Exhibition
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
15 January 2026 to 8 March 2026
All Day
Free admission
Synopsis
Rotan Rattan: Meditations by Artists Chen Yanyun and Dave Lim reflect on how childhood discipline is remembered within Singapore's culture of over-compliance, where hardship is believed to cultivate virtue and shape obedience. For many, these painful lessons are later softened by humour, a way of soothing fear and transforming compliance into resilience. This exhibition explores how childhood pain lingers in the body, and how such narratives might be acknowledged, healed, and reimaged.
ArtistsChen Yanyun, Dave Lim
Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Singapore
16 Jan 2026 to 8 Mar 2026
Ticketed ($8)
Singapore Pioneer Artists Exhibition reconsiders “pioneer” as an open, evolving position, tracing how cross-cultural modern practices in Singapore shaped artistic modernity and laid the foundations for contemporary expression.
Exhibition
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
18 Jan 2026 to 1 Feb 2026
Free admission
The exhibition presents speculative climate futures drawn from Kent Chan's tropical imaginary. Featuring a new commission, it frames a world of expanding tropics through the lens of lived human experience.
Exhibition
NOTHINGART
14 Dec 2025 to 31 Jan 2026
Free admission
A cross-cultural exhibition showcasing artworks created by children from rural Yunnan and Singapore. PureView highlights creativity, empathy and the transformative power of art in community building.
Exhibition
ArtScience Museum
13 Sep 2025 to 22 Feb 2026
Ticketed
Another World Is Possible explores how cinema, design, art and human imagination critically shape collective, resilient and hopeful visions of the future.
