Six must-see shows at Singapore Art Week 2026
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American artist Jeff Koons' Gazing Ball (Manet Luncheon On The Grass) is one of the works at STPI's Print Show & Symposium.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF JEFF KOONS
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1. The Print Show & Symposium by STPI
After passing the baton for S.E.A. Focus to Art SG
Prices at the fair, organised as a series of distinct rooms, range from under $5,000 to over $400,000.
A two-day symposium explores the radicalism of print in challenging originality, value and authorship. The medium has also been key to political dissemination in the forms of pamphlets, posters and zines.
Info: Show is free; symposium from $25 (SG Culture Pass eligible), go to str.sg/joDK
2. Rituals Of Perception by Tanoto Art Foundation
South Korean artist Anicka Yi’s Archaic Cusp (2023).
PHOTO: TANOTO ART FOUNDATION
A year after launching at the last Singapore Art Week with a symposium, Tanoto Art Foundation is holding its first art show at the New Bahru School Hall.
More than 20 artists, mostly born in the 1980s and 1990s, focus on notions of materials and how they interact with the body. They include Chinese artist Wang Ye’s re-adapting of modernist paintings with traditional embroidery techniques from Hunan and South Korean artist Anicka Yi’s cocoons of kelp containing robotic insects.
Artistic director Xiaoyu Weng says architecture studio +C Architects has taken inspiration from bamboo kelongs in Singapore and Malaysia for the exhibition design, building lattice scaffoldings that make obvious the labour in creating a show. Tanoto Art Foundation plans to alternate between a symposium and show for future art weeks.
Info: Free, go to str.sg/tmjS
3. OH! Moonstone by OH! Open House
OH! Moonstone by OH! Open House will lead a tour of Moonstone Lane Estate with works by Singaporean artists like Milenko Prvacki and Thai artist Jarupatcha Achavasmit.
PHOTO: MARVIN LEE
Zoned mainly as a residential precinct, Moonstone Lane Estate is in reality an eclectic jumble of decommissioned factories, shrines and curious businesses. Few who live outside the estate would have visited or heard of it, which makes OH! Open House’s 75- to 90-minute art excursion into the neighbourhood a worthy adventure.
Singaporean artists Milenko Prvacki, Robert Zhao Renhui and Ang Song Nian, as well as Thai artist Jarupatcha Achavasmit, will show works inside homes, workshops and everyday spaces in the estate. Curator John Tung wants audiences to see “the neighbourhood’s history not as something distant or preserved, but as something shaped by people, routines and time”.
Info: $40 (eligible for SG Culture Pass), go to str.sg/Hnvo
4. City Of New Ruins
For City Of New Ruins, filmmaker Natalie Khoo has assembled a multidisciplinary team of artists to create a simulacra of Forest City.
PHOTO: NATALIE KHOO
Local film-maker Natalie Khoo shot a short film at Johor’s “ghost town” Forest City, a mere 20-minute drive from the Tuas Checkpoint. Before the film premieres later in 2026, she has assembled a multidisciplinary team of artists to create a simulacrum of Forest City in a Tanjong Pagar Distripark unit.
Architecture, soundscapes, poetry, performance, moving image, projection mapping and design come together in a symphony in this “poetic restaging” of Forest City that Khoo also sees as a playground. The artist-curator wants to invest this Belt and Road Initiative mega-project site with what she calls “romantic qualities”.
Info: Free, go to str.sg/rqbS
5. 99 Years by Digital Art Week Asia
Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter, Singapore’s only surviving pre-war civil air raid shelter, opens up to the public for a digital arts exhibition featuring Asian artists.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF DAWA
Tiong Bahru Air Raid Shelter, Singapore’s only surviving pre-war civil air raid shelter, opens to the public for a digital arts exhibition featuring Asian artists including Indonesia-born Singaporean artist Boedi Widjaja, Thai artist Sareena Sattapon and Hong Kong artist Bianca Tse.
New works include Tse’s Pong Lai (2026), a single-channel artificial-intelligence video that reimagines Hong Kong as a mythological paradise, and Shanghai-born artist Jin Jin Xu’s installation of metal basins with video projections. Curated by Warren Wee, the show’s title evokes the 99-year lease system and admits about 30 persons at any time.
Info: Free with pre-registration, go to str.sg/Lqfc
6. Isang Dipang Langit by The Columns Gallery
Bahay Ng Mangingisda is made of nylon fish nets by Oca Villamiel.
PHOTO: THE COLUMNS GALLERY
The Philippines’ biggest art names are represented in this exhibition at Tanjong Pagar Distripark spanning installation, sculpture, painting, film and performance. Large-scale works by artists like Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan and Oca Villamiel anchor the space, interspersed with performance works by others including Eisa Jocson and Manuel Ocampo’s paintings.
Director of The Columns Gallery Dong Jo Chang says the exhibition title is taken from a poem by Amado V. Hernandez, meaning a sliver of sky. In it lies an accumulation of fragments rather than a single story. This ironically allows for clearer seeing and better imagination of alternate futures.
Info: Free, go to str.sg/9Em7
