Gajah Gallery is an art gallery in Singapore that hosts artwork related to the socio-cultural interests of Asia. It was established in 1995 by Jasdeep Sandhu and promotes Southeast Asian Contemporary Art with an emphasis on Indonesian Contemporary. The gallery holds exhibitions, some of which have been collaborations with the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and the National University of Singapore Museum (NUS). Gajah Gallery is also a member of Art Galleries Association in Singapore.
Description Gajah Gallery displays, promotes and researches Southeast Asian art. The collection was previously housed at the MICA building, adjacent to Singapore City Hall and close to the Singapore Philatelic Museum, Singapore Art Museum and National Museum of Singapore.
The MICA building, formerly known as the Old Hill Street Police Station, was erected in 1934 to house the Hill Street Police Station and Barracks, and was gazetted as a national monument in 1998 and transformed into premises for MICA.
In 2015, Gajah Gallery moved to an even bigger space located at Tanjong Pagar Distripark. The new space features white walls over 18 ft high and 4500 sqft of floor space. It is situated in a fully operational shipping warehouse on the historic port of Tanjong Pagar.
Following that, Gajah Gallery also opened up a second space in Indonesia's arts capital, Yogyakarta. Yogya Art Lab (YAL) is an experimental platform for prominent and emerging artists to come together to produce works across various mediums such as paper, sculpture, performance and digital visual production. As for now, the lab has collaborated with established artists like Yunizar and Ashley Bickerton in producing some of their finest bronze and aluminium sculptures respectively.
Collections and exhibitions Gajah Gallery focuses on displaying contemporary Southeast Asian art from the region, including art from Singapore. The Gallery exclusively represents six of the leading Indonesian contemporary artists, Nyoman Masriadi, Rudi Mantofani, Yunizar, Handiwirman Sahputra, Yusra Martunus and Jumaldi Alfi. This limited scope ensures that the Gallery fulfill's their primary mission which is to gain representation for the artist before increasing their stable of artists.
Year Exhibition Artist Country Venue 1996 A celebration of Culture Truong Dinh Hao, U Aung Soe, Wayan Paramartha, Surachet Kaewchamras Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand Alliance Francaise (Singapore) 1997 Illusion Myth and Reality Entang Wiharso Indonesia Gajah Gallery 1998 Bleeding in the Sun Gorbadhan Ash India Gajah Gallery 1998 Mystical Monsters in Contemporary Society Heri Dono Indonesia The American Club (Singapore) 1999 Myths and Mystic I Made Djirna and Wayan Paramartha Indonesia Gajah Gallery 1999 Waiting for Nothing Vasan Sitthiket Thailand Gajah Gallery 2000 Between Abstract and Figurative Sporean artists including Thomas Yeo, Koh Sia Yong, Tang Da Wu Singapore Gajah Gallery 2000 Sau Dinh Quan, Bui Huu Hung, Phan Cam Thuong, Bang Sy Truc, Hong Viet Dung, Nguyen Thanh Binh Vietnamese Gajah Gallery 2000 Heart of Yogya Nasirun and Pupuk Daru Purnomo Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2000 In Full Bloom Olga Polunin Singapore Gajah Gallery 2000 Rustic Charm Chandra Bhattacharjee, Gautam Basu India Gajah Gallery 2001 Unbound Linearity Jogen Chowdhury India Gajah Gallery 2001 Vietnamese Affair Dinh Quan, Bang Sy Truc, Dao Ha Phong, Le Thiet Cuong, Quach Dong Phuong, Nguyen Quoc Hoi, Nguyen Xuan Tiep Vietnam Gajah Gallery 2001 Of Land and Tradition Pham Cam Thuong, Bang Sy Truc Vietnam Gajah Gallery 2001 Silent Spaces Ali Esmaelipour Iran Gajah Gallery 2001 Interactions Jaya Ganguly India Gajah Gallery 2001 Fingerprint of an Artist Haji Widayat Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2001 The New Sensation Yunizar Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2001 Fortress of the Heart Heri Dono Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2002 Truth and Tradition Nyoman Sukari Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2002 Taksu I Made Djirna Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2002 