[FORUM] Singapore Art Week Forum 2026: FORCE·FIELDS

Date: Wed, 21 Jan

Time: 9.30AM - 5PM

Venue: Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium @ National Gallery Singapore

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The Singapore Art Week Forum 2026 explores the theme of "FORCE·FIELDS." This edition, we invite speakers to interrogate the fundamental systems that shape our world. What forces or energies animate the contexts we inhabit? With every decision and utterance, whose interests are championed and what is being defended? The Singapore Art Week Forum 2026 is a collaboration between the National Arts Council, National Gallery Singapore, and Singapore Art Museum.

 

Speech-to-text interpretation and Singapore Sign Language Interpretation will be provided.

[MARKET] Memory Market

Date & Time: Fri (23 Jan) | 4PM-10PM

Date & Time: Sat (24 Jan) | 1PM-10PM

Date & Time: Sun (25 Jan) | 1PM-7PM

Venue: The Spine (Between Blocks 37 and 39), Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

Conceptualised in tandem with Sonic Shaman 2026: Borderless during SAW at SAM, a curated Memory Market invites the public to engage their senses beyond listening, evoking memory and sensations through taste, scent and touch. Creative booths, workshops and culinary collaborations bring together Singapore-based initiatives, brands and designers in a space for experimentation, play and collective encounters.

 

Food & Beverage

ahimsa sanctuary
ahimsa sanctuary is a wellness space that welcomes all to come refuel, recharge & recenter, serving nourishing plant-based food crafted with ayurvedic practices with benefits for the body & mind. They also host a yoga space where all are welcome to come move and breathe.

 

PIZZA KEENWAY
Started in 2021, PIZZA KEENWAY serves as an ode to the owner’s ancestors who were dough fritter hawkers. Their pizzas are deeply influenced by the “Tokyo style” pizza which uses a delicate dough profile combined with a unique shaping technique. At Memory Market, alongside their pizzas, they have also collaborated with local craftspeople Kii Workshop to offer a range of pizza peels for sale.

 

Brass Lion Distillery
Brass Lion started with an idea to craft a truly Singaporean spirit. Each gin produced reflects an aspect of Singapore’s complex identity and what it means to come from a melting pot of cultures. With each handcrafted spirit, they aim to stay authentic to diverse heritage and add a dash of lionhearted innovation. At Memory Market, Brass Lion will offer curated cocktails alongside gin bottles for takeaway.

 

Moon Juice Kombucha
Refresh yourself with delicious, low-sugar, 100% natural kombucha brewed in Singapore. Moon Juice Kombucha is an earth centric brewery focused on sharing the natural healing benefits of kombucha. On nights of the moon both full and new, where the magic is strongest, and the possibilities endless, we brew. For Memory Market, Moon Juice Kombucha will be offering their signature kombuchas and a special cold-brewed tea, alongside tarot reading sessions at scheduled times.

 

SIP at SAM
SIP at SAM is Singapore Art Museum’s in-house café, created as a welcoming extension of the museum experience where visitors can recharge. For Memory Market, SIP at SAM brings the essence of the café with arange of freshly baked pastries, alongside a wide selection of drinks and ice cream, and exclusive offerings such as collaborations with Momolato’s artisanal ice cream, Puffs and Peaks’ pillowy brioche donuts, and refreshing draft beers by The 1925 Brewing Company.

 

Dickson Nasi Lemak
Dickson Nasi Lemak is a modern yet traditional and authentic brand that brings you comforting, no-frills nasi lemak inspired by classic Malaysian flavours. At Memory Market, we’ll be serving fragrant coconut rice paired with our signature sambal, crispy ikan bilis, peanuts, cucumbers and a selection of our signature boneless thigh that's fried to perfection or our otah packed with spice and umami.

