Experience the Civic District afresh this August 2023 onwards, with Benchmarks, a new public art trail commissioned by the Civic District Alliance (CDA). Designed by six Singapore-based artists, Lua Boon Kai, Joyce Beetuan Koh, Immanuel Koh, Yang Jie, Jeffrey Tan and Jason Wee, the public art initiative features a series of six unconventional artwork benches […]
Everyday Practices is the inaugural exhibition at Singapore Art Museum (SAM)’s new collection gallery at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, marking the opening of a dedicated space featuring artworks from the SAM collection that reflect contemporary global practices and life today. The exhibition features 21 artworks from 19 artists and 1 artist collective from 10 countries across […]
Singapore Art Museum (SAM) presents Rattan Eco Sprawl: Manifesting the Forest, a newly commissioned artwork by Singaporean artist Zen Teh. This installation is part of Port/raits of Tanjong Pagar, a public art trail by The Everyday Museum that brings artistic perspectives into everyday spaces in the Tanjong Pagar neighbourhood. It joins other works on the […]
Step into the shade of the Albizia tree (Albizia moluccana), a resilient migrant tree species that has quietly spread and flourished in rewilding green spaces across Singapore’s landscape, forming isolated islands amid Singapore’s urban concrete jungle. 5 Albizias, a travelling showcase by artist Robert Zhao Renhui, explores the history of the Albizia tree in Singapore, […]
Are you a theatre maker who enjoys creating collaborative, socio-politically charged works? Join us at an exciting new theatre workshop at The Necessary Stage (TNS) that will spark your creativity and sharpen your critical thinking skills via forum and devising theatre techniques! Led by TNS’ Artistic Director Alvin Tan, and assisted by Associate Artist A […]
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay invites local and international artists, curators, programmers, writers, researchers and practitioners across all disciplines in the performing arts to apply for the Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency, taking place in Singapore between April and June 2026. In its third edition, the Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency is an artistic research […]
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay invites local and international artists, curators, programmers, writers, researchers and practitioners across all disciplines in the performing arts to apply for the Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency, taking place in Singapore between April and June 2026. In its third edition, the Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency is an artistic research […]
Imagined as a transient arts space charged with multidisciplinary artistic expression and public engagement, the SIFA Pavilion lends a powerful new dimension to the Festival’s relationship with the shared public environ; the common space where our plural narratives co-exist. A colossal installation, titled Beneath Tide, Running Water, by visual artist Wang Ruobing doubles as a […]
Singapore’s pinnacle annual performing arts festival, Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), returns from 16 May to 1 June 2025, guided by the overarching theme More Than Ever. Organised by Arts House Limited (AHL) and commissioned by the National Arts Council (NAC), SIFA 2025 celebrates Singapore’s unique cultural identity and the evolution of its artistic […]
Singapore Art Museum proudly presents Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness, the first major survey exhibition by prolific multifaceted artist Heman Chong. Appropriated from Wikipedia’s defining terms and conditions related to the ever-changing nature of its online lists, the title announces its intentions […]
Ubud Open Studios invites art lovers, cultural explorers, and the creatively curious to our annual celebration of art in Ubud, Bali. The 4th edition of this event will take place over 3 days and includes studios visits, talks and demonstrations, exhibitions and more. Discover Ubud's contemporary art scene right from artists’ studios. Imagine an art-filled […]
A vandalised artwork. An enigmatic painter forced to create wartime propaganda. A desperate act of love. As Emma, an art conservation student restores a portrait of a Japanese woman, Mizuki, she finds herself transported deep into the heart of Syonan-to—Japanese-occupied Singapore. There, Emma stitches together the lives of Mizuki, the artist, Huang Wei and the […]
Man. Father. Fool. In this dark and claustrophobic world, Lear is the all-powerful patriarch, but he is also his own fool. Being a fool is one thing. Having power and being a fool is quite another. What happens when the power we hold is taken away? “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!” This […]
