Kent Chan, Weather Casting, 2025, concept image. Courtesy the artist.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s (NTU Singapore) Centre for Contemporary Art (NTU CCA Singapore) will be presenting Amsterdam-based artist Kent Chan’s first solo exhibition in his home country since 2019, in a series of artworks that examine the impact of global warming on the planet.
Kent Chan. Three Acts of the Sun captures a significant chapter of Chan’s artistic trajectory, focusing on the growing entanglement of the artist’s tropical imaginaries with the escalation of the climate crisis in recent years. Featuring a newly commissioned film, performance, and print series alongside a selection of recent works, Three Acts of the Sun gathers speculative visions on the future of our planet.
The exhibition serves as a portal into the speculative climate futures conjured by the artist, transporting the public into possible worlds ahead where the tales and the songs of our descendants reveal stories of human life as it unfolds on a heated planet.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is the new moving-image work, Weather Casting. Conflating prediction and actualisation, weather lore and techno-agency, divination and doom, the film builds upon the evolution of human relations to the weather from a history of reverence, adaptation, and survival towards one of technologically empowered intervention addressing our rising ambitions for an engineerable Earth. Weather Casting delves in radical shift from forecasting the weather to casting weather into reality through geoengineering, large-scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system.
Venue: The Hall, NTU CCA Singapore
When: 18 Jan - 1 Feb 2026,
By: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA Singapore)
