Singapore Art Week 2027 spotlights Southeast Asian art as Singapore takes on ASEAN Chairmanship

11 November 2026

From major international exhibitions and art fairs to new precinct activations, the 15th edition brings together diverse artistic perspectives from across Southeast Asia, offering audiences more ways to experience art across Singapore.

Singapore, 11 November 2026 — Singapore Art Week (SAW), Singapore’s pinnacle visual arts season, returns for its 15th edition from 21 to 31 January 2027. As Singapore takes on the ASEAN Chairmanship, the 2027 edition will place a spotlight on Southeast Asian art and the creative connections across the region. Bringing together artists, curators, thought leaders and visitors from Singapore, Southeast Asia and beyond, SAW reinforces Singapore’s position as a key regional convergence point for artistic exchange, deeper connections and new perspectives. Organised by the National Arts Council, Singapore (NAC) and supported by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), SAW 2027 reflects Singapore’s maturing visual arts ecosystem, with a diverse range of visual arts experiences for audiences across Singapore.

Tay Tong, Director, Arts Ecosystem Group (Visual Arts), NAC, said, “Over the years, SAW has grown alongside our visual arts scene, becoming more than a celebration of artistic talent. It is a space where artists and audiences meet, where unexpected encounters with art spark curiosity, inspire new perspectives and create meaningful connections. As artistic practices in Singapore become increasingly diverse and outward-looking, so too has Art Week as we bring together artistic voices from Singapore, Southeast Asia and beyond, creating opportunities for exchange, discovery and new conversations. With Singapore taking on the ASEAN Chairmanship in 2027, this spirit of regional connection takes on added significance. We invite everyone to explore and be part of the creative energy unfolding across Singapore this January.”

Guo Teyi, Director, Leisure Events Division, STB, said, “SAW is a celebration of what makes Singapore a compelling arts destination - our multicultural heritage, progressive global mindset, and a thriving community of artists and creative talents, as well as our ability to bring the world’s creative community together. In another edition of SAW, we are proud to see art come alive across Singapore’s distinctive spaces and neighbourhoods, offering visitors and locals new and enriching ways to experience our city. As Singapore’s vibrant arts and culture calendar continues to grow, we look forward to welcoming art lovers from around the world to discover where Southeast Asia’s rich creative heritage meets global artistic perspectives right here in Singapore.”

Where Southeast Asia meets the world

Every year, SAW attracts artists, major international exhibitions and leading galleries to Singapore — a reflection of the city's growing presence in the global art world and a meeting point where Southeast Asia and the world connect. This takes on added significance as Singapore assumes the ASEAN Chairmanship, marking ASEAN’s 60th anniversary in 2027.

SAW’s regional focus will extend into the city through ASEAN-Unite at UOB Plaza, an inaugural UOB-NAC-STB-MFA projection initiative presented at UOB Plaza. Featuring artworks by artists from ASEAN member states alongside Cultural Medallion recipients and UOB Painting of the Year artists, the project will celebrate the region’s creative voices and the connections that bind ASEAN together.

Offering another perspective on the region's artistic landscape, Entry Point: Everywhere, Already, brings together 22 emerging artists and over 100 works from all ASEAN member states. Curated by John Z.W. Tung and Soh Chihiro, the presentation draws on extensive fieldwork and studio visits outside of major capital cities to offer fresh perspectives on contemporary art across the region, foregrounded by artistic practices that have developed outside circuits of commercial and institutional recognition.

Among the major highlights of SAW 2027 are presentations by two acclaimed contemporary artists from Southeast Asia. Bringing together works spanning more than four decades of her practice, Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak will present How We Hold What’s Possible – Movement II, curated by Artspace Sydney and in collaboration with ART SG and supported by NAC. Sanpitak’s site-specific showcase transforms 72-13, the former rice warehouse into a living environment where artworks meet plants, scent, food, performance and conversation. Ho Tzu Nyen’s P for Power is an immersive, AI-generated and algorithmically edited work following five Singaporean child protagonists seeking to understand power. Echoing aspects of the artist’s childhood in Singapore, the work moves across philosophy, history, science and popular culture, exploring power as both domination and the capacity for change.

Following the 61st Venice Biennale, A Pause by pioneering artist and Cultural Medallion recipient Amanda Heng returns to Singapore at SAM. The exhibition showcases photographs made when Heng was younger and videos from recent years, in a gallery redesigned with broad steps that guide how visitors move and pause. Over four decades, she has returned to simple, familiar actions like chatting, walking, and sitting to look at the body. Here, that attention carries into ageing, a concern that comes from caring for her mother in her final years and her own body slowing over time.

Singaporean artist Dawn Ng stages the world premiere of four chapters from The Last Sunset, a one-night-only site-specific live cinema performance in the brutalist Golden Mile Tower. Ng’s monumental moving-image work – a sun of frozen pigment slowly melting and collapsing – is woven with an original score by Welsh composer Alex Mills, a live choir singing among the audience and a global cast of narrators including actress and performer Tilda Swinton, in a meditation on endings and the passage of time.

National Gallery Singapore's blockbuster Pop after Pop: Art around Us, organised in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, is the largest group exhibition of Pop Art and its legacy ever staged in Southeast Asia. Featured artists include Roy Lichtenstein (US), Andy Warhol (US), Ming Wong (Singapore) and Ronald Ventura (Philippines). The celebration of all things pop continues in January with Light to Night Singapore 2027: POP. POWER. PLAY. featuring new art installations by local and regional artists including art and design collective PHUNK, alongside exciting programmes for all.

Two exhibitions at Asian Civilisations Museum explore the rich artistic and cultural exchanges that have shaped Asia and beyond. Sacred Caves: Dunhuang, Buddhism, and the Silk Road bring the art and history of China's Mogao Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, to Southeast Asia for the first time. Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Art from the Musée du Louvre presents one hundred masterpieces from the Louvre alongside works from Singapore's National Collection.

Building a more inclusive, accessible and connected arts scene

The arts connect communities and create shared experiences. From blockbuster exhibitions to open studios, public art trails and participatory experiences, SAW offers multiple points of entry into Singapore’s visual arts scene including the launch of a SAW app for the public to curate personalised itineraries.

New activations include Rollie Pollie Art Park at the Padang by weareSuper feature works by emerging and established local artists such as Robert Zhao, Ruben Pang, Vincent Leow, Shayne Phua, Reza Hasni, Soph O, alongside artists Tay Ai Ling and Maria Cheng, amongst others, from MINDS. Inspired by the traditional wobbly toy, the figure embodies joy and a “Never Give Up” spirit, brought to life through art installations, collectible merchandise, inflatables and creative retail. The activation will extend beyond the Padang through community programmes such as the Super Art Market by weareSuper at Enabling Village developed for audiences of different ages and abilities.

Complementing the activation at the Padang is BYOR: Where Play Takes Shape by Aaron Lim and Quek Jia Qi. Drawing on the Padang’s history as a site of sport and civic gathering, the public art installation transforms everyday sporting and urban infrastructure into playful sculptural forms, inviting audiences of all ages to discover new ways to shape communal play and collectively reimagine the playing field we share.

Adding to the experience, Story Walk: Public Art Trails, produced by StoryFest Singapore, launches its year-long programme with trails in the Civic District and Kampong Glam, inviting audiences to uncover the people, places and histories behind public art in our shared spaces. Chinatown trails follow from February.

Returning for its second edition, Art in the City features a new collaboration with local artist Tobyato, inviting participants to explore Singapore’s public art scene on foot through a series of limited, curated art runs across the city, uncovering murals and public artworks rooted in Singapore and Southeast Asian narratives- transforming the city streets in a living gallery. STB is also spearheading a Merli art activation, bringing Singapore’s beloved destination mascot to life through visual artworks at three sites within Clarke Quay. Creatively realised by culture-led creative IP studio Tell Your Children, participants can follow Merli along the Singapore River as he dives into the city’s rich heritage.

