasmin Jaidin (Brunei)
Pichet Klunchun (Thailand)
Torlarp Larpjaroensook (Thailand)
Le Hien Minh (Vietnam)
Soe Yu Nwe (Myanmar / Thailand)
Ong Kian Peng (Singapore)
Mutmee Pimdao Panichsamai (Thailand)
Sornchai Phongsa (Thailand)
Tcheu Siong (Laos)
Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch (Thailand)
Swannie (Myanmar)
Aleksandar Timotić (Serbia / Germany)
Samboleap Tol (Cambodia / The Netherlands)
Parada Wiratsawee (Thailand) Spanning painting, sculpture, performance, film, and installation, their works reflect on identity, diaspora, spirituality, ecological fragility, and cultural inheritance, revealing how shared histories continue to shape the present.

My trip to Jordan culminates in this 6 channel film installation. “The Viscous Sea” looks at the State of the Dead Sea and it explores the notion of death from an ecological perspective. As part of the work, there will be two live cinematic performances where I will attempt to remix a new version of the work in real time. The first set opens on Saturday, with the elusive but super talented @sadisthemanwholivesbythesea aka Elintseeker who I’ve been inviting for years. Finally he’s giving me the nod for it so please come check out the performance if you are planning to come for the vernissage. The performance starts at 8pm *you will need an invite for this opening. Commissioned by The Singapore Biennale 2022 and supported by Darat Al-Funun #sb2022 #sgbiennale @sgbiennale @daratalfunun

Sky River 《天河》, a new work that I started conceptualising a while back while reading a paper on the geoengineering project in China by Hunchuck et.al that explores the possibility of extracting water from the atmosphere. The work is now showing in “This moment is now past and future all at once” Curated by @johnsavage.fromthewoods Showing at @shanghart.singapore . Special thanks to @crashingmoments @ehh.joshkon @_rrv_n #unrealengine #digitalart #speculativefiction

Within The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026, the dialogue extends beyond the exhibition space. Our artists Amanda Coogan, Soe Yu Nwe, Ong Kian Peng, Arahmaiani and Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch come together to discuss their practices, unpacking themes of movement, memory, and cultural identity.  Their insights bring a more personal perspective to the ideas explored throughout the exhibition. #TheSpiritsOfMaritimeCrossing #SMC2026 #BangkokArtBiennale #BiennaleArte2026 #InMinorKeys @labiennale

Join us next Saturday for 𝘓𝘌𝘎𝘈𝘓 𝘈𝘚𝘚𝘌𝘔𝘉𝘓𝘐𝘌𝘚 at Sim Lim Square and Sim Lim Tower, where artists Urich Lau and Ong Kian Peng offer an insider look into their favourite haunts and purchases, sharing ways in which different technical equipment can be used to create interfaces at the intersection of art and technology. Artist-led Tour: 𝘓𝘌𝘎𝘈𝘓 𝘈𝘚𝘚𝘌𝘔𝘉𝘓𝘐𝘌𝘚 25 Apr, Sat  12–3pm  Sim Lim Square + Sim Lim Tower This is a paid programme ($15). Registration link in bio.  — Urich Lau is a visual artist, independent curator and arts educator based in Singapore who works with video art, photography and media art. He is a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts, a member of The Artists Village and the co-founder of art collective INTER–MISSION, which organised the Sim Lim Square Art Residency in January 2019.  @urichlau Ong Kian Peng is an artist whose work is situated at the intersection of art, computational culture, and ecology. His research focuses on the imperceptibility of Climate Change, exploring immersive and synaesthetic ways of connecting our consciousness to the impending ecological disaster. @voidness__ — 𝘓𝘌𝘎𝘈𝘓 𝘈𝘚𝘚𝘌𝘔𝘉𝘓𝘐𝘌𝘚 is part of the programme series 𝙼𝙸𝚂𝙱𝙴𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙼𝙰𝙲𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙴𝚂, supported by @nacsingapore ’s Arts x Tech Lab initiative.

For the next Asia Forum in Venice, we’re pleased to be joined by Ong Kian Peng. We look forward to his contribution to Conversation 1: “Minor-majorities” Ong Kian Peng works across a diverse range of media—including film, sound, virtual reality, and electronics—positioning his practice at the confluence of art, technology, and ecology. His immersive environments and installations explore ecological thought, addressing climate change, environmental crises, and the evolving relationship between humans and technology. Navigating the entangled dynamics of culture, nature, and machine, Ong crafts visionary scenarios that prompt existential reflection on humanity’s role in shaping the future of a fragile planet. His projects have been presented at the Singapore Art Museum, National Gallery Singapore, Asian Civilisations Museum, ArtScience Museum, Tainan Museum of Fine Arts, Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), Tank Shanghai (China), and Total Museum (Seoul). He has exhibited at international media festivals including Ars Electronica (Austria), SIGGRAPH, FILE Festival (Brazil), Japan Media Arts Festival, Currents New Media (USA), and the Singapore Biennale. Recipient of the President’s Young Talent Grand Prize (2015), Ong has also been recognised internationally as finalist for the Lumen Prize (UK, 2025), Arte Laguna Prize (Italy), and Re:Humanism Art Prize (Italy). He is Assistant Professor at NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media and co-founder of Supernormal.space. —-- Minor Feelings 📍 Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice 📅 9 May 2026, 9.30am - 3pm Register via Eventbrite: link in bio. More programme details to follow. Thanks to the partners of @carnegiemuseumofart @gettymuseum @afterallresearch @iciberlinpress @fondazionequerinistampalia @curatorial.school @creavenice @shcurating @nacsingapore @dvri_distretto_veneziano @cafoscari With thanks to the Pavilions of Australia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Uzbekistan. #venicebiennale26 #asiaforum #globalasia #contemporaryart #minorfeelings

