The newly appointed director of the much-anticipated The National Art Gallery, Singapore, Dr Eugene Tan says the gallery will be a “museum we can call our own”.
Expected to open in 2015, Singapore’s largest visual arts institution will be a showcase for the world’s largest public collection of modern South- east Asian and Singapore art, and all eyes are on it. The 60,000 sq m gallery will be housed in the City Hall and former Supreme Court buildings, which are being refurbished on a budget of $530 million.
Dr Tan, 41, who starts work on May 15, says the gallery will map the early phases of art development in Singapore and South-east Asia – of which not much is known to the general public – and look at visual narratives as well as cross-cultural connections shaped by art.
A programme director of special projects at the Economic Development Board, he was appointed to his National Art Gallery post last Friday and will straddle both jobs till the end of this year.
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