Ejin Sha (B.1990)
Ejin Sha (born 1990, Kuala Lumpur) is an artist and graphic designer whose practice spans sculpture, installation, image-making, publication, and visual identity. Working with materials that are both industrial and intimate, she explores the relationship between materiality and the unseen dimensions of memory, identity, and belonging.
Her work engages with acts of remembering, restoring, and representing. Moving between the positions of an insider and an outsider, she uses distance and speculation to reconstruct from partial histories. This extends to her use of doubles, simulacra, and role-playing to reimagine personal and collective narratives.
Ejin studied at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She presented her debut solo exhibition, A Woman, A Girl and A Horse, in 2025. Her recent group exhibitions include Singapore Design Week (2024) and Cloud Walkers at the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2023, in collaboration with motoguo).
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Forrest Wong (B.1990)
Forrest Wong earned a Bachelor of Art in Sculpture from Indonesia. His art practice spans performance, drawing, sculpture, and community-based projects. Rooted in personal and cultural narratives, he creates embodied experiences through ritual actions with body, material and imagery images that reshape how audiences perceive, remember and connect.
His process often involves observation, transformation and activation which engage everyday material as living agents rather than passive forms. Through mundane actions such as burning, constructing and performing, he generates visceral experiences that invite audiences into playful and introspective states. Shifting between intimate gestures and large-scale participatory works, he constructs temporal situations where participants are invited to question perception, identity and shared cultural experience.
He has presented his work internationally, including “Feel-Good Lab” ICAD (Grand Kemang Hotel, Jakarta, 2023), “String Unbound” (Lize Puppet Art Colony, Taiwan, 2025), Japan Setouchi Triennale (2019), and “Collecting Storytelling”(Synesthesia Art Gallery, New York, 2019). He is currently based in Penang, Malaysia.
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Mira Ariel Ong (B.2002)
Mira Ariel Ong (b. 2002, Selangor) works across soft sculpture, painting, hand sewing, embroidery and beading on canvas. Drawing from personal experience, her work reclaims forms of making traditionally practised by women as acts of agency. Her practice explores selfhood, the social gaze and the boundaries between public and private life.
In 2025, Ong presented her first solo exhibition, Love Test, at ChinaHouse Art Gallery in Penang. She completed an artist residency at BonTon Locale, Langkawi, in 2024, and has participated in group exhibitions at Hin Bus Depot, MassHaus Art Space, Momo’s Hotel KL and 22 Hale Street Heritage Gallery.
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Main Mentor: Amin Gulgee
Amin Gulgee (b.1965, Karachi, Pakistan) is a sculptor, curator and performance artist from Pakistan.
His works possess a spirituality that transcend religion, exploring spiritual territories and narrative traditions, with their intersections bridging sculpture, installation and performance. An aesthetic patron of Sufism—a unique manifestation of the spiritual side of Islam—his works mirror his individual struggle to perceive himself and to substantiate his essence through an immediate and pure union of the soul with the Divine. The elemental forms and simple scripts in his work, he believes, will help crystallize this connection.
In his curatorial strategy he explores the tension between gender, time, and human connections. He has curated or co-curated many large-scale non-commercial exhibitions in his eponymous gallery and was chief curator of the first Karachi Biennale in 2017. In the last decade he has staged over a dozen performance works in Karachi, Lahore, Dubai and Nagoya, as well as the Royal Albert Hall in London and has exhibited his sculptures and installations extensively across the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Amin Gulgee has received numerous awards, including the President’s Pride of Performance in 2005. In 2012, he was named one of the Pakistan Power 100. He has also been hailed as one of Pakistan’s most important sculptors on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
Guest Mentor: Ahmet Öğüt
Ahmet Öğüt (b. 1981, Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersections of everyday life, politics, social structures and collective forms of resistance. Working across installation, sculpture, video, photography, drawing and performance, Öğüt often transforms familiar objects, situations and systems into spaces for questioning how power operates in society.
Humour, subtle intervention and participation are central to his practice. His works engage with subjects including migration, labour, citizenship, public space and institutional structures, often inviting audiences to reconsider the social and political conditions that shape everyday life.
In 2015, Öğüt initiated The Silent University, an autonomous knowledge exchange platform created with asylum seekers and refugees. The project provides a space for people whose professional qualifications are often unrecognised to share their knowledge, reflecting Öğüt’s wider interest in alternative forms of participation, solidarity and collective learning.
Öğüt has exhibited internationally at institutions including Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein Dresden; and MoCA Skopje. His work has also been presented at the Istanbul Biennial, Performa, Singapore Biennale and Dhaka Art Summit. His works are held in collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. He lives and works between Amsterdam and Istanbul.
Gallery Mentor: Lim Wei-Ling
Lim Wei-Ling founded Wei-Ling Gallery and Wei-Ling Contemporary in 2002 and 2011 respectively. Since establishing the gallery in 2002, she has played an active role in supporting and promoting Malaysian and Southeast Asian contemporary art, working closely with both established and emerging artists. Her curatorial approach emphasises artistic development, experimentation and meaningful dialogue between artists and audiences. Through Wei-Ling Gallery and its various programmes, she has continued to create platforms for artists to develop their practices and engage with broader contemporary art discourses.
She has been duly recognised for her contribution and efforts towards the development of the Malaysian art scene, through numerous awards and nominations. In 2018, she was appointed by Malaysia’s Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) to curate and spearhead the country’s first pavilion at ‘The 58th La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale)’.
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