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Teens & Kin
2022-07-01 08:00 - 2023-02-01 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | MAELab, 378 Alexandra Road, Blk 29 MAELAB, Level 2 Mind Art Experiential Lab, Alexandra Hospital, Singapore, 159964, Singapore
Drawing from survey studies of Singapore youths, and their relationships with family, the exhibition brings together thoughtful infographics, artwork commissions, and activity areas that share insights into adolescents’ mental health problems, and avenues for tackling these challenges.

Hawkapura : Atmosphere, Character, Flavours
2022-08-23 10:00 - 2022-12-31 19:00 | NMS LED Wall, Level1, National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897, Singapore, 178897, Singapore
In visualising and creating various everyday and specialty dishes across generations, Singapore has proudly carved its own identity and passion centring around the subject of food. With the introduction of dedicated spaces for hawker stalls and their constant development over the years, the uniquely Singaporean hawker culture continues to remain strongly rooted in the hearts of locals.

RSCLS and MARIHADALITTLESHEEP (featuring Rene Foo) have come together for this video collaboration to paint their take on their observations of the streets. In the process of creating this piece, the artists visualise street art and food as two beings growing hand in hand as they undergo parallel changes over time. Embodying a hint of playfulness and vibrancy, the artwork aims to introduce a fresh perspective on hawker culture to audiences, highlighting the subtle similarity in the identities of the streets and its food and art.

The life-sized pushcart and the hawker apparatus on view here are an artistic salute to the street vendors who have contributed to our rich heritage and culture.

About the artists
RSCLS -[ras-kuhl]
Formed in late 2006, RSCLS is an urban art collective that believes in the propagation of acts of artistic nonsense through open uninhibited random collaborations and discourse. A collective of artistic misfits and outsiders from diversely distinct backgrounds, the collective is united by their love for graffiti and street art.

As a collective, RSCLS is a recipient of the Seed Grant from the NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL and have been involved in numerous exhibitions and events both locally and internationally. THE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT is an initiative by RSCLS to create a regional sharing network for urban arts. It is also a program that seeks to document, archive and provide an understanding and education of street art and graffiti as an art form in the cultural and urban context of each different city in South East Asia.

@rscls

MARIHADALITTLESHEEP
Throughout her career, Marianne (@marihadalittlesheep) has explored a diversity of art forms from visual arts to music, dance and theatre.

She has participated in projects by National Arts Council, National Youth Council, Singapore Tourism Board, Land Transport Authority and more, taking on roles from the project manager to artist and photographer/videographer. In recent years, she has led projects as the junior art director for commercial and product advertising.
She has also executed self-initiated community art projects and spearheaded CSR mural projects for Very Special Arts Singapore, Singapore Pools and more.

Outside her full time job, Marianne also has an interest in the archival of creative processes and narratives, and enjoys learning and utilising different mediums to better share these stories as a multi-disciplinary artist and storyteller.
marihadalittlesheep.com

RENE FOO

Rene Foo is a graphic designer and illustrator, based in Singapore.
She graduated with a diploma in Motion Graphics from Nanyang Polytechnic in 2021.

Her creative interests lies in both digital and hand-drawn illustration, brand implementation, print design and animation. Aside from making things look eye-catching, she believes that brands thrive best when they have meaning and purpose behind them. That design is beyond just its aesthetic value.
@foo.rene | @neyhfilms (Instagram) https://www.behance.net/renefoo (Online Portfolio)

ACM and Anima Mundi: Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums
2022-10-01 10:00 - 2023-10-01 19:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) welcomes a selection of Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums in Rome, in its latest rotation of the Christian Art Gallery. Drawn from the Anima Mundi (meaning “Soul of the World”), these are little-known treasures of Christian art made in Asia.
The public will be able to view up-close how the Catholic Church was able to integrate traditional Asian elements into its art. These intricate objects reveal the ingenuity of Asian artisans and craftsmen, who were able to adapt their work to incorporate foreign aesthetics and ideas that made them more appealing to local audiences. The artistic and cultural exchanges expressed through these works demonstrate how art can foster meaningful dialogue among religions and cultures.
These beautiful creations complement the existing display containing masterpieces from Singapore’s National Collection, reminding us of the history of religious harmony and tolerance amid diverse faiths around the world. ACM and Anima Mundi are one of the few museums that have dedicated a permanent space to presenting Christian works of art made in Asia, which tell important stories of love, diversity, and resilience.
ACM and Anima Mundi: Chinese Christian art from the Vatican Museums is a part of ACM’s year-long series of programmes and gallery rotations in commemoration of its 25th anniversary, dedicated to the cross-cultural connections and shared heritage of Singapore and the region. Objects in this collaboration will be available for public viewing for a period of one year.

Finding Wonders: Celebrating 10 Years of Think! Contemporary Student Artworks
2022-11-04 10:00 - 2022-12-31 21:00 | National Library, Drama Theatre, 100 Victoria St, #03-01 National Library, Singapore, Singapore, 188064, Singapore
Finding Wonders: Celebrating 10 Years of Think! Contemporary Student Artworks
Explore the little wonders that exist in your daily life in Finding Wonders: Celebrating 10 Years of Think! Contemporary Student Artworks. As you journey through the exhibition, discover the many wonders that young students have found in the virtual world, in their dreams, in people and even in themselves, that inspired their artworks.
Finding Wonders is the tenth edition of the Think! Contemporary programme, presented by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) in partnership with CHIJ Our Lady Queen of Peace, Geylang Methodist School (Primary), Haig Girls’ School, Mayflower Primary School and St. Anthony’s Primary School. This exhibition spans across physical and virtual realms, showcasing more than 30 artworks created in 2021 and 2022.