Celebrating diverse artistic expressions, Signs of Life: Moving Beyond Words by Lily Goh is a work-in-progress exploring Singapore Sign Language (SgSL), Visual Vernacular (VV) and Deaf artistic expression, where the face, hands and body become a canvas for visual storytelling. The mobile Art Bus, titled Alighting in...1, 2, 3 will return after a successful run last year. Presented in partnership with ART:DIS (Arts & Disability) Singapore and SMRT Buses, works by artists with and without disabilities, including Anthony Chin, Kenji Teo and Jane Lee — will be showcased at stops across cultural precincts, heartlands and the CBD. Complementing this, Expanded Horizons by Mama Magnet, produced in collaboration with the Land Transport Authority (LTA), is a multi-site presentation spanning ten MRT stations that brings art closer to commuters through horizon-inspired artworks and guided art trails. The presentation invites commuters to experience their daily journeys as moments of openness, imagination and discovery.

This edition, SAW continues to make art more accessible across Singapore through a series of guided tours. For the first time, up to 40 intergenerational Singaporean artists including Kumari Nahappan, Teo Eng Seng and Marvin Tang, will open their studio doors to the public as part of Inside Insight Studio by Wang Ruobing. Audiences go behind the scenes, getting a rare, firsthand look at creative processes and artistic practices. Commercial galleries and not-for-profit organisations will also present programmes such as Domestic Engineering by Kray Chen at FOST Gallery and Spare Rooms by Tanoto Art Foundation (TAF), transforming hotel suites at Mondrian Singapore Duxton into a 24-hour site for performances, screenings, conversations and informal exchange.

This year, Gather at Gillman highlights will include Lucky Prime Lab, curated by artist Chris Chai bringing together works by over 30 creatives across three themed containers, alongside a large-scale sculptural work and inflatables, and a community crochet activation by artist Kelly Jin Mei. Over at Tanjong Pagar Distripark (TPD), Art Night at Tanjong Pagar Distripark continues with POST-POST presented by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) bringing today’s feed-driven, post-truth culture to life through experimental sound and performance in an immersive audiovisual environment.

Art x Tech gets a spotlight at SAW 2027 again, showcasing new media practices by local artists, including SYN by Zai Tang, an audio-visual installation which responds to ecological urgency through the transformation of insect field recordings. Silence Has Too Much to Say by Zul Mahmod invites audiences into an immersive installation of sound, vibration and light that reveals silence as a space of unseen activity. The Future of Something, curated by Clara Che Wei Peh Peh and presented by Common Protocol, offers different imaginations of artificial intelligence (AI) while Isles Institute — Probing the Southern Islands transforms data into art through creative exploration of Singapore's Southern Islands.

A stronger, more sustainable visual arts ecosystem

The growth of SAW reflects the diverse visual arts scene in Singapore, with the public, people and private sectors each playing a role to reach new audiences, and encourage greater participation and investment in the arts.

Southeast Asia’s global contemporary art fair ART SG will stage its fifth edition, bringing together leading galleries from Singapore, the region and around the world for four days at Marina Bay Sands. This year’s fair will also showcase design through a collaboration with DesignSingapore Council as an Official Partner. The fair will feature a dedicated booth on EMERGE, aligning with the 2027 focus on design in the year of the inaugural Singapore Design Biennale. The NAC-commissioned S.E.A. Focus returns for its 9th edition. Titled Better Worlds, curator John Tung brings together Southeast Asian galleries and artists to showcase works exploring contemporary life within an increasingly connected, tech-driven world.

Unfolding across the week Art Takes at Marina Bay Sands brings together art, culture, fashion, design and gastronomy. At the heart of the cultural season, ArtScience Museum presents the Southeast Asian premiere of Es Devlin’s major retrospective, offering an expansive look at three decades of the British artist and designer’s genre-defying practice. At Resorts World Sentosa's Singapore Oceanarium, Bet with Nature: ArtHouse Oceanarium 2027 places a considered selection of museum-calibre artworks amid the presence of marine life in grace water movement, revealing new dimensions in the artists’ styles and the ideas behind them.

Convening ideas, expertise and international networks

Beyond exhibitions, SAW 2027 will foster international exchange, deepen regional networks and seed future collaborations between leading artists, curators and global art leaders.

Platforms such as SAW Forum 2027: States of Pop, which examines the enduring influence of Pop art and its contemporary resonances, convenes leading international artists, scholars, curators and museum practitioners, including Dr Melissa Chiu (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Dr Flavia Frigeri (Curatorial and Collections Director, National Portrait Gallery, London), Dr Patrick Flores (Lead Curator, Pop after Pop: Art around Us), and Eisa Jocson (Artist), to reinforce Singapore as convergence point for critical discourse, and new partnerships.

Undercurrents: Art x Tech across Southeast Asia, an Arts x Tech symposium curated by Clara Peh will create a forum for practitioners from Singapore and the region to exchange perspectives on art and technology, build professional connections and new regional networks. The symposium will also engage ASEAN delegates in knowledge-sharing and networking, while profiling Singaporean practitioners such as Zul Mahmod to local and international audiences.

Other platforms include STPI’s The Print Show & Symposium Singapore 2027: Cosmos & Constellations featuring leading artists, thinkers, curators and print publishers, including Christian Marclay, Sara Suzuki, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Josh Kline, Isa Lorenzo and Mark Rappolt, in conversations exploring new ways of knowing, perceiving and inhabiting the world.

More information on SAW 2027 programmes highlights can be found in the Annex, with further details on the full line-up revealed closer to date. In addition, SG Culture Pass can be used to enjoy some of the ticketed programmes such as SAW Forum, ART SG and S.E.A. Focus. The digital media kit can be accessed here (opens in new tab). For the latest updates, visit https://www.artweek.sg/ (opens in new tab) and follow @sgartweek on Facebook (opens in new tab) and Instagram (opens in new tab).

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About Singapore Art Week

As Singapore’s pinnacle visual arts season, Singapore Art Week (SAW) represents the vibrant and diverse visual arts ecosystem. With more than 100 events by the local and international visual arts community, audiences can look forward to a dynamic line-up of programmes and arts experiences at our museums, galleries, independent art spaces and public spaces, and participate in enriching discussions, talks, walks and tours across the island and online. SAW, a celebration of Singapore’s visual arts landscape, is an annual event organised by the National Arts Council.

About National Arts Council

The National Arts Council (NAC) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Culture, Community, and Youth that champions the arts in Singapore. The Council promotes artistic excellence by providing diverse opportunities for artists and arts organisations while expanding access for audiences to appreciate the impact of the arts in enriching lives. By working closely with the arts community and partners, the Council seeks to build a connected society, creative economy and distinctive city through the arts. For more information, visit www.nac.gov.sg (opens in new tab).

