Cyanotype Workshop | Blueprints of Light
2025-01-25 15:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Have you ever created prints using sunlight?
Learn the photographic process of cyanotype printing in our beginner-friendly workshop. Be inspired by Suzann Victor’s three-dimensional works, which ‘print’ images onto the wall through light and shadow. Our friendly instructors will guide you through preparing light-sensitive chemicals and creating dynamic compositions. Expose your print form to ultraviolet (UV) rays and watch your creation turn a striking blue!
Participants are kindly requested to bring transparent or translucent objects for this workshop, such as glass bottles. Recommended for ages 12 and above.

TOOLS: A Workshop Series for Playwrights Exploring Theatricality - Stage Directions
2025-01-25 13:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | 42 Waterloo St, 42 Waterloo St, 187951, Singapore
Tools is a workshop series by our visiting resident playwright Sean Dunnington for playwrights curious about theatricality—the unique magic of theatre that invites audiences to “believe” what they see on stage is true-to-life, even while knowing it’s not real (to an extent). Each session dives into a specific element of this conceptual spell, blending discussion, hands-on activities, performance, and experimentation.
Join us for the first workshop this January which will look at Stage Directions. In this workshop, we’ll explore what stage directions can do beyond blocking and lighting cues. How can they become indispensable to the play? Can they describe things that never appear? Should they be interpreted as literal, tonal, or something else entirely? Can they dare be ignored? Through examples and practice, we’ll test how much stage directions can shape a play.
This workshop is suitable for playwrights/writers who are engaged with/thinking about craft at a serious level.

Free Trial
2025-01-25 13:00 - 16:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Sing Lit Station, 22 Dickson Road #02-01, 209506, Singapore
New year, same you? Reflections and resolutions not quite started? Simmering in lethargy and meh-ness these 2 weeks? It’s ok, you’re still on your free trial for the year 🤪
Introducing OUR free trial of 2025: it’s gna be an all-inclusive package of potluck + lepak + open mic for maximum vibes 🏜️🦋🪩 We’re bringing pizza and eggnog (cos why not) – you BYOBrunch or booze too!
This is 🫵🏼 your chance 🫵🏼 to unwind with other creatives and dream / deliberate / delight in the year ahead of us 🤸🏽‍♀️
Open mic slots available!

CALL FOR ARTISTS: CONTEMPORARY VENICE – 16TH EDITION
2025-01-23 - 2025-02-04 | Cavite
ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with ACIT Venice – Italian-German Cultural Association, is pleased to announce the open call for the 16th edition of CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2025 that will take place at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello from January 23 to February 04, 2025, and in other prestigious venues and historical buildings, in Venice, one of the world’s most renowned art destinations for of curators, collectors, and art lovers.
The 16th edition of CONTEMPORARY VENICE analyzes the relationship between body and space, and the hybridization between identities and cultural/physical/social/urban settings in contemporary times, through two main sections: MIXING IDENTITIES and FUTURE LANDSCAPES.
Deadline for applications is December 13, 2024 (11.59 PM your local time)
Artists, photographers, video makers, and performers are invited to submit their works. To take part in the selection, send your works’ submissions with a CV/biography, some still images (for video art), links to videos/films/performances and pictures via e-mail to info@itsliquid.com

Storytelling Through Photography Course
2025-01-21 19:30 - 2025-03-11 22:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Photography has the power to capture moments in time, document events, and record our experiences. How can we move beyond strong single images and start to tell compelling visual stories?
In this workshop, participants begin by exploring the work of established documentary photographers. They will learn to develop their vision by identifying themes of personal interest and finding stories around them. The course takes a hands-on approach to visual storytelling, with participants shooting images weekly and receiving feedback from the instructor and in group critiques. In the process, they learn the principles, ethics of and approaches to documentary photography and refine their work.
Participants in this course should possess basic technical proficiency in photography and have an interest in visual storytelling and documentary photography. They will maximise their learning in the course if they commit to working on their photo story between sessions. This course will also be useful to those who want to use documentary photography and visual storytelling across a variety of disciplines from advocacy, to marketing, to journalism and more.
Participants are to use their own cameras and other softwares (if applicable) which they are comfortable with for this workshop.
Kindly note that this instalment of the workshop will run in a hybrid model, consisting of a mixture of in-person and online sessions. Please refer to the schedule below for more details.
Group A: 21 Jan to 11 Mar 2025
1. Tue 21 Jan, 7.30pm – 10pm
2. Mon 27 Jan, 7.30pm – 10pm (online)
3. Tue 4 Feb, 7.30pm – 10pm (online)
4. Tue 18 Feb, 7.30pm – 10pm (online)
5. Tue 25 Feb, 7.30pm – 10pm (online)
6. Tue 11 Mar, 7.30pm – 10pm
Technical Requirements
Basic photography proficiency will be helpful. Participants may shoot with a smartphone but the use of a DSLR or mirrorless camera is encouraged if possible and accessible, as it allows for a greater range of technical possibilities.

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025: The Troupe by Birds Migrant Theatre
2025-01-19 14:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Black Box @ The Theatre Practice, 54 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187953, Singapore
Language
In English, with some Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali and Burmese
Accessibility Features
Open captions in English for all shows.