 

Creative Booths

Bewilder
Bewilder is a Singapore-based mycological design studio that works exclusively with Fungi. With circularity at our core, Bewilder’s features Fungi as a means of converting organic by-products into higher value food, medicine and sustainably-created innovations. At Memory Market, Bewilder will be introducing the Fungarium, a first-of-its-kind grow kit designed to easily cultivate Lingzhi mushrooms, a highly-prized medicinal species for you to brew your own herbal tea at the end of a meditative 12-week growing process. Bewilder also hand-crafts elegant jewelry pieces made out of these stunning mushrooms – perfect for fungi fanatics and those new to the mycological world alike.

 

PRINT CENTRE
PRINT CENTRE is a small design collective led by Singapore-based creatives, driven by the simple idea of making products that excite us. Alongside random, fun prints and experiments, PRINT CENTRE draws inspiration from DIY culture and the cultural nuances of Singapore, transforming them into thoughtful, apparel-adjacent products such as keychains, bandanas, and T-shirts that feel contemporary while still nodding to tradition.

 

Kiku Space
Kiku Space is the brainchild of tattoo artists Calvin and Gigi, each with a decade of experience in practice. Conceived as a space for slow practice, Kiku Space approaches tattooing as contemporary mark-making, developed through close dialogue with the wearer. Part of the studio since its inception is long-time friend Cruddy, a homegrown clothing brand with a decade of history rooted in independent making. Cruddy is inspired by a curious life to inspire a curious life. Together, the Kiku Space will offer flash tattoos, art prints, shirts, and other merchandise during Memory Market.

 

Absolute Records
Dedicated to sharing our love for analogue sound with music lovers, audiophiles, collectors and music enthusiasts, Absolute Records is a vinyl record shop in Singapore that offers a vast collection of vinyl records sourced from one of the largest private records collections in Singapore. At Memory Market, they will offer a selection of vinyl records from their catalogue alongside merchandise by Sonic Shaman 2026: Borderless artists.

Sonic Shaman 2026: Borderless

Date: Fri - Sun, 23 - 25 Jan

Time: Various Timings

Venue: The Spine (Between Blocks 37 and 39), Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

Presented in Singapore for the first time, Sonic Shaman unites experimental sound, performance and contemporary art, bringing together local and global artists, musicians and thinkers. As a trans-disciplinary "music festival," it offers a space where diverse practices and traditions converge in a collective experience of listening and imagination. This edition's theme, “Borderless,” embraces the experience of sound and artistic experimentation that transcends geographical, physical, cultural and temporal borders.

Part of Singapore Art Week, Sonic Shaman 2026: Borderless is co-curated by TheCube Project Space and Singapore Art Museum, featuring Singapore Biennale 2025 commissions. This edition is a joint initiative by the National Arts Council, Singapore Art Museum and Mapletree Investments, supported by the Singapore Tourism Board.

[PERFORMANCE] The AGENDA Hair Salon by Kim Ga Ram

Date: Sat - Tue, 24 - 27 Jan

Time: 12PM - 5PM

Venue: Level 3, Gallery 4, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free (*$20 refundable deposit applies to participants)

 

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Step into The AGENDA Hair Salon, an ongoing project by artist and certified hair stylist Kim Ga Ram that turns the simple act of haircutting into a powerful socio-cultural statement.

 

In exchange for a free haircut, participants choose a cutting cape printed with a slogan of their choice – each addressing issues as wide-ranging as life, death, the arts, technology and more – then engage in conversation with the artist as the haircut unfolds. The length of hair they part with becomes a measure of their commitment to the message they wear, turning a personal grooming act into a public performance of values and dialogue. Watch as the artist engages participants in conversation about their chosen slogan.

 

Sessions will be recorded and may be presented in The Living Room.

[TALK] Artist Talk by Subodh Gupta

Date: Sat, 24 Jan

Time: 2PM - 3.15PM

Venue: Level 3, EX-SITU, SAM Office, #03-07, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free with Registration

 

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Join artist Subodh Gupta in conversation with exhibition curator Ong Puay Khim. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Talking Objects, featuring Gupta’s iconic work, Hungry God (2005–2006), this talk will explore his artistic practice. The discussion will touch upon the exhibition’s themes, examining how artists transform everyday objects into potent symbols to reveal complex ideas about culture and contemporary life.

