Curatorial Roundtable | Pop after Pop: Art around Us
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Curatorial Roundtable | Pop after Pop: Art around Us
Sat 12 Dec | 2 - 3.30pm | The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Level B1, City Hall Wing, National Gallery Singapore | S$5 (Standard), S$2 (Concession), registration required: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/sg/en/talks/Curatorial-Roundtable-Pop-after-Pop-Art-around-Us.html
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"Pop after Pop: Art Around Us" brings together celebrated works from the Pop Art movement and key artworks from Southeast Asia, presenting new perspectives about one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th century.
While acknowledging how the global Pop Art movement originated in Britain and quickly flourished in the United States, the exhibition explores how the movement circulated transnationally. Southeast Asian artists inflected familiar imagery drawn from mass media, advertising and life in their cities to address their own political realities, social changes and cultural contexts. By doing so, they actively reinterpreted the vocabulary of Pop by turning to Southeast Asian popular and vernacular culture in their practice.
In this curatorial roundtable, exhibition curators Dr Patrick Flores, Joleen Loh, and Alexis Chen will be joined by Joan Young (Senior Director, Curatorial Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York) to unpack the curatorial process behind the exhibition and institutional partnership. The conversation will consider diverse artistic responses to Pop, and reflect on the movement’s continuing global relevance.
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About the Speakers
Dr Patrick Flores is Chief Curator of National Gallery Singapore. He is the Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999. Among his publications are "Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art" (1999); "Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia" (2008); "Art After War: 1948-1969" (2015); "Raymundo Albano: Texts" (2017) and "Philippine Figurine: Image, Ornament, Art" (2026). He co-edited "The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader" with T. K. Sabapathy (2022). He was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. He was the Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019 and Curator of the Philippine and Taiwan Pavilions at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2022. His work focuses on the art and curatorial history of Southeast Asia and Philippine colonial and modern art history.
Joan Young serves as Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Guggenheim New York where she provides oversight of the curatorial department and organizes exhibitions of postwar and contemporary art. Recent projects include "Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped" (Guggenheim New York, 2025-26), "Signs and Objects: Pop Art from the Guggenheim Collection" (co-curated with Lauren Hinkson for Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2024), and "Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction" (Guggenheim New York, 2022).
Joleen Loh is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. Her research engages with postwar and contemporary art from Singapore and Southeast Asia, focusing on the transnational circulation of art and ideas, gender, and women’s artistic practices. Her recent projects include "Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise" (2026), "Singapore Stories: Pathways and Detours in Art" (2024) and "Kim Lim: The Space Between. A Retrospective" (2024).
Alexis Chen is Assistant Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She is one of the curators for "Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" (2025–2026), and supported the exhibitions "Figuring a Scene" (2024–2025), "Fernando Zóbel: Order is Essential" (2025), as well as the travelling exhibition "Georgette Chen: At Home in the World" held at Shenzhen’s He Xiangning Art Museum (2025). Formerly, she was a cataloguer at Christie’s Singapore. In 2025, her exhibition review of the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art was published on Contemporary Art Issue. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Yale-NUS College.
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Sat 12 Dec | 2 - 3.30pm | The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Level B1, City Hall Wing, National Gallery Singapore | S$5 (Standard), S$2 (Concession), registration required: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/sg/en/talks/Curatorial-Roundtable-Pop-after-Pop-Art-around-Us.html
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"Pop after Pop: Art Around Us" brings together celebrated works from the Pop Art movement and key artworks from Southeast Asia, presenting new perspectives about one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th century.
While acknowledging how the global Pop Art movement originated in Britain and quickly flourished in the United States, the exhibition explores how the movement circulated transnationally. Southeast Asian artists inflected familiar imagery drawn from mass media, advertising and life in their cities to address their own political realities, social changes and cultural contexts. By doing so, they actively reinterpreted the vocabulary of Pop by turning to Southeast Asian popular and vernacular culture in their practice.
In this curatorial roundtable, exhibition curators Dr Patrick Flores, Joleen Loh, and Alexis Chen will be joined by Joan Young (Senior Director, Curatorial Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York) to unpack the curatorial process behind the exhibition and institutional partnership. The conversation will consider diverse artistic responses to Pop, and reflect on the movement’s continuing global relevance.
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About the Speakers
Dr Patrick Flores is Chief Curator of National Gallery Singapore. He is the Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999. Among his publications are "Painting History: Revisions in Philippine Colonial Art" (1999); "Past Peripheral: Curation in Southeast Asia" (2008); "Art After War: 1948-1969" (2015); "Raymundo Albano: Texts" (2017) and "Philippine Figurine: Image, Ornament, Art" (2026). He co-edited "The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader" with T. K. Sabapathy (2022). He was a Guest Scholar of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2014. He was the Artistic Director of Singapore Biennale 2019 and Curator of the Philippine and Taiwan Pavilions at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2022. His work focuses on the art and curatorial history of Southeast Asia and Philippine colonial and modern art history.
Joan Young serves as Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Guggenheim New York where she provides oversight of the curatorial department and organizes exhibitions of postwar and contemporary art. Recent projects include "Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped" (Guggenheim New York, 2025-26), "Signs and Objects: Pop Art from the Guggenheim Collection" (co-curated with Lauren Hinkson for Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2024), and "Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction" (Guggenheim New York, 2022).
Joleen Loh is Curator at National Gallery Singapore. Her research engages with postwar and contemporary art from Singapore and Southeast Asia, focusing on the transnational circulation of art and ideas, gender, and women’s artistic practices. Her recent projects include "Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise" (2026), "Singapore Stories: Pathways and Detours in Art" (2024) and "Kim Lim: The Space Between. A Retrospective" (2024).
Alexis Chen is Assistant Curator at National Gallery Singapore. She is one of the curators for "Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" (2025–2026), and supported the exhibitions "Figuring a Scene" (2024–2025), "Fernando Zóbel: Order is Essential" (2025), as well as the travelling exhibition "Georgette Chen: At Home in the World" held at Shenzhen’s He Xiangning Art Museum (2025). Formerly, she was a cataloguer at Christie’s Singapore. In 2025, her exhibition review of the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art was published on Contemporary Art Issue. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Yale-NUS College.
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