Weiling Gallery

Weiling Gallery Located in Kuala Lumpur, showcasing Malaysian and international contemporary art

Wei-Ling Gallery

WLG & WLC now form the largest and most prominent platforms for contemporary art in Malaysia. https://linktr.ee/weiling_gallery

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We are pleased to present ‘Sandwich (An Intergenerational Dialogue in Malaysian Abstract Art)’, a group exhibition curat...
12/06/2026

We are pleased to present ‘Sandwich (An Intergenerational Dialogue in Malaysian Abstract Art)’, a group exhibition curated by Prissie Ong, running from 13 June to 18 July 2026 at Wei-Ling Gallery and Wei-Ling Contemporary Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.

Abstraction has never existed as a singular style, language, or movement. It is constantly reshaped by the artists who take it up, and across generations it encompasses gesture, structure, atmosphere, process, material inquiry, political response, spiritual reflection, and conceptual methods. An ever-evolving frame of mind.

Sandwich traces how abstraction in Malaysia shifted alongside economic conditions, sociopolitical realities, artistic pedagogies, and cultural anxieties. To follow that thread is to see how artists absorbed, resisted, and reinterpreted influences from abroad while remaining grounded in local experience. Pedagogical lineages passed certain sensibilities from teacher to student. Political and social pressures pushed some practices toward coded language and formal restraint. Others turned inward, finding in abstraction a space for spiritual inquiry or material experimentation outside the reach of prescribed meaning.

Featuring works by the late Cheong Laitong, Hamidi Hadi, Iwadh Mahadi, James Ly, Khabir Roslan, Kim Ng, Latiff Mohidin, Mark Tan, Nasrul Rokes, Yau Bee Ling, Yeoh Choo Kuan, and Zulkifli Lee, the exhibition does not attempt to present a complete or definitive history of Malaysian abstract art. Rather, it offers one possible framing of the field through a selection of artists whose practices reflect the breadth, tensions, and possibilities of abstraction across time. The focus is less on fixing a definition and more on opening up what abstract art can be and where it might still go.

📅 13 June – 18 July 2026
📍 Wei-Ling Gallery & Wei-Ling Contemporary

The exhibition is open to walk-ins at both venues. Pre-registration by appointment is available via the link in our bio, and we strongly recommend booking ahead for a smoother visit.

11/06/2026

Here is a sneak peek into the gallery as we install our highly anticipated upcoming exhibition. 'Sandwich (An Intergenerational Dialogue in Malaysian Abstract Art)' is a major group show that explores the depth of Malaysian abstraction through the distinct lenses of twelve artists.

Curated by Prissie Ong, the exhibition brings together works by the late Cheong Laitong, Latiff Mohidin, Hamidi Hadi, Mark Tan, Iwadh Mahadi, Kim Ng, Nasrul Rokes, James Ly, Yau Bee Ling, Khabir Roslan, Yeoh Choo Kuan, and Zulkifli Lee.

We cannot wait to welcome you into the space very soon!

Revisiting the Razak Mansion Series by Leon Leong.When Leon Leong first visited Razak Mansion, he learned the building h...
10/06/2026

Revisiting the Razak Mansion Series by Leon Leong.

When Leon Leong first visited Razak Mansion, he learned the building had six months before demolition. A chance encounter over economy rice led him to rent a unit and move in, setting aside other projects to document what felt urgent.

Built in the 1960s, the block was a rare surviving example of post-war modernist public housing in Malaysia. It stood four storeys high without lifts and was designed to be affordable, communal, and dignified. Leong knew that meaningful work could not come from passing visits or quick documentation. Living there allowed him to observe at a slower pace, to notice how the light shifted across the cement walls, and to build trust with the community. Patience became part of his method, as much a tool as the brush or camera.

The Razak Mansion paintings grew from this sustained immersion. Many were created partly on site, translating the building’s textures and atmospheres into oil on canvas. At the heart of the imagery is the brise soleil façade (block featured in the last slide), whose perforated pattern cast shifting shadows by day and glowed warmly at night, an effect Leong likens to a dragon’s scales.

Works such as the one shown above, Cracks in the Wall Triptych (2018) — A Farewell to Naga, The Departure, and Drawers of Memory — echo the building’s architecture while carrying traces of its human life. They speak to a way of living that has largely disappeared, replaced now by the gleaming surfaces of Razak City, where the old block once stood.

Image: Leon Leong – Cracks in the Wall Triptych (2018) | Oil on canvas; 150cm × 120cm (each)

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09/06/2026

What really makes a true artist?

Gallery Director Lim Wei-Ling believes it comes down to perseverance. Not talent alone, not timing, not connections, but the stubborn refusal to stop creating when life gets hard. When the money runs out, when the work gets rejected, when motivation disappears entirely, the ones who keep going are the ones who last.

