The Everyday Museum brings art to everyday lives and demonstrates the possibilities and potential of art and creativity for our society. Siting projects in publicly accessible spaces, these are artworks that will spark curiosity, activate imagination and ignite conversations, transforming everyday experiences into memorable encounters that offer new perspectives on life and society. Dedicated to supporting artistic practice in the public sphere, The Everyday Museum is a platform for creative production and experimentation, where every space is a cultural space, created for and with communities. Its diverse programming creates physical and virtual nodes for engagement and interaction where everyone can participate.

The Everyday Museum is a public art initiative of the Singapore Art Museum and part of the museum’s new direction of infusing meaningful art encounters into the everyday, inspiring change through art and collaborations.

Hazel Lim-Schlegel (b. 1975) is a visual artist with a background in painting and employs text, crafting methods and drawings to articulate her interests in the production of narratives, notions of displacement, construction of histories and imaginary landscapes. The artist's research inquiries delve into aspects of painting and utilises text, paper folding and participation with audiences. In Lim-Schlegel’s current research on the Aesthetics of Care and through involvement in the Craft Council of Singapore, the artist is employing crafting techniques such as needlework and paper craft to investigate the utility of diagrams, image making and colour theory, at the same time, interrogating the relationship of craft to the domestic and feminine.

Andreas Schlegel (b.1975) works across disciplines and creates objects, tools and interfaces where art and technology meet in a curious way. Many of the artist’s works are collaborative and have been presented on screen, in code, as installation, workshop or performance. Schlegel’s practice focuses on contemporary and open-source technologies, where outcomes are informed by computation, interaction and networked processes.

Schlegel’s individual and collaborative works are diverse in nature and presentation. They have been shown in contemporary art spaces such as the ArtScience Museum, National Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, LASALLE in Singapore, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, Tainan Art Museum in Taiwan or the Total Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul. The artist has presented works at conferences including ISEA, SIGGRAPH Asia and Resonate. Currently, Schlegel is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design Communication at LASALLE College of the Arts where the artist teaches across disciplines. Schlegel’s work at the college’s Media Lab is practice-based, collaborative and interdisciplinary and aims to blur the boundaries between art and technology.

neuewave is a design studio driven by research and collaborations run by Singaporean artist, designer, educator, maker and surfboard shaper Muhammad Dhiya Rahman, also known as MDRN. neuewave concerns itself in the intersections of art, design, science, and technology, conceiving projects in varied outputs ranging from products to custom artwork and installations for artists, galleries, organisations, events and festivals. An inquiry on materials, form, function, and narrative in entanglement has been the constant swell that pushes the studio's unique strategies and solutions to new shores.

May – July 2022
Chok Si Xuan is an installation-based artist whose work focuses on material systems, viewing them as embodiments of connections or relationships, and attempts to mimic disrupting technologies through bodily gestures. She is curious about how culture, material, and form shape the way we understand each other, and her practice investigates cybernetics—the feedback between humans, living organisms, and machines—and the exploration of physical relationships through systems, in the Southeast Asian context.

The 3D modelled AR experiences Chok created in response to The Oort Cloud and the Blue Mountain: Edition Tanjong Pagar extend the underlying sentiments of the work by generating terrains and objects. Inspired by fractals and their self-referential nature, the three object-like forms and three terrain planes were created to allow viewers to situate themselves within uncanny landscapes and objects, bringing them closer to the work even as the encounter is mediated through the screen.