[PERFORMANCE] Knitting the Future by Chia Chuyia

Date: Sat, 24 Jan

Time: 4PM - 5PM

Venue: Level 1, L-corridor facing port (between Lift Lobby B and SAM Entrance), SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free with Registration

 

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Artist Chia Chuyia will perform a closing ritual for her work, Knitting the Future—a garment hand-knitted entirely from leeks, now displayed in the exhibition The Living Room. Since its creation, the garment has gradually transformed in colour and texture, its changing form marking the passage of time and the ephemerality central to Chia’s practice.

 

In this performance, the artist will ceremonially “lay the garment to rest,” acknowledging both its life and its inevitable transformation. Through this act, Chia invites audiences to reflect on cycles of growth and decline, and on how museums care for works that resist permanence.

[TALK] Duration, Decay and Documentation: A Study of Chia Chuyia’s Knitting the Future

Date: Sun, 25 Jan

Time: 3PM - 4.30PM

Venue: Level 3, EX-SITU, SAM Office, #03-07, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free with Registration

 

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Following Chia Chuyia's closing ritual for Knitting the Future, this roundtable will explore the unique challenges of conserving and exhibiting works of performance art. Centred on Chia's work, the conversation considers its "afterlife" and the possibilities of its preservation within a national collection.

 

Offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the lifecycle of a contemporary artwork, the panel brings together artist Chia Chuyia, SAM Production Manager Anisah Aidid—who first realised the work in 2016, and Textiles Conservator Geraldine McClelland, who now oversees its care. Moderated by SAM curator Yen Hui, this crucial conversation will unpack the complex decisions, labour and expertise required to maintain the integrity of an artwork that resists permanence.

 

This programme is presented in conjunction with The Living Room, an exhibition that concludes a three-part collaboration between Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).

[TOUR] Singapore Sign Language (SgSL) Tour of Singapore Biennale (Tanglin Halt)

Date: Sat, 24 Jan

Time: 11AM - 11.45AM

Venue: Tanglin Halt

Free with registration

 

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Join Deaf facilitators on a tour of Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention at Tanglin Halt. Experience contemporary art in familiar spaces of Singapore with fresh eyes and new perspectives. This tour is intended for the Deaf and Hard of hearing community. SgSL interpretation will be provided by Equal Dreams. This tour is suitable for participants aged 6 and up; children must be accompanied by an adult.

[SAM RESIDENCIES] Through the Currents: In Conversation with SAM Residencies

Date: Fri - Sun, 23 - 25 Jan

Time: 1PM onwards

Venue: Level 3, SAM Residency Studios, #03-07, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

In Conversation with SAM Residencies showcases the dynamic and collaborative nature of the processual and research-based methods which drive the work of SAM Residents. This multi-modal project will gather a wide range of research explorations and artistic experimentation by artists, curators, researchers and creative practitioners during their time in residency. Across methodologies, processes, and formats, discover new insights into a range of topical urgencies at the forefront of contemporary practice.

 

In this 2026 edition, Through the Currents explores notions of decentring, fluidity and co-learning and making in the now.

[MARKET] Memory Market

Date & Time: Fri (30 Jan) | 4PM-10PM

Date & Time: Sat (31 Jan) | 1PM-10PM 

Venue: The Spine (Between Blocks 37 and 39), Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

Conceptualised in tandem with Sonic Shaman 2026: Borderless during SAW at SAM, a curated Memory Market invites the public to engage their senses beyond listening, evoking memory and sensations through taste, scent and touch. Creative booths, workshops and culinary collaborations bring together Singapore-based initiatives, brands and designers in a space for experimentation, play and collective encounters.

 

Food & Beverage

ahimsa sanctuary
ahimsa sanctuary is a wellness space that welcomes all to come refuel, recharge & recenter, serving nourishing plant-based food crafted with ayurvedic practices with benefits for the body & mind. They also host a yoga space where all are welcome to come move and breathe.

 

PIZZA KEENWAY
Started in 2021, PIZZA KEENWAY serves as an ode to the owner’s ancestors who were dough fritter hawkers. Their pizzas are deeply influenced by the “Tokyo style” pizza which uses a delicate dough profile combined with a unique shaping technique. At Memory Market, alongside their pizzas, they have also collaborated with local craftspeople Kii Workshop to offer a range of pizza peels for sale.

