Exhibition
Gunalan Nadarajan and Roopesh Sitharan
22 January 2026 to 1 February 2026
11:00AM - 7:00PM
Free admission
Synopsis
Chapalang is a random and seemingly chaotic commingling of things haphazardly put together, and in this exhibition exemplifies cultural strategies and attitudes associated with 'making do'; making one's own the heterogeneity of technologies and things we inhabit. These creative reconfigurings and vernacular appropriations of technologies in Southeast Asia are gathered here to speculate on the radical potential of such cultural practices to unsettle and reimagine our relationship to the technological.
Artists
Artist Panel Discussion
22 January 2026
7:30pm - 9pm
Free admission, register here
Participating artists: Corinne de San Jose, Haris Abadi, Witaya Junma, Mira Rizki Kurnia, Tisya Wong, Fendi Mazalan, Yang Jie, Hoo Fan Chon, Giang Nguyen Hoang, Margaret Tan
Haris Abadi
Giang Nguyen Hoang
Hoo Fan Chon
Witaya Junma
Mira Rizki Kurnia
Fendi Mazalan
Corinne de San Jose
Margaret Tan
Tisya Wong
Yang Jie
Curators
Gunalan Nadarajan
Roopesh Sitharan
Public programmes
22 January 2026
Free admission, register here
Participating artists: Corinne de San Jose, Haris Abadi, Witaya Junma, Mira Rizki Kurnia, Tisya Wong, Fendi Mazalan, Yang Jie, Hoo Fan Chon, Giang Nguyen Hoang, Margaret Tan
The artists from chapalang will talk about their works in discussion with curators, Gunalan Nadarajan and Roopesh Sitharan.
Hacking Readymades Workshop by Haris Abadi
24 January 2026
5pm - 7pm
Free admisssion, register here
Participating artists: Haris Abadi
Hacking Readymades examines the transformation of play into form, and form into system. Using a single everyday object (the clothespin), participants assemble makeshift structures that recall the improvisations of childhood and the inventiveness of the everyday. Instead of translating these constructions into full instruction manuals, participants will design the cover or poster of a hypothetical manual — the front-facing image, title, and visual identity that suggest how the object might be circulated, taught, or reproduced. This shifts the focus from technical instruction to the way creativity is framed, packaged, and made shareable. Through this process, the workshop explores how casual, playful constructions become formalised through naming, design, and visual language — turning play into a system of representation and the object into a communicable idea.
Curatorial Walkthrough by Gunalan Nadarajan and Roopesh Sitharan
25th January 2026, 11am - 12pm
31 January 2026, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
An Improvised Ensembl-age Workshop by Yang Jie
31 January, 2026
5pm - 7pm
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Participating artists: Yang Jie
This workshop explores hacking, assemblage, and collective performance as methods for giving objects a second life. Developed within the context of Chapalang, an exhibition embracing messiness, hybridity, and the productive mixing of forms, the artist encourages participants to bring objects and technologies that are beloved, worn, damaged, or aged—items that carry history and memory, yet whose original purpose has shifted or faded. Through simple mechanical and electronic interventions, participants experiment with how these objects can be coaxed into movement: swaying, tapping, rotating, trembling, colliding. The workshop culminates in a collective kinetic soundscape installation: an improvised ensembl-age of misfit objects moving, chiming, and “dance” together; recovering new possibilities and meanings for these objects that were considered damaged or obsolete to collaboratively discover new purpose, uses and meaning-lessness.
Exhibition
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
14 Sep 2025 to 1 Feb 2026
Free admission
Through mixed media and interactions, The Seminar - Don't Teach Art invites art as a catalyst for exploration and open dialogue.
Exhibition
Gajah Gallery
21 Jan 2026 to 28 Feb 2026
Free admission
This 30th anniversary retrospective traces the arc of the Gajah Gallery’s history, and the entanglements of ideas and relationships that have shaped its sensibility.
Le Shan Cafe
10 Jan 2026 to 14 Feb 2026
Free admission
This is the third solo exhibition of Kumiko Matsushima, a Japanese contemporary artist based in Singapore.
Exhibition
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
24 Jan 2026 to 31 Jan 2026
Free admission
These open studio sessions present the ongoing research conducted by our current Artists-in-Residence within STAR RESIDENCIES - a programme that positions scientific research at the core of artistic inspiration.