With a good cast giving their all onstage, an unflinching, objectively written story that speaks truth to the limitations of being a migrant in Singapore, and imaginative script that explores the pitfalls of love and family, Foreign Bodies was a rare, big-hearted, honest glimpse into migrant life, by migrant workers with a story to tell.

— Bakchormeeboy.com on Foreign Bodies

Please welcome The Troupe! They travel around towns and villages with their show. They perform stories about farmers, refugees, students, politicians and aid workers—people in search of a better life. As they stage their play, they discover that what they perform may be closer to home than they realise.
Birds Migrant Theatre returns to the Fringe with another important play that focuses on current world issues—from war to the refugee crisis—and how these tragedies pose questions to our common humanity. The Troupe looks at how people who are affected by displacement strive for a more positive future—not just for themselves, but for their families and community. Will suffering and desperation bring out the best in people—or the worst? What is the price of compassion?

Foreign Bodies is a well-told story that dramatises the legal precarity migrant workers may face in Singapore. It does so without resorting to mere sympathy or an easy us-versus-them set-up, choosing instead to let audiences into its protagonists’ dilemmas.

—The Straits Times Life on Foreign Bodies
There will be a dialogue with the artists after the 5pm performance on 12 January 2025, with speech to text interpretation available upon request. Please email your request to info@singaporefringe.com by 6 December 2024.

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025: Commission Continua by Noma Mini
2025-01-17 20:00 - 2025-01-18 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Accessibility Features
Open captions in English for all shows
Commission Continua is a powerful and affecting production. Miyambo succeeds in delivering a complex concept with care.
— Nkgopoleng Moloi, The Critter
Bright Maluleke—played by Tony Bonani Miyambo (Kafka’s Ape)—is an employee who copies and archives official documents from the commissions. He does his best just to stick to his brief and ignore the content of the files—but this proves difficult when faced with all these pages giving an account of the most critical and catastrophic moments in South Africa’s history. In the frugal setting of a photocopier, a microphone, and a loop station, he begins to give vent to his annoyance with South African society’s struggle for real change and reconciliation.
Bonani Miyambo is terrific and deservedly gets one of the strongest ovations of the night
— Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper
a devastating one-hander that emphasises how the culpability for historical and recent crimes perpetrated against the South African people has become buried under mountains of paperwork.
— Chris Thurman, Business Live
There will be a dialogue with the artists after each performance, with speech to text interpretation available upon request for the dialogue on 18 January 2025. Please email your request to info@singaporefringe.com by 6 December 2024.

To Have and To Hold: An Exhibition of Care and Connection
2025-01-17 13:00 - 2025-01-26 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Thought Partner Studio, 11 Keng Cheow Street #04-09 The Riverside Piazza, 059608, Singapore
Thought Partner Studio presents To Have and To Hold, an exhibition during Singapore Art Week (Jan 16–26, 2025), celebrating the therapeutic power of art. The showcase invites reflection on how we hold — memories, emotions, and connections — exploring themes of care, transformation, and release. Through intimate artworks, visitors encounter safe spaces, resilience, and renewal, contemplating the balance between holding on and letting go. The pieces evoke the tender presence of anchors in our lives, reimagining materials and memories, and capturing emotional landscapes where grief, healing, and reflection coexist. This thoughtful exhibition honours the unseen threads connecting us all.

LASALLE Open House 2025
2025-01-17 13:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Lasalle College of the Arts, 1 McNally Street Singapore 187940, Singapore, Singapore, 187940, Singapore
There is no room for limits at LASALLE, Asia’s leading contemporary arts and design institution. Here, our international faculty of artist-educators will nurture your artistic potential and push the boundaries of creativity. Visit LASALLE’s Open House on 17 and 18 January 2025 to discover how you can make it all happen through our undergraduate programmes.

CANVAS/S: Tales as New as Time
2025-01-17 10:00 - 2025-03-17 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Jurong Regional Library, 21 Jurong East Central 1, Singapore, Singapore, 609732, Singapore
Can a grain of rice hold a legend?
Don’t miss our new exhibition series CANVAS/S: Tales as New as Time and explore rich narratives embedded in everyday objects, traditions, and memories, with a focus on rice as a cultural symbol!
Drawing inspiration from regional folktales, oral histories, and materials from the National Library Board’s collection, our artists explore how rice transcends its role as a staple food to become a metaphor for care, sustenance, and cultural identity.
Join us at Jurong Regional Library from 17 January – 17 March 2025 to celebrate how traditions are preserved, adapted, and reimagined through art. Looking for a deeper experience? Catch interactive installations, contribute to evolving artworks, and sign up for the exciting programmes and specially curated tours led by the artists themselves!
Find out more at: https://go.gov.sg/canvass25

SAW at SAM
2025-01-17 10:00 - 2025-01-26 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Singapore Art Museum, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065, Singapore, Singapore, 089065, Singapore
Visit SAM during SAW 2025, with free admission for all. Across two vibrant weekends, experience Sonic Sessions, live music performances after dark and a bustling art market at Tanjong Pagar Distripark. Alongside these events, discover Seeing Forest by Robert Zhao Renhui, fresh from the Singapore Pavilion at Biennale Arte 2024, exploring the connections between urban and natural environments. Delve into solo exhibitions by Yee I-Lann and Pratchaya Phinthong, and SAM’s inaugural collection show, Everyday Practices, featuring artists such as Guo-Liang Tan, Htein Lin, Sun Xun, and Tehching Hsieh. Artist talks and other programmes will also take place throughout SAM. Don’t miss this exciting celebration of contemporary art.