ANNEX

Information is accurate at time of publishing

SAW 2027 Programme Highlights

Programme	Description
*Alighting in...1, 2, 3* 21 – 31 January 2027 Across Singapore	Alighting in… 1, 2, 3 transforms a travelling art bus into an exhibition of unexpected encounters, where the simple act of alighting becomes a shared ritual. Through artworks that invite discovery and participation, visitors are drawn into a gentle, collective countdown before stepping off. Each arrival and exit becomes part of an unfolding rhythm, weaving together fleeting encounters, individual responses and shared moments of connection.
*Amanda Heng: A Pause* 15 January – 23 May 2027 Singapore Art Museum	Singaporean artist Amanda Heng Liang Ngim presents A Pause, after the Singapore Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Over four decades, Heng has returned to simple, familiar actions like chatting, walking, and sitting to look at the body. The exhibition carries that attention to rest and ageing, a concern that comes from caring for her mother and her own body slowing over time. The gallery has been redesigned with broad steps that guide how visitors move and pause. Photographs made when Heng was younger sit alongside videos of others in their quiet daily routines.
*An Ambiguous Utopia* 21 – 31 January 2027	An Ambiguous Utopia presents a speculative proposition shaped by rising waters and environmental catastrophe. Bringing together works by artists Anthony Chin, Lee Chang Ming, Ezzam Rahman, Sharon Chin, Tzu-An Wu, alongside a series of intimate gatherings, the project asks: how might we live with the realities of a warming world, what does it mean to care across distance, precarity, and uneven vulnerability?
ART SG 22 – 24 January 2027 Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention	Don’t miss Southeast Asia’s global contemporary art fair—four days of spectacular contemporary art. From 22 to 24 January 2027 (Vernissage 21 January), ART SG brings together renowned international and regional galleries at Marina Bay Sands, alongside a curated program of large-scale installations, experimental film and moving image, thought-provoking panel discussions and performances. Discover, experience and collect original works, bold new ideas and meaningful encounters.
Art Takes 2027 21 – 31 January 2027 Marina Bay Sands	Building on the past four editions of Where Art Takes Shape, Art Takes broadens the canvas with a larger celebration of creativity across disciplines and spaces. From 21 to 31 January 2027, Marina Bay Sands becomes a cultural capital for the city, as Art Takes brings together art, culture, fashion, design and gastronomy in a celebration of creativity in all its forms. Anchored by ART SG, Southeast Asia’s premier contemporary art fair, the season draws artists, collectors, creators, tastemakers and the culturally curious into a dynamic exchange of ideas and perspectives, with experiences unfolding across Marina Bay Sands. At the heart of this cultural moment is ArtScience Museum, presenting a major retrospective of Es Devlin, one of the defining creative forces of our time. Opening on 23 January 2027, the exhibition is a cornerstone of Art Takes, bringing together art, design, performance, and technology to reveal the extraordinary breadth of her creative practice. Through light, sound and space, audiences are drawn into Devlin’s creative world, where ideas take shape in unexpected ways and the boundaries between art, performance and imagination begin to blur.
*ASEAN-Unite at UOB Plaza* 20 Jan – 31 Jan 2027 Location*: UOB Plaza 1 and 2, 80 Raffles Place, Singapore 048624	Experience UOB Plaza in a new light as its building transforms into a spectacular canvas for Singapore Art Week 2027. Celebrating ASEAN60, this large-scale projection brings together artistic perspectives from across Southeast Asia in a vibrant showcase of creativity, culture and connection. Set against Singapore’s city skyline, it invites everyone to experience the region’s creative spirit through art, light and imagination. *The best viewing spot is at the riverfront area in front of the Asian Civilisations Museum, extending towards the Statue of Sir Stamford Raffles.
*Bet with Nature: ArtHouse Oceanarium 2027* 19 – 25 January 2027 Resorts World Singapore	Unfolding across selected spaces within the Singapore Oceanarium, this special exhibition brings together museum-calibre works of modern and contemporary art by internationally renowned artists, providing a window onto humanity’s enduring relationship with nature. Curated by and presented in conjunction with ArtHouse Asia Limited, Bet with Nature reimagines the traditional gallery space,offering local audiences and international visitors an immersive encounter with art and nature.
*BYOR: Where Play Takes Shape* 21 – 31 January 2027 The Padang	At the Padang, a historic site of sport and civic gathering, BYOR: Where Play Takes Shape transforms everyday sporting and urban infrastructure into playful sculptural forms. The public art installation invites audiences of all ages to discover new ways of playing together and collectively reimagine the playing field we share. Bring your own racket and join the game, as BYOR sparks connections and opens up new possibilities for communal play.
*Delia Prvački: The Unbuilt Museum of Two Curtains* 9 – 31 January 2027 Bayin Foundation, 7 Grange Road	Delia Prvački’s latest exhibition negotiates personal history and shifting geopolitics through the motif of the Iron Curtain. Drawing on her childhood in Cold War-era Transylvania, the series presents the allegorical barrier as an instrument of division and protection, tracing systemic corrosion while illuminating histories of oppression and preservation held in personal memory — a quiet remembrance of enduring cultural resilience and collective humanity.
*Desire Lines* 21 – 31 January 2027 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 39 #02-02A	A desire line is a trace left behind when bodies deviate from prescribed paths. In Desire Lines, rope is a medium for contact rather than control, with macramé and shibari woven into spatial and performative displays of playful intimacy. Quiet, funny, unexpected and tender encounters between people, objects and rope invite curiosity about who we could be with others in public. Observe, linger, or be woven into the social fabric.
*Entry Point: Everywhere, Already* 22 – 31 January 2027 Artspace@Helutrans, Gallery 3, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 39, #01-05	“Entry Point” is an intended series of annual presentations that offer access into othered artistic practices across Southeast Asia. Its inaugural theme, “Everywhere, Already”, resists the enduring myth of discovery by dominant hegemonic perspectives; it insists upon the reality that who or what is encountered has always already existed, with their own histories, meanings, and ways of being.
*Expanded Horizons* 11 January – 14 February 2027 Across Singapore	Every commuter is moving toward something: home, work, or a fresh start. 'Expanded Horizons' takes this idea and invites artists to give this forward-looking journey a visual form. A horizon line runs through artworks across ten MRT stations, bringing light, colour, and depth to daily transits. Blending time, travel, and hope, the exhibition turns a routine commute into an uplifting step forward. On display, with guided art tours, January 11 - February 14, 2027.
*figments_fidelities* by Kapilan Naidu 15 – 31 January 2027 Art Outreach, 5 Lock Road, Gillman Barracks	figments_fidelities explores the shifting boundaries between remembering, imagining, and fabrication through an immersive audiovisual installation. Drawing from personal recollections and synthetic interpretations, the exhibition uses generative computational processes to construct evolving, often contradictory narratives. Through fragmented voices, spatial displays, and responses to visitors’ presence, it considers how individual memories become collective histories, questioning the role of computational systems in shaping what is remembered, imagined, legitimised, or forgotten.
Gather at Gillman 16 – 31 January 2027 Across Gillman Barracks	Gather at Gillman returns for Singapore Art Week 2027, transforming Gillman Barracks into a vibrant precinct for art, discovery and gathering. Bringing together exhibitions, installations, artist-led projects and programmes across the precinct, the activation invites visitors to explore Gillman in new and unexpected ways. From contemporary art to experiences beyond the gallery, Gather at Gillman offers something to discover around every corner throughout Singapore Art Week.
*Held Structures by The Pierre Lorinet Collection* 18 January – XXX Artspace@Helutrans, Gallery 1, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 39, #01-05	Presented by The Pierre Lorinet Collection in collaboration with Art Outreach Singapore, Held Structures brings together seven works spanning six decades to explore the grid as a recurring form in art. Featuring works by Sol LeWitt, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Halley, Nick Mauss, Troy Montes Michie, Gilbert & George and Yun Hyong-Keun, the exhibition considers the grid as structure, constraint and surface, and its evolving relationship with the body.