ENTANGLED AGENCIES EXHIBITION — NOW OPEN 🎨🤖 The exhibition is here! Join us as we explore how humans and machines co-create, instruct, and learn from one another through new commissions and process-led works. 📅 Exhibition: 22–31 Jan 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm 📍 Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05, 28 Aliwal St ✨ UPCOMING PROGRAMMES — REGISTER VIA LINKS IN BIO: 📅 Curator’s Tours 25 Jan (Sun), 2pm | 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm Join us for a curator’s tour by Ong Kian peng (@voidness__ ) to dive deeper into the works and ideas behind Entangled Agencies. 🎉 Closing Reception & Performances 29 Jan (Thu), 7pm | Performance by @patrick_hartono starts at 8pm — ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Artist-fellows Isabella Ong (@isabella_ong_ ), Brandon Tay (@brozm ), Andreas Schlegel (@sojamo ), and Aditi Neti (@functionditi ) present newly commissioned works developed through workshops and lectures exploring instruction, co-authorship, feedback, and reflection across generative code, AI systems, and interactive processes. Alongside these commissions, open-call artists Harper Chew (@harperchewy ) and Hoe Jian Wei (@done_with_midas ) contribute works shaped through collective learning and dialogue during the programme. Together, the exhibition presents entanglement not as abstraction, but as lived, iterative practice—where creativity emerges through shared agency between human intention and computational processes. Don’t miss out—register for our programmes via links in bio! Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #ArtsxTech #SingaporeArt #ContemporaryArt

ENTANGLED AGENCIES MODULE 1 REFLECTION: INSTRUCTING AND INSTRUCTED ✏️💻 In Module 1, helmed by artist-fellow Isabella Ong, we explored instruction not as command but as correspondence—a relational process between human, machine, and material that dismantles established frameworks of creative authorship. Drawing from Sol LeWitt’s instruction-based wall drawings and Vera Molnár’s early computational art, Isabella reframed code as notation: a creative language comparable to architectural drawings, musical scores, and conceptual art instructions. In her introductory lecture and artist talk on 27 November 2025, Isabella expanded on the poetic and procedural dimensions of code, proposing that coding be understood as a notation system—ambiguous, fertile, and open-ended rather than deterministic. The guest lecture by Zi Hao elaborated on instruction through the language of mapping, ecology, and representation, reframing drawing and mapping as acts of knowledge construction—ways of teaching materials, places, and technologies to “reveal each other”. A Q&A moderated by Ong Keng Pian built upon a common conceptual bridge: instruction and interpretation are inseparable, whether we’re coding, mapping, or making worlds. Module 1’s workshops on 6 December 2025 explored how instructions become drawings and artefacts by moving participants between analogue and digital processes. Participants translated Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing instructions, reverse-engineered existing works, and exchanged rule-based drawings to see how descriptive choices shape outcomes. An introduction to p5.js framed code as “sentence sketches,” with exercises highlighting shifts from language to image to code. The group created collaborative wall drawings after Sol LeWitt 51, responding to architectural features in the space, before compiling their works into a book-as-exhibition format. Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #IsabellaOng #ArtsxTech #ContemporaryArt #Singapore

INTRODUCING ENTANGLED AGENCIES MODULE 3: MIRRORING AND MIRRORED 🪞✨ Join us for an artist talk exploring mirroring, feedback, and technological reflection, where our artist fellow will share how machines reflect human inputs—yet always with slippages, distortions, or reconfigurations. How do AI and code act as mirrors that are never neutral but co-constructive? How do distortions and delays reveal the uncanny? What happens when we see ourselves reflected through machine vision? 🤖💫 Meet Your Fellow: Andreas Schlegel 👤 Andreas Schlegel is a German-born, Singapore-based artist and educator whose practice bridges art, design, and technology. Working with code, generative systems, and interactive processes, he creates installations, performances, and audio-visual works that explore our relationship with machines and contemporary technologies. His work is often collaborative and he performs with Electromagnetic Objects and Black Zenith. Featuring a guest lecture by Aditi Neti 💬 Aditi Neti is a South Asian designer exploring the interconnectedness and synergy between machine, man, and nature. She finds herself most excited by speculative narratives, interactions, and artefacts informed by cultural perspectives. In her practice, she aims to highlight how the complexities of human relationships with the natural world can manifest in alternative and absurd ways through technology. 📍 Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05 📆Thursday, 8 January ⏰ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Registration from 6:30-7:00 PM) 🔧 Workshop dates: 10 + 17 January 🔗 Links in bio to sign up! Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Visuals by @print.centre_ This programme is supported by the National Arts Council’s Arts x Tech Lab initiative @nacsingapore #EntangledAgencies #AndreasSchlegel #AditiNeti artxtech