Global Landscapes Singapore
2022-11-04 12:00 - 2023-01-05 17:00 | Art Now Gallery, Raffles Hotel Arcade, 328 North Bridge Rd, #02-32, Singapore 188719, Singapore, Singapore
Grammy-nominated British composer, artist and co-founder of production company Sisters Grimm, Ella Spira MBE, will launch her latest art project, ‘Global Landscapes Singapore’ at Art Now gallery, in the Raffles Hotel Arcade, unveiling her work as a visual artist. The exhibition will be opened to the public with no tickets required on the 4th and 5th of November.

The launch will open with an ‘In conversation with Ella Spira MBE” hosted by Alice Black, former director of The Design Museum London and founder of ArtULTRA. The invitation only event will shed light on the process, influences, inspiration, and intention of Spira as a painter, giving context to the artworks created in Singapore.

Global Landscape Singapore celebrates the richness of life in and around the island through six individual paintings and a series of charcoals. Spira has been able to show a city that values natural resources and has kept nature as part of its urban landscape. From pockets of green punctuating the financial area of the city to the thriving marine trade, which has been part of its backdrop for centuries. Spira first came to Singapore for work in 2015, but she is painting the city for the first time this year.

The paintings are accompanied by photographs taken by Singaporean photographer Rebecca Toh and an evocative score composed by Spira. This score features Singaporean cellist Olivia Chuang and incorporates the sound of Rebecca’s camera click as well as the sound of Singapore thunder storms, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWW0oULbYBs) which has been recently released on Sisters Grimm’s Youtube channel.

Deeply influenced by her Jewish heritage and family history as a third generation Holocaust survivor, Ella has dedicated her life to celebrating and foregrounding underrepresented cultures. Her multidisciplinary approach regularly features innovative multicultural collaborations and is rooted in a conviction that the arts have a deep influence on society.

Collaboration is a central tenet of Ella Spira’s artistic work; her encounter with Toh led to an artistic meeting of minds: Toh was given an all access to Ella, to create an intimate portrait of her and bring home what it is to be an artist. The outcome of this collaboration is a series of intimate, closely shot photographs, in which Toh has captured the soul of her fellow artist. They are not posed, but rather taken free flow, in the moment, which is Toh’s hallmark photography. Rebecca Toh’s portraits of Spira lift the veil of her innermost self to reveal the unadorned woman and her emotions, creating moments of true connection.

SPACE OUT! @ Downtown East
2022-11-04 17:00 - 2023-01-02 21:00 | Downtown East, 1 Pasir Ris Close Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 519599, Singapore
Bring the mysteries of the universe closer to you as you discover new dimensions where your imagination can run free through various multi-media art installations at Downtown East, Singapore.
SPACE OUT! invites you to see our world like you’ve never seen it before. Through interactive XR and new media experiences, you’ll unlock the possibilities of creativity and witness fantastical new environments right in front of your eyes.
Otherworldly exploration has never felt closer with these free art experiences.

Virtual Reality Pods:

Embark on a journey beyond limits with VR painting artworks by local artists Christine Lok, Fauxe, ScRach MarcS, tobyato and YANGERMEISTER, and breathtaking 360° outer space videos by SpaceCinema. Get a chance to experience creating your own VR paintings with the world as your canvas and your imagination as your palette from now till 2 Jan 23.

Augmented Reality:

If you could create your own planet, what would it look like? From now till 15 Jan 23, view an AR-enhanced digital mural by visual artist, Joy Ho who imagines a world of cosmic creatures living in perfect harmony…or so it may seem.

Outdoor Interactive Light Projection:

Be transported to the surface of Mars and the Moon, where you can interact with the stars and planets. Starts from now till 2 Jan 23, daily from 7.30pm-10.30pm. *Extended hours apply for NYE countdown.