 

Brass Lion Distillery
Brass Lion started with an idea to craft a truly Singaporean spirit. Each gin produced reflects an aspect of Singapore’s complex identity and what it means to come from a melting pot of cultures. With each handcrafted spirit, they aim to stay authentic to diverse heritage and add a dash of lionhearted innovation. At Memory Market, Brass Lion will offer curated cocktails alongside gin bottles for takeaway.

 

Moon Juice Kombucha
Refresh yourself with delicious, low-sugar, 100% natural kombucha brewed in Singapore. Moon Juice Kombucha is an earth centric brewery focused on sharing the natural healing benefits of kombucha. On nights of the moon both full and new, where the magic is strongest, and the possibilities endless, we brew. For Memory Market, Moon Juice Kombucha will be offering their signature kombuchas and a special cold-brewed tea, alongside tarot reading sessions at scheduled times.

 

SIP at SAM
SIP at SAM is Singapore Art Museum’s in-house café, created as a welcoming extension of the museum experience where visitors can recharge. For Memory Market, SIP at SAM brings the essence of the café with arange of freshly baked pastries, alongside a wide selection of drinks and ice cream, and exclusive offerings such as collaborations with Momolato’s artisanal ice cream, Puffs and Peaks’ pillowy brioche donuts, and refreshing draft beers by The 1925 Brewing Company.

 

Dickson Nasi Lemak
Dickson Nasi Lemak is a modern yet traditional and authentic brand that brings you comforting, no-frills nasi lemak inspired by classic Malaysian flavours. At Memory Market, we’ll be serving fragrant coconut rice paired with our signature sambal, crispy ikan bilis, peanuts, cucumbers and a selection of our signature boneless thigh that's fried to perfection or our otah packed with spice and umami.

 

Creative Booths

Bewilder
Bewilder is a Singapore-based mycological design studio that works exclusively with Fungi. With circularity at our core, Bewilder’s features Fungi as a means of converting organic by-products into higher value food, medicine and sustainably-created innovations. At Memory Market, Bewilder will be introducing the Fungarium, a first-of-its-kind grow kit designed to easily cultivate Lingzhi mushrooms, a highly-prized medicinal species for you to brew your own herbal tea at the end of a meditative 12-week growing process. Bewilder also hand-crafts elegant jewelry pieces made out of these stunning mushrooms – perfect for fungi fanatics and those new to the mycological world alike.

 

PRINT CENTRE
PRINT CENTRE is a small design collective led by Singapore-based creatives, driven by the simple idea of making products that excite us. Alongside random, fun prints and experiments, PRINT CENTRE draws inspiration from DIY culture and the cultural nuances of Singapore, transforming them into thoughtful, apparel-adjacent products such as keychains, bandanas, and T-shirts that feel contemporary while still nodding to tradition.

 

Kiku Space
Kiku Space is the brainchild of tattoo artists Calvin and Gigi, each with a decade of experience in practice. Conceived as a space for slow practice, Kiku Space approaches tattooing as contemporary mark-making, developed through close dialogue with the wearer. Part of the studio since its inception is long-time friend Cruddy, a homegrown clothing brand with a decade of history rooted in independent making. Cruddy is inspired by a curious life to inspire a curious life. Together, the Kiku Space will offer flash tattoos, art prints, shirts, and other merchandise during Memory Market.

 

Absolute Records
Dedicated to sharing our love for analogue sound with music lovers, audiophiles, collectors and music enthusiasts, Absolute Records is a vinyl record shop in Singapore that offers a vast collection of vinyl records sourced from one of the largest private records collections in Singapore. At Memory Market, they will offer a selection of vinyl records from their catalogue alongside merchandise by Sonic Shaman 2026: Borderless artists.

