Family of Real Estate Mogul Gives $15 Million to Singapore’s New National Gallery

Family of Real Estate Mogul Gives $15 Million to Singapore’s New National Gallery

The National Gallery Singapore has received a fifteen-million-dollar gift from the family of Singaporean real-estate magnate Ng Teng Fong, according to the Straits Times’ Deepika Shetty. The donation will help in research, curation, and exhibition, with a focus on outdoor commissions.

The Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery a thirty-two-thousand-square-foot area with a vertical green wall will be created in the late tycoon’s honor; the exhibition space will highlight a site-specific commission each year that “relates to the curatorial narratives of the museum’s collections,” writes Shetty. The first commission will be produced by Danh Vo, who represented Denmark in this year’s Venice Biennale.

Set to open on November 24, the new National Gallery is being billed as the biggest public display of modern Southeast Asian art in the world.