RESET : Fields of Sensation
2022-11-11 18:00 - 2023-01-20 18:00 | Kang Contemporary, Lindenstraße 90 / Mendelssohnplatz, Berlin, Berlin, 10969
Pause. Reset. Reload. In today’s fast-paced world, we seldom take the time to reenact what is only too familiar in the digital realm of gaming and scrolling. This exhibition is an open invitation for our visitors to imitate this practice and pause, reset, and reload the way they approach visual media. Central to this experience is an enthusiasm and commitment to curiosity and intuition. RESET – Fields of Sensation is a clarion call to all of us who have been consuming but not actually seeing images. The quiet art of sensing is championed in this space in which we perceive and connect. The exhibition offers the receptive visitor a room in which they can open themselves to the sensations of colors and composition to investigate the materials and dynamics of the artworks. A curious mind may discover that a resourceful interaction with art also creates the potential for resetting the dynamics within the gallery space. Each artist in this exhibition allows the observer to discover a variety of connections to art and themselves through intuitively observing and sensing what is right in front of them.
Sensation is perhaps the driving force behind Jaehong Ahn’s creational process. The inception of his paintings is solely guided by the artist’s physical movements. Through automatic painting, Ahn creates abstractions only to then move to figuration. His intuitive motions on the canvas turn into wondrous and sometimes bizarre landscapes. The foreign species and odd landmarks change and undergo continuous metamorphoses, disorientating the observer. Theatrical elements such as stages and curtains, as well as the steadily transforming subjects, remind us that these scenes are carefully constructed imagination and separate themselves from our known visual vocabulary. The contenders who enter this world of tension are often separated and linger, unable to overcome the divide. The theme of separation weaves itself throughout all of Jaehong Ahn’s paintings. Nevertheless, there is always a strong sense of balance. The artworks enter a game of severed and yet balanced conversation, of emerging and being separated. The artist, the canvas, and the viewer are divided forces that isolate and conceal and nevertheless come together in an aspiration for unity.
Vemo Hang’s sculptures and paintings contemplate spatiality and travel across boundaries in a time of rapid pace and overwhelming impressions. Her work is based on transcultural histories and theories, especially the comparisons of European and East Asian thinking through which she links the past to the present and crosses the spatial and temporal boundaries. In this synthesis of knowledge and sensuality, the artist creates atmospheres in which understanding is achieved through intimacy. Her ceramic sculptures create dynamic compositions on the walls, which reference the Go/Weiqi board game. The round shapes invade the room with their expanding fragments. As they disembark, the orbs transcend their formerly limited dimension, exploring finite enclosedness and explosive openness. The color blue prevails in the sculptures and the canvases in this exhibition, exploring notions of the “Blaue Stunde”. Vemo Hang reflects on Berlin’s recent visual condition, which she observed during the pandemic. The sudden reset and impossibility of travel shifted the focus to the immediately local. The imagined places are a harmonious combination of a multitude of independent scenes. Thereby, Vemo Hang finds solutions to bridging spaces and creates a potential for travel between channels.
The artworks by Sabine Laidig satisfy a longing for “less” as they reduce data into grids of lines and mists of color. They are a subtle ode to the sensations of the human eye. The materiality of the artworks has a calculated effect on the observer and creates illusions of space as the artworks seem to vibrate with the weightlessness of color. Her pigment studies and awareness of materiality enable her to honor these without being restricted by color, material or form. The lines drawn with immaculate precision vary in width and interval, resulting in different tonalities of color on every sheet, each with its own steady and stimulating tone. This potent symphony of lines and pigment enter a dialogue with the viewer. Notably, the impression of the artworks depends on the observer’s standpoint, effectively including them in the creation of meaning. In Sabine Laidig’s artworks, precision does not negate warmth, and the grid is not void of personality and narrative but rather a source for experiences of still perception. Despite the concrete and reduced nature of the grid, Laidig’s works are, first and foremost, a sensory experience.
Tatjana Schülke stimulates the viewer with tactile anticipations. The curious tubes, spikes and arches protrude into the space. Her objects radiate expressiveness and personality, yet, they seem guarded and defensive to the intruding gaze. With their ability to balance the tension between reaching out and holding back, these artworks embody sensitivity. The communicative sculptures, reliefs, and wall objects make us intuitively reflect on interpersonal exchange and relationships. Tatjana Schülke creates these artworks from objects she finds in her immediate surroundings. They express enthusiasm for openness and connecting. Thereby, her artworks radiate vitality and human complexity. The unexpected materials such as tubes, toothpicks, yarn, and styrofoam indicate her innate curiosity, which leads her to playfully pursue the expression of inside and outside, order and chaos, and visible and hidden. These concepts get unraveled in such nuance through exploring material that the observer cannot help but sense and empathize with these objects.
Paula Böke

A Christmas Extravaganza at Design Orchard
2022-11-12 - 2023-01-04 | Design Orchard, 250 Orchard Rd, 238905, Singapore
Tis the season to be jolly! The most merry time of the year has come to Design Orchard. This Christmas, we bring you a carousel of unique and interesting gifting ideas. Our curated selection of homegrown labels span a wide range of apparel, fragrances, food, pet accessories and little trinkets for you and your loved ones. In this season of giving, join us in giving back to the community by adopting a wish at our T-Shirt Christmas tree and make a child’s dream come true.

Celebrate A Christmas Extravaganza with us from 12 November to 4 January!

The store will feature specially curated Gifting and Experiential Zones during this festive season:

Breath of life – Personal & Home Fragrances
Grab a bite – Food & Snacks
Fetch a treat – Pet Books & Accessories
Love the earth – The Sustainable Selection
Give a gift – Gifting Trinkets & Knick-knacks
Bundle the joy – Gift Wrapping
Santa’s Workshop – Experience Corner [21 November onwards]

Santa’s workshop is the ultimate experiential zone to create customised gifts as a gift to your loved ones or simply as a present to treat yourself this Christmas. Brands available include tea blends with 3 Thirty Tea, skincare with Fawn Labs, watch straps with Cranky Cats, candles by Pristine Aroma x Au Naturel and monogram scarves with Queenmark.

