4 September 2025 , 8 PM SGT | Zoom | Free with registration
Join us for an online conversation with artist Aki Hassan, gallerist Audrey Yeo, and art patron Roopa Dewan, moderated by art writer and editor Yvonne Wang. This intimate talk explores the evolving relationship between emerging artists and galleries, the importance of institutional support, and how global visibility is cultivated through collaboration.
Featuring exclusive footage from Liste Art Fair Basel 2025, the session offers rare insight into Hassan’s artistic journey and reflections on sustaining a practice within today’s contemporary art landscape.
Aki Hassan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Singapore. Their work navigates themes of identity, support structures, and repair, often expressed through delicate sculptural forms and drawing. As one of Singapore’s most compelling emerging voices, Hassan’s practice continues to gain international attention, including recent participation in Liste Art Fair Basel 2025.
About the speakers:
Yvonne Wang is an art writer and the Singapore desk editor for ArtAsiaPacific. She regularly contributes to leading international art publications and collaborates with art platforms to develop curated content. Alongside her editorial work, Yvonne is a seasoned communications advisor with extensive global experience across the arts, culture, and hospitality sectors. She also actively supports art institutions across the Asia-Pacific, with a focus on fostering cross-cultural dialogue.
Dr Roopa Dewan is a Singapore-based educator, museum docent, and art patron. Over a distinguished career teaching literature, language, and global issues and has also spearheaded numerous acclaimed educational initiatives. Roopa remains active in education through foundations that deliver programmes and scholarships for underprivileged children. A long-time docent with STPI and National Gallery Singapore, she has helped write and implement education outreach programmes, and contributes regularly to the editing of exhibition catalogues and related publications. Together with her husband, Shiv, she is an active collector of works by both emerging and established artists from Southeast Asia, and supports arts and arts-education initiatives locally and beyond, in particular the recent stART program (Strength through Art) at the National Gallery for enhancing the mental and emotional wellbeing of adolescents.
Audrey Yeo is the Founder and Director of Yeo Workshop, a contemporary art gallery based in Gillman Barracks founded in 2013. She has also been instrumental in the launch of several noteworthy local platforms including S.E.A Focus art fair as the former Project Director in 2019, and the Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize for Southeast Asian digital artists. She is also the President of the Art Galleries Association Singapore (AGAS), a network of members comprising art galleries with a mission to enhance art appreciation in Singapore and lobby for arts business with government.
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