Global Partner · Kuala Lumpur · Art
OpenKids Art DesaPark is an OpenKids Global Partner campus at Plaza Arkadia, Desa ParkCity, Kuala Lumpur.
About the campus
For children and teenagers aged 3 to 18, it runs a wide range of art programmes on the REMAT curriculum. Here they explore and create, stretch the imagination, develop creativity and express ideas of their own — with support all the way to art-school admissions.
The campus teaches REMAT, the spiral curriculum developed in Singapore by TAFA Group, the education group behind OpenKids, braided with the IB Approaches to Learning. Key ideas return as a child grows, from age 3 to 18, each time with greater depth.
Opened September 2026 · Desa ParkCity · Kuala Lumpur
Programmes
REMAT is the spiral curriculum behind every OpenKids art programme, developed in Singapore by TAFA Group, the education group behind OpenKids, on Jerome Bruner's theory. It brings a child back to each key concept as they grow, from age 3 to 18, deeper at every return. Colour is never taught once. It runs from a first mixing at three to a personal palette in the portfolio years. Its name comes from its five modules: Regroup, Extend, Multi, Atman and Theme.
The framework
Hover or tap a petal to read the module and see which courses carry it.
Module 01 · R · Regroup
As children grow, classes and teachers rotate, and each teacher brings a different artistic specialty. Every regroup opens a new field of art for the child, and new friendships for the whole family.
Where you will see it
Three studios, taken in order as a child grows.
01Ages 3–8
Painting, drawing, clay and outdoor exploration for the youngest beginners — from First Acquaintance at three to Professional Art at eight.
02Ages 8–18
Fine art and design across sketching and colour, with a path set by each student's interests, goals and direction. It leads on to Portfolio Preparation.
03Ages 8–18
A distinctive portfolio built from graphite drawing to design — for students set on art school, and for the applications that follow.
Open across the age range; timetabled by the campus.
01Ages 3–18
Painting on location with an instructor — nature, culture, heritage and local life observed at first hand, to sharpen artistic sensitivity.
02Ages 3–18
Short themed courses between terms — craft, canvas painting, clay modelling, printmaking and photography — and family art workshops where parents and children create side by side.
03Ages 3–18
Graphic design, digital painting, animation and fashion design. What the hand learns on paper carries straight to the screen.
04Ages 3–18
Preparation for international competitions, from reading the brief to the finished, submitted entry.
05Ages 3–18
The idea before the prompt, the object after the screen. AI-assisted image-making judged by a trained eye, and 3D modelling that ends as something a child can hold.
Free trial class
Message the campus on WhatsApp and the team will reply with available trial times. See the studio, and let your child try a lesson.
The campus
Studios, shared spaces and lessons in progress.
A walk through the campus
To Achieve Happiness Through The Cultivation Of Arts Creativity
The spiral
Bruner's insight was that a child need not wait to meet a big idea. They meet it early, in a form they can hold, then meet it again, later and harder. Colour is the clearest example. It is not a topic covered once but a thread running the length of the curriculum, and on into portfolio preparation.
Seven visits to one idea, from a first mixing to a personal palette. Hover or tap a stage.
Ages 3–4 · First Acquaintance
Learn The Proper Names Of Colours And Mix Two Of Them
The artists return too. Paul Klee appears at ages 3–4 and again at 4–5; Claude Monet at 6–8 and again at 8–10, carried across the handover from Creative Art to Professional Art. The same artist, met by a different child.
Our belief
The five strands
Knowledge gives a child a fish. The IB Approaches to Learning (ATL) teach a child to fish. In REMAT, the five ATL skills are not a sixth subject set beside drawing. They are the strands the spiral is braided from, running its full length from age 3 to 18.
Ages 3 To 18Sweep Around The RingTap Anywhere On The Ring
01 / 05
Critical and creative thinking: asking better questions, not only finding answers.
Our story
OpenKids is an education brand of TAFA Group, an education group founded in Singapore in 2015. OpenKids Art Programmes follow one continuous course of study from age 3 to 18, taught in sequence, studio by studio. The same studios, the same ladder, now open in Kuala Lumpur.
OpenKids Art Programmes · Singapore
Read our storyThe OpenKids network
Four things a child keeps long after the paint has dried.
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Art sharpens memory and critical thinking. The faster the world changes, the more an agile mind is worth.
