Dialogue Session with I.C. Koh | 18 October 2025
An Invitation to meet up with the artist I.C. Koh.
Date: 18 October 2025, Saturday
Time: 3:15pm
Venue: ArtSpace@HeluTrans
I.C. Koh grew up immersed in the creative vibrance of art, architecture, and philately. Instead of following in his father’s footsteps as a collector, he took a different path. His Philosophy of Flow emerged from years of experimentation with diverse mediums, especially ink, pigment, and canvas. Unlike his father, who seeks to preserve moments, I.C. Koh allows moments to pass through him. His art embraces movement, allows change, and celebrates uncertainty.
His works are born not from plans but from process. He sets the stage, prepares his ink, lays the canvas, and then lets go. The elements interact – air, water, pigment. Shapes form, dissolve, and form again. “Souvenirs of flow,” he calls them: snapshots of a transient world.
Inspired by Taoist and Zen thought, I.C. Koh’s art is less about control and more about surrender. He believes beauty lies in impermanence. His art gently teaches us to observe without clinging, to appreciate without possessing. It is a counterpoint to modern life, where speed and certainty so often dominate.
I.C. Koh’s Philosophy of Flow offers a way of seeing suited to the modern world. His canvases are not fixed; they are sculpted, reshaped, transformed. They are installations as much as paintings, performances as much as objects.
In his hands, the canvas becomes a living entity, open to change by both artist and chance. This fluidity, Seow Chuan believes, mirrors the reality of the 21st century: a world of constant change where survival depends on adaptability. I.C. Koh’s work offers a compass for the future – one where Singapore, too, must adapt, reshape, and reinvent itself without losing its essence.
ArtSpace@HeluTrans
39 Keppel Rd
#01-05 Distripark
Singapore 089065