Body & Spirit: The Human Body in Thought and Practice
2022-11-25 10:00 - 2023-03-26 19:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
ACM explores wellness and the wholeness of body, spirit, and mind with Body & Spirit: The Human Body in Thought and Practice. Featuring over 100 objects from the National Collection, private collectors, and local communities, this special exhibition presents a stunning display of sacred and ritual art from Singapore and the region. Join us in contemplating the many ways in which religions in Asia understand the human body through rituals, healing practices, pilgrimage, and divine images.
Complementing the main exhibition are two special showcases. Buddha Relics displays gems and other precious offerings found together with bone relics of the Buddha in the Piprahwa Stupa in India in 1898. In Vel Vel: The Burden Dance (a project by Sistrum), learn more about kavadi — elaborate structures carried in Thaipusam, a yearly procession celebrated by Singapore’s Tamil Hindu community.

Body & Spirit: The Human Body in Thought & Practice
2022-11-25 10:00 - 2023-03-26 19:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Lunar New Year Promotion: 50% off entry fees for Singaporeans & Permanent Residents to Body & Spirit: The Human Body in Thought & Practice Special Exhibition from 15 January – 15 February 2023

ACM explores wellness and the wholeness of body, spirit, and mind with Body & Spirit: The Human Body in Thought and Practice. Featuring over 100 objects from the National Collection, private collectors, and local communities, this special exhibition presents a stunning display of sacred and ritual art from Singapore and the region. Join us in contemplating the many ways in which religions in Asia understand the human body through rituals, healing practices, pilgrimage, and divine images.

Complementing the main exhibition are two special showcases. Buddha Relics displays gems and other precious offerings found together with bone relics of the Buddha in the Piprahwa Stupa in India in 1898. In Vel Vel: The Burden Dance (a project by Sistrum), learn more about kavadi – elaborate structures carried in Thaipusam, a yearly procession celebrated by Singapore’s Tamil Hindu community.

Singaporeans and Permanent Residents enjoy 50% off entry fees when they visit Body & Spirit from 15 January – 15 February 2023!

CALL FOR ARTISTS: ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022
2022-12-13 17:00 - 2022-12-30 20:30 | palazzo bembo, Venice
ALL FOR ARTISTS: ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 – 5th edition
Rome, Italy | December 13 – 30, 2022
Deadline: November 11, 2022
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 is a contemporary art fair that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 5th edition will represent a forum for the direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography art, installations, video art and live performance.
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 – 5th edition, organized by ITSLIQUID Group, will be held in Rome, at Medina Art Gallery from December 13 to December 30, 2022.
To take part in the selection, send your works’ submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video-art), links of videos/performances and pictures via e-mail to director@itsliquid.com
ROME INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2022 analyzes the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary time, through two main sections: MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES.
MIXING IDENTITIES analyzes the hidden parts of our identities, through an immersive experience inside the fascinating universe of the complex labyrinths of our consciousness. The human body is a changing system that connects us with other bodies and spaces to perceive the surrounding reality; a strong communication system with its own language and infinite ways of expression.
FUTURE LANDSCAPES are abstract, infinite and conceptual, associated with a sense of freedom and infinite extension. Primarily experienced with the mind, spaces redefine their limits and borders, transforming surfaces in an open flow of pure ideas. This section focuses on the concept of the borders and the structures between body, mind and soul, the human identity and the city, the space and the ground.
www.itsliquid.com

CALL FOR ARTISTS: LONDON CONTEMPORARY 2022
2022-12-15 - 2023-01-15 | the line london
CALL FOR ARTISTS: LONDON CONTEMPORARY 2022 – 6TH EDITION
London | December 15, 2022 – January 15, 2023
Deadline: November 27, 2022
LONDON CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR 2022, organized by ITSLIQUID Group in collaboration with YMX Arts, will be held in London, at THE LINE Contemporary Art Space (click here to learn more on this venue) from December 15, 2022, to January 15, 2023.
LONDON CONTEMPORARY will provide artists and exhibitors with the unique opportunity to present their works to an international audience of professionals as curators, gallerists, collectors, editors and publishers who seek to acquire, publish and encourage the best contemporary art talents.
LONDON CONTEMPORARY is an international art fair that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 6th edition will represent a forum for the direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography art, installations, video art and live performance.
To take part in the selection, send your works’ submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video art), links to videos/performances and pictures via e-mail to director@itsliquid.com
LONDON CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR 2022 will analyze the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary times.
We invite artists, architects and designers to be inspired by the magical power of London, exploring the connection between desires, needs, and fears through rituals that bring humankind to change, transform and evolve their inner world.
Deadline for applications is November 27, 2022 (11.59 PM of your local time)

