Every first Saturday of the month, join a member of the curatorial team in the gallery for a free guided tour of esea contemporary’s exhibition 'Marcos Kueh: Smooth Sailing, 一路順風.' The dates of the tours are as follows:
The 30-minute tour will provide an in-depth walk through for the exhibition, and there will be opportunities for questions and discussions. Attendance is free and booking is not required.
The gallery’s access information is available here.
Free exhibition tours are available for schools, universities and other community groups. We also offer tailored tours per request. Please email hello@eseacontemporary.org with at least two weeks’ notice to find out more about scheduling a group visit.
Please consider making a donation for free events. esea contemporary is a registered charity and your support will help us with our mission to create a more equal, diverse, and inclusive environment for our local and global audiences.
Marcos Kueh is an artist from Sarawak, Borneo Malaysia, currently living and working in the Netherlands. His practice centres on textiles as a medium for storytelling, drawing from Borneo’s ancestral weaving traditions to explore themes of identity, labour, and globalisation.
Growing up in a post-colonial developing country, Kueh has long been engaged with questions of identity and how Malaysia is perceived – whether through colonial depictions in museums or stylised narratives in tourism advertising. His work seeks to reconcile these representations with his lived experience growing up in Borneo, navigating the pressures of modernity and globalisation. He uses weaving to encode contemporary legends from everyday life, just as the ancestors of Borneo did with their dreams and stories before the arrival of written alphabets from the West.
Kueh holds a Bachelor’s in Graphic and Textile Design from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, completed in 2022. That same year, he was awarded the Ron Mandos Young Blood Award, and in 2023 he was named Young Designer of the Year by the Dutch Design Awards. His works are held in the collections of Museum Voorlinden and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include Manifesta 15 in Barcelona; Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam; The Backroom, Kuala Lumpur; and the National Art Gallery Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur.
