Kafka's Ape by Phala O Phala & Tony Bonani Miyambo
2023-01-12 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Accessibility features: open captions in English
50 minutes with no intermission
Rating: General
Asian Premiere
“The fact that it’s actually more relevant today than when it was written 100 years ago suggests that the world we currently live in has some serious problems.”
—Heather Taylor Johnson, InDaily
“The audience is left both dumbfounded and in awe at the end of this hour of theatre. It has been a mighty trip into a hideous hypothetical. It has been a display of masterful acting, it has been a graphic lesson in humanity and an unforgettable experience.”
—Samela Harris, The Barefoot Review
An adaptation of Franz Kafka’s A Report to an Academy, Kafka’s Ape is a solo performance about a primate’s struggle to overcome the confines of captivity. The hard-hitting play presents a metaphorical view on South African society, highlighting the complexities of identity in post-apartheid South Africa as well as in the human race.
An ape named Red Peter is captured. In his quest to break out of his confinement, he learns to imitate humanity and contests identity based on outward appearance. Through his journey, Kafka’s Ape questions the understanding of otherness.
Miyambo has received multiple accolades for this powerful performance, including Winner of Outstanding Performance award at Prague Fringe Festival 2019, Best Satire Award at New York’s United Solo Festival 2019, and the Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation Award at the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2021, among others.

The Role of Public Institutions and Residencies in the Arts Ecosystem
2023-01-12 18:30 - 19:45 | Yale-NUS College Performance Hall, 16 College Avenue West, Singapore, 138527, Singapore
Join us for a panel discussion featuring experts in the art space as they dive into the roles of artists, public institutions, and residencies in the arts ecosystem.
Click on the registration link to register and find out more about the panelists and the moderator!

ART SG
2023-01-12 12:00 - 2023-01-15 17:00 | Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore, Singapore, 018956, Singapore
ART SG, Southeast Asia’s largest ever art fair, will launch in January 2023 with over 150 leading galleries from Singapore, Southeast Asia and across the globe. ART SG will present an opportunity for visitors from across the Asia Pacific to see works by many of the most celebrated artists of our time on their doorstep, along with works by emerging artists and experiments with digital art/NFTs. Held over two floors of the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, ART SG will also showcase a cutting-edge program of commissioned and site specific installations, experimental film, thought provoking talks and performances.

The Kolektif Takeover: Trivia Night!
2023-01-07 19:00 - 22:00 | National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew's Rd, #01 – 01,, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
Spearheaded by Kolektif, the experimental youth arm of the Gallery that aims to empower young people to bring their creativity and concerns to art museums, this year’s The Kolektif Takeover at Light to Night Festival features a youth trivia night! Look forward to a superb range of general knowledge questions on topics ranging from pop culture fun facts to scientific references from your primary school textbooks to art and local culture!
Date and Time: 7 January 2023 AND 14 January 2023 (Saturday), 7pm-10pm
Venue:Supreme Court Terrace, Level 4, Supreme Court Wing, National Gallery Singapore

Introduction to Wagashi Art
2023-01-07 14:00 - 17:00 | National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore, 178897, Singapore
Create a feast for the eyes and a treat for the palate with simple ingredients like azuki beans, kidney beans, sugar, and glutinous rice flour. Wagashi, or traditional Japanese confectionery, is much more than a sweet treat to go with a bowl of matcha (green tea). It is an art form that embodies the changing seasons of Japan. Through this workshop, participants will gain a basic overview of nerikiri, one of the many forms of wagashi, and bring home sweets made by their own hands.
This programme is organised in conjunction with The Doraemon Exhibition Singapore 2022 held at the National Museum from 5 November 2022 – 5 February 2023.

SAMily Funday (SAW)
2023-01-07 13:00 - 2023-01-14 17:00 | SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Rd, 01-02, Singapore 089065, Singapore, 089065, Singapore
Get ready for a fun-filled weekend at SAM with SAMily Funday!
Join us for this special event with a line-up of programmes and activities designed for all ages. Drop in for a craft activity, explore the ongoing exhibitions, pose for a picture or simply enjoy the wonders of contemporary art!

What Makes A Mountain by Yeoh Choo Kuan
2023-01-07 - 2023-01-19 | Richard Koh Fine Art, Blk 47 Malan Road #01-26 Gillman Barracks Singapore 109444, Singapore, 109444, Singapore
Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions of Malaysian artists, Yeoh Choo Kuan (b. 1988) and Zac Lee (b. 1968). The exhibitions are titled What Makes A Mountain and Another Day respectively. They are scheduled to run from 7 – 19 January 2023 at Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore, Blk 47 Malan Road, #01-26 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109444.