Zhang Fuming: Props and Poses
2022-12-16 12:00 - 2023-01-03 19:00 | AC43 Gallery, 76 Bras Basah Rd, #01-01, Singapore 189558, Singapore, Singapore, 189558, Singapore
AC43 Gallery is pleased to present Singapore printmaker Zhang Fuming’s latest exhibition, Props and Poses. Through this new series of work, Fuming delves into an observational criticism of the ‘fake it till you make it’ phenomenon and the middle-class obsessional pursuit with materials and ranks within society. Featuring 12 medium- and large-format mixed media woodcuts and 8 small drawings completed in the recent period of 2020-2022, the showcase provides audience an insightful survey of Fuming’s endeavour beyond conventional modes and formats of printmaking.
Zhang Fuming (b. 1989, Singapore) obtained his diploma in Fine Arts (Printmaking) from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2011. He specialises in woodcut and has over the years developed a body of work that harnesses the direct, efficient means of black-white woodcut narratives to express critical social messages. His stark, expressive use of blacks and whites takes after the technique of German printmaker, Kathe Kollwitz, who relies on bold, economical usage of blacks and whites to dramatise scenes of vulnerability, toil and destitution.
Props and Poses lends an observational criticism to the ‘fake it till you make it’ phenomenon and the middle-class obsession with materialistic pursuits and social ranks. Fuming deliberately modelled his woodcut compositions after certain types of images and photographic arrangements that pervade social media trends. The compositions evoke a photo-studio shoot setting where objects are arranged with figures in a particular fashion to create a seemingly spontaneous and objectively positive image. Upon closer inspection, however, these figures and objects are simply incompatible and awkward. The objects may seem unnaturally placed to optimise frontal viewing, neglecting functionality in the process and resulting in a warp of perspective and proportion. The subject matter becomes incredibly awkward and artificially decorative, as opposed to an artist’s process of framing and composing an image. There exists an ironic subtlety in Fuming’s handling of the objects and their significance within the setting of his composition, opening up for audience a contextual ambiguity to ruminate upon.

Zhang Fuming: Props and Poses
2022-12-16 12:00 - 2023-01-03 19:00 | AC43 Gallery, 76 Bras Basah Rd, #01-01, Singapore 189558, Singapore, Singapore, 189558, Singapore
AC43 Gallery is pleased to present Singapore printmaker Zhang Fuming’s latest exhibition, Props and Poses. Through this new series of work, Fuming delves into an observational criticism of the ‘fake it till you make it’ phenomenon and the middle-class obsessional pursuit with materials and ranks within society. Featuring 12 medium- and large-format mixed media woodcuts and 8 small drawings completed in the recent period of 2020-2022, the showcase provides audience an insightful survey of Fuming’s endeavour beyond conventional modes and formats of printmaking.
Zhang Fuming (b. 1989, Singapore) obtained his diploma in Fine Arts (Printmaking) from LASALLE College of the Arts in 2011. He specialises in woodcut and has over the years developed a body of work that harnesses the direct, efficient means of black-white woodcut narratives to express critical social messages. His stark, expressive use of blacks and whites takes after the technique of German printmaker, Kathe Kollwitz, who relies on bold, economical usage of blacks and whites to dramatise scenes of vulnerability, toil and destitution.
Venturing beyond the conventional practice of carving lines, ridges and reliefs to create an original composition in negative, Fuming treats the woodblock with carving tools and paints as a painter would a canvas, unveiling a monochrome relief composition on its surface through strategically chiselled shapes, lines and textures. Rather than being prints off the woodcut, each composition is presented as-is on the wood plank – at one with the artist’s material and carving process, and organically characterised by rough edges, imperfections, grains and frays. The image on the wood plank, though spartan, emanates stillness with a tremble of movement. This is because the composition is completed through tension and contrast from the seemingly brutish determination of the artist to create the desired image against the woodgrain, allowing the struggles of the artist’s knife to show through in detail.

BBA Artist Prize 2023
2022-12-19 - 2023-01-09 | Singapore
Applications are now open. The BBA Artist Prize 2023 awards international artists irrespective of their background with several Prizes incl. a solo show, cash prizes and much more. The competition includes a group exhibition of the shortlisted artists at the iconic Kühlhaus Berlin, one of the city’s most favoured venues for arts and culture events and a newspaper interview with Deeds.News. The BBA Artist Prize is a major event for contemporary art in Berlin and during Gallery Weekend.

A jury of experts debates the entries and ensures an unbiased evaluation and high quality standard. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd Prize and the Audience Award are awarding artists for their visual excellence, storytelling, conceptual thinking, technical craftsmanship and subject depth over a series of works. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Prize winners will also be awarded with a Group exhibition at the CSR.ART/ Contemporary ShowRoom Berlin by DEEDS NEWS, and the 1st prize winner will receive an additional solo show at BBA Gallery. BBA Prizes will feature the best applications through their social media profiles and website throughout the whole application period.

#Metazomia
2022-12-31 23:00 - 2023-01-20 22:00 | T:>Works, 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Rd, Singapore 239007, Singapore, Singapore, 239007, Singapore
#Metazomia is a 360-degree immersive cinematic experience created by award-winning artist Brian Gothong Tan. Famed for creating impressive multimedia experiences for the Singapore Bicentennial, National Day Parade and the Singapore International Festival of Arts, Tan’s latest production will not only be a visual feast but also an interactive one.

Created from artificial intelligence and inspired by the writings and ideas of James C. Scott’s ‘Zomia’ and Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin creation, Tan’s cinematic experience looks into what the future could hold. Tan spins off illustrative genres such as cypherpunk, solarpunk and desertpunk. He harnesses history, literature, popular culture, film and digitality to playfully critique and comment on reality and the desires for alternatives. In doing so, Tan creates a non-state reality that reflexively looks back at proposals of better futures. The result: an epic melding of generative art and motion graphics with interactivity that is fun, thrilling, and beautiful.
Experience #Metazomia with tickets available at Peatix.

