Benchmarks
2023-08-02 - 2026-07-31 | The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Ln, Singapore 179429, Singapore, Singapore, 179429, Singapore
Experience the Civic District afresh this August 2023 onwards, with Benchmarks, a new public art trail commissioned by the Civic District Alliance (CDA). Designed by six Singapore-based artists, Lua Boon Kai, Joyce Beetuan Koh, Immanuel Koh, Yang Jie, Jeffrey Tan and Jason Wee, the public art initiative features a series of six unconventional artwork benches inspired by punctuation marks dotted around the arts and culture precinct. Each art bench draws from the rich heritage of the district, inviting visitors to have meaningful exchanges with themselves, other visitors, or even the surroundings while appreciating the beauty of the Civic District and its colourful stories. These art benches for Benchmarks are located at key areas of the Civic District, such as the Asian Civilisations Museum, The Arts House, The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay and along the Singapore River.
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Let’s Play! The Art and Design of Asian Games
2025-09-05 - 2026-06-07 | Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), 1 Empress Place, 179555, Singapore
Games are among humanity’s oldest shared experiences – a source of joy, challenge, and connection for thousands of years. In Asia, they have developed in remarkably diverse ways, from the lively, fast-paced rhythms of mahjong and congkak to the contemplative strategy of go and chess. They have entertained and educated, reflected power and status, and acted as metaphors for life.
This exhibition explores the rich history of Asian games and the role they have played in shaping culture, identity, and community. Some travelled widely, taking on new forms and meanings across borders. Others became tools for mental training or expressions of artistic ideals. Even today, they remain at the frontier of innovation – as seen in the rise of artificial intelligence.
Many of the games on display are also works of extraordinary beauty and craftsmanship. As you explore the exhibition, we invite you to discover how the act of play continues to inspire, evolve, and connect people across time and place.
Let’s Play! incorporates playable interactives, outdoor installations, collaborations with schools and local game associations, and a diverse line-up of programmes and talks.

Talking Objects
2025-09-12 - 2026-07-19 | Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065, Singapore, 089065, Singapore
Singapore Art Museum (SAM) presents Talking Objects, its latest exhibition at the dedicated collection gallery. Drawn from the museum’s collection, the exhibition explores how everyday objects – commonplace items, familiar scenes and everyday representations — become vessels of memory, meaning, and emotion when seen through the lens of artists and their practices. Beyond materiality, Talking Objects considers how even the most everyday forms can become instruments of expression. In the hands of artists, the ordinary takes on new significance, inviting us to look again at the world around us.
Featuring works by widely recognised artists from across Asia, including Alwin Reamillo, Suzann Victor, and Christine Ay Tjoe, Talking Objects showcases a diversity of artistic voices and practices, while offering insights into SAM’s ongoing research into the material and conceptual languages of contemporary art in the region. These artworks resonate with shared human experiences while remaining grounded in the particularities of place and personal history. The exhibition invites visitors to slow down, reflect, and rediscover the quiet power of objects in shaping how we see and understand the world.
Talking Objects is housed alongside The Living Room in SAM’s collection gallery. Together, they create a reflective space where personal and collective experiences converge, offering insights into individual narratives and broader social and cultural conditions.

The Living Room
2025-09-12 - 2026-07-19 | Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065, Singapore, 089065, Singapore
Singapore Art Museum (SAM) presents its latest exhibition The Living Room, as part of the final chapter of Collection Project: Communicating, Convening, Commoning—a long-term collaboration between SAM, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Housed at SAM’s refreshed collection gallery, the exhibition brings together performance-based works from the collections of all three institutions to explore how performances – fleeting by nature – can be remembered, reactivated, and carried forward through different forms of engagement. At its heart is a central question: What happens to a performance when it ends? Where does its liveness go, and how might we make sense of what remains?
Featuring works by renowned local and international artists such as Ezzam Rahman, Chuyia Chia, Kim Garam, Brian Fuata and others, The Living Room presents a breadth of practices spanning live performances, video, installation, performance traces, re-enactments, and artist-led activations. Taking inspiration from the living room as a space for gathering and presence, the exhibition invites visitors into an evolving environment that is brought to life through activation, conversation, and exchange. By bringing together works grounded in lived experience, The Living Room opens new ways of understanding how performance lives on through objects, memory, interaction, and shared encounters.
The Living Room is showcased alongside Talking Objects at SAM’s collection gallery. Together, they create a reflective space where personal and collective experiences converge, offering insights into individual narratives and broader social and cultural conditions.