Inside Insight Studio 23 – 31 January 2027 Across Singapore	Inside Insight Studio offers a rare opportunity to experience Singapore’s artistic landscape behind studio doors. During Singapore Art Week 2027, up to 40 artists will welcome visitors into their studios, sharing the environments where creativity, experimentation, and making unfold. Through free visits and ticketed curator-led tours, audiences can enjoy an intimate and inspiring encounter with Singapore’s contemporary art scene.
*Isles Institute – Probing the Southern Islands* 21 – 31 January 2027 PORT37, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 37, #04-01D	Isles Institute is a collaborative, interdisciplinary exhibition on Singapore's Southern Islands — Kusu, St John's and Lazarus. Six artists work across sensing, fieldwork and material translation, treating data as more than information: through making, it becomes poetic, material, sonic and spatial. The artists approach the islands with the curiosity of explorers and the discipline of fieldworkers — probing, recording, returning, and translating what they find into light, sound and matter.
Kelly Jin Mei Community Crochet Activation 15–31 January 2027 Gillman Barracks	Artist Kelly Jin Mei presents a community-led crochet activation developed specially for Gillman Barracks. Inspired by the precinct’s flora and fauna, the project brings together members of the crochet community to collectively realise a series of playful interventions across selected locations, inviting visitors to encounter the precinct through exploration and discovery.
Light to Night Singapore 2027: POP. POWER. PLAY. 15 – 31 January 2027 National Gallery Singapore and the Civic District	Pop takes over with the return of Light to Night Singapore 2027 from 15 – 31 January! At the iconic day to night festival, discover how the spirit of Pop Art comes alive beyond the galleries through bold visuals, new interactive installations, electric performances, and exciting programmes across National Gallery Singapore and the Civic District. Whether exploring with friends or family, experience art in playful and unexpected ways. As part of Pop after Pop: Art around Us, there will be a special facade projection PEACE (2026) by Singaporean contemporary art and design collective PHUNK during Light to Night Singapore. Featuring creatures and floral motifs from PHUNK's mythological universe, PEACE captures the visual energy of the urban sphere through a labyrinthine composition informed by graphic design and street art.
*Loss Indices, Anticipatory Architectures* 13 January – 28 February 2027 Objectifs - Centre for Photography & Film	Through moving image, sound, photography, installation, drawing, and text, artist and writer Luca E. Lum intertwines the personal and historical to reveal constructions and agencies through which dissolution is observed, anticipated, deferred, and animated. Across these emerging and extended forms of dissolution, grief, and preservation, Loss Indices scores a genealogy of fraught and fragmentary temporal poetics. The public program combines readings, exhibition tours, and a discursive panel.
Lucky Prime Lab 15–31 January 2027 Car park beside 7 Lock Road, Gillman Barracks	Lucky Prime Lab transforms Gillman Barracks into a site of experimentation and discovery through three distinct yet interconnected artist-led presentations housed within shipping containers. Spanning illustration, design, street art and contemporary practices, each space presents a different artistic concept and visual language. Extending beyond the containers, Strange Terrain is currently being developed as a large-scale sculptural work accompanied by three inflatable interventions across the precinct, creating visual anchors that encourage visitors to explore Gillman Barracks.
*Magic Atlas* 22 January – 18 July 1, Esplanade Drive, Esplanade Tunnel	Magic Atlas transforms Esplanade Tunnel through a large-scale installation by Chinese contemporary artist Sun Xun, combining painting, animation and woodcut to explore the intersections of history, myth and imagination. A decade-long project culminating in a feature-length animated film, the work unfolds across a fictional world shaped by different artistic traditions, from woodcut and ink painting to Persian miniature, challenging fixed historical narratives and how history is continually reshaped through memory, culture and storytelling.
Merli art activation 20 January – 20 July 2027 CQ @ Clarke Quay, Blk E, River Valley Road	Join Merli, Singapore's destination mascot, at CQ @ Clarke Quay as he makes a splash along the Singapore River. Nestled among beautifully restored historic warehouses, Clarke Quay is one of Singapore's most beloved riverside destinations and the perfect backdrop for Merli's latest adventure. Merli invites you to explore the city's rich heritage and discover the art and creativity it continues to inspire.
*Mother Earth/Mother Bunker* 15 – 24 January 2027 Sullivan+Strumpf, 1M Yong Siak Street and Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter, 78 Guan Chuan Street	Mother Earth, Mother Bunker is Yanyun Chen’s major new exhibition for Singapore Art Week 2027, presented across two sites in Tiong Bahru: Sullivan+Strumpf and the historic Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter. The exhibition explores the maternal beyond motherhood, considering ideas of nourishment, protection, inheritance and care through the interconnected bodies of humans, plants and the earth. At the gallery, new works from Chen’s Detritus Bouquets series consider cycles of decay and regeneration, while the bunker extends these ideas into shelter, scars, memory and the body through site-responsive installation and performance.
*P for Power* 21 – 31 January 2027 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Rd Singapore	P for Power is an immersive, AI-generated and algorithmically edited moving-image installation by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen. Following five AI-generated Singaporean children seeking to understand power, the work draws on philosophy, history, science and popular culture. Their coming-of-age journeys, echoing the artist’s own childhood in Singapore, explore power not just as domination but also the capacity to act and transform.
*Permanent Press* 21 – 31 January 2027 City Sprouts Bedok, Hangout Laundry and along Bedok North Ave 1	Press a shirt, and the crease disappears…for a while. Wear it again, and it returns, faintly, in the same fold it always makes. Not because the fabric remembers. Because the body does. This city rarely lets anything stay permanent; coastlines slide inward, blocks fall and rise again, and yet a bench still gathers the same strangers, a wall still wears the mark of the same repeated game. Permanent Press is named for that contradiction. Nothing pressed stays pressed forever; it is renewed daily until the renewing becomes the permanence.
*Pinaree Sanpitak: How We Hold What’s Possible — Movement II* 21 – 31 January 2027 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Rd Singapore	How We Hold What’s Possible — Movement II, curated by Victor Wang, is the second chapter of a three-year collaboration between acclaimed Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak and Artspace Sydney and presented by ART SG. Sanpitak transforms the upper floor of 72-13, a heritage building formerly a rice warehouse and now the home of Presenting Partner T:>Works, into a living environment where artworks meet plants, scent, food, performance and conversation.
*Pop after Pop: Art around Us* 11 December 2026 – 4 April 2027 National Gallery Singapore	Experience the largest group exhibition of Pop Art in Southeast Asia with more than 200 artworks by over 100 artists primarily from Southeast Asia and the United States. Expect iconic works, larger-than-life installations, and all things pop culture in this blockbuster exhibition. Discover how artists transformed images, objects, and experiences from everyday life into iconic and recognisable imageries around us. This exhibition is organised by National Gallery Singapore in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. For more information, please visit nationalgallery.sg/PopAfterPop (opens in new tab). The media kit can be accessed at bit.ly/NGSPop (opens in new tab).
*POST-POST* 22 – 24 January 2027 Singapore Art Museum	POST-POST materialises our feed-driven, post-truth culture as a physical reality. Converging local and international artists across experimental sound and performance, The Cage becomes an experiential environment shaped by spatial audio, reactive lighting and fragmented visuals, enveloping audiences in total sensory immersion. Each night accumulates, collides and intensifies through a threaded narrative flow, drawing audiences deeper before descending into a chaotic rave.
Rollie Pollie Art Park 21 – 31 January The Padang	For SAW 2027, weareSuper presents Rollie Pollie Art Park, a creative experience celebrating inclusivity through its mascot, Rollie. Featuring three 2.7m-tall patterned inflatables representing Singapore’s diverse creative communities, the installation includes a curated retail and public workshops. As part of Light to Night, the large Rollie art and play inflatables will light up the Padang, creating a vibrant and playful night time experience for all.
