Archive – Exhibitions & Screenings
Other Highlights From 2025
A KIND OF MAGIC
MAY-JUN 2025
Lower Galleries
A Kind of Magic by Juliana Tan is a photographic journey through a city that no longer exists. Traversing an interplay between imagined and experienced realities, the images serve as a portal to a temporal landscape that has been irrevocably altered by external forces. Rooted in the artist’s personal displacement from 1998 Indonesia, a period marked by significant societal unrest and racial tension, the work transforms personal narrative into a resonant exploration of universal themes: displacement, remembrance, and the enduring quest to reclaim our own story. Curated by Ng Hui Hsien.
Related events
Film Club: Passages of Memory & The Imaginary, 4 Jun
Artist & Curator Talk, 14 Jun
ART:DIS MY FAVOURITE THINGS EXHIBITION
JUL 2025
Chapel Gallery & Lower Galleries
This exhibition is part of ART:DIS Pocket Fest, a mini arts festival with a big heart. Inspired by the beloved tune from The Sound of Music, 31 young artists with disabilities invite you to see the world as they do—through objects, themes, and ideas that hold personal significance and spark joy. This spirit of celebration, coupled with the artists’ playful and thoughtful approaches, infuses the exhibition with a sense of warmth and gladness. Despite the formal training they have undergone, the works maintain a sense of spontaneity and sincerity that captivates audiences, reminding us that art, at its core, is an expression of the things we love. My Favourite Things offers an invitation to pause, reflect, and appreciate the beauty of everyday objects and memories.
ART:DIS Pocket Fest
JUL 2025
Chapel Gallery, Lower Galleries & Courtyard
Step into a vibrant celebration of creativity and community at ART:DIS Pocket Fest – a mini arts festival with a big heart. Open to all ages, this inclusive event features hands-on workshops, exhibitions, music performances, and live art activities. Led by over 55 artists with disabilities, come make art and discover how creativity can build bridges across abilities. With no experience needed, no rules to follow, everyone is welcome to explore, connect and express freely at Pocket Fest – where everyone’s an artist and every moment is a chance to be part of something meaningful!
THE AWE-DINARY
MAY-JUN 2025
Courtyard
By student photographers from Pathlight School, the show offering us a glimpse into how they see the world—with curiosity, joy, and a deep appreciation for the everyday. Through a year-long workshop, the students explored various photographic techniques and visual storytelling methods, culminating in this small curation of images. They documented their surroundings, their school life, and their personal interests, capturing moments that are both personal and universally relatable.
Pathlight School is the first autism-focused school in Singapore to offer the national curriculum together with life readiness skills. Student photographers include: Chau Wei Le / Chwee Zhan Wei Nicholas / Darren Gan / Elizabeth Ma / Zhou Ya / Elvis Emmanuel Ezekiel M. / Eshan Kashif Bin Mohammad Darwis / Ethan Khor Weng Kai / How Wei Rean / Jarett Chua Yang Yi / Lai Yin Jo / Lim Jun Rong Ethan / Ling Wen Yan Jovan / Low Jun Chuan Javier / Ng Wei Yi Alonzo / Sean Lu Rui An / Shawn Ang Shang Qin (Hong Shang Qin) / Stacia Teo / Tan Guan Qi / Zachary Benjamin
MARG1N MAGAZINE ISSUE 2 LAUNCH - TRACES
MAY 2025
Platform
Launch of MARG1N Magazine’s second issue: Traces. An annual Southeast Asian film magazine by writers, filmmakers, and artists, their second issue honors memories and gazes that drift through Singapore and Vietnam. Through essays, visual scripts, archives, and more, TRACES unearths the flotsam, jetsam, and derelict that churns throughout or beneath today’s cinematic currents.
The launch will include a screening of three short films (Yangtze Scribbler by Tan Pin Pin, Landscape Series #1 by Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Visions from My Scalp by Mark Chua & Lam Li Shuen), a panel discussion with the MARG1N team and some of the writers of issue 2 Tracey Toh, Sasha Han, Alex Lee, and TN Đan, followed by a DJ set by filmmaker Daniel Hui.
AWESOME ART COMPETITION 2024 SHOWCASE
MAY 2025
Courtyard
Running for its second year in 2024, The AWESOME Art Competition is a highlight of Project Awesome’s annual programming to share the inspiring stories of the honourees in the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame (SWHF). The event is by the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO). As the umbrella body for women’s organisations in Singapore, the SCWO serves as a unifying force, bringing together diverse voices and perspectives to champion gender equality. Since its formation in March 1980 with 14 member organisations till today with more than 60 member organisations representing over 600,000 women in Singapore, SCWO strives to create a society where women have equal opportunities and rights in all aspects of life through advocacy, education and empowerment.
CINEMOVEMENT SHOWCASE 2025
MAR 2025
Chapel Gallery
Cinemovement is an artist-run platform that hosts interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, performance-makers, and media practitioners.
Part one: air laut air tawar, a a presentation of jee chan’s film bendungan. Incubated at Cinemovement Lab 2020 in Solo, the film meanders along the Solo river, drifts through the Maluku archipelago and floods into the North Sea of the Netherlands.
Part Two: Cinemovement Salon (EXT), a spotlight of works from the artist-run platform’s annual flagship programmes from Lab I (Hanoi, 2015) to Lab VII (Tokyo, 2024).
DANCING ALONE (DON'T LEAVE ME)
JAN 2025
Digital Billboard at Fortune Centre & Wilkie Edge
Dancing Alone (Don’t Leave Me) by Susie Wong is a series of onscreen vignettes of solitary women dancing by themselves, for themselves. The work is inspired by a scene from the film, The King and I, where the female protagonist says, “No woman would dance alone when a man is looking at her.” In Wong’s work, the dancer is both the centre of attention and wholly indifferent; her occupation of the screen gives momentary respite and joy.
Yet her ability to escape the gaze of others is constrained by her own longing to be seen. Exaggerated by a highly visible medium, these strange tensions speak of Wong’s long term preoccupation with romance and agency in relation to cinematic tropes, and the complex negotiations that ensue.
This work is curated for Urban Screens, which is presented by Objectifs as part of Singapore Art Week 2025, supported by the National Arts Council and Plan B Media.
PHENOMENOLOGY OF LIGHT AND RHYTHMS OF THE EARTH
JAN-MAR 2025
Lower Galleries
Zen Teh (visual artist) and SueKi Yee (dance) collaborate in this project, delving into Singapore’s urban context, exploring discourses on light and urbanity through multidisciplinary means: soundscapes, multimedia data translation, movement, and tactile forms. This provides multiple entry points into the research as well as the interpretation, creation, and presentation of the data. Through artistic means, they are interested in opening up a space where people can take time to process and discuss their embodied perspectives on light and darkness, and how these ever co-existing elements are inextricably linked to life rhythms, memories, pollution, urban development, safety and surveillance, environmental changes, accessibility of energy, and volatile global political states. Part of Singapore Art Week 2025.