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A+ WORKS of ART A+ WORKS of ART is a contemporary art gallery based in Kuala Lumpur. Collaboration is key to the ethos of A+ WORKS of ART.

Founded in 2017, A+ WORKS of ART strives to engage contemporary practices and discussions in new media art, especially photography, video, installation and performance art. A+ WORKS of ART is a contemporary art gallery based in Kuala Lumpur, with a geographic focus on Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2017, the gallery presents a wide range of contemporary practices, from painting to performance, drawing, sculpture, new media art, photography, video and installation. Its exhibitions have showcased diverse themes and approaches, including material experimentation and global conversations on social issues. Since its opening, the gallery has worked with artists, curators, writers, collectors, galleries and partners from within the region and beyond, and continues to look out for new collaborations. The gallery name is a play on striving for distinction but also on the idea that art is never without context and is always reaching to connect—it is always “plus” something else. SSM: JL Contemporary Art Sdn Bhd 201601006166 (1177093-H)

Happy Birthday Ahmad Fuad Osman Ahmad Fuad OsmanBorn in Kedah, Ahmad Fuad Osman graduated with a BA in Fine Art from MAR...
02/10/2026

Happy Birthday Ahmad Fuad Osman Ahmad Fuad Osman

Born in Kedah, Ahmad Fuad Osman graduated with a BA in Fine Art from MARA Institute of Technology (UiTM). In the 1990s, Fuad was involved in the Malaysian film and theatre industry, and this period influenced a shift in his artistic practice from painting to conceptual multi-disciplinary works encompassing sculpture, print, video and installation. Socio-political themes have long been a key concern as he investigates subject matters including identity politics, among others.

Fuad has exhibited internationally including ISCP, New York, USA (2023); DRC No.12, Beijing, China (2023); Blackout' at Kunsthal Rotterdam (2019); Sharjah Biennale's Leaving The Echo Chamber (2019); Singapore Biennale: An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore (2016); Multiple Languages, Silverlens Gallery, Makati, Manila, Philippines, (2014); Welcome to the Jungle: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia From the Collection of Singapore Art Museum, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (2013).

He participated in residencies including the Vermont Studio Centre, USA (2004), Goyang National Art Studio, South Korea (2005 - 2006) and Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia (2007 - 2008). His works can be found in the collections of National Visual Art Gallery (Malaysia), Petronas Gallery (Malaysia), Singapore Art Museum, and KADIST San Francisco (USA) amongst others.

We are delighted to present ‘Short Film: An Exhibition of Painting, Drawing, and Other Art Objects’ curated by Chen Min ...
30/09/2026

We are delighted to present ‘Short Film: An Exhibition of Painting, Drawing, and Other Art Objects’ curated by Chen Min Loh, a group exhibition featuring:

Chong Kim Chiew Chong Kim Chiew
Eiffel Chong Eiffel Chong
Ho Rui An Ho Rui An
Hu Yun Hu Yun
Issay Rodriguez Issay
Janis Reyes Janis Reyes
Jed Gregorio Jed Gregorio
Mary Pakinee Mary
Miguel Uy migueluy666
Sarah Radzi Sarah Radzi
Tan Zi Hao Tan Zi Hao
Tang Maohong 唐茂宏

How is looking at a painting or a ceramic sculpture different from watching a TikTok clip or an Instagram reel?

Most people would answer duration — that physical art asks for slow, sustained attention, while digital content is short and fast — but is that still true? When Vine launched in 2013, it capped videos at six seconds; today, a single TikTok clip can stretch to an hour.

This exhibition thus borrows its title from that lineage, and then refuses its medium. Short Film contains no film — no screens, no projections, no moving image of any kind. Instead, it turns to the forms that preceded it: painting, drawing, and objects that hold still. The absence is not an oversight. It is the argument.

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‘Short Film: An Exhibition of Painting, Drawing, and Other Art Objects’

3 - 24 October 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Designer by STUDIO KEKFENG

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto —Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brin...
25/09/2026

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto

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Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brings together nine Southeast Asian artists to probe the hostile and unresolved nature of administratively constitutive land.