Engage with history through art at Temple, National Gallery Singapore’s first rooftop installation integrating kinetic motion and sound
2025-10-25 10:00 - 2026-10-11 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | National Gallery Singapore, 1 St. Andrew's Road #01-01, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
Embark on a meditative experience at Temple, a new participatory artwork by Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Commissioned by National Gallery Singapore for its Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series and presented as part of Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention, Temple invites visitors to reflect on history and contemplate the impact of war through a multisensorial experience that blends kinetic motion and sound – underscoring the Gallery’s mission to connect the art of Singapore and Southeast Asia to the world and foster critical dialogue on global issues through art.
Featuring bells and mobiles crafted from recovered and defused unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the Vietnam War, visitors are encouraged to strike the defused shells, gongs, and chimes, creating a meditative soundscape. Through this transformation of weapons of war into instruments of peace, Nguyen inspires ideas of karmic balance, reincarnation, and the memories embedded within materials, offering a powerful lens for healing and reconciliation.
Temple is the eighth edition of the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission.

Peacock Power: Beauty and Symbolism Across Cultures
2025-10-31 10:00 - 2026-08-30 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Peranakan Museum, 39 Armenian Street, Singapore, Singapore 179941, Singapore
With its dazzling feathers and spectacular tail, the peacock has long symbolised beauty, power, and divinity across Asia. For centuries, its striking form has captivated artists and devotees alike, inspiring works that range from sacred images to everyday adornment.
The peacock motif travelled between cultures. Peranakan art, shaped by the convergence of multiple influences, is the starting point for this journey. Treasures from the National Collection and important lenders explore the bird’s presence in a broad range of artistic disciplines. Each object invites visitors to consider how a motif moved between regions and contexts, revealing the networks that connect peoples and how artistic traditions evolve through exchange.
The exhibition presents these connections through colourful displays, interactive stations, and lively programmes. A new work by artist Ernest Goh explores the peacock in the context of its symbolism, cultural heritage, and ecology.

Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise
2026-01-09 - 2026-11-15 | National Gallery Singapore, Ngee Ann Kongsi Concourse Gallery, Concourse Level, City Hall Wing, 1 St Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
Discover the power of art through the perspectives of five trailblazing women artists from
Southeast Asia. Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise foregrounds their lives,
perspectives, and artistic practices, featuring over 45 works by Amanda Heng (Singapore),
Dolorosa Sinaga (Indonesia), Imelda Cajipe Endaya (Philippines), Nirmala Dutt (Malaysia), and
Phaptawan Suwannakudt (Thailand) – many of which are shown in Singapore for the first
time.
Fear No Power is National Gallery Singapore’s first major exhibition connecting and
comparing the practices of women artists from Southeast Asia. This landmark exhibition
highlights the significance of women-centred approaches in shaping modern and
contemporary art across the region. With artworks spanning painting, photography,
sculpture, and performance from the 1960s to 2010s alongside archival material, Fear No
Power honours the multi-faceted roles of these pioneering women as artists, educators,
writers and community organisers – telling a larger story of women’s empowerment in
Southeast Asia.

Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega: Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest
2026-01-16 10:00 - 2026-05-31 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065, Singapore, 089065, Singapore
Artists Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega explore how the demands of a relentless extraction, from plantations to electric futures, cast a shadow on the very “breath of the Earth.”
Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega: Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest imagines the afterlives of materials that persist long after their use, outlasting our time in this age of excess. Plantations, mining sites, and the promise of electric vehicle technologies become places where the stories of tomorrow are formed, bound by Indonesia’s extractive economies whose resources sustain the pulse of today’s global demand.
From the need for oxygen to nickel’s role in lithium-ion technologies, from the cutting down of forests to palm oil’s many applications, these materials represent the state of the Earth’s breath (Nafasan Bumi) today, strained by extraction. The planet’s natural rhythms no longer move freely but are drawn into the labour of industry, breathing through the exhaustion of a harvest that never ends.
Across the exhibition, labour appears as both memory and speculation, a rhythm shared by humans, machines, and the living world. Conveyor belts, once emblems of the industrial revolution and the mechanisation of labour, now hum to the pulse of tropical plants, creating a continuous cycle of productivity. Nearby, sculptures cast in palm oil wax evoke the stillness of carved stone yet resist ideals of perfection, creating a dreamscape haunted by plantation residues. Others, made from discarded palm waste, hold the tension between fragility and endurance.
Together, these artworks trace how human and non-human life have been enmeshed in cycles of ceaseless pursuit of productivity, asking: What will the future shaped by these material conditions? Like the recurring haze that engulfs Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia during the southwest monsoon, the Earth’s breath, shadowed by an endless harvest, lingers as a reminder of what extraction conceals and refuses to let us forget. ~

