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On this special tour, exhibition co-curator Joleen Loh will share insights on the compelling Singapore-born artist Kim Lim. Sign up now—limited places available!

* DO NOTE: While the tour itself is free of charge, Gallery Passes (i.e. tickets) are needed to enter the exhibition. These can be purchased at Self-Service Kiosks located around the building or at tickets.nationalgallery.sg.

** If you have any access needs, please email curatorialprogrammes@nationalgallery.sg.

*** For Gallery Insiders, please also email curatorialprogrammes@nationalgallery.sg to sign up for the tour directly.

 

  • When: 25 Jan 2025 | 2pm
  • Suitable For: Adults, Families, Visitors 65 and above, Visitors with accessibility needs, Students and Educators
  • Where: Level 3, Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery 3, City Hall Wing
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About the exhibition

As part of National Gallery Singapore’s SG Artist series, Kim Lim: The Space Between. A Retrospective marks the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Singapore-born British artist Kim Lim. Once overlooked, this exhibition acknowledges Lim’s profound impact by tracing the evolution of her practice over four decades, highlighting her unique approach to Minimalism, influenced by material cultures across her travels.

Featuring key sculptures and prints spanning her career, along with maquettes, previously unseen photographs and archival materials, the exhibition reveals how Lim’s cultural in-betweenness shaped her artistic style and her resistance to the pressures of identity labels. Discover how she masterfully balanced space, light and rhythm through the power of suggestion and metaphor, creating works of profound subtlety and depth.

Kim Lim: The Space Between. A Retrospective runs from 27 September 2024 to 2 February 2025 at the National Gallery Singapore's Singtel Special Exhibition Galleries 2 & 3.

About the artist

The Singapore-born British artist Kim Lim (1936–1997) devoted over four decades to abstract sculpture and printmaking. In 1954, Lim left Singapore for London to study art at the St. Martin’s School of Fine Art and later the Slade School of Fine Art. During her student years, Lim’s works were characterised by the use of wood and industrial materials. After her first retrospective exhibition in 1979, Lim returned to carving in stone.

Throughout her career, Lim pursued printmaking and drawing in tandem with her sculptural work, moving between these mediums with material and technical deftness. Although works from both periods have different aesthetic sensibilities, they are connected by her enduring interest in the qualities of light, space and rhythm.