The sixth edition of S.E.A. Focus running from 20 to 28 January 2024 promises a compelling showing of the best works from Southeast Asia, coupled with the welcoming of Bank of Singapore as Main Sponsor. Visitors can expect to see more large-scale works and installations, including a designated screening room featuring artists’ video works, all within the walls of the exhibition ground at Tanjong Pagar … Continue reading Art What!: S.E.A. Focus 2024
WOAW Gallery presents As Friends and Partners Vol. 2 , a group exhibition of 12 international artists, exploring human experience and delving into its nuances across three distinct categories: still life, figurations, and landscape. Building upon the success of our inaugural exhibition, As Friends and Partners (2023) , this exhibition also commemorates the first anniversary of the gallery’s expansion to Singapore. The exhibition will be … Continue reading Art What!: WOAW Gallery Presents ‘As Friends And Partners Vol. 2’
Singapore Art Week is set to make a vibrant comeback this year, and Objectifs is delighted to showcase three distinctive exhibitions that promise to captivate art enthusiasts and novices alike. This includes an exhibition curated by the Objectifs Curator Open Call 2023 Recipient, a groundbreaking collaboration with VH AWARD, and an outdoor exhibition curated by Wang Ruobing, featuring works by Eko Prawoto and contributions from … Continue reading Art What!: Objectifs presents three public exhibitions during Singapore Art Week 2024
Reimagine what art could be at the 8th edition of Light to Night Singapore. The marquee event of Singapore Art Week takes festival-goers on a journey of unexpected and unconventional exploration, using inspiration from history, origin, and artworks from the National Collection to present a multitude of sensorial experiences for all. Stretching across three weeks from 19 January to 8 February 2024, festival-goers can look forward to over 60 … Continue reading Art What!: Light to Night Singapore 2024 promises new ways of experiencing art
This week, Singapore Art Museum (SAM) unveils new works by leading Southeast Asian artists, welcoming visitors to art experiences that encourage contemplation on the interplay between humanity and our physical surroundings. From 12 January to April 2024, The Sea is a Field by artists Simryn Gill and Charles Lim Yi Yong, presents observations captured by Gill and Lim of a trip made along the Malacca Strait using … Continue reading Art What!: Leading Southeast Asian artists Simryn Gill, Charles Lim Yi Yong, and Nguyễn Trinh Thi present work at Singapore Art Museum
The National Arts Council (NAC) and Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced a three-year partnership to bring the arts closer to the public in land transport spaces and public transport commutes, through commissioned works by Singapore artists and arts organisations. The partnership kicks off today with the launch of the themed train and stations in support of Singapore Art Week 2024. The two agencies are also … Continue reading Experience art on the go as NAC and LTA partner to bring public art to commuter spaces
Few Singaporeans would be unfamiliar with the cry of the Asian koel bird, with its signature ‘oo-woo’ call heard across the island in the early morning light. But in The Necessary Stage’s new play, set to premiere during the 2024 M1 Singapore Fringe Festival, that bird holds far more emotional significance than most of us might realise, as it leads to a tale of family … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with playwright Raimi Safari and director Mohd Fared Jainal of ‘Oo-Woo’
In the 2020s, suicide rates in Singapore rose to an all-time high. Is it because we live in a fast-paced, high stress nation? Is it that it often feels like there is no way out? And even when a suicide is completed, can we summon up enough courage to go past the shame and guilt surrounding it to talk about the aftermath, and how we … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with the creators of Matter.Less’ forum theatre show ‘Here Where You Were’
Amidst even the most brutal of wars, there exists the possibility of love that can be kindled. That’s the central plot point at the heart of Noor Effendy Ibrahim’s Motherland, where two unknown soldiers on opposing sides of a violent war find themselves in love. Unable to do anything beyond hugging tightly at the border, how does one then navigate loyalty to one’s country and … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with creator Noor Effendy Ibrahim on ‘Motherland’
Does work set us free, or does it chain us? For far too many people, between being bored to death or burnt out, it’s the latter, and the very concept of labour for survival brings to mind questions about absurd routines and the complex relationship colleagues have with each other, from resemblance and dissemblance, domination and submission, superficiality and depth. From Belgian dance company Dame … Continue reading M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2024: An Interview with Karine Ponties, choreographer of absurdist dance ‘SAME SAME’
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