July isn’t Singapore Art Week. But it isn’t quiet either.
Five Gillman Barracks galleries are running simultaneously this month — Tang, RKFA, FOST, Ota, and Mizuma — with several shows closing before the 20th. If you’re looking for the best things to do in Singapore this month, check out these new and ongoing art exhibitions around the city.
New art exhibitions this month
Singapore’s gallery calendar in September skews small and DIY rather than blockbuster.
No major museum openings this month, but a handful of genuinely new shows and one-off events worth knowing about — a Korean artist’s first Singapore solo, an artist activation inside a stone tile factory days before it shuts, and 200 independent illustrators taking over a Suntec convention hall for a weekend.
Here’s what’s actually opening this September, not just what’s still hanging around from October.
1. Peter Draw: Love Can Happen Anywhere
The Singaporean artist behind 80 billion GIPHY views finally gets a gallery show of his own.
Peter Draw is best known for Ai & Aiko, the pair of characters that earned him GIPHY’s Artist of the Year title in 2021. Love Can Happen Anywhere is his first solo gallery exhibition, with more than 40 works spread across 10,000 square feet.
Expect large canvases where Ai & Aiko are drawn onto photographs of places around the world, as well as mirror-polished steel cut-outs of his most-viewed GIFs. The last room holds 100 hand-drawn self-portraits of Ai, made as letters to his young son.
Date: 24 October-29 December 2026
Location: Whitestone Gallery, 39 Keppel Road, #05-03/06, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sun: 11am-7pm
2. Natee Utarit: A Midsummer Night’s Dream / The Artificial Lunatic’s Diary
A jockey riding a swan is one of the dreams Natee Utarit has decided to paint.
The Thai painter has been keeping a dream notebook since 2025, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream / The Artificial Lunatic’s Diary is pulled straight from it. Gloves, swans and arrow-pierced figures keep recurring, all painted in a classical European academic style.
The show asks where dreaming stops and waking starts, and whether that line still holds when algorithms and social media keep the dream going after you close your eyes.
Date: 3 October-7 November 2026
Location: Richard Koh Fine Art, Blk 47 Malan Road, #01-26, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109444
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sat: 11am-7pm
Sunday: Closed
3. Jemana Murti: Source Code
Balinese artist Jemana Murti scans culturally significant forms, then 3D prints and AI-manipulates them so that distortions show up in the surface.
The glitches in Source Code, his second solo show with the gallery, point to what technology can’t quite reproduce about the cultural and spiritual weight of the originals.
Date: 1-25 October 2026
Location: Gajah Gallery, 39 Keppel Road, #03-04, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri: 11am-7pm
Sat-Sun: 12-6pm
4. Lauren Wilhelm: Liminality
Western Australian painter Lauren Wilhelm makes her Asia debut with a solo show of work no one has seen yet.
Wilhelm pairs Renaissance-style portraiture with everyday suburban life, painting contemplative figures alongside animals and landscapes. Liminality takes its name from the idea of being in between, with new paintings on transience, memory and the threshold between the remembered and the imagined.
It’s the last big gallery opening of the month, so it’s the one to save for the final week of October.
Date: 30 October-15 November 2026
Location: REDSEA Gallery, Block 9 Dempsey Road, #01-10, Dempsey Hill, Singapore 247697
Opening hours: 11am-8pm
5. Fan Chang Tien: Rhythm of the Southern Brush
Singapore’s ink art scene owes a lot to Fan Chang Tien, and National Gallery is laying out exactly why.
The retrospective follows his move from China to Thailand and then Singapore in 1956 across more than 70 works, from paintings and poetry to seal carvings and archival material. It looks at him as a scholar-artist and teacher as well as a master of the Chinese literati tradition.
In addition to the exhibition itself, look forward to an erhu and dance performance responding to his ink paintings on 17 October.
Date: 16 October 2026-31 January 2027
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Road, #01-01, Singapore 178957
Opening hours: 10am-7pm
Admission: General admission ticket required (free for Singaporeans/PRs)
6. teamLab: Infinite Existence
This free teamLab show is the closest you’ll get to the collective’s Gardens by the Bay museum before it opens in 2028.
The eight works are built around “ultrasubjective space”, a way of depicting space borrowed from premodern East Asian scrolls and screens. One of them, Universe of Water Particles – Gold, is a virtual waterfall made from hundreds of thousands of simulated water particles, and you’ll also find leaping tigers and a medieval city struck by plague.
