This January, discover the multitude of captivating exhibitions, workshops, and events Singapore Art Museum has to offer
In less than a month’s time, Singapore Art Week 2025 (SAW 2025) will bring the city alive with creativity and innovation, and the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) has curated a stellar line-up of activities, exhibitions, and workshops for all art enthusiasts during this period. From interactive plays, insightful exhibitions, to hands-on craft sessions, SAM promises an unforgettable experience for everyone.
Now here’s the good news: during the period of SAW 2025 between 17 to 26 January 2025, not only is SAM extending its daily opening hours from 10am to 7pm. Want even better news? Admission is free across SAM during SAW 2025. Got your attention yet? Here are just a few events lined up by SAM coinciding or running during SAW 2025. Time to clear your weekends.
Makers’s Market & Craft Workshop
What it is: Explore the unique handcrafted products by talented creators on sale, food stalls and interactive workshops for the whole family.
When: Fridays to Sundays, 17 to 26 January 2025
accompanying Gib and Draco on thrilling adventures
featuring epic world-saving dance battles, spy
missions and daring treks through fiery lava fields. Photo by Singapore Art Museum
My BFF is Real
What it is: An interactive play by Strawberries Inc., guests can delight in exciting interactive games during the play while joining Gib and his imaginary friend, Draco, on thrilling adventures in the vibrant world of Gib’s imagination.
When: 19 and 26 January 2025 at 3:30pm, 4:30pm and 5:30pm
Seeing Forest
What it is: An exhibition presented by artist Robert Zhao Renhui, which expands on Zhao’s long-term research on secondary forests in Singapore (forests regrown from deforested land due to human intervention) and the new ecosystems that have developed within it since. Programmes running during SAW 2025 in conjunction with this exhibition include a solo performance and a special conversation featuring the artist Robert Zhao, curator Haeju Kim and conservation biologist Yong Ding Li.
When: 15 January to 18 May 2025
Pratchaya Phinthong: No Patents on Ideas
What it is: Bangkok-based artist Pratchaya Phinthong’s first solo exhibition in Singapore, presenting major explorations underpinning two decades of the artist’s practice, where cultural and economic systems structuring modern life are examined. In the weeks of SAW 2025, expect a captivating conversation between the artist and exhibition curator Selene Yap, or join Yap on a guided tour to learn more about the exhibition.
When: 4 December 2024 to 23 March 2025
Everyday Practices
What it is: An expansion on Tehching Hseieh’s philosophy of transforming the banality of life and passages of time into art, this exhibit explores how artists across generations and geographies in Asia have reinterpreted routines and lived experiences into expressions of resilience and endurance.
When: 30 August 2024 to 20 July 2025
Learning Gallery
What it is: Inspired by the theme of childhood, this edition of the Learning Gallery encourages a child-like curiosity and wonder in encounters with art. Visitors are invited to embrace the spirit of exploration to have an uninhibited relationship with the world around us: to look, feel and live fearlessly.
When: 20 July 2024 to 29 June 2025
A Daily Act
What it is: A concluding presentation of a year-long project by Atelier HOKO, where 80 prompts distributed across Tanjong Pagar via banners, flyers and postcards invited publics responses, whether written or performed. The creators will further the dialogue on navigating boundaries between routine compliance and creative expression in our daily expressions, inviting us to consider how instructions could actually free us, embrace subjectivity, and foster spontaneity and joy in our everyday lives.
When: 17-26 January 2025
Out of Office: In Conversation with SAM Residencies
What it is: A look at new modes of working and thinking beyond the residency studios, where dynamic and collaborative nature of processes and research based methods drive the work of SAM residents of 2024. Objects, textural materials and media works developed by these SAM residents bring together projects expanded upon during their time in-residence.
When: Fridays to Sundays, 17 to 26 January 2025