Dear NTU CCA Singapore Community. 🎆 As the year draws to a close, we wish you a gentle pause with your loved ones. To mark this transition, we are pleased to share a short video created for this occasion by Ong Kian Peng, our former Artist-in-Residence and now a faculty member at the NTU School of Art, Design and Media. 🍀 As Kian Peng shares: “This work emerges from a first-person vantage point that drifts between submergence and the surface—a speculative take on human attempts to master and geoengineer nature that takes on a different trajectory, raising questions on the relationship between utopia and dystopia, present and future, humans and non-humans. In this oscillation between being under and above water, the work stages a speculative geography shaped by rising seas, infrastructural dreams, and ecological precarity. This in-between perspective mirrors the time we live in: a crossroads of divergent futures, hopeful and catastrophic, engineered and accidental. By inhabiting this liminal zone, Accidental Utopia invites viewers to sense the fragile architectures of tomorrow and to imagine what more can still be done today.” 🎋 This poetic visual sequence invites us to treasure the wisdom gained from our collective achievements and errors, informing our steps forward in a world that becomes increasingly vulnerable. 💫 Our heartfelt gratitude goes to your support for our Centre. We look forward to welcoming you at our upcoming exhibition Kent Chan. 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯 for the Singapore Art Week 2026. ✨ Ute Meta Bauer and the NTU CCA Singapore team 🖼️ Ong Kian Peng, 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘜𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢, 2024, excerpt from single-channel video, sound. Courtesy the artist.

INTRODUCING ENTANGLED AGENCIES MODULE 2: GENERATIVITY AND CO-AUTHORSHIP 🤖✨ Join us for an artist talk exploring generative art and co-authorship with AI, where our artist fellow will share how generativity troubles authorship. From Vera Molnár’s algorithmic drawings to AI image synthesis, artistic intent is always entangled with algorithmic unpredictability. Who generates? And who owns the work? Meet Your Fellow: Brandon Tay 👤 Brandon Tay is a Singapore-born, Shanghai-based artist whose work explores the shifting boundaries between technology, fiction, and material form. Working through sculpture, simulation, and moving image, he creates objects that blur distinctions between system and symbol—between what we know and what we imagine. Tay has exhibited both individually and collaboratively at major international platforms such as the Singapore Biennale, Transmediale, the National Communications Museum (Melbourne), Art Dubai, and Frieze Seoul, among others. Featuring a guest lecture by Flora Weil 💬 Flora Weil takes a holistic approach to developing and thinking about technology that combines design, ecology, anthropology, engineering, cybernetics, and philosophy. She is the recipient of past Strelka, Transformations of the Human, M+ Museum, and Design Trust fellowships that explored projects ranging from ecology-scale intelligence to worldbuilding as a form of research. She is currently teaching at NYU Shanghai, consulting on AI in luxury fashion, and co-leading Nephila, a studio that explores adversarial play, shared fictions, and anomalous forms of cognition. 📍 Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05 📅 Thursday, 11 December ⏰ 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (Registration from 6:30-7:00 PM) 🔧 Workshop dates: 13 + 20 December 🔗 Links in bio to sign up! Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Visuals by @print.centre_ This programme is supported by the National Arts Council’s Arts x Tech Lab initiative @nacsingapore #EntangledAgencies #BrandonTay #FloraWeil #GenerativeArt AIArt ContemporaryArt Singapore​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚. 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤 𝘿𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 (October 2024 – February 2025) convened three artists, 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗸 𝗦𝗶 𝗫𝘂𝗮𝗻, 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗶 𝗵𝗮𝘆𝗸𝗮𝗹, and 𝗢𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗴 to propel transformative understandings of technology through a five-month residency that interlaced artistic research, transdisciplinary encounters, art making, and the formation of communities. Tracing the trajectory of 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, this 52-page booklet contains curatorial notes, insightful interviews with the participating artists—𝘐𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 by Chok Si Xuan, 𝘖𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 by bani haykal, 𝘛𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 by Ong Kian Peng—, a roundtable discussion on the shapeshifting nature of communities, and rich visual documentation of the artworks, the exhibition, and the public events created during the programme. This publication is open access and available on our website. Link in bio.