ART SG SINGAPORE 2025

Jan Robert Leegte is one of the first Dutch artists to work on and for the Internet since the 1990s. In 2002, he shifted his main focus to implementing digital materials in the context of the physical gallery space, aiming to bridge the online art world with the gallery art world, making prints, sculpture, installations, drawings, and projections, connecting to historical movements like land art, minimalism, performance art, and conceptualism.

As an artist Leegte explores the position of the new materials put forward by the (networked) computer. Photoshop selection marquees, scrollbars, Google Maps, code, and software are dissected to understand their ontological nature. The networked computer is the central muse in my work, exploring all its wonders and peculiarities. “I don't use software to make art, I make art about software”.

Jonas Lund (b. 1984) is a Swedish artist that creates works that critically reflects on contemporary networked systems and technological innovations. 

 Lund creates paintings, sculptures, photography, websites and performances that critically reflect contemporary networked systems and power structures of control. His artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that oftentimes require engagement from the viewer. This results in performative artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. Through his works, Lund investigates the latest issues generated by the increasing digitalisation of contemporary society like authorship, participation and distribution of agency. At the same time, he questions the mechanisms of the art world; he challenges the production process, authoritative power and art market practices.

CROSSLUCID is an artist collective (est. 2018)  that engages in highly collaborative cross-disciplinary projects in co-evolution with technology. 

Their work and research converges around the exploration of the self as a network; intimacy and the potential for pleasurable actualization through the digital sphere, and the re-imagination of our alliances with technology seen as part of a sympoietic biosphere and universal post-material consciousness.

Through explorations spanning filmmaking, poetic Artificial Intelligence, multi-layered techniques of collage, assemblage and experience-led interventions they create scenarios and build experiential formats that instigate prototyping and rehearsing potential futures and progressing metamodern values.

Current and recent selected exhibitions include:  MetaCity at Shanghai Architecture Biennale (CN), Vellum LA (US), EPOCH.Gallery, The Osaka Museum of Fine Arts (JP), Francisco Carolinum Linz (AU)  iMAL (BEL), Expanded.Art (DE), Art Encounters Biennial (RO), MuseumsQuartier Wien (AT), Belvedere 21 (AT), arebyte London (UK), Chronus Art Center Shanghai (CN), FMAV (IT), AI Biennial (DE), NOWNESS, Office Impart (DE), wrong biennial, Garage Rotterdam (NL), HOFA (UK), Art Basel Miami, (US)

Their work has been commissioned by Berggruen Institute & Future Humans (US), Serpentine Gallery (UK), LAS Art Foundation (DE), CADAF, Google Arts&Culture, ARD Culture (DE), Hypebeast, Labelhood (CN), MetaMedia (CN), Nike (CN), PHI Center (CA), Selfridges (UK), Snap Inc (US), VAN HAM (DE) and Universal (US) amongst others and published internationally.

Currently, they are working on their first full length sci-fi documentary 'Translucid' and Osmotic AI, a tool for practitioners for communal healing, both in co-creation with commercial and self-trained AI systems.