RUANG// Village gathers the people who contribute to the platform’s thinking and doing – writers, artists, curators, patrons, and allies whose involvement actively shapes how RUANG// works and engages with the world.
These are the people who write with us, edit alongside us, challenge ideas at the right moment, or step in when something needs to shift. What connects them is a shared commitment to deepening conversations and shaping conditions for meaningful impact within the Southeast Asian art context.
These are the people who write with us, edit alongside us, challenge ideas at the right moment, or step in when something needs to shift. What connects them is a shared commitment to deepening conversations and shaping conditions for meaningful impact within the Southeast Asian art context.
Annabelle Tan is an architect, urban designer and illustrator who is currently practising in Singapore. Her work explores city-making and its relation to socio-political systems, ranging from dominant regimes to everyday practices.
Visit Annabelle Tan Kai Lin page
Kenneth Wong See Huat is a Malaysian curator and writer whose practice engages queer ecology, cultural memory, and community-rooted storytelling across Asia. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Asian Cultural Council in New York (2025) and a board member of ICOMOS Malaysia.
Visit Kenneth Wong See Huat page
Jaron is Gallery Executive at iPRECIATION, a Singapore-based fine art gallery showcasing exquisite contemporary Asian art. He leads the gallery’s curatorial development and coordinates artwork acquisitions across established private and corporate institutions, as well as local and international collectors.
Visit Jaron Lua Jie Long page
Wency Mendes is a documentary filmmaker, artist, and independent researcher working across journalism, theatre, and immersive media. His practice engages with indigenous and tribal communities around land, water, and climate justice.
Visit Wency Mendes page
Chiara Serpani holds a Master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Milan, where she specialized in Critique of the Contemporary: Genealogies and Perspectives. Her work unfolds at the intersection of aesthetics, visual culture, and contemporary art, approached as a site of embodied and situated inquiry.
Visit Chiara Serpani page
Victoria Hertel is a German-Venezuelan artist, adjunct lecturer, and writer based in Singapore. Her slow-tech installations combine sensorial technologies, natural phenomena, and communication rituals to explore how ecological interconnectedness can become more perceptible and felt.
Visit Victoria Hertel page
Isa Pengskul is an artist whose practice explores how the agency of other things becomes palpable. Working across sculpture, installation, and participatory frameworks, she invites encounters with objects, materials, and environments as active presences rather than as backdrops to human existence.
Visit Isa Pengskul page
Elena Wise is an independent curator, writer, and weaver whose work bridges craft studies and contemporary art. In her research and curatorial practice, she is interested in how artists and institutions engage with craft techniques and cultural memory.
Visit Elena Wise page
Yu Ke Dong is a Singapore-based curator, art writer and researcher specialising in contemporary Southeast Asian art. Currently undertaking his fourth year in a double major in BA (Hons) English Literature and Art History at Nanyang Technological University.
Visit Yu Ke Dong pageRUANG// Journal publishes writing on Southeast Asian contemporary art with a focus on technology, ecology, indigenous knowledge, and the shifting cultural and political contexts of the region — but we also welcome other approaches that push conversations forward.
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