City Lines
2026-01-11 12:00 - 2026-02-11 18:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Maya Gallery, 57 Genting Lane, #05-00, Singapore 349564, 57 Genting Lane, #05-00 Singapore 349564, 349564, Singapore
Singapore’s urban landscape is constantly evolving. City Lines showcases ten artists whose work examines the invisible lines that connect people to their surroundings—the emotional and psychological aspects of the city that go beyond its visible architecture. From the quiet beauty of watercolour cityscapes to digital takes on architecture, and poetic views of urban life, City Lines showcases the rhythm of Singapore’s spaces. Beyond capturing façades—the shophouse, housing estate and urban forms, the exhibition tells a story of the artists’ connection with the city, the past and the present, real and imagined.
ARTISTS
Andrew Huang
Heiko Schulze
Idris Ali
Jeffrey Wandly
Kay Saputra
Masturah Sha’ari
Mayang Sari
Syazana Yassin
Terence Tan
Yeo Jian Long
Held at Maya Gallery from 11 January to 11 February 2026, City Lines will be part of the Singapore Art Week.

Neural Echoes: Enter The Sleep Lab
2026-01-09 17:00 - 2026-02-07 23:00 | The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Ln, Singapore 179429, Singapore, Singapore, 179429, Singapore
50-minute narrative-driven, immersive experience with interactive puzzles. For 4-6 players.
SomniTech promises to revolutionise rest: a future where sleep is productive, optimised, and monetised. Their Brain–Computer Interface and experimental dream-tracking systems map susceptibility, guide sleep states, and deliver auditory instructions.
Many clinical trial participants never exited the programme. Dr. Adrian Tan, the iconic yet controversial mind behind SomniTech, disappeared shortly after. No one knows what drives him, or what horrors unfold behind those closed doors.
Will you go undercover in the clinical trials? Enter the lab, navigate controlled assessments, figure out what happened to the missing participants, and uncover the true purpose of SomniTech.

Bouquet For You
2026-01-09 13:00 - 2026-01-31 18:00 | Art ImA, 14 Circular Road, #03-02, Singapore 058412, Singapore, Singapore, 058412, Singapore
In the liminal spaces where time folds into timelessness and life meets mortality, Sung Min Woo’s art takes form. Sung’s debut solo exhibition in Singapore at Gallery Ima is more than a geographic milestone—it is a passage into an in-between realm where cultures, philosophies, and ecological ideas converge.

Born in 1974, Sung Min Woo trained in Oriental Painting at Hongik University, earning both her BFA and MFA, before completing a Ph.D. in Art Education at Korea National University of Education. This combined foundation of practice and theory shapes her distinctive approach. Working with silk, natural pigments, and powdered gold and silver, she draws on East Asian artistic traditions while reinterpreting them through a contemporary ecological lens. Her paintings go beyond representing nature; they interrogate its conditions, exploring what it means to emerge, endure, and ultimately disappear—ideas that resonate across cultures and time.

Working on silk, Sung layers natural pigments and dusts her surfaces with gold and silver powder. These metallic interventions do more than embellish; they suspend time, creating a luminous membrane where fleeting moments attain a sense of permanence. Her technique of saturation, repetition, and slow accumulation reflects the rhythms of germination, growth, decay, and renewal. Each stroke becomes a meditative gesture linking continuity with impermanence.

Grass is Sung’s enduring motif – modest yet resilient, thriving in overlooked spaces. She often depicts naturalised species, plants rooted in Korean soil but originating elsewhere, as metaphors for movement, adaptation, and coexistence. Once foreign, these species integrate into their environments, enriching ecological diversity. Through this imagery, Sung develops a visual lexicon of interdependence, where ecological processes mirror social dynamics.

Central to Sung’s practice is the notion of oikos—the ancient Greek word that symbolises a foundational space of life where relationships coexist. In her work, oikos becomes a site where individual and collective existence intertwine. Her compositions unfold as living ecosystems: dense, shimmering fields where grasses and wildflowers weave narratives of survival, adaptation, and transformation. Each blade speaks of resilience and care, reminding us that life endures through connection.

This resonance is particularly alive in Singapore. Like these naturalised plants, Singapore’s identity has been shaped through migration and exchanges. Its strength lies in diversity, resilience, and adaptability. Sung’s work offers a quiet parallel: the beauty of integration and the unexpected harmony that emerges when disparate lives share the same ground.

Sung’s exhibition, Bouquet For You, invites us into a space of stillness and reflection. Shimmering surfaces and grasses rendered with exquisite precision blur the boundary between reality and dream, urging us to pause, look deeply, and contemplate our place within an interconnected ecological and existential web.