In What Makes A Mountain, Yeoh Choo Kuan explores “Shan Shui”, branching from his Streaming Mountain series where his ‘paint streaming’ technique is employed as the element of “Shui” (water). The individual paintings are configured in an assorted format which are then placed in varying heights. The variation of heights mimic the layers and rhythm of mountain ridges, aligning with the idea of “Shan” (mountain). Through the process of paint dripping from different directions, the various gestures allow Yeoh the freedom to create and experience dynamics within each scene. To him, the process of making art and a mountain are the same, both challenge one’s perspective in understanding things differently and one must endure trials for things to be made right.

Another Day by Zac Lee
2023-01-07 - 2023-01-19 | Richard Koh Fine Art, Blk 47 Malan Road #01-26 Gillman Barracks Singapore 109444, Singapore, 109444, Singapore
Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions of Malaysian artists, Yeoh Choo Kuan (b. 1988) and Zac Lee (b. 1968). The exhibitions are titled What Makes A Mountain and Another Day respectively. They are scheduled to run from 7 – 19 January 2023 at Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore, Blk 47 Malan Road, #01-26 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109444.

In Another Day, Zac Lee presents a body of work that centres around the everyday, depicting the most routine of acts and finding joy within them. Using sombre and bleak hues, this helps further illustrate the paintings’ uneventfulness and normality such as picking up a book that was put down from the night before, a quick sketching session, a Sunday afternoon. To him, everyday life is valuable — the bad times, the good times, everything in between, and everything that comes before and after. Today’s ending simply means tomorrow’s beginning. At the works’ core, it is Lee’s way of magnifying these vignettes of life onto the canvases, celebrating their simplicity as he believes that life’s fulfilment is found in these everyday moments.

Where The Magic Happens
2023-01-06 17:00 - 2023-01-08 23:00 | Somerset Youth Park, 129 Devonshire Rd, 239886, Singapore
Darren Tien, one half of Singapore’s magic duo Darren and Jerryl presents Where the Magic Happens, Singapore’s first magic festival, running from 6 to 8 January, 5-11pm, at the Somerset Youth Park. The festival aims to spotlight emerging talents and renowned artists. It promises to transform the Somerset Youth Park into a magical wonderland through collaborations with visual arts installations, live music, F&B, fringe activities and featured programs like ticketed theatrical magic shows, all while activating the theme of magic.
Admission to the festival ground is free. Public can expect to delve into the wonders of magic and reignite the passion of one of the world’s oldest and most successful performing arts — magic.

Bad Clocks: Alley Through a Pinhole
2023-01-06 12:00 - 2023-02-04 19:00 | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Bad Clocks: Alley Through a Pinhole by DASSAD, in collaboration with Victoria Hertel, Neo Jialing, Euginia Tan
6 Jan to 4 Feb 2023
Objectifs, Lower Gallery
Free admission
Pinhole Photography Workshop, $75 (Register here)
Sat 14 Jan, 10am – 1pm | Objectifs Workshop Space

Artist Talk (Register here)
28 Jan, 3pm | Objectifs Workshop Space
Bad Clocks: Alley Through a Pinhole is a site-specific and immersive installation that introduces a camera obscura into the Lower Gallery of Objectifs. By creating a pinhole in a darkened room, the environment surrounding the gallery projects back into its interiors, blending indoor and outdoor spaces with light.
Bad Clocks is an ongoing concept explored by DASSAD to reconsider the ways we understand and define time. This iteration explores the perception of time within the camera obscura, tracing back to the beginnings of photography. The camera obscura becomes a playground for interdisciplinary collaborations, inspiring visual, sound, performance and installation-based works concerned about the passing of time. This exhibition is led by DASSAD, in collaboration with installation artist, Victoria Hertel, movement artist, Neo Jialing, and writer, Euginia Tan, and with venue support from Objectifs.

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!

Singapore Art Week 2023
2023-01-06 08:00 - 2023-02-15 22:00
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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

#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

ACM Adventures: Party Season
2022-12-25 13:00 - 17:00 | Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Pl,, Singapore, 179555, Singapore
‘Tis the season to dress up! Take a walk through the Fashion and Textiles Gallery and get inspired by the beautiful clothing on display. Join us in a drama and storytelling performance, and create your own textile art.

BBA Artist Prize 2023
2022-12-19 - 2023-01-09
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.

Rebuilding History: Workshops for Citizen Artists
2022-12-16 15:30 - 17:30 | Yew Tee CC, 20 Choa Chu Kang Street 52, #05-10`, Singapore, SG, 689286, Singapore
Help artists recreate fragments of iconic monuments in a free two-hour ceramic art workshop.
Visualise lost landmarks of your youth, and share your unique experiences. Discover how to create angled and edged ceramic pieces with architectural qualities. Understand the concept of clay memory. Learn how to construct forms with stiff slabs and templates to minimise warping.

See your work on display at an archaeological ceramic game during Singapore Art Week 2023.
Suitable for families, seniors, adults, teenagers, 13+.

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.