10 Wasted Years Jason Lim Singapore Gajah Gallery 2005 Expressions on Paper Mochtar Apin Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2005 Between A Glass and two Bottles Nguyen Trung and I Made Djirna Vietnam and Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2006 Drawing Ground Srihadi Soedarsono and Chua Ek Kay Indonesia and Singapore SAM and Gajah Gallery 2007 Coretan : Recent Works by Yunizar Yunizar Indonesia NUS Museum and Gajah Gallery 2008 Silent Words Mangu Putra Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2008 Black is my Last Weapon Nyoman Masriadi Indonesia SAM and Gajah Gallery 2009 JENDELA: A Play of The Ordinary Handiwirman Saputra, Jumaldi Alfi, Yusra Martunus, Rudi Mantofani, Yunizar Indonesia NUS Museum and Gajah Gallery 2009 Being: Ahmad Zakii Anwar Malaysia NUS Museum and Gajah Gallery 2009 Spacing Identities J Ariadhitya Pramuhendra Indonesia NUS Museum and Gajah Gallery 2010 Masriadi Diary 2010 Nyoman Masriadi Indonesia Gajah Gallery 2010 Jogja Psychedelia Yunizar Indonesia Soemadja Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology and Gajah Gallery 2011 Nyoman Masriadi- Recent Works Nyoman Masriadi Indonesia Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Gajah Gallery 2011 Those the Gods Love Grow Mightier Teng Nee Cheong Singapore Gajah Gallery 2012 The Fountain of Lamneth Group Exhibition-Badung Artist Singapore Gajah Gallery 2012 Art Stage 2012 Nyoman Masriadi, Yunizar, M.Irfan, Rudi Mantofani, Handwirnan Saputra, Ahmad Zakii Anwar Gajah Gallery 2012 India Art Fair 2012 Nyoman Masriadi, Yunizar, M. Irfan, Handwiriman Saputra, Aye Tjoe Christine India Okla, New Delhi, India 2012 Art Hong Kong Nyoman Masriadi Hong Kong Hong Kong Convention Centre 2013 Art Stage Singapore Nyoman Masriadi, Yunizar, Ashley Bickerton, Nam June Paik, Lotta de Beus and Teng Nee Cheong Singapore Marina Bay Sands 2013 Art 13 Nyoman Masriadi, Yunizar, Ashley Bickerton, Handiwirman Saputra UK Olympia, London, United Kingdom 2013 Art Basel Hong Kong Nyoman Masriadi, Yunizar, Ay Tjoe Christine and Ashley Bickerton Hong Kong Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 2013 I Made Djirma – Logic of Ritual I Made Djirma Indonesia Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2013 Jason Lim – Bukit Musings Jason Lim Singapore Gajah Gallery 2013 Lokanat – Ground Zero Nyoman Masriadi, Handiwirman Saputra, Putu Sutawijaya, Mangu Putra, Yunizar, Ai Wei Wei, Ashley Bickerton Singapore Gajah Gallery 2013 Seeing Paintings: Conversations Before The End Of History Ay Tjoe Christine, Handiwirman Saputra, I Made Djirna, Jumaldi Alfi, Koesoema Affandi, M Irfan, Mangu Putra, Nyoman Masriadi, Putu Sutawijaya, Yunizar Indonesia Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2014 Art Stage Singapore Abdi Setiawan, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Ashley Bickerton, Gu Wenda, Li Jin, Qiu Deshu, Rudi Hendriatno, Ugo Untoro, Wang Tiande, Yunizar Singapore Marina Bay Sands 2014 Abstraction and Refinement: Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings Gu Gan, Qiu Deshu, Wang Tiande, Wei Ligang Singapore Gajah Gallery 2014 Junk Anthropologies Ashley Bickerton Singapore Gajah Gallery 2014 Art Basel Hong Kong Abdi Setiawan, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Ashley Bickerton, Gu Gan, Gu Wenda, Qiu Deshu, Ugo Untoro, Wang Tiande, Wei Ligang, Yunizar Hong Kong Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 2014 Bazaar Art Jakarta Ashley Bickerton, Gu Gan, Gu Wenda, Mangu Putra, Qiu Deshu, Rudi Hendriatno, Ugo Untoro, Wang Tiande, Wei Ligang, Yunizar Indonesia The Ritz Carlton Pacific Place Ballroom 2014 Tempus Fugit (Time Flies) Jason Lim Singapore Gajah Gallery 2014 Intersections: Latin American and Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Handiwirman Saputra, Putu Sutawijaya, Ugo Untoro, Yunizar, Adonis Flores, Douglas Arguelles, Ivan Capote, Yoan Capote and Maykel Linares Indonesia Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta 2014 Yunizar Solo Exhibition Yunizar Singapore Gajah Gallery 2014 Trajectories Ashley Bickerton, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Mangu