Art Outreach Singapore
2025-01-17 09:00 - 12:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Marina Bay Sands, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Begonia Junior Room, 3011 & 3012 Singapore 018956, Singapore
Art Outreach Basecamp is a public symposium designed to complement the Art Outreach Summit 2025 by fostering meaningful dialogue and collaboration within the arts community. Held during Singapore Art Week (SAW), Basecamp provides a platform for artists, patrons, and cultural stakeholders to engage in conversations that strengthen connections and explore the critical role of art in society.
The Art Outreach Basecamp is designed as the public-facing counterpart to the Art Outreach Summit, complementing its mission by fostering inclusive dialogue and engagement during Singapore Art Week. While the Summit provides a professional development platform for emerging and mid-career practitioners, the Basecamp serves as a starting point—much like its name suggests—for wider audiences to explore innovative ideas and collaborations in the arts. Together, the Basecamp and Summit create a holistic programme aimed at strengthening Singapore’s position as a vibrant arts hub.

Urban Screens: Dancing Alone (Don’t Leave Me)
2025-01-17 - 2025-01-26 | Fortune Centre, 190 Middle Rd, Singapore, Singapore, 188979, Singapore
A video art showcase by Susie Wong
17 to 26 Jan 2025
Venues: Digital billboard at Fortune Centre and Digital billboard at Wilkie Edge
Dancing Alone (Don’t Leave Me) is a series of onscreen vignettes of solitary women dancing by themselves, for themselves. The work is inspired by a scene from the film, The King and I, where the female protagonist says, “No woman would dance alone when a man is looking at her.” In Wong’s work, the dancer is both the centre of attention and wholly indifferent; her occupation of the screen gives momentary respite and joy.
Yet her ability to escape the gaze of others is constrained by her own longing to be seen. Exaggerated by a highly visible medium, these strange tensions speak of Wong’s long term preoccupation with romance and agency in relation to cinematic tropes, and the complex negotiations that ensue.
This work is curated for Urban Screens, which is presented by Objectifs as part of Singapore Art Week, supported by the National Arts Council and Plan B Media.
About Susie Wong
Susie Wong is an artist, curator, educator and art writer in Singapore. She studied painting at the former LASALLE College of the Arts (St. Patrick’s Fine Arts) in the mid-1980s, and pursued her Master of Fine Arts at LASALLE in 2007. She was artist-resident at NTU-CCA Singapore in 2018. Wong’s work ranges across landscapes, still life, portraiture, a recurring subject in her early oil paintings and drawings. Since 1990s, Wong has curated, co-curated, co-organised and/or participated in several solo and group exhibitions: Personae XX (1996, Kandang Kerbau), HOPE: w.a.p. [women artists’ project] (2000, Chijmes), The Machine Contemplating the Body (2014, Singapore General Hospital) among others. More recently, her work contemplates mass media and the circulation and consumption of images, the mistrust of representation, appropriating images or visual references for much of her work, extending to romantic tropes in media. Her installation work with video/light projections includes Take Care of Me in the curated series, Opening Day, at the Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre in January 2018; and Dancing Alone, at Objectifs, 2020.
She was artist-in-residence at NTU CCA (Nanyang Technological University -Centre for Contemporary Art) from June to November 2018.
Wong has also written for numerous publications and monographs on art since the late 1980s. She is Assoc. Editor for ISSUE, an annual LASALLE journal publication since 2013.

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025: I Am Seaweed by Mm And Something Happens Here (MASHH)/Cheryl Ho & Rachel Lee
2025-01-16 20:00 - 2025-01-18 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | NAFA Studio Theatre, 151 Bencoolen Street, 189656, Singapore
Accessibility Features
Open captions in English for all shows.
Singapore Sign Language Interpretation for 8pm show on 17 January 2025.

It’s a thrill but with a lot to say about mental health and personal reflection and why people with the biggest grins might hide the biggest sadness.
— Keith Gow, Theatre First
Screaming, overwhelmed and frustrated: I just want to tear out my skin and smash my head against a wall!!!
In a society where we are constantly pushed to be more productive, skilful and self-sufficient, what does it mean to ‘just be?’. Can we grow from a place of love and trust instead of shame and comparison?
Meet Sheryl with an ‘S’. Sheryl lives in Singapore, which also begins with an ‘S’. Life hasn’t been the smoothest for Sheryl, like for us all. No problemo.
Follow Sheryl on her quest to become as resilient and as versatile as Seaweed. Enter a world of moody projections, quirky presentations, satirical ads, and a lot of the ‘weed’ from the sea.
A Judges’ Picks and Nominated for Best in Theatre at Melbourne Fringe 2023, I Am Seaweed is a multimedia theatrical show that creates space for respite in an overwhelming world.
Please note that some audience members will be seated on cushions on the floor for the duration of the performance. We advise that you dress comfortably for the show.
I Am Seaweed resonates with anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed or persistently pressured to keep striving for more, for better. It’s an entertaining and good-humoured show that asks us to look inside ourselves and question why we do everything we do and if it’s actually making us happy.
— Myron My, MyMelbourneArts
A joyous work featuring a stunning, off-the-charts-charming performance from Cheryl Ho. Bold, energised, achingly-human and super sharp
—Judge’s Pick, Melbourne Fringe Theatre
With support from Theatre Works (Australia)
There will be a dialogue with the artists after each performance, with speech to text interpretation available upon request for the dialogue on 17 January 2025. Please email your request to info@singaporefringe.com by 6 December 2024.