Date: 19 September-8 November 2026
Location: Supper House, 37 Keppel Road, #04-02, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening hours:
Mon-Wed: Closed
Thu-Sat: 12-7pm
Sunday: 12-5pm
Admission: Free
7. In the Ether
ArtScience Museum’s free festival is back for a third year, and this time it’s about technology that looks after you.
This edition is titled The Rise of Sanctuary Technologies and looks at tools and experiments built to expand individual agency and strengthen collective wellbeing. The programme includes interactive artworks, participatory installations, talks and workshops, with contributions from non-profit Vensa and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.
Date: 3 October-6 December 2026
Location: ArtScience Museum, 6 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018974
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri-Sat: 10am-9pm
Sunday: 10am-7pm
Admission: Free
8. Singapore History Gallery
The National Museum’s flagship gallery is back after its first full revamp since 2006.
The new version covers more than 700 years of Singapore’s history, from the 14th century to the present. A decommissioned 1978 Ang Mo Kio HDB lift and the grand piano Zubir Said used to write Majulah Singapura are among the objects on display.
Here’s how you get in: Singapore Odyssea, an immersive digital prelude, comes first, and an RFID wristband lets you adopt one of nine companions inspired by local fauna. The Stories of Everyday festival, with performances, a design market and workshops, runs until 18 October.
Date: Open from 10 October 2026
Location: National Museum of Singapore, 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897
Opening hours:
Daily: 10am-7pm
Admission: Free for Singaporeans/PRs; $18 for others
9. Haridas Contemporary: PULSE 2
Seven artists born as far apart as 1953 and 2000 share the same room, and the gap barely shows.
PULSE 2 is Haridas Contemporary’s second biennial check-in on where Singapore and Indonesian contemporary art actually stands, following on from the inaugural edition in 2024. This round brings together Aiman, Cynthia Delaney Suwito, Dana Lam, Farizwan Fajari, Genevieve Leong, Joey Leung and Suliswanto Urubingwaru, spanning three decades of practice rather than a single generation’s take.
Date: 12 September-11 October 2026
Location: Haridas Contemporary, 37 Keppel Road #04-01F, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089064
Opening hours:
Mon-Tue: Closed
Wed: By appointment
Thu-Sat: 12-7pm
Sun: 12-5pm
10. Cuturi Gallery: Two of a Kind I
Two very different ways of painting Singapore, hung in the same room on purpose.
Shen Jiaqi builds her canvases from the city’s architecture and industrial machinery, letting urban vegetation creep into the gaps between memory and the present. Israfil Ridhwan works the opposite register entirely — oil-painted, poster-like figures against warm backgrounds, drawing on Frida Kahlo and the Renaissance to work through grief, love and self-criticism. Two of a Kind I puts the two side by side for the first time.
Date: 26 September-7 November 2026
Location: Cuturi Gallery, 61 Aliwal Street, Singapore 199937
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sat: 12-7pm
Sunday: Closed
11. Sacred Caves: Dunhuang, Buddhism, and the Silk Road
The Silk Road’s most important Buddhist cave complex has never made it to Southeast Asia — until this September.
For over a thousand years, the oasis city of Dunhuang sat at a crossroads linking China and Central Asia, and its Mogao Caves became one of the world’s most important centres of Buddhist art. Carved into cliffs at the edge of the Gobi Desert between the 4th and 14th centuries, the caves are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Asian Civilisations Museum recreates several cave interiors at life size, paired with paintings and sculptures, plus manuscripts and textiles that trace the trade and religious exchange along the route. It’s the first time this material has been shown anywhere in Southeast Asia.
Date: September 2026-March 2027
Location: Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri: 10am-9pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-7pm
12. Whitestone Gallery: Counterweight — The Systems of Two
Two real-life artist couples turn their marriages into physics experiments for Whitestone Gallery’s relaunch show.
Counterweight: The Systems of Two pairs Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin with Wang Ruobing and Chen Sai Hua Kuan, curated by Tamares Goh around a single idea: partnership as a lever, balancing enough weight to carry the bigger issues each couple tackles alone.
Chow and Lin show 42 works and two new materials for them, ceramics in Decentralized Value Systems (2026) and embroidered textiles in Blink, where AI-generated food images get stitched over with questions their two children helped write. Meanwhile, Ruobing & Sai’s from Tide… sound check presses field recordings from the sea onto vinyl records made from marine plastic debris collected off Singapore’s shores.
