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Wan Hai Hotel: Singapore Strait
Exhibition Date: 20-31 Jan 2026
Venue: Wan Hai Hotel
Address: 320 Havelock Road, Singapore 169628
Mirrorball: Reflections on Portraiture
Mirrorball: Reflections on Portraiture, a group exhibition in conjunction with Singapore Art Week
Exhibition Date: 17 Jan - 14 Mar, 2026
Venue: FOST Gallery, 1 Lock Road, #01-02 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108932
Artists: Bea Camacho, Jon Chan, Lavender Chang, Kray Chen, John Clang, Joanne Lim
Sebastian Mary Tay, Yeo Tze Yang
Date: 17 Jan (Sat)
Time: 3โ6 pm Opening, 4pm Artist Walkthrough
Human Being Human: Selections from the Collection of John and Cheryl Chia
Exhibition Date: 19 Jan - 26 Apr, 2026
Venue: The Private Museum, 11 Upper Wilkie Road, Singapore 228120
Curated by Tamares Goh & Aaron Teo
Opening Date: 19 Jan (Mon)
Time: 6pm
ART SG - Performance Art
ART SG
As part of a new curatorial collaboration with Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), Shanghai, X-Zhu Nowell, Executive Director and Chief Curator of RAM, will serve as ART SGโs Film and Performance Art Curator, marking the introduction of a dedicated Performance Art sector at the fair.
https://artsg.com/platform/john-clang/
Date: 23 - 25 January 2026
Venue: Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands
Towards Happiness, Prosperity & Progress: Reflections on the Singapore Spirit
Towards Happiness, Prosperity & Progress: Reflections on the Singapore Spirit
In celebration of SG60, this landmark exhibition brings together 60 Singaporean and Singapore-based artists, 60 artworks, and 6 curators in a profound reflection of the Singapore spirit.
Shaped by a myriad of curatorial perspectives by six curators, the exhibition unfolds as a set of artistic conversations. Some works reflect on belonging, care, and vulnerability; others explore histories, stories, and names that shape how we understand ourselves. Everyday culture, sightseeing, humour, and local codes appear alongside more universal expressions of identity and memory. Themes of loss and reconnection surface too, asking what it takes to feel present again. Elsewhere, ideas of home, virtue, and lived experience open space for multiple ways of being Singaporean.
Together, these works do not define the Singapore Spirit but trace its many expressions. They suggest that happiness, prosperity, and progress are not endpoints, but ongoing practices revisited across generations, renewed through art, and shared by all who call Singapore home.
Exhibition Date: Oct 2 - Dec 7, 2025
Venue: The Private Museum, 11 Upper Wilkie Road, Singapore 228120
Ghost2568: Wish We Were Here
๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ด: ๐ช๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ
Curated by Amal Khalaf
Date: 15 October โ 16 November
Venue: Jim Thompson Art Center
Artist Talk on 24 Oct (Fri), 4pm
Hyperallergic: When Chinese Astrology Becomes Portraiture
Hyperallergic by AX Mina, Aug 24, 2025
click here to read the full interview.
The Lie of the Land: Sediments
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐: ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐จ, a group exhibition in conjunction with Singaporeโs National Day
Exhibition Date: Aug 2 - Sep 6, 2025
Venue: FOST Gallery, 1 Lock Road, #01-02 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108932
Artists: Lavender Chang, Kray Chen, John Clang, Ong Si Hui, Grace Tan, Wyn-Lyn Tan,
Sebastian Mary Tay, Yeo Tze Yang
Off the Catalogue: August 2025
Off the Catalogue is a monthly programme that presents films from the Asian Film Archive collection. For this month, AFA presents a selection by four Singaporean filmmakers who spotlight individuals attempting to fulfil their dreams as they navigate cities, systems, and shifting identities. Through their stories of idealism, alienation, aspiration, and displacement, the everyday struggles and choices shaped by contemporary life deeply resonate with audiences.
Their Remaining Journey : Three protagonists are bound by a meditation on life, death, and reincarnation: a deceased actress returns to haunt a strangerโs home; an ex-mistress journeys from Singapore to New York in the wake of her loverโs death; and a husband grapples with the courage to confess both his betrayal and terminal illness to his wife.
Screening: August 13, 2025
Time: 8:00pm
Tickets here.