Foundational Photography Workshop
2025-01-16 19:30 - 2025-02-11 22:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Our introductory photography course will teach you how to capture images beyond the casual snapshot!
Duration
15h over 6 sessions
Proficiency Level
Beginner
Course Description
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, and ISO), how to shoot in available light, and the basics of flash photography. This course sets a strong foundation for other photography workshops at Objectifs.
Group A: 16 Jan to 11 Feb 2025 with Aparna Nori
Register: https://www.objectifs.com.sg/basicphotography/

ART SG 2025
2025-01-16 17:00 - 2025-01-19 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore, Singapore, 018956, Singapore
Returning for its third edition, ART SG 2025, presented by UBS as Founding and Lead Partner, takes centre stage as Southeast Asia’s leading international art fair, elevating Singapore as a vibrant global hub for contemporary art. Coinciding with Singapore Art Week, this year’s fair features a stellar roster of 106 exhibitors from 30 countries and territories, uniting the established presence of world-renowned galleries with the fresh perspectives of emerging talent across three dynamic sectors: GALLERIES, FOCUS, and FUTURES.
ART SG 2025 offers a multi-faceted space for discovery, inviting both new and seasoned collectors to immerse themselves in a diverse programme that includes large-scale installations in PLATFORM, a thought-provoking TALKS series featuring cultural partners Delfina Foundation and Bangkok Kunsthalle, and an engaging FILM programme, screened in collaboration with ArtScience Museum.
Exclusive VIP events further enhance the fair’s offerings, celebrating Singapore’s flourishing arts scene and spotlighting the nation as a growing centre for cultural and artistic exchange.

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025: Eclipse by The Necessary Stage
2025-01-15 20:00 - 2025-01-18 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Black Box @ The Theatre Practice, 54 Waterloo Street, Singapore, 187953, Singapore
Accessibility Features
Open captions in English for all shows
Absorbingly told by [2008 staging’s actor] Umar Ahmed, Eclipse suggests that ancestral memory is never as meaningful as the allegiances of everyday life.
— The Guardian UK

(Playwright Haresh Sharma) has demonstrated a deftness and maturity in scriptwriting, a deeper inquiry into life and humanity, as well as an evident progress in terms of his creations.
— 联合早报 Lianhe Zaobao [translated from Chinese]
A young Singaporean man is making a journey to his father’s birthplace in Hyderabad, Pakistan. With him are his father’s ashes. As he makes the arduous trip, he retraces the original journey made by millions of people—including his parents and grandparents—in 1947, during the partition of India and Pakistan.
Written by Cultural Medallion recipient Haresh Sharma, Eclipse is a play that looks at three generations of men struggling with their dreams and their journeys, offering an intimate look at personal stories affected by historical events.
First presented as a short play to critical acclaim by Scotland’s 7:84 Theatre at Traverse Theatre, Eclipse was developed into a full-length production for the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2008.
Almost 80 years after the Partition, this staging with a fresh new direction by Associate Artist A Yagnya stars award-winning Singapore actor Shrey Bhargava. It also features Indian classical vocalist Sveta Kilpady.
There will be a dialogue with the artists after the performances on 16 and 17 January 2025, with speech to text interpretation available upon request for the dialogue on 17 January 2025. Please email your request to info@singaporefringe.com by 6 December 2024.

