Sculpture 2052

The First Wave of The Open City runs until 14 February. Feel free to drop us a message when you’re planning your visit.

The First Wave of the Open City is a post-residency project exploring unknown factors through the random stimulation of daily encounters both in Paris and Singapore. It started when Yeo Chee Kiong and Tan Yen Peng were in residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

The keywords ‘roaming’ and ‘real time’ identified during the initial research period aim for a deeper approach to contemporary art beyond the simple transference of physical artworks into digital formats.

The Open City Project will be presented through Online Roaming and Onsite Roaming, inviting participants to engage with the city through tactile, visual, and embodied experiences, through a transcendental field of 3D printing and virtual world building that reintegrates classical and digital art forms in our time.

Please book your appointment to visit; info in bio!

Artist Talk
28 Jan 2026, Wed 7pm to 9pm
📍 Sculpture 2052

About the Talk
The First Wave of the Open City examines how classical art forms—such as sculpture, drawing, and archival photography—are recontextualised through digital innovation. The talk shares artistic perspectives developed through field-based research conducted in Singapore and Paris, framed by two guiding concepts: Roaming and Real Time.

These approaches reflect an open and responsive mode of research shaped by daily encounters, chance observations, and spontaneous interactions within urban environments. Through this process, unexpected narratives and new artistic forms emerge, offering alternative ways of understanding and engaging with the city.

📲 Scan the QR code to register by 23 January 2026, 2.00 pm.

Presented as part of Singapore Art Week 2026, the First Wave of The Open City brings together contemporary artistic practices that engage public life and shared environments. The keywords ‘roaming’ and ‘real time’ identified during the initial research period aim for a deeper approach to contemporary art beyond the simple transference of physical artworks into digital formats.

14 Jan – 14 Feb 2026, Sculpture 2052
Please book your appointment to visit; info in bio!

With the support of the National Arts Council (NAC) , Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)

✨ We are officially open! ✨

We had an incredible afternoon celebrating the launch of ‘Being Human: Forging Fields of Experience’, a solo exhibition by Taiwanese sculptor Liu Po-Chun. The energy was electric as we welcomed guests to Art Space @ Helutrans to experience these powerful works.

A heartfelt thank you to our Guest of Honour, Professor Kwok Kian Woon, for his insightful opening address. We are immensely grateful to our brilliant artist Liu Po-Chun and curator Dr. Susie Lingham for sharing their vision with us in a fascinating dialogue.

This exhibition was made possible with the proud support of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture through its 'Taiwan Content Plan' (文化黑潮計畫).

To everyone who joined us, thank you for making this opening so memorable. For those who missed the opening, the exhibition is open to the public from now until 30 Nov. Come experience these magnificent works yourself!

Sculpture 2052 is missioned to champion the art of sculpture, preserving its distinct voice for our time while building a dialogue for future generations. This exhibition is a proud moment for us, representing the kind of powerful, international conversation we strive to foster.

Sculpture 2052 Helutrans Arts Space Yeo Chee Kiong

Being Human: Forging Fields of Experience
Sculptor: Liu Po-Chun
Writer/Curator: Dr Susie Lingham
Organized by: SCULPTURE 2052

Show Venue: Art Space @ Helutrans, Singapore
Show Period: 31st Oct 2025 (Friday) - 30th Nov 2025 (Sunday)
9 am - 6 pm (Daily)

Official Opening:

2 pm, 1st NOV 2025 (Saturday)
Guest-of-honor: Prof Kwok Kian Woon

2:30 pm: Curator speech + dialogue with artist
Speaker: Prof Liu Po-Chun, Dr Susie Lingham
Moderator: Tan Yen Peng

Artist Talk:
6:30 pm - 8 pm, 29th OCT 2025 (Wednesday)
"Archaeology and Contemporary Iron Art: Liu Bo-Chun 2022 @ Thirteen Hong Museum, Taipei*"

Curatorial brief:
How would a sculptor embody “conscience” and “respect for others” as qualities of power and strength within the individual human mind? How does the phenomenological represent the psychological? Sculpture as a discipline, despite paradigmatic shifts in perspectives on what could constitute art, remains a deep engagement with material and formal truths. Apprenticed to his chosen medium, the sculptor and chosen medium mutually condition each other within projected possibilities and stretching of perceived limits.

https://sculpture2052.com/being-human-2025

With the sculptor Liu Po-Chun, this wrestle becomes physically acute when the chosen material is recycled industrial steel. The conceptual dimension is forged in the physical process, wrested from this process, claimed as part of phenomenological reality: a test of, and a desire for a steely demonstration, and representation, of strength, while necessarily acknowledging frailty, anxiety, self-doubt. This wrestle is a commitment to being human, yielding to the challenges of the material, which demands honesty – and compromise – from the sculptor. For Liu, the hand-forged object is emotionally powerful, and a kind of transmutation takes place: century-old objects, once useful, memoried, are smelted down to fluid materiality, and re-membered. Agency, and mediumship, forged amidst doubt and anxiety: sculpture lays down being as ground, and claims ground for being.

《作为人：经验场域的锻造》是由新加坡本地艺术空间雕塑2052所呈现的海外杰出雕塑家，刘柏村教授的巨型雕塑装置。策展人为前新加坡美术馆馆长Dr Susie Lingham ，将於丹戎巴葛艺术园区Helutrans Art Space隆重登场。诚邀各位艺术界好友参与十月二十九日的艺术家讲座（南洋艺术学院）和十一月一日的展出开幕式，开幕主宾：郭建文教授（新加坡艺术大学校长）， 以下为展览简介和网页链接：
https://sculpture2052.com/being-human-2025
在《作为人》这档展览中，刘柏村的雷射切割铁人轮廓，是从制式的工业钢板上裁切而下。它们每一个都能像一长串的剪纸人形般密集地聚拢或被拉开。一旦拉伸后它们便成为一条可变形的链状体，刘柏村借此在空间中塑造出不同的量体，透过压缩或扩张，创造出密度、纹理以及更宏大的连结——最终呈现为一种雕塑的「风景」。在宛如钢铁般的展示中，刘柏村的雕塑欲望不断测试着自我的表现力量，直接面对内心的脆弱、焦虑与自我怀疑。这种内在角力体现了一种 “作为人” 的承诺：坦诚并尊重材料的原始样貌，同时对应其中存在的挑战。将那些钢材原初机件造形的印记，化为铁人的形象，犹如机械残影的再现。