Momentary Pulses: Art in the Central Business District
2026-01-30 - 2026-12-31 | Various sites across Singapore’s CBD (from Raffles Place to Tanjong Pagar), Singapore
Date: 30 January 2026 – 31 December 2027
Venue: Various sites across Singapore’s CBD (from Raffles Place to Tanjong Pagar)
Admission: Free
Presented by The Everyday Museum (a public art initiative by Singapore Art Museum), Momentary Pulses is a public art trail that invites you to slow down and encounter art in the daily flow of life. Spanning overlooked and interstitial public spaces like linkways, open plazas and MRT passages, seven newly commissioned installations by Singapore based artists respond to the sights, sounds and commercial pulse of the Central Business District (CBD) — turning routine journeys into moments of reflection and imagination.
Featuring works by Song-Ming Ang, Finbarr Fallon, Catherine Hu, Zul Mahmod, collaborative duo Teow Yue Han and Federico Ruberto, Yang Jie and Immanuel Koh, the trail reveals the textures and histories embedded within Singapore’s urban core. The works will be launched in two phases, with the first phase featuring five installations by Song-Ming Ang, Finbarr Fallon, Catherine Hu, Zul Mahmod, and the collaborative duo Teow Yue Han and Federico Ruberto. The remaining two works by Yang Jie and Immanuel Koh will be introduced in the later part of 2026. Each installation is sited within walking distance in the CBD, including stops near OUE Link (Raffles Place), One Raffles Quay (North Tower), Asia Square (Tower 1), Shenton House, and Tanjong Pagar MRT (Exit G). Look out for kinetic and sound-based installations, AI-driven works, sculptural interventions, and site-specific gestures that reframe how we perceive the city’s everyday infrastructures. Together, these works offer distinct lenses on movement, memory, technology and transformation — encouraging new ways of seeing a district in constant motion.
As part of the public art trail’s opening, The Everyday Museum launches Story Scape (30 January – 8 February 2026), a festival organised in collaboration with StoryFest. The festival extends the trail through exciting storytelling performances, artist talks and an evening audiovisual experience at RASA Space. Programme details will be announced on SAM’s channels.

Between Line and Form
2026-03-05 10:00 - 2026-04-18 18:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore, 1M Yong Siak Street, Singapore, 168641, Singapore
Between Line and Form features new works by Kirsten Coelho and Tiffany Loy in a quiet dialogue shaped by discipline and material precision. Coelho’s architectural ceramic vessels explore narrative and memory, while Loy’s woven geometries investigate light, depth, and structure. Together, the exhibition considers how repetition and restraint give rise to presence and form.

SAY YES TO EVERYTHING: Origami
2026-03-07 10:00 - 2026-05-09 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Create simple origami forms inspired by Rirkrit Tiravanija’s works, Tomorrow is another fine day (2015) and untitled 2020 (extinction series) (2023).

This interactive activity, like the artist’s other participatory works, centres the shared time and experience between participants, presenting art as a social exchange between people, rather than an object.

Recommended for all ages.

Rirkrit Tiravanija: SAY YES TO EVERYTHING
2026-03-07 10:00 - 2026-05-09 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
STPI presents Rirkrit Tiravanija: SAY YES TO EVERYTHING, a solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed Argentine born Thai artist. One of the most widely celebrated figures in the contemporary art world, Tiravanija has pioneered participatory practices that reshaped how institutions consider audience, social connection, and art objects themselves.