Hope you are keeping well!
2025-01-14 12:00 - 2025-03-09 19:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Curated by Lenette Lua (Recipient of the Curator Open Call 2024)
With works by Arabelle Zhuang, Genevieve Leong, Hu Rui, and Huijun Lu
Presented by Objectifs
14 Jan – 9 Mar 2025
Chapel Gallery, Objectifs
Opening: Tue 14 Jan 2025, 7pm
Free admission
Exhibition programmes
Hope you are keeping well! | Exhibition Tour with Arabelle Zhuang and Lenette Lua (Register here)
Sat 15 Feb, 1pm – 2pm
Objectifs Chapel Gallery | Free admission
Hope you are keeping well! | Curator Tour (Register here)
Sat 1 Mar, 4pm – 5pm
Objectifs Chapel Gallery | Free admission
Language of Difference | Ezzam Rahman in Dialogue with Lenette Lua (Register here)
Sat 8 Mar, 3pm – 4pm | Objectifs Chapel Gallery
Free admission
Open Studio Sessions with Genevieve Leong and Huijun Lu
Come and engage with Genevieve Leong and Huijun Lu as they share their creative processes, and delve into the ideas shaping their works.
Sat 18 Jan, 2pm – 5pm
Objectifs Chapel Gallery | Free admission, no registration necessary
Open Studio Sessions with Genevieve Leong
Share your thoughts, ask questions, or simply connect as artist Genevieve Leong discusses the inspirations behind her practice, explores the materialities of her installations, and shares her current works-in-progress.
Saturdays 15 Feb & 1 Mar, 2pm – 5pm
Objectifs Chapel Gallery | Free admission, no registration necessary
Hope you are keeping well! reflects on the impact of Singapore’s national productivity agenda on artistic labour, with a particular focus on the Smart Nation plan and the 1980s Productivity Campaign. Comprising an exhibition and a series of informal gatherings, the project approaches curatorial work of care as a means of revealing and understanding the often-invisible labours of artistic production. Transforming Objectifs’ Chapel Gallery into a shared, psychological artists’ studio, the exhibition synthesises four propositions on care by artists Hu Rui, Genevieve Leong, Huijun Lu, and Arabelle Zhuang. The informal gatherings aim to broaden and deepen the discourse, probing the values encoded in our words and actions. Featuring programmes such as a dialogue with artist Ezzam Rahman and open studios, these gatherings create a space to imagine how we might journey together sustainably, thriving within—and beyond—Singapore’s pursuit of excellence.
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About the Curator
Lenette Lua is a practice-led researcher and curator whose interests delve into reconciling the contested intersections of political, economic, and socio-cultural spheres through her curatorial work. While at the Royal College of Art in London, she initiated the long-term curatorial project ‘Fungi Initiative,’ exploring institutional collaborations via participatory artist-led workshops. She was the recipient of the Objectifs Curator Open Call 2024 Award.
About the Artists
Arabelle Zhuang is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, moving images and textiles. In her practice, Zhuang examines the interpersonal relationship, beauty in the peripheral and the cyclical nature of being. She is interested in developing narratives that search for the multiplicities of everyday life and the layers in between.
Ezzam Rahman is a multi-disciplinary artist known for his interest in the body and the use of common, easily accessible, yet unconventional media in his art practice. Working across sculpture, installation, digital media, and performance, he creates works that are often autobiographical, time-based, and ephemeral, aiming to pique viewers’ thoughts on the themes of body politics, identity, impermanence, traces, and abjection. He was awarded a joint winner of the Grand Prize for the President’s Young Talents 2015 and the People’s Choice Award by the Singapore Art Museum. Ezzam won the Most Promising Award for photography at the PULSE Awards 2021. He served as artistic director for The Substation in 2021 and was involved in various prestigious programmes, including the NIE Visiting Artist Programme and NAC Our SG Arts Plan launch event.
Genevieve Leong‘s art practice attempts to visualise the intangible. Beginning with the immaterial, her work often combines text, image, found and made objects and the manipulation of space to create what she describes as “an almost physical image”. The installations that she creates often embody an impermanence with possibilities for change, whether it be due to audience participation or natural environmental factors. Her work seeks to shed new light onto her emotions, sensations, and realisations.
Hu Rui works with videos, installations, and computer simulation. His practice engages with issues around temporality from a multitude of variables, including causality, prediction, choice, and language. He is the recipient of the Best Experimental Animation Award at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival and a Jury Special Mention at the 25FPS Festival Croatia. He is Assistant Professor in Computation and Design at Duke Kunshan University.
Huijun Lu works at the intersections of art, music, engineering and computing. Lu’s practice culminates in kinetic installations, sculptures, moving images and soundscapes. Consistent in the works are mechanisms and circuits that examine the function of objects, observations about the unnoticed in our environments, and technology’s role in mediating relationships with our surroundings.
About the designer
Vanessa Ban is a designer and educator with over a decade of experience working with cultural institutions and commercial clients. She is the founder of External Assessment Summer School, an interdisciplinary educational initiative that bridges art, critical theory, and design. Vanessa has served on jury panels including D&AD and The Crowbar Awards. As an adjunct faculty, she incorporates her professional expertise and critical design approach honed through experiences at Pentagram, Typography Summer School New York, and the London College of Communication.

Phenomenology of Light and Rhythms of the Earth
2025-01-14 12:00 - 2025-03-02 19:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
An exhibition by Zen Teh and SueKi Yee
14 Jan to 2 Mar 2025
Objectifs Lower Galleries
Opening: Tue 14 Jan 2025, 7pm – 9pm
The opening reception will be accompanied by a performance by Sueki Yee at 7pm.
Free admission
Related events
Participative Movement Workshop (Please register here)
Date & Time: Sat 18 Jan 2025, 3pm – 530pm
Workshop details
SueKi’s performance: 3pm – 4pm
Sharing and movement activities: 4pm – 530pm
Location: Objectifs Lower Galleries
Free admission
Phenomenology of Light and Rhythms of the Earth is a project extended from Zen Teh’s residency project and exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany. As part of her residency project, she conducted walking workshops in Phnom Penh, Bangkok and Berlin. This project idea draws on her ongoing research on our relationship with urbanity in rapidly developing cities.
Zen (visual art) and SueKi (dance) as collaborators, are now interested in moving forward with research into Singapore’s urban context, delving deeper into how they can explore the discourses on light and urbanity through multidisciplinary means: soundscapes, multimedia data translation, movement, and tactile forms. This provides multiple entry points into the research as well as the interpretation, creation, and presentation of the data. Through artistic means, they are interested in opening up a space where people can take time to process and discuss their embodied perspectives on light and darkness, and how these ever co-existing elements are inextricably linked to life rhythms, memories, pollution, urban development, safety and surveillance, environmental changes, accessibility of energy, and volatile global political states.
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About Zen Teh
Zen Teh (b.1988, Singapore) is an artist and educator interested in man’s relationship with the natural world. Her art practice spans photography, sculpture and installation art. Teh has initiated collaborative interdisciplinary projects with artists, art professionals and scientists to explore the impact of human activity on natural environments. Teh’s works have been showcased in Singapore and regionally including Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. She was conferred the Young Artist Award by The National Arts Council, Singapore in 2021. She was artist-in-residence at the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany in 2024.
About SueKi Yee
SueKi Yee is a Malaysian dancer-choreographer (currently based in Berlin) who’s drawn to improvisation, site-specific work, and multidisciplinary experimentation and collaboration. With a Bachelor in Dance (ASWARA), she’s trained in contemporary dance, ballet, and various traditional folk and classical dances. Movement has become her entry point into understanding and exploring other art forms, providing diverse entry points into her work and expanding the horizons of research, creation, and presentation.

Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Art Auction in Singapore
2025-01-14 11:00 - 2025-01-18 18:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Fraser Residence River Promenade, 5 Jiak Kim Street, Singapore 169425, Singapore, Singapore
January 2025 | Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Art Auction in Singapore
Time: 14 to 17 January 2025, 11am-6pm SGT, 18 January 2025, 11am-2.30pm SGT
5 Jiak Kim Street, Singapore 169425
Free Admission
www.sothebys.com/en/

This January, Sotheby’s returns with its first 2025 edition of Modern & Contemporary Art Auction, featuring an exclusive selection of works that reflect the cosmopolitan nature of Singaporean society and the ever-increasing demand from a growing collector base in the Southeast Asian region. Highlights from these offerings will be available for public viewing in a preview exhibition from 14 January 2025 to before the live auction on 18 January 2025 at 5 Jiak Kim Street.

Under the curatorial theme of ‘Landscapes: as far as the heart can see’, a section of the exhibition and auction explores the subject of landscape through different lenses across cultures, time, geography, history, and stylistic movements. Leading the sale will be Marc Chagall’s La danse autour de la corbeille, created in the artist’s last decade. Painted on the day of his wedding anniversary, the work serves as an ode to love dedicated to his second wife and muse, Vava, who originally owned the work. Two rare, fresh-to-market paintings by Raden Saleh, the 19th-century nationalist artist of Indonesia and one of the most important artists in the region, will also be presented to the public for the first time at Sotheby’s Singapore after having resided in a significant European private collection for the past century.
Collectors and art enthusiasts can also look forward to works by internationally acclaimed artists, including Christine Ay Tjoe, Fernando Zóbel, Le Pho, and Cheong Soo Pieng, as well as ultra-contemporary artists Lucas Arruda, Daisy Dodd-Noble, and Camilla Engström, in their auction debut in Singapore.

The return of Sotheby’s Singapore Modern and Contemporary Art auction follows an exciting few weeks for the art world, including solid results at Sotheby’s major auctions in Hong Kong, London, Paris, and New York. For the first time, Sotheby’s Singapore auction will coincide with Singapore Art Week, reaffirming their commitment to celebrating arts and culture in the city-state and the region.
For more information:

Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Art Auction in Singapore

The Eye and The Tiger
2025-01-12 13:00 - 2025-01-19 19:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | 7 Adam Park, 7 Adam Park, Singapore, Singapore, 289926, Singapore
Walk up to a fabled black and white bungalow nestled in a lush rolling landscape. If you think the black-and-white is about exclusivity, you’re absolutely right. But the story is far bloodier and infinitely blacker.
The form and function of the black and white bungalow take after the Anglo-Indian plantation villa, once part of a global botanical network built on lies, violence and indentured labour.
Spread open the map and you will see two more landmarks nearby that have been forgotten in the story of our black-and-whites: Botanic Gardens and Tiger Hill. Discover how the colonial gaze shapes our relationship to land and nature, and how tigers have haunted us at every step.
Come join us on this guided art walk.

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025: WePushTheSky by Qabila
2025-01-11 20:00 - 2025-01-12 16:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Accessibility Features
Open captions in English for all shows.
… part history lesson, part culinary exploration, and part feminist fable

— Karthik Ranganathan, Citizen Matters
The play is a triumph of storytelling and is exceptionally brave..
—Venkat Srinivasan, Sabrang India
WePushTheSky is an interactive solo performance that weaves together food, song, story, myth, and history. Where personal stories meet community histories, survival stories of the Karbala entwine with songs of the Ramayana, and anecdotes from the past confront desires about the future. A play that reflects on an urgent social reality of our present times—friendships that have been lost, gained, or have endured amidst increasing shrill political rhetoric across the world.
Written and performed by Nisha Abdulla and directed by Ujwala Rao, WePushTheSky centres friendship and feminist solidarities as an antidote to the politics of hate. The play invites the audience to listen deeply to another’s reality and elevates listening to the act of an assertive ally. WePushTheSky has toured widely to warm receptions in India, performed at the Feminist Theatre Festival in Jenin, Occupied Palestine, and has been invited to perform at the 15th Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) International Forum in Bangkok, Thailand.
There will be a dialogue with the artists after each performance, with speech to text interpretation available upon request for the dialogue on 16 January 2025. Please email your request to info@singaporefringe.com by 6 December 2024.