Details:
a) Gala Fundraising Event plus Countdown Party
31 Dec 2022, 11pm till 1 Jan 2023, 1am
Tickets (by donation) at S$200*
Incl. of champagne, wine, and light bites and a signed open edition #Metazomia digital print.
(Tax deduction receipt available)

b) 2 till 20 Jan 2023
2pm – 10pm (2 Jan, Fri till Sun)
5pm – 10pm (Tue till Thu)
Closed on 9 and 16 Jan
Tickets at S$23 and S$15 (students/NSF/senior concessions)
Group bookings available, email ticketing.tworks@gmail.com for details

Moving Memories II
2023-01-01 10:00 - 2023-03-31 19:00 | National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore, 178897, Singapore
In the new year, catch Moving Memories II, the second installation of Yip Yew Chong’s iconic work, Moving Memories. Featuring animated life-sized murals by local artist Yip Yew Chong, Moving Memories II is a nostalgic homage to Singapore’s heritage featuring many iconic sites and scenes of both past and present Singapore. Get transported back in time with the digital installation immersive animation and soundscape that will bring back fond memories. With scenes from our Chinatown Market, Odeon Theatre, Changi Lucky Store and many more, watch as old school Singapore comes back to life and reminisce about the times of yore.
Accompanying this installation is a conversational guide to encourage visitors to engage in conversations about the scenes depicted. The guide is also suitable for senior organisations or care partners of persons with dementia to adapt and engage seniors in conversations. Visit www.nhb.gov.sg/nationalmuseum/our-exhibitions/exhibition-list/moving-memories for more information.

Django in Pain by Por Piedad Teatro & The Play Company
2023-01-04 - 2023-01-15 | Online
Digital table-top puppet theatre via video on demand
Content advisories: This story is about a character who is dealing with depression and contains strong images and language associated with suicidal thoughts and actions. There are non-photographic depictions of injured animals in distress.
Accessibility features: Closed captions in English. A version with audio description is also available.
60 minutes with no intermission
NC16 (Some Mature Content)
Asian premiere
“In a world that seems to give us lots of reasons to give up, Django in Painis a cry of hope”
—Juan Carlos Araujo, Entretenia.com (translated from Spanish)
“A day will come when you might need to kill a wolf; a mad wolf out there, or a wolf inside of you… ”
A playwright wants to write a happy play, but he can’t because his main character is so depressed that he wants to end his life. Hopefully the playwright will find a way to give
Django’s journey a happy ending. Or is it the other way around?
Django in Pain is an astonishing, exquisitely detailed and healing piece about depression, creativity, and love. Made and staged within the isolation of the early days of the pandemic in New York City, it used only hand-made puppets and scrap materials found around their
home and was filmed on a cellphone. This feature-length table-top puppet show chronicles the often-humorous with razor edges of grief misfortunes and adventures of Django—a puppet loosely inspired by Django Reinhardt, and a stray dog that keeps getting in his way.
It is both a deeply personal yet universal, multi-layered tale of despair, loyalty and hope.
Django in Pain premiered in New York City in October 2021 to rave reviews. The Spanish version, Django con la Soga al Cuello has been presented in Mexico and Argentina, where it received more than 6000 views in just three days.

Tree Confessions by This is Not a Theatre Company
2023-01-04 | Online
Accessibility features: Accessible to wheelchair users, audience with visual impairment, and as a relaxed performance experience
35 minutes with no intermission
Asian Premiere
“Moving and powerful”
—Ramsay Adams, Executive Director of Catskill Mountainkeepers
“Mesmerizing. Fascinating, moving, mystical, informative; I could list a dictionary’s worth of adjectives and still not fully describe how special Tree Confessions is… an audio-only piece that is so fully realized you can see it. Please take half an hour and listen to Tree Confessions and be changed for the better.”
—Rachel More, View
Presenting the world’s first play told entirely from the point of view of a tree, performed by award-winning Broadway, theatre and TV actress Kathleen Chalfant.
Trees talk! In a landmark study, a scientist learned everything about how trees communicate—or did she? One tree tells the story of what really happened, reminding us that human beings and plants live in one interconnected ecosystem.
To experience this site-specific audio play, find a tree near you, sit under it (or nearby), press play, and listen to the tree’s confessions.

Right Here, Right Now: Light to Night at ACM
2023-01-04 18:00 - 2023-01-26 21:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
Light to Night is back at ACM! We invite you to begin the year with us, to take a step back to explore what it means to be present in the moment – Right Here, Right Now.
Immerse yourself in a multimedia installation and enjoy evening performances on the ACM Green. Be inspired by film screenings. Embark on a tour through the galleries to discover objects that inspire contemplation, prayer, and wellness of mind and body. Engage in self-care through art, craft, and wellness activities.
This programme is developed in conjunction with Body & Spirit: The Human Body in Thought and Practice.

