Saint Sebastian Day Talk
With Artist in Residence: ming wong
Free
Spaces are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please arrive in good time to access the building and find the meeting point in Central Hall.
About
Explore the story of Saint Sebastian on a guided tour through the Gallery led by our 2025 National Gallery Artist in Residence, ming wong. His new artwork, Dance of the sun on the water | Saltatio solis in aqua, is based on the story of the martyr and inspired by the 14 depictions found across the Gallery’s collection.
ming wong
ming wong (b. 1971, Singapore) lives and works in Berlin. His work contends with cinema and popular culture to consider how identity is constructed, reproduced and circulated. Through imperfect translations and reenactments of classic world cinema in which the artist plays all of the characters, wong’s videos, photographs, installations, and performances uncover the slippages that haunt ideas of ‘authenticity’ and ‘originality’.
Recent exhibitions include ‘AUUUUDITORIUM’, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2024); ‘Signals: How Video Transformed The World’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023); ‘Pier Paolo Pasolini: Tutto è santo. The political body’, MAXXI, Rome (2022); ‘Wayang Spaceship’, Singapore Art Museum (2022). ming wong has participated in the Biennale of Sydney (2024); Aichi Triennale (2022); Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021); Dakar Biennale (2019); Dhaka Art Summit (2018). His recent performance piece ‘Rhapsody in Yellow’ has been seen at steirischer herbst, Graz (2022); Berliner Festspiele (2023), SpielArt Festival, Munich (2023), Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, Hannover (2024) and the Esplanade Singapore (2024). He represented Singapore at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) with his solo exhibition ‘Life of Imitation’, which was awarded a Special Mention. His work ‘Life of Imitation’ is currently on display at Tate Modern.