Black & White I Workshop
2025-01-11 13:00 - 2025-03-22 15:30 (Asia/Shanghai) | Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, 155 Middle Road, Singapore, 188977, Singapore
Introduction to Black & White and the Darkroom
Duration
4 sessions, 2 hours 30mins per session
Course Description
Explore the artistry of black and white photography with renowned fine-art photographer Mary-Ann Teo. This course delves into the essential elements of light, shadow, and composition, offering students a comprehensive understanding of the medium. Participants will have the opportunity to shoot with black and white film, and work in a darkroom at Objectifs. Gain insights into shooting techniques, basic darkroom skills, and the nuanced appreciation of black and white imagery.
Dates:
Group A: 11 Jan to 1 Feb 2025
Group B: 1 Mar to 22 Mar 2025
Workshop Fee
$320 Workshop Fee + Materials & Darkroom use $60 (includes one roll of black & white film, paper and darkroom usage during class time)
Instructor
Mary-Ann Teo
Pre-requisites:
Participants will need to have a 35mm film SLR or point-and-shoot camera.
Please note:
This is a very hands-on workshop. Participants’ learning will be most effective if they are able to make all of the sessions. As the workshop is repeated several times a year, participants may wish to register for a future round if they already know they may miss several lessons during this period. Make-up lessons and refunds are not offered for sessions missed.
About the instructor
Mary-Ann Teo is a photography and art theory lecturer who has taught at LASALLE and Nanyang Technological University.
More details – https://www.objectifs.com.sg/blackandwhite1/

Robert Zhao: The Divine in the Trash Stratum
2025-01-11 12:00 - 2025-02-23 18:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | ShanghART Singaproe, Block 9 Lock Road #02-22, 108937, Singapore
The symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum.
– Philip K Dick
ShanghART Singapore is pleased to present The Divine in the Trash Stratum, a solo exhibition by Robert Zhao Renhui featuring his latest photographic works. The exhibition highlights the profound transformations that emerge from layers of waste and decay, as the artist invites us to reimagine the relationship between humanity and nature.
A series of photographs of various creatures on a fallen Albizia tree trunk welcome visitors into the space. These strange scenes depict how a site of destruction has transformed into one of regeneration and life. Mysterious images of precious gems are in fact created with remnants of human activity such as glass shards and discarded fragments, manifesting them as symbols of how forest processes and human histories intertwine.
Opening 11 January 2025 ahead of Singapore Art Week, the exhibition coincides with the Singapore Art Museum’s presentation of Seeing Forest, first shown at the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, extending Zhao’s ongoing explorations of ecological resilience.

Ernest Goh | ‘Bleached Bones: Last Words of the Dead Spoken by a Dying Sea’
2025-01-11 11:00 - 2025-02-10 19:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Blueprint Art Space, 1 Commonwealth Lane, #04-28 One Commonwealth, Singapore, Singapore, 149544, Singapore
‘Bleached Bones’ is a visual catalogue of photographic prints by artist and photographer Ernest Goh. In this exhibition curated by Shireen Marican, bleached corals capture timeless, poignant last words of the departed.
Bleaching is a phenomenon when corals turn completely white after algae in their tissues are expelled when their waters are too warm — nature’s lasting reminder that climatic changes continue to influence ecological systems.
Ernest’s explorations across the shores of Nikoi Island in Indonesia led to a discovery of the unique formations of these bleached corals. In these, he finds a visual parallel to the alphabet system which he draws upon to contemplate lessons of life and living from death poems and last words.
This exhibition is presented by Blueprint Art Advisory. For information on exhibition programmes, please visit www.blueprintartadvisory.com/ernestgoh-bleachedbones
Exhibition is open 11 am – 7 pm daily.
Exhibition is closed 28 Jan – 2 Feb 2025 for Chinese New Year.

Singkarpor REMIXED
2025-01-11 11:00 - 2025-01-26 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | 5 Lock Road, #01-06 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108933, 5 Lock Road, #01-06 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108933, Singapore, 108933, Singapore
Drawing on this Singaporean extensive archive, Singkarpor REMIXED is an immersive art installation. It employs the spirited scenes AikBeng Chia has captured to develop large-scale photographic collages. Blended with the artist’s own humorous style, the new works embody a country bustling with life and activity in each individual piece.
From popular tourist precincts such as Chinatown and Little India, to unsuspecting heartlands like Punggol and Sengkang, ABC’s no-holds-barred approach offers an unadulterated insight into the country.
This installation blurs the lines between photography and interactive art, inviting visitors to engage deeply by photographing themselves within the installation. It offers a vibrant, unfiltered glimpse into Singaporean life, appealing to art enthusiasts, social media influencers, and casual visitors alike.
The series, entitled Singkarpor – reflecting the country’s name pronounced with a Hokkien inflection and includes a plethora of street scenes, landscapes and candid portraits.