[MUSIC] Eatmepoptart: Never Lose That Feeling

Date: Fri, 30 Jan

Time: 6PM - 10.30PM 

Venue: The Spine (Between Blocks 37 and 39), Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

Never lose that feeling! Join Eatmepoptart for this special SAW at SAM edition. Known for their wild, nostalgic parties, Eatmepoptart has shifted from monthly events to a focus on highly anticipated one-off nights.

 

Don't miss this unique opportunity! Lock in your date, hydrate yourselves and get ready for a truly loved-up evening packed with all your favourite classics and head-bangers!

[PERFORMANCE] Ehera Noara by Nam Hwayeon

Date: Wed - Sat, 28 - 31 Jan

Time: 3PM - 3.20PM

Venue: Level 3, Gallery 4, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free with Registration

 

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The act of transmitting through “proxies” beyond an artist’s lifetime allows each future iteration of a performance to embrace the potentiality of the absent origin. Hwayeon Nam, together with performer/choreographer Chung Ji Hye, will present a 20-minute performance inspired by the memoirs and fragmented records of Choi Seung-hee, one of the precursors of Korean modern dance. This programme is held in conjunction with The Living Room, the Collections Show 2025. It marks the final chapter of a three-part collaboration among Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).

 

About the artist
Nam Hwayeon (b. 1979, South Korea) is an artist whose practice explores the performativity of research and the paradoxes of choreography shaped by absence. Her work engages with the fragility and contingency of presence, and with temporal interventions that disrupt linear time. Through the use of performance, installation and video, Nam examines how recorded time re-emerges in the present through shifting rhythms and cycles across bodies, nature and history. Drawing attention to the ephemeral and inscrutable aspects of existence, her practice invites new encounters with the past and the fleeting nature of the present.

 

Performer Bio
Chung Ji Hye is a choreographer and performer based in Korea and Germany. She works by following the reasons and impulses that build up inside the body, which turn into movement. She is interested in the paradoxes that appear when different ideas collide and translates these tensions into movement and physical practice. By observing how actions stored in the body can create social echoes, her work reimagines future bodies and explores how they evolve through dance. Her main works include Cosmic Dance (2025), Moving As Prosthetics: Machine, Affordance, and Care (2025), Nondance Dance 2 (2024), SHINSEGAE (2024), Nondance Dance (2022), A.D. 0000 (2021), Positioning Game ver.21 (2021) and Open Letter (2020).

 

As a performer, she has appeared in Raimund Hoghe’s La Valse (2016) and Postcards from Vietnam (2020); An Evening with Raimund (2021/2022) by Luca Schulte and Emmanuel Eggermont; Hwayeon Nam’s You Only Live Twice (2022) and Ehera Noara (2020); and Lyon Eun Kwon’s I Belong to That Street (2023) and DDR (2020). 

 

Production Credits:
Artist: Nam Ywa Yeon
Performer: Chung Ji Hye
Dramaturg: Kim Jae Lee
Music: Jowall

 

Image Captions:  Choi Seung-hee performing Ehera Noara (premiered in 1934). Photographer unknown; re-photographed by Gim Ikhyeon

[Talk & Showcase] Documenting The AGENDA Hair Salon: A Conversation with Kim Ga Ram and Teng Yen Hui

Date: Fri, 30 Jan

Time: 7PM - 8.30PM

Venue: Level 1, The Engine Room, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free with registration

 

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The AGENDA Hair Salon is an ongoing, provocative project by artist and certified hair stylist Kim Ga Ram that transforms the simple act of a haircut into a powerful socio-cultural statement.

 

Learn more about this unique project with an exclusive showcase of documented footage from the live haircutting sessions. Following the screening, join artist Kim Ga Ram, and curator Teng Yen Hui, for a conversation that delves into the themes and impact of The AGENDA Hair Salon.

[PERFORMANCE] Talking in Tune: A Lunchtime Piano Recital

Date: Sat, 31 Jan

Time: 1PM - 2PM

Venue: Level 3, Gallery 4, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

In this bi-monthly recital series, Mang Emo + Mag-himo Grand Piano Project by artist Alwin Reamillo comes alive with chosen melodies that resonate with the artwork's profound themes.

