Ho Rui An
Residency Period
Jul-Sep 2021
Based in Singapore, Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Working primarily across the mediums of lecture, essay and film, he probes into the ways by which images are produced, circulate and disappear within contexts of globalism and governance. He has presented projects at the Bangkok Art Biennale (2020), Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris (2020) , Asian Art Biennial (2019), Gwangju Biennale (2018), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2018), Jakarta Biennale (2017), Sharjah Biennial (2017), Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2017), Para Site, Hong Kong (2015) and Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014). In 2019, he was awarded the International Film Critics’ (FIPRESCI) Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. In 2018, he was a fellow of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.
During his residency, he will be researching the shifting relations between labour, capital and technology by examining a hundred-year history of the development of the textile industry and its many afterlives within the Greater China region.
Image courtesy: Ho Rui An Photo: Eike Walkenhorst
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
The Economy Enters the People, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Thailand
2021
The Ends of a Long Boom, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
2020
Look East Gone West, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2018
Sun, Sweat, Skirt, Fan, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Future Generation Art Prize 2021, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
Illiberal Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Stories Across Rising Lands, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia
Intermingling Flux, Guangzhou Image Triennial, China
2020
Escape Routes, Bangkok Art Biennale, Thailand
Who is Gazing?, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Solidarity Spores, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
2019
Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018
The Breathing of Maps, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan
Trade Markings, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Take Me (I’m Yours), Villa Médicis –Académie de France à Rome, Italy
2017
JIWA, Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia
Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial, Act II, Beirut, Lebanon
SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, The National Art Center, Tokyo, and Mori Art Museum, Japan
Fellowships and Residencies
2018
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Germany
2017
Tentacles Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
2016
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
Theaterformen, Braunschweig, Germany
2014
LUMA/Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland
2013
Tara Oceans Polar Circle Expedition