Exhibition
Adrian Tan
17 January 2026 to 1 February 2026
Free admission
Synopsis
The Strange Archive presents speculative artworks that reimagine the archive as a living, contested space rather than a static repository. To make strange is to see again: here, the archive signals a site of care, continuity, and labour that remains porous and reflexive, shaped by omission and desire. This first iteration, developed for ArtWeek 2026 at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, lays the groundwork for a long-term curatorial and research platform exploring how forgotten stories, unrealised projects, and obscured memories may be reactivated through exhibition making.Public Programmes
The public programmes accompanying The Strange Archive invite audiences to engage directly with the exhibition’s central questions about memory, erasure, speculation, and the politics and art of archiving.
Exhibition Opening
17 January 2026 · 6:00 PM
Celebrate the launch of The Strange Archive, where archives are reimagined as living, evolving spaces shaped by memory, omission, and speculation.
Drawing Dialogues: Stories of Decay
18 January 2026 · 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM · Labrador Park · Meeting Point: Labrador Park MRT Exit A
Free Admission · Registration Required · Registration: tinyurl.com/storiesofdecay
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Gather at Labrador Park for a guided walk led by Superlative Futures (Dr. Wong Zi Hao and Liu Dian Cong) through Berlayer Creek, an ecosystem where decay, decomposition, and regeneration take place in quiet cycles. Participants will return by bus to Tanjong Pagar Distripark to create drawings and short written reflections inspired by their observations. Open to participants of all experience levels.
Curator’s Tour: Making The Archive Strange
18 & 25 January 2026 · 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Join curator Adrian Tan and artists to uncover stories, omissions, and speculative reimaginings behind the works.
Panel Discussion: Art, Archives & Speculative Futures
24 January 2026 · 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Artists, historians, and archivists discuss how reimagining archives opens new ways of understanding the past and imagining the future.
Artist Dialogue: Singapore Art Archive Project
25 January 2026 · 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Artist-archivist Koh Nguang How shares insights into Chua Mia Tee’s National Language Class and Lee Boon Wan’s Portrait of a Lady, reflecting on his archival practice and the process of identifying the central figure that connects both paintings.
Exhibition
19sixtyfive
23 Jan 2026 to 31 Jan 2026
Free admission
I Saw You is a multi-part series exploring perception through sound, light, and movement, inviting audiences to experience the unstable edges of seeing, hearing, and attention in shifting immersive environments.
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.
Exhibition
Tanoto Art Foundation
21 Jan 2026 to 1 Mar 2026
Free admission
Tanoto Art Foundation will stage its first major exhibition, opening on 21 January 2026 during Singapore Art Week. On view through 1 March 2026, the exhibition will explore artistic practices that center presence, tactile attention, and the rhythms of the body. Curated by Xiaoyu Weng, TAF Artistic Director, the exhibition will bring together pieces from the Tanoto Family Collection, as well as loaned and newly commissioned artworks. Over twenty artists will be in dialogue, including Trisha Baga, Lotus L. Kang, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Tarik Kiswanson, Heidi Lau, Yin Xiuzhen, and Anicka Yi, among others.
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Exhibition
NTU Museum
21 Jan 2026 to 3 Apr 2026
Free admission
What happens when past and present, virtual and physical, imagined and lived converge? This exhibition explores how intersections shape belonging, connection and identity through the conceptual lens of memory.