Singapore Art Week Forum 2027: States of Pop 20 January 2027 Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium at the National Gallery Singapore	The 2027 Singapore Art Week Forum: States of Pop brings together artists, scholars, curators and museum practitioners to explore how Pop continues to shape contemporary art, visual culture and everyday life across cultures. The one-day symposium is a joint initiative by National Arts Council, National Gallery Singapore and Singapore Art Museum, as part of Singapore Art Week, supported by Singapore Tourism Board.
*SAW in 10 Days 2027: Edges and Peripheries* 21 – 31 January 2027 Across Singapore	Now in its 5th edition, SAW in 10 Days returns with “Edges and Peripheries” – trails co-created by visually impaired collaborators and youth ambassadors through Singapore’s overlooked spaces. Accessibility isn’t the subject, it’s the method: guiding techniques, tactile passports, and multisensory storytelling shape how everyone moves through the city. Expect access-led tours and youth-designed trails exploring what sits beyond Singapore Art Week’s official map.
S.E.A. Focus 2027 22 – 24 January 2027 Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention	S.E.A. Focus is a leading showcase and art-market hub for Southeast Asian contemporary art, bringing together established and emerging artists. Its ninth edition returns alongside ART SG at Marina Bay Sands from 22 to 24 January 2027 (Vernissage 21 January). Curated by John Tung under the theme “Better Worlds”, the 2027 edition explores contemporary life, technology, connectivity, participation, and cultural exchange in an increasingly interconnected world. Tickets to ART SG include access to S.E.A. Focus: artsg.com/tickets (opens in new tab).
*Signs of Life: Moving Beyond Words* 21 – 31 January 2027 42 Waterloo Street, Level 1	Signs of Life: Moving Beyond Words is a moving-image exhibition by Lily Goh exploring Visual Vernacular, a visual storytelling form rooted in Deaf culture. Through expressive facial close-ups, dynamic hand movements, body language and spatial choreography, Goh creates vivid narratives without spoken narration or subtitles. The exhibition invites audiences to experience storytelling through movement, emotion and visual expression beyond spoken and signed languages.
Silence Has Too Much To Say 22 January – 3 February 2027 Gallery II, The Arts House at The Old Parliament	Silence Has Too Much to Say by Zul Mahmod explores silence not as an absence of sound, but as an active space of vibration, energy, and unseen activity. Drawing on ideas of assemblage, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, the work considers how familiar materials and invisible forces acquire new relationships. Listening becomes a subjective experience, shaped by where we stand, how we move and what we choose to pay attention to. The installation brings together sixteen stainless-steel resonant bowls, snare wires activated by rotating magnets, electromagnetic sensors, flickering electrical lights and a 40 Hz low frequency field. These elements produce shifting layers of resonance, interference, and vibration, revealing forces that are often present but remain beyond our immediate perception. Rather than presenting a fixed composition, the installation invites audiences to encounter a shifting field of sound, vibration, light and silence. Silence becomes a multiplicity of forces, where listening offers a way of experiencing what cannot always be seen or fully understood.
*Spare Rooms* 22 – 23 January 2027 Mondrian Singapore	Developed from conversations and reflections emerging from TAF’s off-site workshop DRIFTING CHIANG MAI, Spare Rooms turns suites at Mondrian Singapore Duxton into a temporary site for artistic and social life. Over 24 hours, countertop talks, screenings, performances, rest, and informal exchange unfold alongside interventions embedded throughout the rooms. The project considers how artistic practices are sustained by spaces, relationships, hospitality, and other forms of often-invisible infrastructure.
STPI The Print Show & Symposium 2027 – Cosmos & Constellations The Print Show 21 January – 13 February 2027 STPI, 41 Robertson Quay The Symposium 22 and 23 January 2027 New Bahru School Hall	The Print Show & Symposium Singapore returns to Singapore Art Week 2027 from 21 January – 13 February 2027. Centred on the theme “Cosmos & Constellations”, the double-bill programme charts the expanded field of printmaking across historical and contemporary moments, exploring alternative modes of knowing, perceiving and inhabiting the world. Bringing together leading print publishers, artists, thinkers and curators, the programme includes a major group exhibition, and a dynamic two-day forum of talks and discussions.
*SYN* by Zai Tang 21 – 31 January 2027 Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street	SYN is a synaesthetic media installation where the pulses, drones, textures and rhythms of insects are made visible. Chance and chaos are enfolded in SYN to create generative and ever-changing visualisations of these fragile soundscapes. As our ecological and political realities reach boiling point, SYN points towards listening as a form of care. The work is an invitation to recover the feeling of being part of the Earth and its myriad vibrations.
*The Future of Something* 19 – 31 January 2027 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 37, #02-02	The Future of Something is an exhibition curated by Clara Che Wei Peh, presented by Common Protocol, that opens the black box of AI, tracing the datasets, classification systems, and logics that shape what it knows and sees. Bringing together works by Foreseen Agency, Isabel Fang, Rimbawan Gerilya, Kapilan Naidu, Trevor Paglen, Anna Ridler, and Lucia Rebolino, Ernest Wu, the exhibition centres artistic agency, insisting that at every stage of AI’s development, from data collection to output, there remain sites of intervention and reimagination.
*The Koh Seow Chuan Collection* 18 January – 25 April 2027 The Private Museum, 11 Upper Wilkie Road	In conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2027, The Private Museum presents selections from the collection of Koh Seow Chuan, architect, art collector, and co-founder of DP Architects. Curated by Aaron Teo and Deborah Lim, the exhibition explores the spirit of collecting, revealing how Koh’s diverse worlds of art, travel, and personal experiences converge. Through these intersections, the collection reflects the values, relationships, and curiosity that have shaped his lifelong collecting journey.
*The Last Sunset by Dawn Ng* 22 January 2027 6001, BEACH ROAD, Golden Mile Tower, #5-00, Singapore 199589	An elegy of all things that must pass, artist Dawn Ng will stage the world premiere of four chapters from “The Last Sunset”, presented as a one-night-only, site-specific, live cinema performance. Set in Golden Mile Tower – one of Singapore’s last standing brutalist landmarks – this 30-minute immersive event pairs Ng’s moving image work of a vast, weeping hemisphere of melting pigments, with an original score by Welsh composer Alex Mills, accompanied by a live choir. Ice has been central to Ng’s practice for a decade: in Singapore’s equatorial heat it cannot last, and in its vanishing, she finds a portrait of time slipping away. “The Last Sunset” presents a selection of Ng’s anthology of stories about endings set in the past, present and future – told by a global cast of narrators, including Tilda Swinton. The score by Mills traverses the cosmic and the intimate, weaving breath, heartbeats, lullabies, gamelan degung, nature and NASA recordings into an atmospheric symphony for this collapsing sun, completed by the live choir situated within the audience.
**Undercurrents: Art x Tech across Southeast Asia** 23 January 2027 Tanjong Pagar Distripark	How is technology interacting with artistic practices across Southeast Asia? Undercurrents brings together artists, creative practitioners, researchers and cultural organisations to explore the intersections of art and technology. Through panel discussions, practitioner presentations and participatory conversations, the symposium examines evolving approaches to storytelling, sound and creative experimentation, as well as the structures that support artistic innovation, while fostering dialogue and new connections across the region's arts and technology ecosystem.
*Value as Metaphor* 16 – 31 January 2027 Bras Basah Complex, #02-47	Value as Metaphor explores how value is constructed and circulated through shifting systems of worth. Bringing together artists from across Southeast Asia, the exhibition considers how objects acquire meaning through labour and exchange. Situated within Bras Basah Complex, the exhibition is curated by Gary Ross-Pastrana and features artists Daniel Chong, Fyerool Darma, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Jed Gregorio, Tanatchai Bandasak, and Lesley-Anne Cao. Blackened leaves, speculative lifeforms, and self-propagating plantlets temporarily inhabit Bras Basah Complex, itself a site of persistence and adaptability amid the unrelenting demands of urban progress. Guided by myth, outdated city maps, and imagined ancestries, artists from the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore, attuned to the mysteries of everyday life, offer provocations that unsettle our understanding of what disappears, what endures and what new worlds could yet emerge beneath the cracks.

