Kwai Fung Hin is proud to announce its first overseas outpost in Singapore, a significant milestone in the gallery’s international program. Located at South Beach, the new gallery will be inaugurated with a significant exhibition titled “Worlds beyond Reality – Monet’s Legacy II”, featuring an 1887 masterpiece Pivoines (Peonies) by Claude Monet alongside works by prominent modern and contemporary artists, namely, Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun, Lalan, Li Huayi, Teo Eng Seng, Xue Song, Ziad Dalloul and Shara Hughes.
Framed within Monet’s beloved garden at Giverny, this exhibition delves into the interplay between place and artistic inspiration, nature and culture, through the enduring legacy of the impressionist. Drawing analogy between Giverny as a fertile ground for creative breakthroughs and Singapore as a garden city characterized by lush urban greenery intertwining with multicultural influences, this exhibition also serves as the gallery’s visual vision statement to become a cultural hub that plants the seed for future artistic discourse, fostering exchanges that bridge historical legacies with contemporary sensibilities.
Taking viewers on a stroll through Monet’s garden in Giverny and the personal gardens of eight artists across generations and geographies, this exhibition explores their representations of nature in relation to their cultural milieus and lived experiences, revealing the close relationship between place and artistic inspiration. Taking Monet’s deliberate cultivation of his garden in Giverny as a point of departure, it presents the garden as a dynamic site where nature and culture interact, a composed landscape that reflects a spectrum of human emotion, memory and inner vision.
Standing in dialogue with Monet, the modern and contemporary artists featured in this exhibition expand this garden metaphor with their diverse approaches and discerning ways of seeing born out of their profound artistic cultivations. In capturing the fleeting beauty of nature, they also reveal the spiritual, philosophical and psychological realms beyond the surface of perception.
Venue: Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery Singapore, 30 Beach Road, #01-01, Singapore 189763
When: 21 Jan - 28 Mar 2026, Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 7pm
