Consisting of three converted attic rooms (total area: 495 square meters) and a smaller area below, and opened with little fanfare at the start of 2007, the Annexe has hosted an unparalleled array of activities for a country where government control and ethnic sensitivities have long stifled cultural expression.

Aside from numerous exhibits, many for local painters who have had little chance to break into more mainstream venues, recent highlights include a Sekshualiti Merdeka (Sexual Freedom) Festival that examined violence against transgendered people and a multidisciplinary Emergency Festival, in which playwrights, performers, historians, even exiled Communists were brought in to help examine a buried period of Malaysian history.