Programme

Description

Alighting in...1, 2, 3

21 – 31 January 2027

Across Singapore

Alighting in… 1, 2, 3 transforms a travelling art bus into an exhibition of unexpected encounters, where the simple act of alighting becomes a shared ritual. Through artworks that invite discovery and participation, visitors are drawn into a gentle, collective countdown before stepping off. Each arrival and exit becomes part of an unfolding rhythm, weaving together fleeting encounters, individual responses and shared moments of connection.

Amanda Heng: A Pause

15 January – 23 May 2027

Singapore Art Museum

Singaporean artist Amanda Heng Liang Ngim presents A Pause, after the Singapore Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Over four decades, Heng has returned to simple, familiar actions like chatting, walking, and sitting to look at the body. The exhibition carries that attention to rest and ageing, a concern that comes from caring for her mother and her own body slowing over time. The gallery has been redesigned with broad steps that guide how visitors move and pause. Photographs made when Heng was younger sit alongside videos of others in their quiet daily routines.

An Ambiguous Utopia

21 – 31 January 2027

An Ambiguous Utopia presents a speculative proposition shaped by rising waters and environmental catastrophe. Bringing together works by artists Anthony Chin, Lee Chang Ming, Ezzam Rahman, Sharon Chin, Tzu-An Wu, alongside a series of intimate gatherings, the project asks: how might we live with the realities of a warming world, what does it mean to care across distance, precarity, and uneven vulnerability?

ART SG

22 – 24 January 2027

Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention

Don’t miss Southeast Asia’s global contemporary art fair—four days of spectacular contemporary art. From 22 to 24 January 2027 (Vernissage 21 January), ART SG brings together renowned international and regional galleries at Marina Bay Sands, alongside a curated program of large-scale installations, experimental film and moving image, thought-provoking panel discussions and performances. Discover, experience and collect original works, bold new ideas and meaningful encounters.

Art Takes 2027

21 – 31 January 2027

Marina Bay Sands

Building on the past four editions of Where Art Takes Shape, Art Takes broadens the canvas with a larger celebration of creativity across disciplines and spaces.

From 21 to 31 January 2027, Marina Bay Sands becomes a cultural capital for the city, as Art Takes brings together art, culture, fashion, design and gastronomy in a celebration of creativity in all its forms. Anchored by ART SG, Southeast Asia’s premier contemporary art fair, the season draws artists, collectors, creators, tastemakers and the culturally curious into a dynamic exchange of ideas and perspectives, with experiences unfolding across Marina Bay Sands.

At the heart of this cultural moment is ArtScience Museum, presenting a major retrospective of Es Devlin, one of the defining creative forces of our time. Opening on 23 January 2027, the exhibition is a cornerstone of Art Takes, bringing together art, design, performance, and technology to reveal the extraordinary breadth of her creative practice. Through light, sound and space, audiences are drawn into Devlin’s creative world, where ideas take shape in unexpected ways and the boundaries between art, performance and imagination begin to blur.

ASEAN-Unite at UOB Plaza

20 Jan – 31 Jan 2027

Location*: UOB Plaza 1 and 2, 80 Raffles Place, Singapore 048624

Experience UOB Plaza in a new light as its building transforms into a spectacular canvas for Singapore Art Week 2027. Celebrating ASEAN60, this large-scale projection brings together artistic perspectives from across Southeast Asia in a vibrant showcase of creativity, culture and connection. Set against Singapore’s city skyline, it invites everyone to experience the region’s creative spirit through art, light and imagination.

*The best viewing spot is at the riverfront area in front of the Asian Civilisations Museum, extending towards the Statue of Sir Stamford Raffles.

Bet with Nature: ArtHouse Oceanarium 2027

19 – 25 January 2027

Resorts World Singapore

Unfolding across selected spaces within the Singapore Oceanarium, this special exhibition brings together museum-calibre works of modern and contemporary art by internationally renowned artists, providing a window onto humanity’s enduring relationship with nature. Curated by and presented in conjunction with ArtHouse Asia Limited, Bet with Nature reimagines the traditional gallery space,offering local audiences and international visitors an immersive encounter with art and nature.

BYOR: Where Play Takes Shape

21 – 31 January 2027

The Padang

At the Padang, a historic site of sport and civic gathering, BYOR: Where Play Takes Shape transforms everyday sporting and urban infrastructure into playful sculptural forms. The public art installation invites audiences of all ages to discover new ways of playing together and collectively reimagine the playing field we share. Bring your own racket and join the game, as BYOR sparks connections and opens up new possibilities for communal play.

Delia Prvački: The Unbuilt Museum of Two Curtains

9 – 31 January 2027

Bayin Foundation, 7 Grange Road

Delia Prvački’s latest exhibition negotiates personal history and shifting geopolitics through the motif of the Iron Curtain. Drawing on her childhood in Cold War-era Transylvania, the series presents the allegorical barrier as an instrument of division and protection, tracing systemic corrosion while illuminating histories of oppression and preservation held in personal memory — a quiet remembrance of enduring cultural resilience and collective humanity.

Desire Lines

21 – 31 January 2027

Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 39 #02-02A

A desire line is a trace left behind when bodies deviate from prescribed paths. In Desire Lines, rope is a medium for contact rather than control, with macramé and shibari woven into spatial and performative displays of playful intimacy. Quiet, funny, unexpected and tender encounters between people, objects and rope invite curiosity about who we could be with others in public. Observe, linger, or be woven into the social fabric.

Entry Point: Everywhere, Already

22 – 31 January 2027

Artspace@Helutrans, Gallery 3, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 39, #01-05

“Entry Point” is an intended series of annual presentations that offer access into othered artistic practices across Southeast Asia. Its inaugural theme, “Everywhere, Already”, resists the enduring myth of discovery by dominant hegemonic perspectives; it insists upon the reality that who or what is encountered has always already existed, with their own histories, meanings, and ways of being.

Expanded Horizons

11 January – 14 February 2027

Across Singapore

Every commuter is moving toward something: home, work, or a fresh start. 'Expanded Horizons' takes this idea and invites artists to give this forward-looking journey a visual form. A horizon line runs through artworks across ten MRT stations, bringing light, colour, and depth to daily transits. Blending time, travel, and hope, the exhibition turns a routine commute into an uplifting step forward. On display, with guided art tours, January 11 - February 14, 2027.

figments_fidelities by Kapilan Naidu

15 – 31 January 2027

Art Outreach, 5 Lock Road, Gillman Barracks

figments_fidelities explores the shifting boundaries between remembering, imagining, and fabrication through an immersive audiovisual installation. Drawing from personal recollections and synthetic interpretations, the exhibition uses generative computational processes to construct evolving, often contradictory narratives. Through fragmented voices, spatial displays, and responses to visitors’ presence, it considers how individual memories become collective histories, questioning the role of computational systems in shaping what is remembered, imagined, legitimised, or forgotten.

Gather at Gillman

16 – 31 January 2027

Across Gillman Barracks

Gather at Gillman returns for Singapore Art Week 2027, transforming Gillman Barracks into a vibrant precinct for art, discovery and gathering. Bringing together exhibitions, installations, artist-led projects and programmes across the precinct, the activation invites visitors to explore Gillman in new and unexpected ways. From contemporary art to experiences beyond the gallery, Gather at Gillman offers something to discover around every corner throughout Singapore Art Week.

Held Structures by The Pierre Lorinet Collection

18 January – XXX

Artspace@Helutrans, Gallery 1, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 39, #01-05

Presented by The Pierre Lorinet Collection in collaboration with Art Outreach Singapore, Held Structures brings together seven works spanning six decades to explore the grid as a recurring form in art. Featuring works by Sol LeWitt, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Halley, Nick Mauss, Troy Montes Michie, Gilbert & George and Yun Hyong-Keun, the exhibition considers the grid as structure, constraint and surface, and its evolving relationship with the body.

Inside Insight Studio

23 – 31 January 2027

Across Singapore

Inside Insight Studio offers a rare opportunity to experience Singapore’s artistic landscape behind studio doors. During Singapore Art Week 2027, up to 40 artists will welcome visitors into their studios, sharing the environments where creativity, experimentation, and making unfold.

Through free visits and ticketed curator-led tours, audiences can enjoy an intimate and inspiring encounter with Singapore’s contemporary art scene.

