Batik Nyonyas: Three Generations of Art and Entrepreneurship

Peranakan Museum

11 October 2024 to 31 August 2025

Daily 10am to 7pm; Fridays 10am to 9pm

Ticketed

$6 for Singaporeans and PRs and $18 for Foreign Residents and Tourists; Children below 6 years and below get in free

Peranakan Museum

https://www.nhb.gov.sg/peranakanmuseum/whatson/exhibitions/batik-nyonyas

Synopsis

Family, art, and entrepreneurship converge in the story of three visionary Peranakan women from Indonesia – Nyonya Oeij Soen King, her daughter-in-law Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing, and her granddaughter Jane Hendromartono. From the 1890s to 1980s, they produced impressive batiks in the renowned batik centre of Pekalongan on Java’s north coast.

This exhibition explores the lives and works of these women, revealing how each became a batik master in her own right, and how they responded to the rapid political, cultural, and economic changes of their times to run a business that produced great art.

Exhibition

Becoming Lim Tze Peng

National Gallery Singapore

25 Oct 2024 to 23 Mar 2025

Ticketed

National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level 4 Gallery

Explore the captivating journey of Lim Tze Peng, Singapore’s oldest living artist, at National Gallery Singapore’s first solo show on the centenarian artist.