Art Worlds

By: Cleo Roberts-Komireddi
  • Summary

  • Art Worlds takes you on a journey to a multitude of countries — from Cambodia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, from India to Algeria — to help you forge a truly international perspective of the many thriving art worlds.


    In each episode artists, patrons, gallerists, museum directors, and curators transport us to their art world, throwing light on their unique context, and sharing their struggles and triumphs.


    The @artworldspodcast Instagram account has plenty more information, including articles and artworks.



    Written and hosted by Dr Cleo Roberts-Komireddi

    Produced by Phil Havard

    Design by Sthuthi Ramesh



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Episodes
  • Art Worlds: Singapore
    Feb 12 2025

    Xiaoyu Weng is a prolific and pioneering curator. From her early career working with Kadist to build their contemporary Asian art collection, to her time as an associate curator at the Guggenheim and then onto to leading the modern and contemporary art department at the Art Gallery of Ontario, she has developed interdisciplinary programming centred on new ways to conceive a globalised world and to consider its attendant challenges.


    Last year, Xiaoyu became the inaugural artistic director of the Tanoto Art Foundation. Based in Singapore and founded by Belinda Tanoto, the not for profit sees itself as a connector that will bring together Southeast Asia’s arts communities and nurture dialogues beyond. The Foundation has plans for a range of activities including exhibitions, international collaborations, research and publications. I spoke to Xiaoyu just after she had launched their first public symposium in a theatre at Singapore’s School of the Arts.




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    29 mins
  • Art Worlds: Singapore
    Jan 29 2025

    Episode 32 features Dawn Ng, an artist preoccupied with time, memory, nostalgia and the ephemeral. This has led her to develop a unique sculpting technique that deploys ice and pigment to create beguiling images across a breadth of mediums, including photography, film and painting. When translated into moving image, like in ‘The Earth is an Hourglass’ currently showing at 11th Asia Pacific Triennial, Dawn’s icy sculptural form gradually collapses into a river of colour. The process is captivating.


    Dawn’s works are focused on encouraging this type of slow looking. From large-scale installations at the National Gallery Singapore to a commission for the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, her work is characteristically poetic and elegant in its execution.


    Dawn joined me from her studio in Singapore and told me more about her industrial size walk-in freezers and her scientific spreadsheets.




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    23 mins
  • Art Worlds: Singapore
    Jan 15 2025

    Art Worlds returns for series 4! Joining me for episode 31 is Magnus Renfrew, the Co-Chairman and Global Director of The Art Assembly, an affiliation of three major international art fairs founded in the Asia Pacific region. This includes Singapore’s leading art fair, ART SG.


    Magnus launched the inaugural edition of ART SG in January 2023. He has deep expertise, he was founding director of Art Basel Hong Kong (2012-2014) - serving as one of three members of Art Basel’s global Executive Committee, and before that was founding director of the fair’s predecessor ART HK: Hong Kong International Art Fair (2007-2012). He is currently Chair of the Advisory Council for Para Site Art Space.


    In the run up to the fair opening its doors, Magnus spoke to me from his office in Taipei about the ins and outs of spearheading such an enterprise.




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    25 mins

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