NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore


NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore is a national research centre affiliated with Nanyang Technological University.
NTU CCA Singapore is located in Gillman Barracks, a visual arts precinct in Singapore, and is spread out across four buildings: the exhibition hall at Block 43 Malan Road, artist studios at Block 38 and 37 Malan Road, and the research centre and main office at Block 6 Lock Road. Set up in 2013, the Centre is currently headed by Founding Director Ute Meta Bauer, who is also Professor at NTU's School of Art, Design and Media.
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History

Initially set up as the Centre for Contemporary Art in October 2013, it became operational more than a year after Gillman Barracks was officially launched on 15 September 2012. In 2014, it announced its artist residency programme, with its inaugural batch of residents consisting of Singaporeans Charles Lim, Ana Prvacki and Lee Wen, as well as Sam Durant, Tiffany Chung, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor. The Centre was also credited for "rais the game" in Gillman Barracks by hosting the touring exhibition of the Guggenheim’s collection of South and Southeast Asian contemporary art in 2014, reviving flagging visitor numbers to the gallery precinct. The Centre's Public Resource Centre—a library with a focus on Southeast Asian contemporary art—and Artist Resource Platform were set up in 2015. In April 2017, the Centre was added to the editorial team of Afterall journal.

Exhibitions

2017: Ulrike Ottinger: China. The Arts – The People, Photographs and Films from the 1980s and 1990s
2017: The Making of an Institution
2016: Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts of Critical Spatial Practice
2016: Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest, in collaboration with Sudhir Pattnaik/Samadrusti and Sherna Dastur
2016: Charles Lim Yi Yong: SEA STATE
2016: Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word
2015: Tomás Saraceno: Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions
2015: Allan Sekula: Fish Story, to be continued
2015: Simryn Gill: Hugging the Shore
2014–5: Yang Fudong: Incidental Scripts
2014: Theatrical Fields
2014: No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia
2014: The Disappearance
2014: Paradise Lost