Art has never been a comfortable path. The artists we remember are often the ones who had every reason to quit and chose not to.

So we want to hear from you: what do you think separates a true artist from someone who simply makes art for a while? Is it perseverance, or something else entirely?

Drop your thoughts below 👇

Gallery Notice: We'll be closed to the public from 7–12 June 2026 while we prepare for our next exhibition.Both spaces r...
06/06/2026

Gallery Notice: We'll be closed to the public from 7–12 June 2026 while we prepare for our next exhibition.

Both spaces reopen on Saturday, 13 June with Sandwich (An Intergenerational Dialogue in Malaysian Abstract Art), a group exhibition featuring the late Cheong Laitong, Latiff Mohidin, Hamidi Hadi, Mark Tan, Iwadh Mahadi, Nasrul Rokes, James Ly, Yau Bee Ling, Khabir Roslan, Yeoh Choo Kuan, Kim Ng, and Zulkifli Lee.

Thank you for your patience. We hope to see you soon. Wei-Ling Gallery & Wei-Ling Contemporary, 13 June – 18 July 2026.

06/06/2026

A few highlights from Yau Bee Ling's ‘Structural Voids’ as the show comes to a close today. Thank you to every friend and visitor who walked through the door, spent time with her work, and showed up with so much warmth and support.

If you haven't had a chance to pick up her book ‘The Weaving of Life: Art through Trials and Triumphs’, copies are still available at the gallery for RM250. Limited copies remain, a beautiful keepsake of her artistic journey told in her own words and images.

To stand at the edge of water when water has almost taken your life is not courage in the abstract. For Yau Bee Ling, bo...
05/06/2026

To stand at the edge of water when water has almost taken your life is not courage in the abstract. For Yau Bee Ling, born in Port Klang and raised beside the sea, the ocean has always carried the weight of a particular terror. A near-drowning in childhood carved a wound that decades of practice could not fully close. Yet here, in her seventh solo exhibition at Wei-Ling Gallery, ‘Redefining Resilience: Embracing the Battleground Within and Beyond’ (2023), Bee Ling does what she has always done with fear, she walks toward it, brush in hand.

The catalyst this time is intimate. Her son loves to fish. He is drawn to the open water with the naturalness of someone who has never had reason to fear it, and so Bee Ling accompanies him, standing at the shoreline of her own dread. What emerges from that act of maternal love and private reckoning is the maritime imagery anchoring this series, a sailing ship crossing an uncertain sea, waves that speak of both menace and passage, the horizon as a threshold between what has wounded and what may yet heal. The ocean that once threatened her life becomes, through her son's joy, a territory she is willing to renegotiate.

This exploration runs beneath all six monumental canvases and the sculptural works accompanying them. Bee Ling has long drawn on natural elements, trees, valleys, caves, canyons, stalactites, to map the contours of interior life. Here, she turns to water. The works hold terror alongside wonder, companionship, and the willingness to be changed by what frightens you.

The ageing process, approached with a child's deliberate curiosity, sharpens all of this. Loss has been her companion across these years, a sister, other family members, the slow dissolution the body undergoes. The canvas and the sculpture absorb that knowledge in texture and colour. Art has functioned as therapy from the beginning, a way of making the external bearable and the internal legible. What is new here is the willingness to let the sea, her oldest wound, become part of that healing.

Selected images are from Yau Bee Ling's 'Redefining Resilience: Embracing the Battleground Within and Beyond' (2023) Solo Exhibition at Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur.

Three days left to see Yau Bee Ling’s ‘Structural Voids’ at Wei-Ling Gallery.Yau Bee Ling's eighth solo exhibition invit...
04/06/2026

Three days left to see Yau Bee Ling’s ‘Structural Voids’ at Wei-Ling Gallery.

Yau Bee Ling's eighth solo exhibition invites you to pause and pay attention to the spaces we so often move through without a second thought. The voids between people, between rooms, between who we are and who we are still becoming.

Her heavily layered canvases build those spaces into something you can stand in front of and feel, surfaces that carry the physical memory of every decision made in their making.

The monograph, ‘The Weaving of Life: Art through Trials and Triumphs’, is still available at the gallery for RM250 per copy. Limited copies remain.

📩 Email [email protected] or DM us to check availability.

“Life is like a kaleidoscope. When you shake it up and peer inside, the world is pictured in broken pieces and empty spa...
03/06/2026

“Life is like a kaleidoscope. When you shake it up and peer inside, the world is pictured in broken pieces and empty spaces. Everyone has those empty spaces inside that call out to them — and, like it or not, they must answer that call.” - Yau Bee Ling

Our sincere thanks to Hanis and Daryl for their time, care, and thoughtful writing in bringing this story to life.

Swipe through to see a selection of works spanning from Yau Bee Ling's earliest paintings to her most recent works, revealing the evolution of a practice shaped by family, memory, and lived experience.

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