HO Rui An

Ho Rui An (b.1990, Singapore) is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Across the mediums of lecture, essay and film, his research examines systems of governance in a global age.

  • Selected Solo Exhibitions

    2024
    Post-Production Fever, A+ Works of Art, Singapore

    2022
    The Economy Enters the People, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

    2021
    The Ends of a Long Boom, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

    2020
    Look East Gone West, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    2018
    Sun, Sweat, Skirt, Fan, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada

  • Selected Groups Exhibitions

    2024
    At the Edge of Land, Jameel Art Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    A Constellation of Cities: Contemporary Art and Experiment in Southern China and Beyond, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
    Factory of Tomorrow, Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile, Hong Kong
    Reminder: Version Update Available, Magician Space, Beijing, China

    2023
    Drawing the Lines, Spinning Time: Textile Histories at a River’s End, Duke Kunshan University, China
    At the Edge of Land, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
    Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema, Shanghai, China
    Drawing the Lines: Spinning and Weaving Histories at River’s End, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Living a Performance Artist’s Life, MadeIn Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Illiberal Lives, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
    Evil Eye: The Parallel History of Optics and Ballistics, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián, Spain

    2022
    Ob/Scene Festival, Seoul, South Korea
    Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
    Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art: Being Theoria, China
    Liquid Ground, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art Dune, Baidaihe, China
    Fotofest Biennial: If I Had a Hammer, Houston, USA
    Where is my karaoke? Still, we sing, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Germany
    Lonely Vectors, Singapore Art Museum
    Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled, Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile, Hong Kong

    2021
    The Pineal Eye, Goethe-Institut Peking, China
    PerForm: Ho Rui An & Shubigi Rao, T:>Works, Singapore
    The Phenomenal Transition, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, South Korea
    System Down? State of Affairs, Klemms, Berlin, Germany
    Future Generation Art Prize 2021, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
    As We Were: Selections from the Michelangelo and Lourdes Samson Collection, ArtSpace@Helutrans, Singapore
    Illiberal Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
    Liquid Ground, Para Site, Hong Kong
    Total Landscaping, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    Guangzhou Image Triennial: Intermingling Flux, China
    Stories Across Rising Lands, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia

    2020
    Bangkok Art Biennale: Escape Routes, Thailand
    Ob/Scene Festival, Seoul, South Korea
    Who is Gazing?, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
    Diagonal, Magician Space, Beijing, China
    Back to Art, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Solidarity Spores, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea

    2019
    As the West Slept, Silver Art Projects, New York, USA
    BOOCHOA, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
    Factories, Machines, and the Poet’s Words: Echoes of the Realities in Art, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
    Asian Art Biennial: The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea, Taichung, Taiwan
    Fieldwork, PHOTOFAIRS | Insights, Shanghai, China
    Deep Sounding – History As Multiple Narratives, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
    Chinafrika. under construction, Kunstraum des Konfuzius-Instituts Nürnberg-Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany
    SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
    Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    State of Motion 2019: A Fear of Monsters, Asian Film Archive, Singapore

    2018
    The Breathing of Maps, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan
    Shine on Me, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany
    UnAuthorised Medium, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders, South Korea
    Building Code Violations III – Special Economic Zone, Long March Space, Beijing, China
    Two houses: Politics and histories in the contemporary art collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
    Yinchuan Biennale: Starting from the Desert: Ecologies on the Edge, China
    This Site is Under Revolution, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
    Outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity, bitforms gallery, New York, USA
    Take Me (I’m Yours), Villa Médicis – Académie de France à Rome, Italy
    Omnipresence, The Kitchen, New York, USA
    Trade Markings, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    2017
    Box with the Sound of Its Own Making, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest, Romania
    Jakarta Biennale: JIWA, Indonesia
    Take Me (I’m Yours), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
    Sharjah Biennial: Tamawuj, Act II, Beirut, Lebanon
    Invisible Cities, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Contemporary and the Moving Image Archive for Contemporary Art (Hong Kong), Dallas, USA
    SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, The National Art Center, Tokyo, and Mori Art Museum, Japan
    The Conundrum of Imagination: On the Paradigm of Exploration and Discovery, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
    Modes of Liaisons, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand
    A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at, Beijing Commune, China
    Almost There, Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila, The Philippines
    The Making of an Institution, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

    2016
    From Bandung to Berlin: If all the moons aligned, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
    Public Spirits, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
    Qidian, Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Trans-Pacific Transmissions: Video Art Across the Pacific, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada
    Frontier Imaginaries: The Life of Lines, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

    2015
    Filter Bubble, LUMA/Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland
    What It Is About When It Is About Nothing, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
    A Luxury We Cannot Afford, Para Site, Hong Kong
    Take Me (I’m Yours), Monnaie de Paris, France
    On Sweat, Paper, and Porcelain, Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

    2014
    Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Whorled Explorations, Kochi, India
    Countershadows: tactics in evasion, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
    Fieldworks: Animal Habitats in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
    The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part of Something Else, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Poetry will be made by all!, LUMA/Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland

    2013
    Tara’s 10 Years – Views of 20 Artists, agnès b. Headquarters, Paris, France

    2012
    Someone Singing Like Calling Your Name, Saamlung Gallery, Hong Kong