Pangrok Sulap’s ParLIARment (2020) uses animal identities to represent political figures and their behaviours, depicting a chaotic parliament shaped by corruption, lies, greed, and the pursuit of power and wealth. In Rencana Alam (2015), the collective turns to the changing relationship between nature and the city, where development and consumption increasingly occupy the landscape while plants and animals continue to find ways to coexist. Together, the works reflect on power, development, and the forces that persist within and beyond them.

 

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‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’
Curated by Marv Recinto

5 - 26 September 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Photographs by Damien Khoo

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto —Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brin...
24/09/2026

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto

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Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brings together nine Southeast Asian artists to probe the hostile and unresolved nature of administratively constitutive land.

Jo Tanierla shows five drawings – including two new landscapes Ang Sigwa (The Storm) and Ang Daluyong (Waves) – alongside a series of Tagalog journal entries that are grounded in historical fiction, magical realism and social realism to advance class struggle

Ang Daluyong (Waves) (2023) is an allegorical depiction of the ongoing Philippine revolution, thick and filled with failures and victories; lessons learned, forgotten, and relearned. This sense of an ongoing struggle extends into Ka Jess prepares a modest lunch during a meeting of the democratic coalition government (2025), a speculative victory lap in which the proletariat has taken the means of production, as well as economic and political power, and begins the comprehensive planning for the archipelago.

This speculative future continues in Talaang Bayan (2023), a fabricated text compiling surviving pages of a community record in Zambales, Philippines. Its entries offer excerpts from an imagined future where the class struggle persists, including references to Ang Daluyong and Ang Sigwa, connecting the drawings and journal entries through a shared vision of struggle, memory, and imagined futures.

 

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‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’
Curated by Marv Recinto

5 - 26 September 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Photographs by Damien Khoo

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto —Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brin...
23/09/2026

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto

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Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brings together nine Southeast Asian artists to probe the hostile and unresolved nature of administratively constitutive land.

Cian Dayrit presents two new tapestries that physically intervene in the space, emphasising land struggles in the Philippines. Dayrit also displays six wooden yokes as part of Anchored to Memory (2024–26) in an ominous, nonanthropocentric gesture towards agricultural exploitation.

‘Land, Labor, Liberties’ (2026) explores the connections between land, labor, incarceration, and counterinsurgency, centering on the floor plan of New Bilibid Prison and works made by political prisoners. ‘Sovereign Functions’ (2026) examines land-use motifs, from monocrop agriculture to data centers, and the role of militarism in sustaining neocolonial conditions across the Philippines and the Global South.

Continuing this focus on land and agricultural exploitation, ‘Anchored to Memory’ (2024/2026) presents decommissioned wooden yokes gathered from farms outside Manila, some transformed with symbolic forms such as wings, sickles, and skulls. The works reflect on the continued use of animal labour in small farming communities amid limited agricultural support, increasing imports, and the displacement of farmers by profit-driven land development.

 

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‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’
Curated by Marv Recinto

5 - 26 September 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Photographs by Damien Khoo

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto —Territorium, Tell Us What ...
23/09/2026

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto

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Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brings together nine Southeast Asian artists to probe the hostile and unresolved nature of administratively constitutive land.

Cian Dayrit Cian Dayrit presents two new tapestries that physically intervene in the space, emphasising land struggles in the Philippines. Dayrit also displays six wooden yokes as part of Anchored to Memory (2024–26) in an ominous, nonanthropocentric gesture towards agricultural exploitation.

‘Land, Labor, Liberties’ (2026) explores the connections between land, labor, incarceration, and counterinsurgency, centering on the floor plan of New Bilibid Prison and works made by political prisoners. ‘Sovereign Functions’ (2026) examines land-use motifs, from monocrop agriculture to data centers, and the role of militarism in sustaining neocolonial conditions across the Philippines and the Global South.

Continuing this focus on land and agricultural exploitation, ‘Anchored to Memory’ (2024-26) presents decommissioned wooden yokes gathered from farms outside Manila, some transformed with symbolic forms such as wings, sickles, and skulls. The works reflect on the continued use of animal labour in small farming communities amid limited agricultural support, increasing imports, and the displacement of farmers by profit-driven land development.

