Exhibitions

Sementara: Ahmad Zakii Anwar
Memory’s Landscape
Not Just In Black And White

About the Collection
Contact Us


©2024–2026 Steve Wong Art Collection
NEW EXHIBITION

Sementara: Ahmad Zakii Anwar


From the Steve Wong Art Collection



“What we encounter is always, in some way, already in the state of becoming something else.”

GDP Architects and the Steve Wong Art Collection proudly present Sementara: Ahmad Zakii Anwar from the Steve Wong Art Collection. Curated and designed by R+, Sementara is showing from 11 October 2026 to 10 January 2027 at GDP Campus. 

The exhibition brings together 75 of Zakii’s realist artworks — from acrylics, oils, charcoals, sketches and prints — ranging from 1995 until 2013 in a long-overdue retrospective. 

His works begin with looking intently. Across a decades-long practice that moves between still life, the human figure, animals and the city, Zakii has returned to subjects both ordinary and familiar — executed with a realism for which he has become unmistakably known. Despite all of their technical precision, his paintings do not seek a definitive answer. They ask us instead to take notice of what we usually disregard, and to reconsider what we think we already know.
11 October 2026 –  10 January 2027
GDP Campus
No. 79, Jalan Setiabakti, Bukit Damansara,
50490 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


12pm – 8pm, Wednesday – Friday
10am – 6pm, Saturday, Sunday

Purchase Tickets
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

Memory’s Landscape


Works from the Steve Wong Art Collection



16 May – 2 August 2026“And while memory itself is not a place, it is always situated within one — landscapes.”

Memory, and the act of remembering, is never straightforward. It is both active and passive, straddling the spectrum between the vague and the clear. A memory recollected is born out of negotiations of what we choose to store or omit, reconstructing compositions of truths and half-truths. Yet memory itself is not a place. Landscapes therefore give memory an anchor — a foreground, a background, and everything in between — ranging from scenes of retraced certainty and clarity, to messy and muddled impressions. 
Full details

Installation views, Memory's Landscape at GDP Campus, 16 May – 2 August 2026. Photos by Adaptus Design System

Not Just In Black And White


Works from the Steve Wong Art Collection

Romulo Olazo, Diaphanous B-CXIII, 1994, oil on canvas, 152.5 × 244 cm (Diptych). Photo: Adaptus Design System



23 June – 11 August 2024It begins as a visual proposition—what and how do we see in black and white? In picture-making, “black-and-white” evokes the bare bones of visual form. Without the comfort and distraction of colour, an image is somehow naked, either especially vulnerable or especially audacious. In our minds we may associate “black and white” with a theory of opposites—positive and negative, substance and absence, darkness and light. We may see these in tension with, or in complement to one another. In the English language, something presented “in black and white” is to be taken as clear, plain, fixed, incontrovertible.

An exhibition in black and white prompts a shift in viewers’ aesthetic register, and invites a special way of looking at and thinking about the artworks it brings together, and how they may relate. The artworks here present many textures of black and white. A few are inflected by a brief intrusion of colour. We see figuration and abstraction, man and nature, boys and girls, order and chaos, anger and joy, creating a set of assumptions and categories to be interrogated. In our increasingly polarised contemporary world, we need artists to help us make those interrogations, through how they navigate and understand their experience of the “now”, recalibrating ways of looking.
Full details

Installation views, Not Just In Black And White at GDP Campus, 23 June – 11 August 2024. Photos by Kenta Chai
Follow Instagram for the latest news and upcoming programmes!


@stevewongartcollection