A promotion for Tan this year: after 11 years as director of the National Gallery Singapore (NGS), while also directing Singapore Art Museum (SAM) since 2019, he became CEO of both institutions in April. The advancement added another asset to his portfolio: the STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery. Three months later, a partnership deal was announced between NGS, where 70 percent of the collection is dedicated to Singaporean artists and 30 percent to Southeast Asian artists, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts to encourage loans, research partnerships and residency programmes. The 2024 exhibitions programme at NGS featured a retrospective of Kim Lim and shows for Cheong Soo Pieng, pioneer of the Nanyang art style, and centenarian Lim Tze Peng, Singapore’s oldest living and active artist. Meanwhile, Pratchaya Phinthong and Yee I-Lann received shows at SAM which also supported the organisation of Robert Zhao Renhui’s Singaporean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (NGS also made a substantial loan of eight works to the Biennale’s International Pavilion, curated by Adriano Pedrosa).