 

The first session will feature the NTU Piano Ensemble, a student-run music club based at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

 

This programme is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Talking Objects.

[TOUR] Singapore Biennale Curator Tour, Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Date: Sat, 31 Jan

Time: 2PM - 3PM

Venue: Level 1, Gallery 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

Go beyond the surface and uncover the stories, ideas and intentions shaping pure intention. Join us for an in-depth tour of the Biennale’s artworks, led by the curators behind their very selection. Each tour will take you through a different cluster of the Biennale, offering unique insights into the artists’ practices and the threads that bind them.

[TOUR] Behind the Scenes: Biennale Bus Tour

Date: Sat, 31 Jan

Time: 2.30PM - 6PM

Venue: Singapore Art Museum and citywide venues

Meeting Point: Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Ticketed, $8 per participant

 

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Hop on for a special journey that takes you behind the scenes of the Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention. Led by Mok Cui Yin, Head of the Singapore Biennale team, this exclusive bus tour covers various locations—starting from Tanjong Pagar Distripark, then heading to 20 Anderson Road, Far East Shopping Centre and ending at Lucky Plaza—offering insights into how the exhibitions come together across Singapore.

 

Gain insider insights into the planning process, installation stories, and the unique character of each venue as you travel through the city.

 

All participants will receive an exclusive Biennale-branded merchandise!

 

About the Guide
Cui is an arts producer and facilitator. Since 2008, she has produced, consulted on, and managed projects across different disciplines, scales and contexts. These include independent artists in contemporary art, dance, music, literary arts and theatre, for organisations such as Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, The Substation, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Asian Film Archive, Arts House Limited, DesignSingapore Council and the National Arts Council, and for festivals and platforms including Archifest, the Arts x Tech Lab, Singapore International Festival of Arts and Singapore Writers Festival. Cui joined Singapore Art Museum in 2024 as Head, Biennale, working with the Singapore Biennale team.

[GAMES] Safe Shores by Post-Museum

Date: Sat, 31 Jan

Time: 6PM - 10PM

Venue: The Spine (Between Blocks 37 and 39), Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Ticketed, $10 per pax

 

Set in the year 2050, Safe Shores envisages a Southeast Asia that has been reconfigured by the climate crisis. Sea level rise, extreme weather conditions, dying oceans, deadly diseases, and a collapsing food system are forcing people to leave their homelands. Where can they find safety, and how do they build a community so that they can all survive?

 

This new participatory artwork by Post-Museum includes performance, sculpture, video and a game based on The Quiet Year (2013) by Buried Without Ceremony. During the game, participants co-create characters and their lives in this speculative scenario. We are looking for participants who have courage, imagination, and the willingness to take the time to discuss life’s big issues.

 

If that sounds like you, don’t miss this one-time-only 3-hour experience at SAM this SAW!

 

About Post-Museum
Founded in 2007 in Singapore, Post-Museum is an independent cultural and social space which aims to encourage and support a thinking and proactive community. It is an open platform for examining contemporary life, promoting the arts and connecting people. In addition to their events and projects, they also curate, research and collaborate with a network of social actors and cultural workers.

[WORKSHOP] Rasa Sayang (Songs of travel and care) by Critical Craft Collective

Date: Sat, 31 Jan

Time: 3PM - 5PM

Venue: The Spine (Between Blocks 37 and 39), Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

This participatory workshop by the Critical Craft Collective draws on Singapore’s history as a harbour city, using song as a medium for crossings, care and kinship. Focusing on two songs—Rasa Sayang (a Malay folk song) and Cempaka Biru (by Zubir Said)—the session explores how songs have travelled across the Nusantara (the Malay Archipelago) through collective listening and memory. Critical Craft Collective invites participants to experience collective singing as both sonic and haptic. Voices resonating in shared spaces produce a tactile, vibratory awareness that recalls the handwork of craft—rhythmic, embodied and shaped through repetition and presence.

 

About Critical Craft Collective
Founded by Adeline Kueh and Hazel Lim, the Critical Craft Collective (CCC) reexamines craft in the 21st century through the lens of contemporary art and technology. It aims to be a platform that enables partnerships, collaborations and curatorial projects, where expanded dialogue and conversation at the intersections of craft, design and contemporary art practices can take place.