Putra, Yunizar, Yusra Martunus, Putu Sutawijaya, Jumaldi Alfi, Handiwirman Saputra and Ugo Untoro Cuba Gallery Habana 2014 Zheng Lu: Resurface Zheng Lu Singapore Gajah Gallery 2015 Yogyakarta Art Lab Opening Show Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Ashley Bickerton, I Made Djirna, Jason Lim, Ivan Capote, Kumari Nahappan, Mangu Putra, Sabri Idrus, Suzann Victor, Ugo Untoro, Jumaldi Alfi, Yunizar, Rudi Hedriatno and Abdi Setiawan Singapore Gajah Gallery 2015 Bermain Rasa Yunizar and Ugo Untoro Yogyakarta Gajah Gallery 2015 Sabri Idrus Solo Exhibition Sabri Idrus Singapore Gajah Gallery 2015 Gajah Gallery Grand Opening at Tanjong Pagar Distripark Ashley Bickerton, Yunizar, Kumari Nahappan, Ugo Untoro, Li Jin, Yusra Martunus, Sabri Idrus, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, R.Yuki Agiardi, Teng Nee Cheong, Suzann Victor, Wei Ligang, Wang Tiande, Gu Wenda, Chua Ek Kay, Ho Ho Ying and Ng Joon Kiat Singapore Gajah Gallery 2016 Gajah Gallery 20th Anniversary Ashley Bickerton, Li Jin, Yunizar, Kumari Nahappan, Vasan Sitthiket and Putu Sutawijaya Singapore Gajah Gallery 2016 Archaeology of the Present Ashley Bickerton, Jason Lim, Yunizar, Suzann Victor, Yusra Martunus, S. Nandagopal, Kumari Nahappan, Rudi Hendriatno, Handiwirman Saputra, Ugo Untoro and Afdhal Singapore Gajah Gallery 2016 Erizal As: Re figuring Portraiture Solo Exhibition Erizal As Singapore Gajah Gallery 2016 Galeri Petronas – Southeast Asian Show Handiwirman Saputra, Yusra Martunus, Jumaldi Alfi, Rudi Mantofani, Yunizar, Ugo Untoro, Kumari Nahappan and Vasan Sitthiket Singapore Gajah Gallery and Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur 2016 Gobardhan Ash: Famine and Empire Solo Exhibition Gobardhan Ash Singapore Gajah Gallery 2016 Mangu Putra: Between History and Quotidian Solo Exhibition Mangu Putra Singapore Gajah Gallery 2016 Semsar Siahaan Solo Exhibition Semsar Siahaan Yogyakarta Gajah Gallery (Yogyakarta Art Lab) 2016 Wakidi: The Light Before Dusk Solo Exhibition Wakidi Singapore Gajah Gallery 2016 Yunizar: The Garden In Eden Yunizar Singapore Gajah Gallery 2017Art Stage Singapore 2017Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Ashley Bickerton, Erizal As, Jason Lim, Kumari Nahappan, Li Jin, Mangu Putra, Rudi Mantofani, Sabri Idrus, Semsar Siahaan, Suzann Victor, Wei Ligang, YunizarSingaporeMarina Bay Sands2017Art Fair Philippines 2017Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Ashley Bickerton, Erizal As, Mangu Putra, Rudi Mantofani, Sabri Idrus, Suzann Victor, YunizarPhilippinesThe Link Carpark2017Art Basel Hong Kong 2017Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Ashley Bickerton, Jason Lim, Kumari Nahappan, Li Jin, Mangu Putra, Rudi Mantofani, Sabri Idrus, Suzann Victor, Wei Ligang, YunizarHong KongConvention and Exhibition Centre 2017 Supernatural Chong Weixin, Jason Lim, Lavender Chang, Maxine Chionh, Melissa Tan, Robert Zhao, Ruben Pang, Zen Teh, Sarah Choo Jing, Warren Khong, Kumari Nahappan, Ng Joon Kiat, Suzann Victor, Ian Woo and Adeline Kueh Yogyakarta Gajah Gallery (Yogyakarta Art Lab) 2017Matters and ManipulationsSabri IdrusSingaporeGajah Gallery2017Thinking Ink: Improvisations on Cultural CriteriaChua Ek Kay, Gu Gan, Gu Wenda, Wei LigangSingaporeGajah Gallery2017Knowing IncompletenessAgung Santosa, Fika Riasantika, Gusmen Heriadi, Iabadiou Piko, Nofria Doni Fitri, Ridho RizkiYogyakartaGajah Gallery (Yogyakarta Art Lab)2017Art Stage Jakarta 2017Ashley Bickerton, Erizal As, Kumari Nahappan, Li Jin, Mangu Putra, Rudi Mantofani, Sabri Idrus, Semsar Siahaan, Suzann Victor, Wei Ligang, YunizarJakartaGrand Sheraton Jakarta, Indonesia2017The New NowBenedict Yu, Charlotte Lim, Gabrielle Tolentino, Kayleigh Goh, Kuat Zhi Hooi, Leonard Wee, Wong Jia Yi SingaporeGajah Gallery2017Under The Shadow of the Banyan TreeJason LimSingaporeGajah Gallery2017Gajah Open HouseAyu Arista Murti, Dery Pratama, Erizal As, Fika Ria Santika, Iabadio Piko, Loli Rusman, Suzann Victor, Rudi Mantofani, YunizarYogyakartaGajah Gallery (Yogyakarta Art Lab)2017Semsar Siahaan: Art, LiberationSemsar SiahaanSingaporeGajah Gallery
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