 

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‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’
Curated by Marv Recinto

5 - 26 September 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Photographs by Damien Khoo

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto —Territorium, Tell Us What ...
22/09/2026

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto

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Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brings together nine Southeast Asian artists to probe the hostile and unresolved nature of administratively constitutive land.

Betty Adii’s Betty Adii painting In Transit: Land and Blood (2024) and flanks the audio installation Ipue: A Call from Home (2025), both respond to how the displacement and disruption of ancestral relationships to land are experienced through the body, memory, and cultural inheritance

Among the Mee tribe in Central Papua, Ipue is a revered guardian spirit who protects families and ancestral lands. The work reflects on the longing to return, both physically and spiritually, to one’s place of origin, exploring displacement, cultural erasure, and the fragile ties between people and their ancestral land. It stands as a tribute to those who continue to protect their cultural roots, living spaces, and the land that sustains them.

In Transit: Land and Blood captures a figure mid-metamorphosis—arms outstretched, gaze unflinching, her form part-earth, part-ember. Swirls of smoke and stains of soil surround her, as if she is both emerging from and returning to the land, wounded yet enduring and alive. Carrying the weight of the land’s history, the figure embodies an unfinished story, asking what happens when people are not allowed to finish their own—who gets to decide what is remembered, and what is left behind?

 

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‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’
Curated by Marv Recinto

5 - 26 September 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Photographs by Damien Khoo

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto will be ending this weekend...
22/09/2026

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto will be ending this weekend.

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Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brings together nine Southeast Asian artists to probe the hostile and unresolved nature of administratively constitutive land.
 
Betty Adii Betty Adii
Izat Arif Izat Arif
Cian Dayrit Cian Dayrit
Uri de Ger Uri de Ger
Christina Lopez Christina Lopez
Phương Linh Nguyễn Phương Linh
Sai ▇▇▇  sai ▇▇▇
Pangrok Sulap Pangrok Sulap
Jo Tanierla Jo Tanierla

The specific conditions of place from which these artists – working across Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam – draw their practices remain contested and perhaps unresolvable. Even so, this irresolution allows these works to converse with one another in interrogative possibility. 

The territories addressed across this exhibition bear the weight of distinct yet structurally analogous colonial projects. Extractive and colonial infrastructure unite these histories while the contemporary era attests to the durability of such legacies: administrative borders, linguistic hierarchies and land regimes imposed under empire have embedded themselves within these nations’ institutions. 

 

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‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’
Curated by Marv Recinto

5 - 26 September 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Photographs by Damien Khoo

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto —Territorium, Tell Us What ...
21/09/2026

‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’ a group exhibition curated by Marv Recinto Marv Recinto

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Territorium, Tell Us What Happened brings together nine Southeast Asian artists to probe the hostile and unresolved nature of administratively constitutive land.

Across A+ Works of Art’s four gallery spaces, these diverse yet related practices highlight connections across the region. In the library, cultural worker Uri de Ger Uri de Ger presents a site-specific, multimedia installation that interrogates the tension between lived struggle and the absurdity of geopolitical conflict, as refracted through meme culture.

At the centre of the installation is cellphone footage of a burning effigy created collectively by the Makiling Initiative during the State of the Nation Protest in the Philippines in July 2024. The effigy represents US and Chinese imperialism, Philippine political figures, and the country’s armed forces. Charcoal from its remains was used to create the mural POST COLONIAL, later altered with animal blood to read NEO POST COLONIAL, challenging the idea that colonialism belongs to the past and pointing to its continued forms of political, economic, and cultural control. Written in the shape of a social triangle, the mural reflects class hierarchies between ruling and exploited populations. Accompanying the installation, DOOMSCROLLING combines social media feeds documenting climate disasters and wars with personal footage, placing the mundane alongside global crises.

 

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‘Territorium, Tell Us What Happened’
Curated by Marv Recinto

5 - 26 September 2026

Venue: A+ Works of Art
Gallery Opening Hours:
Wednesday to Saturday, 12pm to 7pm

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Photographs by Damien Khoo

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