[SAM RESIDENCIES] Through the Currents: In Conversation with SAM Residencies

Date: Fri -  Sat, 30 - 31 Jan

Time: 1PM onwards

Venue: Level 3, SAM Residency Studios, #03-07, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Free

 

In Conversation with SAM Residencies showcases the dynamic and collaborative nature of the processual and research-based methods which drive the work of SAM Residents. This multi-modal project will gather a wide range of research explorations and artistic experimentation by artists, curators, researchers and creative practitioners during their time in residency. Across methodologies, processes, and formats, discover new insights into a range of topical urgencies at the forefront of contemporary practice.

 

In this 2026 edition, Through the Currents explores notions of decentring, fluidity and co-learning and making in the now.

[The Everyday Museum] Story Exchange: Golden Shoe’s Past and Future

Date: Sat, 31 Jan

Time: 10AM - 12PM

Meeting Point: OUE Bayfront Office Atrium (Thinker Sculpture)

$30 per ticket (includes refreshments at Lau Pa Sat, CulturePass eligible)

 

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Embark on a 2-hour journey that bridges urban heritage and contemporary art, as Yong from The Urbanist Singapore brings together his signature engagement style with deep knowledge of heritage and urban design—this time, with a twist. From Collyer Quay to Shenton Way, learn about the financial heartbeat of Singapore, fondly known as the “Golden Shoe”, with Yong’s expertise in cultural geography guiding you through five public artworks commissioned by The Everyday Museum.

 

The trail includes a reflective interlude at Lau Pa Sat market, engaging your sense of taste to tie lesser-known food culture as a significant marker of time and exchange within the district.

[The Everyday Museum] Story Hosts

Date: Fri-Sat, 30 Jan–28 Feb 2026

Time: Accessible at all times

Venue: Various locations along Shenton Way 

 

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Story Hosts is a month-long art, design and literary activation that transforms Singapore's Central Business District (CBD) into a living archive of stories, histories and artistic responses.

 

Along the Shenton Way stretch, the heartbeat of this financial centre, audiences will encounter Art Teller Machines (ATMs) placed in proximity to The Everyday Museum's latest public art commissions, designed by The Merry Men Works. By engaging with these ATMs, curious passersby will receive one of six commissioned poems by Pooja Nansi. The humble receipt that is usually tied to “transaction,” “commerce,” and “trade”—is reimagined here as a poetic barter, weaving together site, artwork and layered city stories.

 

[The Everyday Museum] Story Walk: Where Contemporary Art Meets Urban Narratives

Date: Sat, 31 Jan

Time: 4PM - 6PM

Meeting Point: One Raffles Quay (North Tower)

$15 per ticket (CulturePass eligible)

 

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Discover hidden stories pulsing through the Central Business District in this 2-hour experience of contemporary art, oral storytelling, responsive soundscapes and hands-on making.

 

Guided by storytellers Cheyenne Alexandria Phillips and Laura Kee, journey through three commissioned artworks from The Everyday Museum’s Momentary Pulses public art series. Listen to original tales written by Story Scape Creative Producer Kamini Ramachandran that give voice to everyday objects—a teapot, tiles, a bell, and a pineapple—tracing their ties to Singapore’s changing landscape.

 

These narratives are thoughtfully interpreted by artist-researcher Wong Zi Hao from Superlative Futures, who will be providing a tactile dimension to the experience. Alongside these stories, experience sound artist Syafiq Halid’s soundscapes for Story Walk, which flow between storytelling points as you move through the CBD.

[DROP-IN ACTIVITY] Singapore Biennale Stamp Rally

Date: Ongoing - 29 Mar

Time: 10AM - 7PM

Venue: Singapore Art Museum and citywide venues

 

Collect your special Singapore Biennale 2025 postcard and complete your stamp journey across Blenheim Court, 20 Anderson Road, SAM, and Fort Canning Centre. Visit all the locations and bring home a little piece of your Biennale experience!