Curated Encounters: City Hall - Session 2

​This tour is led by artist and curator Daniel Chong. Explore how galleries sit in the heart of the city through immersive installations and a diverse range of sculptural practices. Beginning at LOY Contemporary Art Gallery on Armenian Street. Join Akai Chew in experiencing his solo presentation Fragment of a Story, an immersive installation. Presented in conjunction with the Singapore Night Festival, it draws inspiration from the Malay Annals, the exhibition reinterprets historical narratives through a contemporary installation. The trail continues with a short walk to Ode to Art, with a dynamic presentation of international sculptors and installation artists. Distilled into the practices of Patrick Rubenstein, Paul Russo, Lee Gil Rae and Adi Gunawan. Learn how their practices scale from a collectors’ home to monumental placemaking public artworks.

​LOY Contemporary Art Gallery: https://www.loygallery.com/

​Ode to Art: https://www.odetoart.com/

​*This programme involves light walking, with short outdoor stretches between gallery venues.

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​About Daniel Chong

​Daniel Chong (b. 1995, Singapore) is an artist-curator whose curatorial approach grows from the curiosities within his artistic practice. His projects are often sit outside institutional exhibitions and span unconventional spaces. He was awarded the Curator Open Call award by Objectifs in 2022 which culminated in an exhibition Sugar pills for a bitter world. He has curated exhibitions such as Exposure_Exposure (2026) an outdoor exhibition outside of Objectif, Bad Imitation (2022) at Tanjong Pagar Distri-park. As well as looser frameworks such as Stranger(’s) Touch (2022), an art project under the guise of a beauty brand. Continuing his exploration of unconventional spaces, he is currently curating a project at Golden Mile Tower and producing an exhibition at Bras Basah Complex.