Palma: The Conference of the Palm Trees | Featuring Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Curated by Virginie Puertolas-Syn
2026-03-07 12:00 - 2026-05-09 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Cuturi Gallery, 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199937, Singapore, 228210, Singapore
Cuturi Gallery is delighted to present Palma: The Conference of the Palm Trees. Curated by London-based French curator Virginie Puertolas-Syn, this exhibition marks the first presentation in Singapore and Asia of Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (b. 1983, Les Sables-d’Olonne), a French and Moroccan artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. Over the past two decades, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou has developed a poetic and critical visual language addressing questions of identity, hybridity, belief systems, and the politics of representation.
For his inaugural presentation at Cuturi Gallery, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou presents a body of work previously shown internationally and here recontextualised within Singapore’s cultural, historical, and ecological landscape. The project draws inspiration from The Conference of the Birds, the 12th-century Sufi allegory by Farid ud-Din Attar, reimagined through the figure of the palm tree, one of the world’s oldest cultivated plant species.
Presented in Singapore, where palm trees are integral to the city’s urban identity and “garden city” image, the exhibition introduces a critical distance from their decorative and symbolic function. Through drawings, sculptures, photographs, and installations, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou isolates and re-frames the palm as both subject and archive, revealing tensions between nature and control, visibility and erasure, ecology and exploitation.
Palma: The Conference of the Palm Trees will be on view at 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199937, from 7 March to 9 May 2026.

Everyday We Create Histories
2026-03-14 12:00 - 2026-04-30 18:00 (Asia/Singapore) | ShanghART Singapore, Block 9 Lock Road #02-22, 108937, Singapore
Artists: Lai Yu Tong, Li Shan, Lu Lei, Arin Rungjang, Sun Xun, Melati Suryodarmo, Boedi Widjaja, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong
ShanghART Singapore is pleased to present Everyday We Create Histories, bringing together works by nine artists who offer different ways of looking at, constructing, and questioning history. Spanning across painting, photography, sculpture, and animation, the exhibition provides multiple entry points into the idea of history, positioning artists as observers of the past and artmaking as an act of both remembrance and resistance.
We often understand “history” as a record of past events. Yet not everything that happens becomes history. Events must be witnessed, documented, and circulated before they are collectively remembered as part of history. At each stage, various factors and decisions determine whether an event gets turned into history, and how it is framed. Under such conditions, history reveals itself as contingent and malleable rather than singular and fixed.
It is within this space where artistic practice operates. Artists offer their own readings of the world, attending to the cracks and dents within history through their work. Their efforts range from the everyday to the monumental; from glancing at the recent present to looking at the distant past. Drawing on motifs, crafting narratives, and engaging materiality, the artists created works that invoke intersecting possibilities, suggesting presence as much as absence. What remains unspoken and outside of the frame can at times appear as loud and clear as what is placed before our eyes.
Across diverse contexts and subjects, the artists in Everyday We Create Histories continually examine both present and past, sharing distinctive takes that could shed light on the future as much as reflecting on what has been. The exhibition invites us to look beyond what is visible and read between the lines, encouraging us to reconsider our roles not only as a spectator, but also as active participants in the ongoing making and reading of history, day after day.

EAST OF ABSTRACTION: SHUHARI | SHIBUMI
2026-03-24 17:00 - 2026-05-03 17:00, 2026-03-24 17:00 - 2026-05-03 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Whitestone Gallery Singapore, 39 Keppel Road, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, #05-03/06, Singapore, Singapore, 089065, Singapore
Whitestone Gallery Singapore is pleased to present EAST OF ABSTRACTION: SHUHARI | SHIBUMI, opening on 24th March 2026. Bringing together five artists from China, Japan, and Korea — Katsuyoshi Inokuma, Liu Ke, Masayuki Tsubota, Soonik Kwon, and Tetsuo Mizu — the exhibition demonstrates the evolution of Asian abstraction across generations, geographies, and philosophical traditions.
The exhibition’s conceptual framework draws upon the Japanese principle of SHUHARI(守破離), a structure of learning and mastery that translates as “to follow, to break, to transcend.” Complementing this progression is SHIBUMI (渋み), an aesthetic sensibility rooted in restraint, quiet depth, and understated elegance. Together, these concepts offer a lens through which to understand Asian abstraction — disciplined yet exploratory, minimal yet expansive, meditative yet intellectually rigorous.

