On Sunday 27 July, our resident artists Fauzan Fuad (MSIA), Isabella Ong (SIN), Rommel Joson (PHIL) and Low Pey Sien (MSIA) will be sharing the fruits of their residencies in their open studios.
Angela Hijjas will also give a morning tour of her 14-acre native garden. Works by recent resident artist Gigi Giovanelli(USA) will also be on show in the Underground Gallery.
Entry is free. Registration is required only for the garden tour.
BYO picnic, plus walk about our gardens at your leisure, explore our heritage house and the underground gallery.
Register for the Garden Tour: https://forms.gle/C1e1d9jrzyPi57jX6
[Other activities on Open Day do not require registration; just walk in to join!]
9am-11am Garden Tour
11am-6pm Open Studios
Travelling Directions
Address: Rimbun Dahan, Km. 27 Jalan Kuang, Mukim Kuang, Selangor, 48050.
Use Waze to drive to Rimbun Dahan: https://waze.com/ul/hw284q6meb
Use Google Maps to drive to Rimbun Dahan: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ft5fV9YpGsvciCtU8
Landmarks: Our front gate is opposite Warung Selera Ria and also next to the start of Lorong Belimbing. Do not enter Lorong Belimbing, please enter the front gate from the main road.
Tips for Visitors
- We have parking inside the compound, along the driveway. Just drive in the front gate and park as indicated along the drive.
- Bring your own mosquito repellent!
- We are sorry, Rimbun Dahan is not a fully wheelchair accessible venue. Wheelchair access is possible to the artists studios and some of the outdoor areas, but not to the underground gallery or the heritage houses.
- Wear practical shoes if you are planning to walk around the garden.
- Bring an umbrella in case of rain.
- No refreshments or water provided. Feel free to bring your own picnic, and enjoy it in the gardens; please clean up all your trash.
- No pets, no swimming — thank you for your cooperation.
If you have any questions, please email arts@rimbundahan.org or WhatsApp Bilqis at +6017-3103769.
About the Resident Artists
Born in 1987 in Kuala Lumpur, Fauzan Fuad is a painter and photographer whose artistic vocabulary draws heavily from the worlds of punk, vandalism, skateboarding, and raw urban visuals, blending them with influences from the western Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1950s. His solo exhibitions have appeared at China House in Penang, Zon Tiga in Kuala Lumpur, and Rissim Contemporary in Kuala Lumpur. His work has also been featured in international exhibitions including Gwangju International Art Fair and Espace Commines in Paris, and locally at the Malaysian Art Expo, FINDARS Art Space, White Box at Publika and HOM Art Trans Gallery.
Filipino painter and book illustrator Rommel Joson is currently teaching drawing, illustration, and print production design at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts where he is also taking his post-graduate studies, Rommel’s roles roles deal with the intersection and interaction of text and image. His art practice draws from artifacts such as reading primers, children’s books, encyclopedias, illuminated manuscripts, information graphics, comics, and even print ads. Part of his process involves creating unreadable glyphs and ciphers that mimic the texture and structure of recognizable books and texts.
Isabella Ong (b. 1992) is a Singapore-based artist whose work explores the relationship between data, form and environment. Working across installation, code and text, she examines how ecological, cultural and technical systems are structured and represented. She received her MArch in Design for Performance & Interaction from The Bartlett, UCL, and a BA (Hons) in Architecture from the National University of Singapore. Her practice is shaped by ongoing collaborations across disciplines and communities, engaging with material processes alongside physical computation and generative methods, translating natural phenomena into spatial and visual languages.
Low Pey Sien (b. 1991) is a Malaysian cultural worker from Kuantan, Pahang. With a background in architecture, she mainly works in photography, film, and graphic media, lately actively exploring themes on body, shame and identity. Her recent video works include video art “Wani-Onna” (2024), dance documentary ”Movement: We Are Bodies” (2022), dance film “La La Li Ta Tang Pong” (2020), video art “Keroncong Kuala Lumpur II” (2017), and video art ”Invisible Old Klang Road” (2016). When she is not creating, she freelances as curator, producer, and graphic designer, mainly working with her friends, to bring their creative works into this world.
Gigi Giovanelli is a sculptor based in New York City. She studied Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is currently pursuing a BFA in Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design. Her practice centers on sculpture as a form of storytelling, grounded in material sensitivity and emotional resonance. Rooted in her upbringing in North Carolina, Gigi’s work reflects a lifelong physical and emotional closeness to nature. Gigi was in residence at Rimbun Dahan in June 2025; her works will be displayed in the Underground Gallery at Rimbun Dahan on Open Day.
About Rimbun Dahan
Rimbun Dahan is the home of Malaysian architect Hijjas Kasturi and his wife Angela. Set on fourteen acres outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the compound of Rimbun Dahan is a centre for developing traditional and contemporary art forms. It features buildings designed by Hijjas Kasturi, as well as two early 20th century traditional Malay houses from Perak and Penang, in an indigenous Southeast Asian garden environment which has recently been awarded arboretum status. Rimbun Dahan is private property, and is only open to the public on Open Days.