Marcos Kueh: Kenyalang Circus

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Marcos Kueh: Kenyalang Circus

Museum MACAN presents a special presentation by a textile artist from Sarawak, Marcos Kueh, titled Kenyalang Circus.

23.05–04.10.2026

About the Artist

Marcos Kueh is a textile artist from Sarawak, Borneo, whose practice engages the shifting meanings of cultural imagery in a rapidly transforming region. Trained in graphic design, Kueh operates at the intersection of vernacular textile traditions and contemporary popular visual culture. Through industrial digital weaving, he reworks sacred Bornean symbols into complex visual fields that question how cultural traditions are mobilised, circulated, and reinterpreted within modernity.

His works have entered the collections of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Museum Voorlinden, and he has been recognised with the Ron Mandos Young Blood Award (2022). Kueh’s debut solo exhibition was Kenyalang Circus at The Back Room, Malaysia (2023), and his second solo exhibition, Smooth Sailing, recently opened at esea contemporary, United Kingdom (2025).

Other notable recent exhibitions include Myths, Dreams and New Realities at Saatchi Gallery, United Kingdom (2025); ILHAM Art Show 2025 at ILHAM Gallery, Malaysia; The Calling of Home at Tina Kim Gallery, United States (2025); and Kenyalang Circus: Ibu Pertiwiku at the National Art Gallery, Malaysia (2024).

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