You Free Hor? 你闲哦? - A Solo Exhibition by Agnes Christina
2026-03-27 12:00 - 2026-04-25 19:00 (Asia/Singapore) | aNERDgallery, 29 Perak Road, 280146, Singapore
“You free hor?” is both an invitation and a jeer – asking if one has spare time or sarcastically saying they have too much time on hand. This solo exhibition by Indonesian artist Agnes Christina is a tongue-in-cheek show exploring the shifting attitudes toward time – how we are filling it, stretching it, valuing it. In modern productivity-driven culture such as Singapore, time, including the spare ones, must be justified. As time becomes currency, the exhibition asks: do we own our time, or does it own us? What does it truly mean to be free?

Checkpoint Theatre presents SECONDARY: THE MUSICAL by weish
2026-04-09 - 2026-04-26 | Victoria Theatre, 9 Empress Place, 179556, Singapore
Time:
Tues – Sat: 8pm
Sat – Sun: 3pm
Duration:
160 minutes
Winner of Production of Year at the 2025 ST Life Theatre Awards, Secondary: The Musical returns in April! Praised for its “stunning cast, script and music” (The Straits Times), playwright-composer weish’s “astonishing magnum opus” (Jom Media) is a must-watch for everyone in Singapore.
Delve into the vibrant world of Huxley Secondary School alongside young teacher Lilin as she tries her best to make it through just one more school term. With the pressures of Singapore’s education system intensifying the complex lives of both students and teachers, can any of them survive unscathed? Shaped and brought to vivid life by the sure hand of acclaimed director-dramaturg Huzir Sulaiman, this powerful work forges a contemporary landscape of storytelling unlike any other musical.
Monumental in its impact on all fronts, Secondary: The Musical earned six nominations at the 2025 ST Life Theatre Awards, including Best Original Script for weish, Best Director for Huzir Sulaiman, Best Costume for Max Tan, and Best Supporting Actor and Actress for Teoh Junh Vinh and Rebekah Sangeetha Dorai. With a stellar team guided with flair and nuance by director Huzir Sulaiman, this musical is “a production of breathtaking ambition and riveting quality” (Jom Media).
Deeply moving and extremely timely, this landmark work by Checkpoint Theatre is an unforgettable dive into life in a Singapore school, with all its delicate joys, complicated heartbreak, and unexpected beauty.

OPENING: BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2026
2026-04-10 - 2026-04-18 | HUB / ART BARCELONA, 183 Carrer del Doctor Trueta, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08005, Italy
ITSLIQUID Group is proud to announce the opening of the 8th edition of BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2026, hosted at ITSLIQUID Art Space – Barcelona from April 10 to April 18, 2026 (click here to book your free ticket).
This upcoming edition brings together a global community of artists to investigate the dynamic dialogue between the human body and the urban landscape, uncovering how our identities are reshaped by the environments we inhabit. BARCELONA CONTEMPORARY 2026 serves as a creative laboratory where painting, photography, and performance converge, inviting the audience to explore the constant metamorphosis of the self in our ever-changing contemporary world.

[title of show]
2026-04-15 - 2026-04-25 | Alliance Française de Singapour, 1 Sarkies Road Singapore 258130, Singapore, 258130, Singapore
Directed by Eric Larrea and produced by Nathalie Ribette, this Singapore staging features an exciting cast of local talents — Andrew Marko, Daisy Anne, Rino Junior John, and Vanessa Kee — each bringing sharp comedic timing and heart to this four-person musical gem.
[title of show] is a hilarious off-broadway, tony nominated musical about two writers writing a musical about two writers writing a musical!​
​Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends Susan, Heidi and Larry on the eighty-eights. With the cast in place, Jeff and Hunter begin a conversation about what to write about. ​
Eventually, Jeff suggests they write about what to write about.They make a pact to write up until the festival’s deadline and dream about the show changing their lives.​
[title of show] — taken from the space on the festival’s application form which asks for the “[title of show]” — followsHunter and Jeff and their friends on their journey through the gauntlet of creative self-expression.​

[title of show] is supported by the Cultural Matching Fund.

