Matthew Ngui

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Matthew Ngui (* 1962 in Singapore ) is a Singaporean- Australian conceptual artist .

life and work

Matthew Ngui has taught in Australia at the art schools of the Australian National University , Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts . In Switzerland he taught at the École cantonale d'art du Valais . In 2011 he was director of the 3rd Singapore Biennale .

Ngui mainly works in the area of installation , video and performance . He also creates site-specific works.

Ngui showed two works at documenta X. Ngui had set up a brown chair in several places in the cultural station . “But in a passage on the ground floor, the chair disintegrates into a projection marked on the wall and on the floor. The three-dimensional object becomes a largely two-dimensional image. However, if they stand at the right point, the visitors can transform the image back into a solid-looking object. ”With the help of a system of tubes running through two floors, Ngui was able to order food in English or Chinese, which he prepared himself .

“Because art is always entangled in a larger game, it is able to concentrate on those very special smaller, but nevertheless interesting parts of culture (what could be outside of culture?) That are often overlooked because of their ubiquity. If they become the subject of analysis and visual investigation, one suddenly sees that they play a major role in the structure as an aesthetic form of expression, practical solution or representative of philosophical inclinations. Talking, arguing, cooking, seeing, exploring, resting and existing are the stuff my work is made of. "

- Matthew Ngui

In 2007 a retrospective took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney , which gives the visitor an overview of two decades of his work.

Exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Arts Council Singapore Biennale Profile of Artistic Director Matthew Ngui , accessed on December 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Universes Matthew Ngui, Artistic Director, accessed December 26, 2018
  3. ↑ Dirk Schwarze Matthew Ngui , accessed December 26, 2018.
  4. ^ Documenta X short guide / Kurzführer Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8 , page 166/167
personal data
SURNAME Ngui, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Singaporean-Australian conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore