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SUMMARY:Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) 2026
DESCRIPTION:Revel in the arts this May through play! The Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA)\, Singapore’s pinnacle annual performing arts festival organised by Arts House Group and commissioned by the National Arts Council\, returns from 15 to 30 May with a vibrant constellation of performances\, installations and encounters — from epic productions to engaging\, participatory works. Led by the call-to-action “Let’s Play!”\, SIFA 2026 invites audiences to explore\, experiment\, engage and be inspired by the arts. \nSoak in the Festival vibes at the iconic Festival Village\, which makes its return this edition. Free performances\, public installations and communal spaces featuring local artists such as The Observatory\, The Theatre Practice and Off Root Theatrics welcome festivalgoers from dusk to dawn\, on the Festival grounds and beyond. This year\, SIFA brings two large-scale and high-impact artistic experiences from the Festival Village to Nexus\, Punggol Digital District\, enthralling the community with a soaring aerial performance featuring artists suspended 25 feet in the air\, and a speculative theatrical procession full of colour\, texture\, movement and melody. \nLocal commissioned productions and international works take the stage to bring together a cross collaboration of cultures and disciplines. From spotlighting homegrown cultural icons such as Jacintha Abisheganaden and Dick Lee\, and the reimagining of classics such as Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler by the National Theater Company of Korea\, and Hamlet by Peruvian company Teatro La Plaza and its cast of actors with Down syndrome\, to dance-based productions that blur the lines of reality through holographic technology and stunning stage illusions\, SIFA 2026 opens up multiple pathways and platforms for audiences to rediscover the joy and significance of coming together through art.
URL:https://pluralartmag.com/event/singapore-international-festival-of-arts-sifa-2026/
CATEGORIES:Regional,Singapore
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SUMMARY:Lai Yu Tong: The Dogs
DESCRIPTION: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. \nDrawing 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. \nIn 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. \nStorytelling 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. \nThrough 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.
URL:https://pluralartmag.com/event/lai-yu-tong-the-dogs/2026-05-09/
LOCATION:ShanghART Singapore\, Block 9 Lock Road #02-22\, 108937\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Singapore
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SUMMARY:In Our Own Frame (Photography Exhibition)
DESCRIPTION:In Our Own Frame brings together 22 imagemakers and grows out of the year-long POV: Photowalks programme designed by photographer Benjamin Tan.\nAlongside works from POV participants\, selected responses from WiSSG (Women in Street Singapore) and the wider Singapore photography community form a wall of moments\, with photography as a way to pause and return to the present. \nKantaya New presents her staged series “A Modern Day Affair” within the exhibition. \nFree admission.
URL:https://pluralartmag.com/event/in-our-own-frame-photography-exhibition/2026-05-05/
LOCATION:Guoco Midtown Public Art Wall\, 128 Beach Rd\, Singapore\, 189773\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Regional,Singapore
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SUMMARY:vOilah! France Singapore Festival 2026
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nCatch 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. \nPresented 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/.
URL:https://pluralartmag.com/event/voilah-france-singapore-festival-2026/
CATEGORIES:Regional,Singapore
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SUMMARY:Elia Nurvista and Bagus Pandega: Nafasan Bumi ~ An Endless Harvest
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nElia 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. \nFrom 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. \nAcross 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. \nTogether\, 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. ~
URL:https://pluralartmag.com/event/elia-nurvista-and-bagus-pandega-nafasan-bumi-an-endless-harvest/
LOCATION:Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark\, 39 Keppel Rd\, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark\, Singapore 089065\, Singapore\, 089065\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Singapore
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260720
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SUMMARY:The Living Room
DESCRIPTION: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? \nFeaturing 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. \nThe 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.
URL:https://pluralartmag.com/event/the-living-room/
LOCATION:Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark\, 39 Keppel Rd\, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark\, Singapore 089065\, Singapore\, 089065\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Singapore
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SUMMARY:Talking Objects
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFeaturing 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.  \nTalking 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.
URL:https://pluralartmag.com/event/talking-objects/
LOCATION:Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark\, 39 Keppel Rd\, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark\, Singapore 089065\, Singapore\, 089065\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Singapore
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SUMMARY:Let’s Play! The Art and Design of Asian Games
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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. \nMany 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. \nLet’s Play! incorporates playable interactives\, outdoor installations\, collaborations with schools and local game associations\, and a diverse line-up of programmes and talks.
URL:https://pluralartmag.com/event/lets-play-the-art-and-design-of-asian-games/
LOCATION:Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM)\, 1 Empress Place\, 179555\, Singapore
CATEGORIES:Singapore
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