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Hyundai Artlab is pleased to announce Jiaying Sim and Elvia Wilk as the recipients of the 2025 Artlab Editorial Fellowship. Now in its third year, the Artlab Editorial Fellowship invites two art writers whose forward-thinking insights connect across boundaries, bridging cultural communities in ways both big and small. The program extends Artlab Editorial’s mission to foster writing about today’s most compelling artists, celebrate connectivity in all its forms, and envision the future.
Each 2025 Artlab Editorial Fellow will receive 10,000 USD to produce three pieces of web-based editorial content for publication on Artlab Editorial. Additionally, each Fellow will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors, Rahel Aima or Orit Gat, alongside Artlab Editor, Shannon Lee for regular mentorship.
The Fellowship received an overwhelming response to its 2025 Open Call, attracting nearly 500 exceptional applicants from over 60 countries and 200 cities around the world.
2025 Artlab Editorial Fellows
Open to art writers from anywhere in the world and at any stage of their career, this year’s Fellowship welcomes Jiaying Sim and Elvia Wilk whose essay proposals promise fresh perspectives and critical insights on contemporary art.
Jiaying Sim is the founder of Singapore Film Database, a comprehensive digital resource on Singapore’s film ecosystem. She holds a PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Glasgow with her research focusing on Asian cinema and the intersection of film, culture, and gender. Sim also teaches critical thinking, gender studies, and media literacy and produces content for film and mixed media projects. She has published in international journals including Film-Philosophy and film anthologies by the University of Edinburgh Press and Routledge.
Her essays for the Artlab Editorial Fellowship will explore the hidden infrastructures of contemporary art, examining how artists in Singapore and beyond navigate labor, materiality, audience participation, and digital exhibitions to create new modes of engagement.
Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. She is the author of the novel Oval (2019) and the essay collection Death by Landscape (2022). A new novel, A Diagnosis, is forthcoming in 2026. Elvia’s essays, criticism, and fiction have appeared in publications like Frieze, Bookforum, n+1, Granta, The Paris Review online, BOMB, 4Columns, The White Review, Mousse, The Nation, The Atlantic, WIRED and The New York Review of Books. She’s a contributing editor at e-flux Journal and teaches at Sarah Lawrence.
Her essays for the Artlab Editorial Fellowship will consider the role of storytelling and scripts in contemporary art.
2025 Artlab Editorial Fellowship Advisors
Rahel Aima is a writer, editor, and critic from Dubai. She is the Editor of BXD: The Postwestern Review. She is currently at work on a book about coastal terroirs, where oil meets water on the Arabian Peninsula, and becoming postwestern, as well as a collection of short exhibition fiction that springs from solar and lunar events. In 2022, Aima wrote “The Artist as Sentinel,” a review that juxtaposes Tania Bruguera’s Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with works by Agnieszka Kurant and Doreen Chan, showcasing how artists employing experimental media critique and celebrate the diverse possibilities of our shared future.
Orit Gat is a British writer and art critic living in London. She has written about contemporary art, books, digital culture, and football for numerous magazines including The White Review, Frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin, Texte zur Kunst, Paper Visual Art, Art Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, the LA Review of Books, The World Policy Journal, Camera Austria, and Cultured, among others. She won the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category in 2015 and was a finalist for the Absolut Art Writing Award (2017) and the International Award for Art Criticism (2017, 2018). In 2022, Gat wrote “How Digital Lineages Change How We Make and Own Artworks,” a discussion on how we care for art in the digital age.
Artlab Editorial
Artlab Editorial is a destination for critical engagement with contemporary art. With interviews, reviews, essays, and profiles, Artlab Editorial publishes writing that offers an opportunity to better understand the past, reconsider the contemporary, and envision the future. In its first four years, Artlab Editorial has published writers from around the world, including Rahel Aima, Melissa Baksh, Shumon Basar, Julie Baumgardner, Allie Biswas, Hunter Braithwaite, Nancy Baker Cahill, Dawn Chan, Scarlet Cheng, Minji Chun, Samantha Culp, Joshua Paul Dale, Mira Dayal, Travis Diehl, Aindrea Emelife, Claire L. Evans, Mary Flanagan, Orit Gat, Ayana Jamieson, Ladi’sasha Jones, Charlotte Kent, Dean Kissick, Shannon Lee, Michelle Lhooq, Camila Marambio, Christina Catherine Martinez, Irini Mirena-Papadimitriou, Manuela Moscoso, Cassie Packard, Lee Pivnik, Syaura Qotrunadha, Rachael Rakes, Andrew Russeth, Kenny Schachter, Barry Schwabsky, Diana SeoHyung, Mindy Seu, Elizaveta Shneyderman, Monica Uszerowicz, Wendy Vogel, Claire Voon, Linda Yablonsky, Mika Yoshitake, LinYee Yuan, and Gary Zhexi Zhang, along with past Artlab Editorial Fellows, Olamiju Fajemisin, Laurie Rojas, Skye Arundhati Thomas, and Kira Xonorika.
About Hyundai Artlab
For over a decade, Hyundai Motor has deepened its partnerships with global museums and cultural organizations, including MMCA, Tate, LACMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Most recently, Hyundai Motor announced Hyundai Translocal Series, a new partnership initiative that roots itself in fostering dialogues and exchanges among art institutions in Korea and across the globe. Hyundai Motor’s own art initiatives include Artlab Editorial, a digital platform dedicated to art writing by international voices and open call programs like the VH AWARD and the Hyundai Blue Prize+. Our ongoing collaborations and programs embrace the complexities of the cultural landscape by exploring new ideas and perspectives with individuals and organizations within and beyond the art ecosystem. The team steering these partnerships and initiatives is Hyundai Artlab. Our goal is to spark meaningful dialogue, cultivate empathy, and facilitate collaborations that connect across boundaries by supporting art that inspires us all.
