Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Singapore
16 January 2026 to 8 March 2026
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM daily, closed on PHs
Ticketed ($8)
Synopsis
Singapore Pioneer Artists Exhibition revisits the foundations of Singapore’s modern art through a critical rethinking of the term “pioneer.” Bringing together seminal works from key figures of the Nanyang period and beyond, the exhibition reframes pioneering not as a fixed generation or style, but as an open historical position shaped by cross-cultural exchange, migration, and lived experience, revealing how modernity in Singapore laid the groundwork for contemporary artistic thought.
Artists:
Chen Wen Hsi, Cheong Soo Pieng, Liu Kang, Chen Chong Swee, Lee Man Fong, Sun Yee, Choo Keng Kwang, Chen Cheng Mei, Chua Mia Tee, and Tan Swie Hian
Exhibition
ShanghART Singapore
17 Jan 2026 to 1 Mar 2026
Free admission
Immortal Words :: 字基 splices poetry with genetic code. If trauma survives generations through genes, might poetry too? DNA nano-sculptures, capsule machines, and microfluidics form this participatory work.
Exhibition
Art Outreach Singapore
16 Jan 2026 to 1 Feb 2026
Free admission
Cut, Ground observes Singapore’s tree-trimming rituals as gestures of care and regeneration, using moving image and installation to contemplate the city’s cycles of removal, transformation, and return.
Exhibition
Byra Beauty
16 Jan 2026 to 1 Feb 2026
Free admission
An immersive exhibition by Lee Wei Lieh, transforming Byra Beauty’s space into a sanctuary with lighted layered masking tape art, inviting calm, solitude and quiet reflection during Singapore Art Week.
Exhibition
Feelers x School for Poetic Computation
22 Jan 2026 to 31 Jan 2026
Free admission
Play close to the metal of the machine and critically engage with contemporary technologies at Ground Loops, an exhibition and experimental workshops presented by artists based across Singapore and New York.