Mother of Compost by Noémie Huttner-Koros
2023-01-04 20:00 - 21:00 | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
“Whimsical yet powerful, Mother of Compost is a show with ecological advice that’s worth hearing and heeding”
—Seesaw
“Mother of Compost tackles climate change and social responsibility through the lens of young artists as they contemplate nature and regeneration, what legacy we will leave on our children, and whether it is, indeed a good idea to birth at all.”
—The Fourth Wall
Dearest compost, I am your mother and I am your child.
We live in an ecologically precarious time. Some of us don’t want to bring children into this world, others are worried their children won’t have a world to grow old into… but we’ve still got a whole lot of love to give. Rethink what it means to give birth and be birthed, and dance along with us in this gooey, camp and interactive subversion of family portraits, birthing classes, and evolutionary biology.
Over the course of the performance, the audience transforms from strangers to the beginnings of a family. Mother of Compost is a queer and unruly family gathering and a communal grieving for what is being lost and everything left to fight for.
From the minds of queer performance-makers Noémie Huttner-Koros and director Andrew Sutherland, Mother of Compost asks you to roll up your sleeves this Fringe Festival… Change only comes from getting your hands dirty.
With the support of the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, Government of Western Australia.

Never the Bride by The Necessary Stage
2023-01-04 20:00 - 21:30 | Esplanade Annexe Studio, 1 Esplanade Drive, 038981, Singapore
In English, with some Mandarin, Malay and Tamil
Accessibility features: open captions in English
90 minutes with no intermission
Rating to be advised
Fringe Commission
Three queer Singaporean men cast a little gay spell, don their bridal veils, and embark on a whirlwind journey towards matrimony. They dream through the past, the present and an imagined future to discover what a big, fat, fabulously gay wedding would look like for them!
In a country where the legal right to marriage is denied to the queer community, these individuals navigate the political, social, cultural, and personal reality of their lives, along with saying “yes” to whimsical wedding fantasies. “Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.” Is that the ultimate ultimatum, or is there a possible way to find marital bliss amidst the chaos?
Devised and performed by Ryan Ang, Fadhil Daud and Rajkumar Thiagaras, Never the Bride was first created and presented at the Devising with Actors and Playwrights programme as part of The Necessary Stage’s Devising Platform in 2021.

Less Than Half by Adib Kosnan, Yarra Ileto & Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
2023-01-05 20:00 - 21:00 | NAFA Studio Theatre, 151 Bencoolen Street, 189656, Singapore
Accessibility features: open captions in English
60 minutes with no intermission
Advisory (Some Mature Content)
World Premiere • Fringe Commission
Set in an imagined, futuristic world, Sama Wholeness Centre believes in the country’s mandate that all human lives are Whole.
Citizens who do not conform to the status of Whole are put through a rigorous training programme that will help them achieve the desired status before gaining admission to the country. Citizens who fail the programme are ousted and lost forever. Given the high stakes, the recruits soon discover that they must work both individually and collectively. Uncertainty ensues.
What have these recruits really signed up for? Will these recruits choose to conform to the demands of the programme, or will they stick to their roots and embrace what makes them “less than half”?
Directed by Adib Kosnan and Yarra Ileto, and written by Aswani Aswath, Less Than Half is devised and performed by students from the BA (Hons) in Performance Making programme at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
Co-presented with Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

Special Screening of Talking Leaves (2022) by Shubigi Rao
2023-01-05 20:00 - 22:30 | Capitol Theatre 17 Stamford Rd Singapore, 178907, Singapore
This special screening of Talking Leaves is part of Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, by artist Shubigi Rao and curated by Ute Meta Bauer. Commissioned by the National Arts Council, Singapore for the Singapore Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Pulp III marks the midpoint of Rao’s evocative 10-year project Pulp, which explores the history of book destruction and its impact on the futures of knowledge.
Held at Capitol Theatre, one of Singapore’s finest cinemas in the 1930s and a significant site in the Malayan cinema industry in its heyday, this screening is a reminder of Singapore’s vital film history.

ARTWALK 2023
2023-01-06 - 2023-01-15 | Little India & Katong Joo-Chiat, Singapore
Our culture, heritage and traditions can be likened to an echo – they reverberate in all directions and practices come and go like sound waves. However, a sound alone does not create an echo; rather, what allows echoes to manifest is their environment. Similarly, culture cannot exist in a vacuum. It is people within a society that allow the culture to persist, or evolve, over time. The metaphor of an echo reminds us that our culture is in constant flux, never stagnant.
ARTWALK 2023 calls on audiences to envision the various ways our culture could grow from here. Despite its time away from the streets, the heart of ARTWALK as well as the cultures it celebrates has only evolved. With its resounding return to Little India and Katong-Joo Chiat, ARTWALK relooks at our cultural heritage, bringing these spaces and histories alive through the reflections and impressions of contemporary artists.
While echoes eventually fade out, culture never dies. Rather, it grows, evolves and takes new forms. Where an echo may fade into non-existence, the impact culture leaves is permanent.
ARTWALK 2023 takes place from 6 – 15 January. Stay tuned for the programme line-up to be announced soon.

Porsche presents The Art of Dreams Singapore with ‘Dream Big.’ by Chris Labrooy
2023-01-06 05:00 - 2023-01-15 23:30 | Silver Leaf, Gardens by The Bay, 18 Marina Gardens Dr, Singapore 018953, Singapore, 018953
Fresh from its debut at Design Miami 2022 ‘The Art of Dreams’ a global initiative by Porsche returns to Singapore – this time with another larger-than-life installation from Chris Labrooy. The artwork ‘Dream Big.‘ is a fun homage to childhood dreams – with the Porsche 911 Carrera as a centerpiece in the hand of a larger-than-life figure with a racing driver’s helmet. Given the sheer size of the figure the 911 Carrera looks like a toy car. Singapore is the first and only stop in Asia for Chris Labrooy’s latest artwork.
Chris Labrooy is an artist and designer who lives and works in Scotland. His work focuses on the digital space with highly realistic renders of unexpected environments and dream-like situations often using cars as his subject and muse. He is a long time friend and collaborator of the brand and an avid Porsche driver himself.
Open to all Labrooy’s sculpture hopes to awaken the child in every one of us and challenges beholders to dream big.
Alongside the physical art installation Porsche Singapore will also curate a gallery within its new temporary experiential brand space at Mandala Club to showcase some of Labrooy’s other artworks.