Brandon Tay: Sangkalan
2026-04-15 - 2026-10-25 | Various Locations, -, Singapore, Singapore, -
Step into Brandon Tay: Sangkalan, an evolving installation of a fictional island ecosystem where fragments of a “lost” coastal culture are shaped through three species — a fruit, an insect, and a bird. Together, their rhythms of growth, flight and song weave a vivid picture of how humans and nature might share perception, memory, and meaning.
Travelling across four regional libraries in Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong and Punggol, the installation unfolds as a living archive that evolves with each presentation. Visitors can encounter new elements over time, making each stop a slightly different experience. Through vibrant textiles, sculptural forms, and archival materials, Singaporean artist Brandon Tay translates the island’s collective memories into a language of colour, geometry, and symbols. Echoing the decentralised logic of blockchain networks, Sangkalan invites visitors to reimagine information systems, their origins and how nature might inspire new ways of sensing, connecting, and remembering.
Brandon Tay: Sangkalan is held in collaboration with the National Library Board. Through the Library showcases, SAM continues to extend contemporary art beyond traditional museum settings and into civic and community spaces, encouraging encounters with contemporary art in unexpected and accessible everyday environments.
Venues:

15 April – 31 May 2026: Woodlands Regional Library
3 June – 19 July 2026: Tampines Regional Library
22 July – 6 September 2026: Jurong Regional Library
9 September – 25 October 2026: Punggol Regional Library

VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR – 24TH EDITION 2026
2026-04-17 18:00 - 2026-04-30 20:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Palazzo Albrizzi – Capello, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca (ACIT) Cannaregio 4118, Venice, Italy, Venice, 30121, Italy
ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with ACIT Venice – Italian-German Cultural Association, is pleased to invite you to the opening of the 24th edition of VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR. From April 17 to 30, 2026, the historic halls of Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello will host an unprecedented international exhibition dedicated to the evolution of contemporary identities. We invite you to explore the artistic research of worldwide talents, set against the timeless charm of the Venetian landscape.

D-SIDE: Building Blocks
2026-04-17 19:00 - 21:30 (Asia/Singapore) | Aliwal Arts Centre, Multi-Purpose Hall, 28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918, Singapore, Singapore, 199918, Singapore
D-SIDE: Building Blocks
A multidisciplinary showcase by alumni of D’Hoppers Dance Crew (DDC) from the National University of Singapore.
D-SIDE is a play on ‘b-side’ — the lesser-known track on a record — reimagined to celebrate our many identities as people and creatives. It’s also a play on ‘decide’: you hold the agency here. Choose how you move through the space, which works you encounter, and what sides of us you uncover.
This production reunites DDC alumni across eight generations, some sharing the stage for the very first time. Dance once felt infinite — now it lives alongside deadlines, adulthood, and the quiet negotiations of a busy life. D-SIDE is our refusal to let it go. It’s a celebration of a passion that has grown up with us, continues to inspire our lives, and come back richer for it.
Note: Some works contain explicit language. Parental guidance is advised.
Warning: Strobe lighting effects will be used during some of the dance performances.

Eko Bintang Role/Play | Opening Celebrations
2026-04-23 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore, 1M Yong Siak Street, Singapore, 168641, Singapore
Role/Play presents new works by Eko Bintang, exploring the tension between “role” and “play” — duty and freedom. Anonymous, masked figures inhabit dreamlike spaces, balancing playfulness with unease as they navigate identity, performance, and societal expectations. Through textured surfaces and ambiguous narratives, Bintang reflects on the quiet tensions between conformity and self-expression.

vOilah! France Singapore Festival 2026
2026-04-25 08:00 - 2026-06-20 17:00 (Asia/Singapore)
vOilah! France Singapore Festival returns with a vibrant season celebrating French creativity and culture, bringing the spirit of French art de vivre (the art of living) to Singapore. Organised by the Embassy of France in Singapore, the festival brings together artists, communities and institutions from both countries through a diverse line-up of over 26 programmes, spanning performances, exhibitions and other cultural experiences.

Catch acclaimed productions such as LACRIMA, alongside world-premiere concerts and dance collaborations between French and Singaporean artists. Beyond the stage, enjoy an open-air French animation marathon, marvel at masterpieces from the Louvre Museum, and indulge in some of France’s finest produce at the vOilah! French Food Market.
Presented in collaboration with 21 leading cultural partners across the city, vOilah! continues to be a key meeting point for France and Singapore. Discover the full festival programme at www.voilah.sg/.