Experience a talking installation paying homage to the glorious plantations that lined Orchard Road. Witness a magnificent sailboat travelling across the Empress Lawn. Touch, feel and create as you go on a pilgrimage of memories through whimsical and playful interactive kinetic installations that take you on a journey through time and space. Many were once […]
11 October 2024 to 31 August 2025 Daily, 10am–7pm | Fridays, 10am–9pm Peranakan Museum $6 for Singaporeans and Permanent Residents; $18 for Foreigners Family, art, and entrepreneurship converge in the story of three visionary Peranakan women from Indonesia – Nyonya Oeij Soen King, her daughter-in-law Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, and her granddaughter Jane Hendromartono. From […]
Design Earth: Speculative Fiction for the Climate springs from the conviction that climate change demands urgent transformations in the ways we care for and design the Earth. DESIGN EARTH, a research practice founded and led by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy engages the medium of the speculative architectural project to make public the climate […]
The Everyday Museum, a public art initiative by Singapore Art Museum, presents Speaking of which – a pop-up activation, unfolding across two bustling city spaces in Tanjong Pagar and Harbourfront, held in conjunction with Singapore Heritage Festival 2025. Explore cultural pastimes of 1950s and 1960s Singapore through alternative takes on lesser-known or often-overlooked oral […]
Make the most of your digital camera with this comprehensive introduction to digital photography. Comprising classroom sessions, guided shoots and group critiques, this course imparts the fundamental principles of photography and is suitable for beginners. After completing this course, participants will be familiar with techniques of composition, understand the ‘trinity of exposure’ (aperture, shutter speed, […]
Step into the world of transcontinental artist Fernando Zóbel in Fernando Zóbel: Order is Essential, National Gallery Singapore’s first-ever solo exhibition dedicated to the cosmopolitan artist, patron, collector, and scholar. Born in the Philippines to a prominent Spanish family, discover the remarkable journey of his artistic practice spanning across the Philippines, United States and […]
artcommune proudly presents Imprints of a Vanished Time: Paintings and Prints by Lim Mu Hue, an exhibition that spotlights the late Singapore artist’s dynamic exploration across oil, ink, woodcut and mixed media works. Featuring 19 works dating to the period of 1950s to 2002, the show traces Lim’s thoughtful synthesis of Western academic techniques and deep […]
The Taiwan Collateral Event of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is organized by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), and NON-Belief: Taiwan Intelligens of Precarity, a curatorial project by National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), will represent Taiwan at the Biennale held from May 10 to November 23, 2025, […]
Deadline for nominations: Mon 23 Jun (2359H SGT) Objectifs is excited to announce the launch of a new award, dedicated to celebrating and supporting the exceptional work of mid-career women and non-binary photographers, filmmakers and visual artists who work primarily in lens-based medium, and who are now at a pivotal stage in their careers. Through […]
On stage, a house appears from nothing. It goes up fast, choreographed like time-lapse photography. Residents move in, move out, get evicted, burn it down, loot it, rent it, remodel it, get married and divorced in it, grow up in it, die in it, haunt it. And all the while, they leave and live among […]
Vampyr is a mockumentary about stubborn shapeshifting creatures—half-dead, half- alive, half-animal, half-human, half-earth—that refuse to obey the mandate of the nature/culture divide. Living in unregulated wind turbine parks in Chile, these indeterminate beings exist sometimes as disoriented bats, and sometimes as exhausted night-shift workers. A piece about energy and exhaustion, work and rest, Vampyr is […]
Join Anthony Chin for an engaging and in-depth exploration around his work, BMA, on this Saturday afternoon at Portals within the Battlebox. This is a unique opportunity to gain first-hand insights into his creative process, inspirations and research behind the work and other previous works in his established practice. We recommend for guests to arrive 1 hour […]
Join us for a journey through poetry, music and movement inspired by pantun and Surrealism. Switch is like a living poem where each performer whispers from traditions, languages and influences to create an archipelagic soundscape. This performance is produced by Le Pavillon Rouge des Arts Hong Kong, and supported by the French Embassy of Singapore […]