Lai Yu Tong: The Dogs
2025-12-20 12:00 - 2026-02-22 18:00 | ShanghART Singapore, Block 9 Lock Road #02-22, 108937, Singapore
ShanghART Singapore is pleased to present Lai Yu Tong’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, The Dogs, opening on 30 August 2025. Featuring a new series of works that centres around his encounters with a pack of stray dogs, the artist invites us to reconsider our relationship with entities that exist on the fringes of our environments, while reflecting upon his own experiences and interactions with the dogs across several months.
Drawing upon observations of the present, Lai’s practice examines the overlooked and neglected. Everyday objects and subjects such as cars, crows, hands, and chairs feature as motifs across his works that are cast within the stories and scenarios that he creates around them. By looking at something for extended periods of time, he brings out alternative perspectives on the familiar. Recently, his gaze fixates upon the stray dogs that he encounters around a forested area close to where he lives. Their existence as wild, untamed and shy creatures that roam under the shadows of Singapore intrigues him.
In a highly developed and controlled society, the presence of these dogs introduces a degree of unpredictability, even instilling a sense of danger. Initial encounters with them ended with Lai retreating out of fear. However, following multiple visits where he would observe, photograph and sometimes feed the dogs, the fear that he felt eventually shifts into a kind of love, as he forms a connection with these misunderstood creatures.
Storytelling makes up a big part of Lai’s approach, manifesting in forms such as drawing, sculpture, and sound. In these latest works, Lai seeks to retell his encounters with these enigmatic creatures through intimate pieces of drawings and collages on various modest everyday materials — cardboard, wood, and paper. He simultaneously draws and obscures the dogs, playing with techniques of erasure and transparency that render his subjects as ghostly figures and impressions. Such loose methods of representation alludes to the elusiveness and placelessness of the subjects he draws, whilst also allowing them to take on other identities and connotations.
Through a selection of two-dimensional works, a sculpture, a sound piece and a performance, the gallery space is transformed into a site of encounter between the audience and the dogs. Bridging the distance between us and them through Lai’s own experiences, the exhibition encourages visitors to empathise and identify with the beings that live on the edges of our environments; out of sight and away from what we are familiar with.

Yao Qingmei: Steel Garden
2025-12-13 12:00 - 2026-02-15 18:00 | ShanghART Singapore, Block 9 Lock Road #02-22, 108937, Singapore
Opening Reception : 13 December 2025, 4pm
Exhibition Period : 13 December 2025 – 15 February 2026
Singapore, November 2025 — ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present Steel Garden, a solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Yao Qingmei, marking her first major presentation with the gallery. Known for an interdisciplinary practice that bridges performance, video, photography, and installation, Yao examines how bodies move through—and are shaped by—structures of power, public ritual, and the choreography of collective life.
At the heart of the exhibition is Steel Garden, her latest two-channel video installation. The work draws from the grand floral displays erected annually during moments of national celebration. Through a series of precise and lingering images—close-ups of flowers, birds foraging among cracks, weeds growing between paving stones, the varied postures of visitors, and the synchronised gesture of crowds during the flag-raising ceremony—Yao reveals the subtle relationships between individual action, collective ritual, and the constructed natural landscape.
This multi-chapter video work begins with news reports on specially cultivated festival flowers and culminates in a floating, dust-like vocal poem from the artist’s own perspective. Drawing upon the concepts of the “moving garden” and the “third landscape” by French gardener Gilles Clément, the work also references descriptions of pain and hallucination experienced by the soldier Pavel Korchagin in the Soviet novel How the Steel Was Tempered (1934) to reveal the biopolitical framework that underlies this monumental ritual.
The exhibition also brings together works spanning more than 10 years, offering a contextual understanding of Yao’s sustained inquiry into symbolic gesture, embodied practice, and moving-image construction. Beginning with early public space interventions and documented performances, Yao initially used video as a means of recording her embodied actions. Over time, she has increasingly turned toward filmic construction, developing a more deliberate cinematic language that positions her both in front of and behind the camera.
This evolution is visible in works such as The Third Internationale in Monaco (2012) and Dance! Dance! Bruce Ling! (2013), in which Yao performs as a protagonist navigating staged situations that parody ideological choreography. In more recent projects, including Prelude to Love (2023), she adopts the role of a director, shaping narrative, movement, and mise-en-scène to investigate how collective identities are formed, reinforced, or unsettled.
Across her body of work, Yao Qingmei articulates a distinctive, incisive voice within contemporary art—one attuned to the shifting dynamics of nationalism, memory, and public space in the twenty-first century. Steel Garden offers a focused yet expansive lens into her practice, foregrounding an artist whose observations of ritual, power, and lived experiences resonate far beyond their point of origin.

A People's Marine Art Assemblage: An Installation
2025-12-13 09:00 - 2025-12-31 18:00 | Singapore Maritime Gallery, 31 Marina Coastal Dr, Level 2, 018988, Singapore
A People’s Marine Art Assemblage is a reflection on Singapore’s relationship between progress, protection and conservation. The large-scale installation features over 800kg of shipyard junk, 300 coral-inspired origami made by the community, and 7 special trash cleaning vessels made by pre-schoolers.
The installation is initiated by contemporary dance company ARTS FISSION and conceptualised by designer/artist Joyce Ng. It draws inspiration from the kueh lapis — a well-loved layer cake familiar to people in Southeast Asia — and begs the question: “Can we have our cake and eat it too?” when it comes to nature conservation.
The installation is the finale in a series of integrative arts and marine science programmes, organised by ARTS FISSION, in collaboration with the marine conservation non-profit Our Blue Spaces, and supported by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).
Opening day programme
The work opens on Saturday, 13 December 2025, and will include a marine conservation talk by Sam Shu Qin and an artist’s talk through words, music, and creative movement. Admission to the opening is free but registration is required at https://apeoplesmarineartassemblage.peatix.com/
Audience
Suitable for general audience: youths, adults, seniors, and families with children ages 4 and above are welcomed!
About the artist
As a non-profit company with IPC charity status and the longest incorporated contemporary dance company in Singapore since 1994, ARTS FISSION has gathered a diverse and ground-breaking dance-making track record. Under the artistic direction of Cultural Medallion Recipient Angela Liong, ARTS FISSION has evolved into a dynamic dance hybrid that is complex in concept, with a multi-disciplinary approach that often references Asian cultures in contemporary context. The dance hybrid approach also applies equal innovation to turn community outreach projects into richly human experiences.
Programme partners
Sam Shu Qin is a marine conservationist dedicated to restoring coral reefs in Southeast Asia. Her work focuses on enhancing biodiversity on artificial structures, rehabilitating degraded reefs in urban marine environments, and collaborating with coastal communities on restoration initiatives. She is also the co-founder of Our Blue Spaces, an initiative that raises awareness of Singapore’s marine biodiversity while fostering community collaboration and engagement in marine science and conservation. Through her expertise in science communication, Sam inspires diverse audiences to take an active role in marine stewardship.
Maritime & Port Authority Singapore (MPA) was established on 2 February 1996 with the mission to develop Singapore as a global hub port and international maritime centre, and to advance and safeguard Singapore’s strategic maritime interests. MPA takes on multiple roles as Singapore’s maritime and port regulator and planner, international maritime centre champion, national maritime representative, and champion of maritime digitalisation and decarbonisation efforts. MPA partners industry, research community and other agencies to enhance safety, security and environmental protection, facilitate maritime and port operations and growth, expand multi-domain capabilities, and support the cluster of maritime services and manpower development.

UNTITLED
2025-12-11 12:00 - 2026-01-10 18:00 | Art Seasons Gallery, 50 Genting Lane, Cideco Industrial Complex #03-02, Singapore, Singapore, 349558, Singapore
UNTITLED at ART SEASONS is an exhibition of artworks from 10 artists. Participating artists: Alya Rahmat. Umibaizurah. Komkrit Tepthian. Min Zaw. Awang Damit Ahmad. Choi Xoo Ang. Desmond Mah. David Chan. Yang Xu. Cheong Kwang Ho.
E-catalog: qrco.de/Untitled

Jochen Mühlenbrink: Untaped Solo Exhibition
2025-11-29 - 2026-01-03 | Cuturi Gallery, 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199937, Singapore, 228210, Singapore
Cuturi Gallery is pleased to present Untaped, a new solo exhibition by German painter Jochen Mühlenbrink (b. 1980). Bringing together works developed during his 2025 residency with the gallery, the exhibition marks his return to Singapore following his earlier presentation with the gallery, AIR. In Untaped, Mühlenbrink deepens his ongoing inquiry into illusion, perception, and painterly deception, expanding on his tape series while drawing continued resonance from the atmospheric ambiguity of his Window Paintings.
Across the exhibition, strips of tape, torn, curling at the ends, become the real focus. Tape layered over fogged windows both conceals and transforms what lies beneath, inviting the viewer into a playful investigation. The works are highly technical yet poetic, conceptual, and rooted in the materiality of lived experience. Mühlenbrink’s practice focuses on that brief shift in perception: when what seems familiar reveals itself differently.
Untaped by Jochen Mühlenbrink will be on view at 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199937 from 29 November 2025 to 3 January 2026.