Embossing & Relief Class | Traces of History
2026-04-25 10:00 - 12:00 (Asia/Singapore) | STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Trace the histories of extinct or near-extinct wildlife in this embossing and relief printing class.

Inspired by Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Extinction series with STPI, create iridescent images of extinct or endangered species on paper surfaced with silver foil, using mark-making to form the raised outlines. These subtle impressions invites participants to reflect on the absence of these neglected lifeforms. The image can then be extended into print, by using the embossed surface as a relief printing plate.

Recommended for ages 12 and above.

A Shared Meal
2026-04-25 12:30 - 13:30 (Asia/Singapore) | STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, 41 Robertson Quay, Singapore, 238236, Singapore
Experience an artwork in action!

Join us for a complimentary Thai lunch in the gallery as we activate Rirkrit Tiravanija’s ‘untitled (lunch box)’ (1996). This programme invites 8 visitors to share a freshly prepared meal from a local Thai restaurant, served out of traditional tiffin carriers.

Through this experience, the shared meal becomes the artwork itself, unfolding through conversation, chance encounters and the temporary community formed around the table.

Please note that participation is walk-in only. Advance bookings and dietary requests cannot be accommodated due to the nature of the work. The food may contain meat, peanuts, shellfish, soy and eggs.

Pressure Points by Lucas Tan
2026-04-25 17:00 - 2026-05-24 17:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Haridas Contemporary, CT Hub 2, 114 Lavender Street,Unit05-72, 338729, Singapore
Haridas Contemporary is delighted to present Lucas Tan’s (b. 2000, Singapore) debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Working mainly in figuration, Tan’s practice focuses on capturing small, fleeting moments and sentimentalities from everyday life. Influenced by his engagement with image culture, Tan constructs his compositions through orchestration and mediation, creating works that feel both deeply personal and strangely relatable. Throughout his practice, these moments form a visual language that reflects lived experience and broader emotional patterns.
Pressure Points features 14 new paintings that highlight this focus by exploring the various pressures shaping the artist’s life. Scenes of intimacy, distance, and quiet reflection unfold across the exhibition, revealing vulnerability in Tan’s work as he navigates feelings of belonging and ambition. Rooted in autobiography, the works examine the tension between revealing and controlling, and between the desire to be seen and the urge to self-present. In this body of work, Tan’s focus on the everyday becomes a form of introspection, unveiling an emotional landscape shaped by negotiation, aspiration, and the complexities of modern life.

Mother’s Day Japanese Tsumami Zaiku Card-Making Workshop
2026-04-26 10:00 - 13:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Palette Japan Studio, 41 JALAN PEMIMPIN #03-07 KONG BENG INDUSTRIAL BUILDING SINGAPORE 577186, Marymount, 577186, Singapore
Join us for a Tsumami Zaiku Card-Making Workshop — a 200-year-old Japanese fabric folding art — where you’ll handcraft a beautiful handmade card with beautifful flower blooms made from upcycled Japanese Yukata fabric. Conducted by our Certified Trainer @frehiyaku.wondertime – Freya Teo.
Because mums deserve more than a last-minute gift. They deserve a moment — shared, crafted, and remembered.
Whether you come with your mum, or you would like to make this surprise card for your mum, or simply to treat yourself — this one’s for the women who give everything.

Under Our Skin – The Body Remembers
2026-04-30 18:30 - 20:00 (Asia/Singapore) | National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, 1 St Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore, 178957, Singapore
If your body could speak, what would it say?
Following the launch of Under Our Skin: Conversations on Gender, Identity, and the Body, we continue this series with its second conversation in our lineup. Titled The Body Remembers, this session brings together a curated group of voices – Dr Jade Kua, Ruby Jayaseelan, Chan Sze-Wei, and Preeti Nair – spanning mental health, embodied movement, film, and content creation.
Across these different fields and practices, they will explore how the body is not just a subject, but a site through which memory, emotion, identity, and lived experience are processed and expressed.
Taking cues from how artists have engaged with the body in Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise and beyond, the conversation explores the body not just as form, but as something that reacts, remembers, and resists. Spend the evening with us as we unpack these ideas together, and explore how they connect to our own experiences in everyday life.
After the session, guests are welcome to view select exhibitions with extended hours till 10pm.