Isles Institute – Probing the Southern Islands

21 – 31 January 2027

PORT37, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 37, #04-01D

Isles Institute is a collaborative, interdisciplinary exhibition on Singapore's Southern Islands — Kusu, St John's and Lazarus. Six artists work across sensing, fieldwork and material translation, treating data as more than information: through making, it becomes poetic, material, sonic and spatial.

The artists approach the islands with the curiosity of explorers and the discipline of fieldworkers — probing, recording, returning, and translating what they find into light, sound and matter.

Kelly Jin Mei Community Crochet Activation

15–31 January 2027

Gillman Barracks

Artist Kelly Jin Mei presents a community-led crochet activation developed specially for Gillman Barracks. Inspired by the precinct’s flora and fauna, the project brings together members of the crochet community to collectively realise a series of playful interventions across selected locations, inviting visitors to encounter the precinct through exploration and discovery.

Light to Night Singapore 2027: POP. POWER. PLAY.

15 – 31 January 2027

National Gallery Singapore and the Civic District

Pop takes over with the return of Light to Night Singapore 2027 from 15 – 31 January! At the iconic day to night festival, discover how the spirit of Pop Art comes alive beyond the galleries through bold visuals, new interactive installations, electric performances, and exciting programmes across National Gallery Singapore and the Civic District. Whether exploring with friends or family, experience art in playful and unexpected ways.

As part of Pop after Pop: Art around Us, there will be a special facade projection PEACE (2026) by Singaporean contemporary art and design collective PHUNK during Light to Night Singapore. Featuring creatures and floral motifs from PHUNK's mythological universe, PEACE captures the visual energy of the urban sphere through a labyrinthine composition informed by graphic design and street art.

Loss Indices, Anticipatory Architectures

13 January – 28 February 2027

Objectifs - Centre for Photography & Film

Through moving image, sound, photography, installation, drawing, and text, artist and writer Luca E. Lum intertwines the personal and historical to reveal constructions and agencies through which dissolution is observed, anticipated, deferred, and animated. Across these emerging and extended forms of dissolution, grief, and preservation, Loss Indices scores a genealogy of fraught and fragmentary temporal poetics. The public program combines readings, exhibition tours, and a discursive panel.

Lucky Prime Lab

15–31 January 2027

Car park beside 7 Lock Road, Gillman Barracks

Lucky Prime Lab transforms Gillman Barracks into a site of experimentation and discovery through three distinct yet interconnected artist-led presentations housed within shipping containers. Spanning illustration, design, street art and contemporary practices, each space presents a different artistic concept and visual language.

Extending beyond the containers, Strange Terrain is currently being developed as a large-scale sculptural work accompanied by three inflatable interventions across the precinct, creating visual anchors that encourage visitors to explore Gillman Barracks.

Magic Atlas

22 January – 18 July

1, Esplanade Drive, Esplanade Tunnel

Magic Atlas transforms Esplanade Tunnel through a large-scale installation by Chinese contemporary artist Sun Xun, combining painting, animation and woodcut to explore the intersections of history, myth and imagination. A decade-long project culminating in a feature-length animated film, the work unfolds across a fictional world shaped by different artistic traditions, from woodcut and ink painting to Persian miniature, challenging fixed historical narratives and how history is continually reshaped through memory, culture and storytelling.

Merli art activation

20 January – 20 July 2027

CQ @ Clarke Quay, Blk E, River Valley Road

Join Merli, Singapore's destination mascot, at CQ @ Clarke Quay as he makes a splash along the Singapore River. Nestled among beautifully restored historic warehouses, Clarke Quay is one of Singapore's most beloved riverside destinations and the perfect backdrop for Merli's latest adventure. Merli invites you to explore the city's rich heritage and discover the art and creativity it continues to inspire.

Mother Earth/Mother Bunker

15 – 24 January 2027

Sullivan+Strumpf, 1M Yong Siak Street and Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter, 78 Guan Chuan Street

Mother Earth, Mother Bunker is Yanyun Chen’s major new exhibition for Singapore Art Week 2027, presented across two sites in Tiong Bahru: Sullivan+Strumpf and the historic Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter. The exhibition explores the maternal beyond motherhood, considering ideas of nourishment, protection, inheritance and care through the interconnected bodies of humans, plants and the earth. At the gallery, new works from Chen’s Detritus Bouquets series consider cycles of decay and regeneration, while the bunker extends these ideas into shelter, scars, memory and the body through site-responsive installation and performance.

P for Power

21 – 31 January 2027

72-13 Mohamed Sultan Rd Singapore

P for Power is an immersive, AI-generated and algorithmically edited moving-image installation by Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen. Following five AI-generated Singaporean children seeking to understand power, the work draws on philosophy, history, science and popular culture. Their coming-of-age journeys, echoing the artist’s own childhood in Singapore, explore power not just as domination but also the capacity to act and transform.

Permanent Press

21 – 31 January 2027

City Sprouts Bedok, Hangout Laundry and along Bedok North Ave 1

Press a shirt, and the crease disappears…for a while. Wear it again, and it returns, faintly, in the same fold it always makes. Not because the fabric remembers. Because the body does.

This city rarely lets anything stay permanent; coastlines slide inward, blocks fall and rise again, and yet a bench still gathers the same strangers, a wall still wears the mark of the same repeated game.

Permanent Press is named for that contradiction. Nothing pressed stays pressed forever; it is renewed daily until the renewing becomes the permanence.

Pinaree Sanpitak: How We Hold What’s Possible — Movement II

21 – 31 January 2027

72-13 Mohamed Sultan Rd Singapore

How We Hold What’s Possible — Movement II, curated by Victor Wang, is the second chapter of a three-year collaboration between acclaimed Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak and Artspace Sydney and presented by ART SG. Sanpitak transforms the upper floor of 72-13, a heritage building formerly a rice warehouse and now the home of Presenting Partner T:>Works, into a living environment where artworks meet plants, scent, food, performance and conversation.

Pop after Pop: Art around Us

11 December 2026 – 4 April 2027

National Gallery Singapore

Experience the largest group exhibition of Pop Art in Southeast Asia with more than 200 artworks by over 100 artists primarily from Southeast Asia and the United States.

Expect iconic works, larger-than-life installations, and all things pop culture in this blockbuster exhibition. Discover how artists transformed images, objects, and experiences from everyday life into iconic and recognisable imageries around us.

This exhibition is organised by National Gallery Singapore in collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

For more information, please visit nationalgallery.sg/PopAfterPop (opens in new tab). The media kit can be accessed at bit.ly/NGSPop (opens in new tab).

POST-POST

22 – 24 January 2027

Singapore Art Museum

POST-POST materialises our feed-driven, post-truth culture as a physical reality. Converging local and international artists across experimental sound and performance, The Cage becomes an experiential environment shaped by spatial audio, reactive lighting and fragmented visuals, enveloping audiences in total sensory immersion. Each night accumulates, collides and intensifies through a threaded narrative flow, drawing audiences deeper before descending into a chaotic rave.

Rollie Pollie Art Park

21 – 31 January

The Padang

For SAW 2027, weareSuper presents Rollie Pollie Art Park, a creative experience celebrating inclusivity through its mascot, Rollie. Featuring three 2.7m-tall patterned inflatables representing Singapore’s diverse creative communities, the installation includes a curated retail and public workshops. As part of Light to Night, the large Rollie art and play inflatables will light up the Padang, creating a vibrant and playful night time experience for all.

Singapore Art Week Forum 2027: States of Pop

20 January 2027

Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium at the National Gallery Singapore

The 2027 Singapore Art Week Forum: States of Pop brings together artists, scholars, curators and museum practitioners to explore how Pop continues to shape contemporary art, visual culture and everyday life across cultures. The one-day symposium is a joint initiative by National Arts Council, National Gallery Singapore and Singapore Art Museum, as part of Singapore Art Week, supported by Singapore Tourism Board.

