A Year of Growth Through Art: What We Built Together in 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, we’ve found ourselves reflecting on what it truly means to nurture a space. Not in the decorative sense, but in the way art shapes the emotional contour of the environment. This year reminded us again and again that thoughtful curation is less about filling walls, and more about understanding how spaces feel and by extension, how art can help them feel better.

Much of this unfolded through the communities, clients and artists we had the privilege to work with. Across coworking environments, a healthcare clinic and corporate offices, we saw firsthand how art can soften, anchor and connect. 

Spaces We Nurtured

Coworking environments live in motion. People drift in with morning focus, gather around afternoon conversations and wind down with evening quiet. The Working Capitol holds all these shifting energies — which meant its art needed to move with them.

The first exhibition - 28 Frames - brought a sense of stillness and focus: gentle abstract movements, charcoal textures and quiet tonal gradients that softened the hum of activity. Months later, the atmosphere changed entirely with our second rotation - Layers of Home. Vibrant palettes, interlocking shapes and energetic compositions infused the space with brightness and momentum.

Watching the same wall evolve across the year became a reminder that creativity thrives when spaces aren’t fixed, but allowed to grow with the people who use them.

Healthcare environments are often defined by bright lights, hard surfaces and the quiet tension that comes with waiting. Patients enter with a heightened awareness — noticing every sound, every movement, every detail around them.

At Dentalis, our intention wasn’t to overhaul the clinic, but to gently ease that emotional weight. Max Kong’s geometric triptych became the anchor for this shift. Built on repetition, symmetry and subtle colour gradients, the works offer a steady visual rhythm that softens the room.

Each panel pulls the eye inward through a concentric structure, creating a moment of focus that quietens the breath. The precision of the lines brings order; the gentle transitions in colour introduce calm. Together, they reshape the waiting experience in a way that’s almost imperceptible — but deeply felt.

In a place where people often arrive tense or alert, these artworks serve as steadying elements. They balance the clinical environment with visual structure and a quiet sense of reassurance.

Artists Who Shaped Our Year

2025 brought new artistic voices into the Fiidaa family. Jacelyn Zhen, JJ Chuan, Stephanie Ho and Chiei Ichida are some of the new artists in our gallery. Each expanding the emotional and visual vocabulary we could bring into our curated spaces.

Alongside them, ongoing collaborations with artists such as Jays Phua, Charles Wong, Ling Yang Chang, Georgina Gray, and Marta Valenzuela among others shaped the tone of our projects.

Insights We’re Carrying Into 2026

Every project this year taught us something about how people experience space through art. Some insights we’ll continue to carry forward:

• Calm can be designed through colour, rhythm and intentional negative space
  

• Connection deepens with familiarity, especially when visual cues repeat across a space
  

• Small placements matter, often more than sweeping gestures
  

• Spaces evolve as communities evolve, and art must evolve with them

Nurturing Spaces Ahead

As we step into 2026, we remain committed to creating environments that feel human, intentional and supportive of the people who live and work within them. This means nurturing the artists whose voices move our spaces forward and deepening the partnerships built on trust, curiosity and shared possibility. Because the most powerful transformations don’t always announce themselves. Sometimes they arrive softly, and that is enough.