Textures 2023
2023-01-06 08:00 - 2023-01-15 20:00 | The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore, Singapore
Organised by Arts House Limited, Textures, the annual literary festival that celebrates Singapore literature (SingLit) makes its comeback from 6 – 15 January 2023, in conjunction with the Light to Night (L2N) Festival and as part of the Singapore Art Week (SAW). After two years of bringing local literary arts to the heartlands, Textures 2023 returns home to where it first began, celebrating the nation’s diverse literary scene at the home of Singapore’s literary arts, The Arts House (TAH).

Curated by critically-acclaimed, multi-disciplinary artist Jason Wee for a third consecutive year, and with the theme aptly titled Arrived Home, the 2023 edition invites audiences to explore and question ideas of domesticity and belonging with programmes that highlight renowned local writers and their literary works. Head down to TAH to experience a wide range of literary art programmes from dramatised readings to multidisciplinary performances, installations, a pop-up bookstore, and many more!

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Porsche x Mandala Club present: Daniel Arsham's 'Crystal Eroded Porsche 911 (992)'
2023-01-06 08:00 - 2023-01-15 22:30 | Mandala Club, Mandala Club, 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd, Singapore 089845, Singapore, 089845, Singapore
In partnership with Mandala Club Porsche brings Daniel Arsham’s ‘Crystal Eroded Porsche 911 (992)‘ to Singapore. The ground floor of Mandala Club is transformed into an experiential Porsche brand space to showcase the artist’s expression of fictional archaeology with a sculpture seemingly created 1000 years from today.
The 992-generation 911 Carrera 4S art car which made its global debut at the artist’s “The House by Daniel Arsham” Selfridges space in London expresses a distinctoff-whitee tong throughout the exterior accented by eroded areas featuring quartz and pyrite crystals. These continue throughout the door roof and hood of the sculptural vehicle.
The car’s interior has also been reworked with earth-tone stone-washed canvas to complement the aesthetic. This upholstery is dotted with Daniel Arsham marked drawings. The car is completed with an “ARSHAM 3019” license plate on the rear.
Daniel Arsham was born on 8 September 1980 in Cleveland Ohio and raised in Miami Florida. As an iconic artist of our time Arsham breathes new life into the everyday experimenting structurally to connect past present and future in unexpected forms. His work is distinguished by subtle changes in particular when he amalgamates objects in order to transform familiar structures.
Daniel Arsham’s ‘Crystal Eroded Porsche 911 (992)’ at Mandala Club is open to all and hopes to ignite the creativity and imagination of visitors at this year’s Singapore.

Singapore Art Week 2023
2023-01-06 08:00 - 2023-02-15 22:00 | Singapore
Singapore Art Week (SAW) returns for its 11th edition! A high point in Singapore’s arts calendar, SAW gathers the visual arts scene over a period of ten days to kickstart 2023. From 6 to 15 January 2023, the entire city will come alive with over 130 arts events across Singapore, from the city centre to the heartlands. Visitors can look forward to a variety of offerings ranging from renowned art fairs, to exhibitions and installations all around the island (including at Singaporeans’ favourite leisure destination — shopping malls!), experiential trails, tours, and many more.
With the theme of Play, this year’s edition of SAW encourages audiences to explore our personal connection with our surroundings, and aims to spark meaningful and spontaneous interactions amongst the community. Drawing upon the creative energy of the city, SAW 2023 encourages audiences to look beyond the white cube and consider different forms and materials that art can take, and casts a spotlight on the intersection between art and other sectors including design and technology.
Organised by the National Arts Council, Singapore’s premier visual arts season brings together all players of the visual arts ecosystem, making the arts accessible to everyone, and cementing Singapore as a key arts destination in the region. It is part of ongoing efforts to champion the sustainable growth of Singapore’s art sector as part of the upcoming Our SG Arts Plan (2023-2027) to build a distinctive city, anchored by a connected society, powered by a creative economy.
For more information, please visit: https://www.artweek.sg/ or follow @sgartweek on Facebook, Instagram and Telegram.

Textures 2023: Arrived Home
2023-01-06 10:00 - 2023-01-15 22:00 | The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore, Singapore
After two years of touring the heartlands, Textures 2023 returns to The Arts House for Arrived Home, the third edition of the Singapore Literature (SingLit) festival organised by Arts House Limited and curated by multi-disciplinary artist Jason Wee. With over 30 engaging programmes that highlight renowned local writers and their literary works, we invite you to explore and question ideas of domesticity and belonging. What is it like to return to a home that is different from the one we began? How have we changed since our journeys away? What kinds of people and families do we think of when it comes to home?
Join us at The Arts House from 6 – 15 Jan 2023 to experience local literature in fun and accessible ways!
