ROH is pleased to share Kei Imazu and ikkibawiKrrr’s participation in Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention.
The Biennale presents contemporary art in multiple venues and public spaces, inviting audiences of all walks of life to experience Singapore's many layers built by all of those who have been a part of its history, collectively creating a city that is as planned as it is full of discovery, surprises and interesting juxtapositions.
Kei Imazu
Harvesting from the Buried Goddess Body
2023
Oil on linen
250 x 202 cm
Memories of the Land | Body
2020
Oil on linen
300 x 600 cm
Pelvis and Rhizome
2023
Oil on linen
194 x 162 x 4 cm
Former Raffles Girls’ School, Hall
20 Anderson Rd
Singapore
ikkibawiKrrr
Seaweed Story
2022
Acrylic on Foamex board and single-channel video (colour, sound), 5 minutes 22 second
Variable dimensions
Unit 02-04
Wessex Estate, Blenheim Court
Lawn below 10 Woking Road
Singapore
For further information, please visit @sgbiennale
Images courtesy of the Artist and ROH
ARTISTS
ikkibawiKrrr is a visual research band founded in 2021 with members Gyeol Ko, Jungwon Kim, andJieun Cho. In Korean, ikkibawi means “moss-rock”, and krrr is an onomatopoeic word. Mosses livein the thin boundary between air and soil, adapt to their surroundings despite their tiny bodies, andexpand their world along other worlds. Incorporating the survival tactics of moss into their projectsand attitudes, the collective hopes to circulate its practice beyond individual projects and extend theboundary layer between life and art.
ikkibawiKrrr’s solo exhibitions include Who Forgot the Village(Aranya Art Center, Beijing, 2025)and ikkibawiKrrr: Rocks Living in Rewind (Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2024-5). Major exhibitions by ikkibawiKrrr include the Aichi Triennale: A Time Between Ashes and Roses (Aichi, Japan, 2025), Singapore Biennale 2025: Pure Intention (Singapore, 2025), 14th Gwangju Biennale: Soft and Weaklike Water (Gwangju, 2023), documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany, 2022), Running Underground (ElephantSpace, Seoul, 2022), and Resbakan: Solidarity Event Lumbung FILM (UP Film Institute, University ofthe Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 2022), among others.