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025: Dancing with the Ghost of My Child by Noor Effendy Ibrahim, Ruby Jayaseelan & NAFA
2025-01-09 20:00 - 2025-01-12 16:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | NAFA Studio Theatre, 151 Bencoolen Street, 189656, Singapore
Accessibility Features
Open captions in English for all shows
a unique approach, rather bold and different
—Natya Vichara on Purushi by Ruby Jayaseelan
I know [Effendy’s work] will express a kind of pain and anger acceptable in the performance space, a pain and anger that is often delegitimised or minimised or considered “inappropriate” elsewhere—and I cherish his work for that reason.
—Corrie Tan, Jom Media on ANAK by Very Shy Gurl by fendy
I myself am an absolute abyss.
—Antonin Artaud
In the beginning, God created despair, for men to find hope within. Someone heard someone else say this somewhere before, sometime back. But no one knows who, when and where. It must have been God herself who had said this through some men. Only God could be that smart to tease men into such futility. And here, men find themselves being baited into their own despair.
Conceptualised and directed by Noor Effendy Ibrahim and Ruby Jayaseelan, Dancing with the Ghost of My Child is an experimental physical theatre performance written by Elvira Foo Jing Yun, Gregory Kong Ka-Ee, Lex (Lee Zhi Qi), and Liu Qintong (Amelia) exploring vulnerability, trauma and the desire to heal. It is devised by students from the BA (Honours) in Performance Making programme at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
Co-presented with Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (a founding member of the University of the Arts Singapore).
There will be a dialogue with the artists after each performance, with speech to text interpretation available upon request for the dialogue on 10 January 2025. Please email your request to info@singaporefringe.com by 6 December 2024.

Of Dreams and Contemplation: I am All but a Story – Selections from the Collection of Richard Koh
2025-01-09 18:30 - 2025-03-09 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | The Private Museum, 11 Upper Wilkie Rd, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 228120, Singapore
In conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2025, The Private Museum is proud to present Of Dreams and Contemplation: I am All but a Story – Selections from the Collection of Richard Koh. This exhibition marks the second showcase of Richard Koh’s evolving journey as a collector and gallerist, showcasing over 50 works from his personal collection.

Building upon the narrative of the first instalment in 2019—held at the museum’s former home at 51 Waterloo Street—the second instalment expands the scope of Koh’s deeply personal collection. The first showcase offered an intimate glimpse into Koh’s collection—emphasising monochromatic, abstract, and landscape works that reflected quiet introspection. Now, Of Dreams and Contemplation: I am All but a Story continues to unfold a collection rich in personal meaning—presenting works that trace Koh’s decades-long interactions with art and the artists he admires.

Collected with a focus on memory and emotion, Koh’s private collection spans Southeast Asia and beyond, blending local, regional, and global perspectives. This exhibition deepens the dialogue between art and life, revealing Koh’s ongoing exploration of what he calls a “visual diary”—works that evoke deeply personal moments and emotions. This new selection of works reflects an evolving journey that continues to resonate with new meanings in The Private Museum’s expansive space at the Osborne House.

As both a collector and the founder of Richard Koh Fine Art, Richard Koh has played a pivotal role in shaping and contributing towards the art ecology in Southeast Asia. This collaboration with Richard Koh underscores the collective effort and dedication towards fostering meaningful exchanges between artists, collectors, the arts communities, and audiences from all walks of life.
Kickstarting the Museum’s 2025 programme, Of Dreams and Contemplation: I am All but a Story invites all to explore the richness of art and discover how collections can tell deeply personal stories. As Richard Koh aptly states, “Art, in any collection, should have its own story,” inspiring audiences to embark on their own journey of collecting and storytelling through art.

M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2025: The End of Winter by Siren Theatre Co
2025-01-08 20:00 - 2025-01-09 21:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Esplanade Theatre Studio, 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore, 038981, Singapore
Accessibility Features
Open captions in English for all shows.

★★★★★
… complex, entertaining, emotionally varied but crystal clear

— Theatre Travels
★★★★★
It’s a bravura performance from Jane Phegan…a theatrical experience of bonewarming depth and of hope.

— Reviews by Judith
Will climate change erase winter, leaving it to exist only in fairy tales, paintings, and historical accounts? In hot, bushfire-prone Australia, the winters are increasingly warmer and shorter with each passing year.
Winner of Best Actor at the Sydney Theatre Critics Award and Sustainability Award at the Adelaide Fringe 2024, The End of Winter is about loss and resilience. But it’s also about the places one can search for cold weather—places that can be reached via public transport, or a little imagination…
The End of Winter is a moving, evocative love letter to winter, written in the unrelenting Australian summer.
There will be a dialogue with the artists after each performance, with speech to text interpretation available upon request for the dialogue on 9 January 2025. Please email your request to info@singaporefringe.com by 6 December 2024.

Workshop: From Forum Theatre to Devising Theatre
2025-01-05 - 2025-12-08 | The Necessary Stage, 180 Paya Lebar Road, #10-06 Yi Guang Building, Singapore, Singapore, 409032, 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 Yagnya, From Forum Theatre to Devising Theatre will see up to 20 emerging theatre-makers undergo an intensive training programme that journeys from the creative techniques of forum theatre to TNS’ unique devising methodology
This intensive program will also connect you with a range of theatre professionals—directors, playwrights, dramaturgs, and designers—through enlightening guest lectures and hands-on clinics. Through this eight-month process, you will collaborate with fellow participants to apply your newfound insights and devise new works that will be presented as public showcases of your works-in-progress at the Drama Centre Black Box.

Don’t miss this chance to elevate your craft and make an impact through theatre!

Apply at: bit.ly/FTD-APPLY
Application deadline: Fri 14 Feb 2025