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Imagination is the lifeblood of painting. Practised in the studio, it becomes a habit: making something that did not exist before.
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Art gives feeling a form that words cannot. Through it a child comes to understand others, and to understand themselves.
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A place to try without fear of failure. Mistakes are part of the process; confidence follows.
Student Work
Pieces from the OpenKids studios in Singapore, where the curriculum was developed: painting, drawing, sculpture, 3D work, digital art, design and more. Work from this campus is added as it is authorised.
Browse By Medium
Ages 3 To 8
Creative Art
15
Starry Sky
Painting · 3–4
Acrylic with marbled clay planets
Octopus Is Coming
Sculpture · 3–4
Clay and buttons
Sushi Bento
Sculpture
Modelled clay
Koinobori
3D Work · 4–5
Washi paper streamers over a watercolour sky
Long Neck Brachiosaurus
Sculpture · 4–5
Clay relief
Sunflower
Painting · 5–6
Oil pastel and acrylic
Seven Points Blue
Painting · 5–6
Mixed media
Flamingos
3D Work
Buttons and seed pods on a painted ground
Seaside Town
3D Work
Standing paper cut-out and modelled clay
Love My Home
Painting
Oil pastel and cut paper on black
Carp Big Splash
Painting · 6–8
Watercolour and collage
Zongzi Mountains
Painting
Watercolour and clay
Chocolate Factory
Painting
Watercolour and ink
Space Feast
Painting · 6–8
Marker and colour pencil
Golden Pyramids
Scratch Art
Scratch artAges 8 To 18
Professional Art And Portfolio
19
Dream
Painting · 8–10
Mixed media on kraft paper
Beautiful Tea Set
Drawing · 8–10
Line drawing
After Van Gogh
Painting · 8–10
Oil pastel master study
Trumpet And Scarf
Drawing
Pencil still life
Rainy Reflections
Painting · 10+
Watercolour
Kettle And Apple
Drawing · 10+
Pencil still life
The Letter G
Graphic Design
Letter design with line-drawn sunflowers
Orchid Stamp
Graphic Design
Stamp design with collaged stamps
Lotus And Dragonfly
Chinese Painting · 10+
Gongbi in layered mineral colour
Blue Cockatoo
Painting · 10+
Gouache
Blue Ruffle Dress
Fashion Design
Fashion illustration in marker
Eight Planets
3D Work
Light installation with cut-paper astronautsLion Dance Night
Digital Art
Digital illustration
Autumn Knight
Digital Art
Digital painting
Earth In Our Hands
Sculpture
Mixed media sculpture
Clay And Copper
Sculpture
Wheel-thrown pots and copper relief
Gear Tiger
3D Work
Relief collage with gears and moss
Colosseum Under The Stars
Drawing
Charcoal
Sky Whale
Scratch Art
Scratchboard and newspaper collageCompetitions & honours
Every year, work from the programme's students travels to international competitions and exhibitions around the world. Entering is not about the prize: a child learns to decide what they believe and to say it in a single image, and the honours follow.
Where the work has travelled
Award-winning work · programme students
The International Stages Our Students Enter
Anything Else To Ask
Message the campus team on WhatsApp. They reply during opening hours.
WhatsApp the campusPlaza Arkadia has two levels of basement parking. A free shuttle bus runs between the mall and the MRT.
Message the campus on WhatsApp below. The team will reply with available trial times, and your child's first class is free.
A full lesson plus a gentle skills assessment. Afterwards, the teacher walks you through a personal learning plan for your child.
Fees depend on the learning plan we build after the trial assessment — programme, level and schedule all shape it. You'll see every figure before you commit to anything.
The trial assessment decides — teachers place your child by readiness, not just birthday. Many children start across two programmes at once.
Visit & contact
Where to find the campus, when it is open and how to reach the team.
F-1-13A, No.3 Jalan Intisari Perdana, Plaza Arkadia, 52200 Desa ParkCity, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaOpening hours
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Wed
12:30
19:00
Thu
12:30
19:00
Fri
12:30
19:00
Sat
09:30
18:30
Sun
09:30
18:30
Closed Mon – Tue
Parking
Two levels of basement parking at Plaza Arkadia.
Getting here
A free shuttle bus runs between Plaza Arkadia and the MRT.
OpenKids Art DesaPark Campus
WhatsApp the campus
The WhatsApp code opens a chat; the WeChat code adds the campus as a contact.