SAW in 10 Days 2027: Edges and Peripheries

21 – 31 January 2027

Across Singapore

Now in its 5th edition, SAW in 10 Days returns with “Edges and Peripheries” – trails co-created by visually impaired collaborators and youth ambassadors through Singapore’s overlooked spaces. Accessibility isn’t the subject, it’s the method: guiding techniques, tactile passports, and multisensory storytelling shape how everyone moves through the city. Expect access-led tours and youth-designed trails exploring what sits beyond Singapore Art Week’s official map.

S.E.A. Focus 2027

22 – 24 January 2027

Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention

S.E.A. Focus is a leading showcase and art-market hub for Southeast Asian contemporary art, bringing together established and emerging artists. Its ninth edition returns alongside ART SG at Marina Bay Sands from 22 to 24 January 2027 (Vernissage 21 January). Curated by John Tung under the theme “Better Worlds”, the 2027 edition explores contemporary life, technology, connectivity, participation, and cultural exchange in an increasingly interconnected world. Tickets to ART SG include access to S.E.A. Focus: artsg.com/tickets (opens in new tab).

Signs of Life: Moving Beyond Words

21 – 31 January 2027

42 Waterloo Street, Level 1

Signs of Life: Moving Beyond Words is a moving-image exhibition by Lily Goh exploring Visual Vernacular, a visual storytelling form rooted in Deaf culture. Through expressive facial close-ups, dynamic hand movements, body language and spatial choreography, Goh creates vivid narratives without spoken narration or subtitles. The exhibition invites audiences to experience storytelling through movement, emotion and visual expression beyond spoken and signed languages.

Silence Has Too Much To Say

22 January – 3 February 2027

Gallery II, The Arts House at The Old Parliament

Silence Has Too Much to Say by Zul Mahmod explores silence not as an absence of sound, but as an active space of vibration, energy, and unseen activity.

Drawing on ideas of assemblage, deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation, the work considers how familiar materials and invisible forces acquire new relationships. Listening becomes a subjective experience, shaped by where we stand, how we move and what we choose to pay attention to.

The installation brings together sixteen stainless-steel resonant bowls, snare wires activated by rotating magnets, electromagnetic sensors, flickering electrical lights and a 40 Hz low frequency field. These elements produce shifting layers of resonance, interference, and vibration, revealing forces that are often present but remain beyond our immediate perception.

Rather than presenting a fixed composition, the installation invites audiences to encounter a shifting field of sound, vibration, light and silence. Silence becomes a multiplicity of forces, where listening offers a way of experiencing what cannot always be seen or fully understood.

Spare Rooms

22 – 23 January 2027

Mondrian Singapore

Developed from conversations and reflections emerging from TAF’s off-site workshop DRIFTING CHIANG MAI, Spare Rooms turns suites at Mondrian Singapore Duxton into a temporary site for artistic and social life. Over 24 hours, countertop talks, screenings, performances, rest, and informal exchange unfold alongside interventions embedded throughout the rooms. The project considers how artistic practices are sustained by spaces, relationships, hospitality, and other forms of often-invisible infrastructure.

STPI The Print Show & Symposium 2027 – Cosmos & Constellations

The Print Show

21 January – 13 February 2027

STPI, 41 Robertson Quay

The Symposium

22 and 23 January 2027

New Bahru School Hall

The Print Show & Symposium Singapore returns to Singapore Art Week 2027 from 21 January – 13 February 2027. Centred on the theme “Cosmos & Constellations”, the double-bill programme charts the expanded field of printmaking across historical and contemporary moments, exploring alternative modes of knowing, perceiving and inhabiting the world. Bringing together leading print publishers, artists, thinkers and curators, the programme includes a major group exhibition, and a dynamic two-day forum of talks and discussions.

SYN by Zai Tang

21 – 31 January 2027

Black Box, 42 Waterloo Street

SYN is a synaesthetic media installation where the pulses, drones, textures and rhythms of insects are made visible. Chance and chaos are enfolded in SYN to create generative and ever-changing visualisations of these fragile soundscapes.

As our ecological and political realities reach boiling point, SYN points towards listening as a form of care. The work is an invitation to recover the feeling of being part of the Earth and its myriad vibrations.

The Future of Something

19 – 31 January 2027

Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Blk 37, #02-02

The Future of Something is an exhibition curated by Clara Che Wei Peh, presented by Common Protocol, that opens the black box of AI, tracing the datasets, classification systems, and logics that shape what it knows and sees. Bringing together works by Foreseen Agency, Isabel Fang, Rimbawan Gerilya, Kapilan Naidu, Trevor Paglen, Anna Ridler, and Lucia Rebolino, Ernest Wu, the exhibition centres artistic agency, insisting that at every stage of AI’s development, from data collection to output, there remain sites of intervention and reimagination.

The Koh Seow Chuan Collection

18 January – 25 April 2027

The Private Museum, 11 Upper Wilkie Road

In conjunction with Singapore Art Week 2027, The Private Museum presents selections from the collection of Koh Seow Chuan, architect, art collector, and co-founder of DP Architects. Curated by Aaron Teo and Deborah Lim, the exhibition explores the spirit of collecting, revealing how Koh’s diverse worlds of art, travel, and personal experiences converge. Through these intersections, the collection reflects the values, relationships, and curiosity that have shaped his lifelong collecting journey.

The Last Sunset by Dawn Ng

22 January 2027

6001, BEACH ROAD, Golden Mile Tower, #5-00, Singapore 199589

An elegy of all things that must pass, artist Dawn Ng will stage the world premiere of four chapters from “The Last Sunset”, presented as a one-night-only, site-specific, live cinema performance. Set in Golden Mile Tower – one of Singapore’s last standing brutalist landmarks – this 30-minute immersive event pairs Ng’s moving image work of a vast, weeping hemisphere of melting pigments, with an original score by Welsh composer Alex Mills, accompanied by a live choir. Ice has been central to Ng’s practice for a decade: in Singapore’s equatorial heat it cannot last, and in its vanishing, she finds a portrait of time slipping away. “The Last Sunset” presents a selection of Ng’s anthology of stories about endings set in the past, present and future – told by a global cast of narrators, including Tilda Swinton. The score by Mills traverses the cosmic and the intimate, weaving breath, heartbeats, lullabies, gamelan degung, nature and NASA recordings into an atmospheric symphony for this collapsing sun, completed by the live choir situated within the audience.

Undercurrents: Art x Tech across Southeast Asia

23 January 2027

Tanjong Pagar Distripark

How is technology interacting with artistic practices across Southeast Asia? Undercurrents brings together artists, creative practitioners, researchers and cultural organisations to explore the intersections of art and technology. Through panel discussions, practitioner presentations and participatory conversations, the symposium examines evolving approaches to storytelling, sound and creative experimentation, as well as the structures that support artistic innovation, while fostering dialogue and new connections across the region's arts and technology ecosystem.

Value as Metaphor

16 – 31 January 2027

Bras Basah Complex, #02-47

Value as Metaphor explores how value is constructed and circulated through shifting systems of worth. Bringing together artists from across Southeast Asia, the exhibition considers how objects acquire meaning through labour and exchange. Situated within Bras Basah Complex, the exhibition is curated by Gary Ross-Pastrana and features artists Daniel Chong, Fyerool Darma, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Jed Gregorio, Tanatchai Bandasak, and Lesley-Anne Cao.

Blackened leaves, speculative lifeforms, and self-propagating plantlets temporarily inhabit Bras Basah Complex, itself a site of persistence and adaptability amid the unrelenting demands of urban progress. Guided by myth, outdated city maps, and imagined ancestries, artists from the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore, attuned to the mysteries of everyday life, offer provocations that unsettle our understanding of what disappears, what endures and what new worlds could yet emerge beneath the cracks.