Date: 16 August-17 October 2026
Location: Whitestone Gallery, 39 Keppel Road, #05-03/06, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sun: 11am-7pm
13. Art Remembers
History gets rewritten by the people who lived it, or their descendants, at National Gallery’s newest show.
Opening 21 August, Art Remembers explores how artists across Singapore and Southeast Asia engage with archives to reframe histories and preserve memories that official records tend to skip. New commissions sit alongside National Collection works by artists who intervene in existing records and build new forms of archives, including through technology.
Date: 21 August-18 October 2026
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Road, #01-01, Singapore 178957
Opening hours:
Sun-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri-Sat: 10am-10pm
14. Neha Vedpathak: Land, Body, Spirit
Neha Vedpathak doesn’t paint paper — she plucks it, one fibre at a time, until it turns into something closer to lace.
The Indian-born, Detroit-based artist spends weeks hand-plucking sheets of Japanese paper into sculptural wall reliefs, turning a flat material into something with real depth and shadow. Land, Body, Spirit is her first show with Sundaram Tagore’s Singapore space, and it runs through the length of Singapore Gallery Month and beyond.
Date: 15 August-17 October 2026
Location: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 5 Lock Road, #01-05, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108933
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Fri: 11am-6pm
Sat: 11am-7pm
Sunday: Closed
15. Art Company ImA: Beautiful in Her Garden
Korean artist Moon Seon Mee’s Singapore solo debut opens with a live Korean drum dance performance, which tells you this isn’t going to be a quiet opening.
Beautiful in Her Garden uses flowers, pearls, animals and female figures as a kind of private symbol system for how emotions shift over time. The gallery itself is tiny and easy to miss inside Tanjong Pagar Distripark, which is exactly why it’s worth the detour.
Date: 5 September-11 October 2026
Location: Art Company ImA, 37 Keppel Road #04-01B, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089064
Opening hours:
Mon-Wed: By appointment
Thu-Sun: 1-6pm
Ongoing art exhibitions to catch before they end
16. Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Art from the Louvre
Around 100 Louvre masterpieces from three Islamic empires, many leaving Paris for the first time — and Singapore got them before anywhere else in Southeast Asia.
The Asian Civilisations Museum brings together works spanning the Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman empires at their 16th–18th century height, drawn from the Louvre’s Islamic art collection and joined by 30 ACM objects. Southeast Asian pieces are woven throughout to trace the trade routes and diplomatic crosscurrents that linked these worlds. The exhibition runs all the way to January 2027, spread across Level 2 and Level 3.
Free for Singaporeans and PRs.
Admission: Free for Singaporeans/PRs; from $25 for others
Date: 19 June 2026-24 January 2027
Location: Asian Civilisations Museum, 1 Empress Place, Singapore 179555
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri: 10am-9pm
Sat-Sun: 10am-7pm
17. F1 Exhibition Singapore
Six cities, 1.3 million visitors, and Singapore is the first stop in Asia — opening three months before lights out at Marina Bay.
F1 exhibition runs across seven purpose-built rooms at Gardens by the Bay, combining historic and modern race cars, racing simulators, unseen archival footage, and artefacts spanning 76 years of the sport. It’s the same format that sold out in London, Toronto, Melbourne, Madrid, Amsterdam, and Buenos Aires.
Tickets from $49 for adults, $40 for ages 13–17, and $29 for ages 5–12.
Date: From 23 July 2026
Location: Gardens by the Bay Eastern Greenway, 18 Marina Gardens Drive, Singapore 018953
Opening hours: 11am-9pm
18. Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath
ArtScience Museum and OceanX make their world premiere together in Singapore — and the deep-sea footage alone is worth the ticket.
Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath is designed as a descent through five zones, from sunlit coral reefs to the ocean’s deepest reaches, built around footage captured by OceanX for Blue Planet II and beyond. Among the commissioned works is Seeing Echoes in the Mind of the Whale, a three-screen installation by London collective Marshmallow Laser Feast.
Date: 6 June–1 November 2026
Location: ArtScience Museum, 6 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018974
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri-Sat: 10am-9pm
Sun: 10am-7pm
19. Singapop! 60 Years of Singapore Pop Culture
Dick Lee built Singapore pop culture. Now he’s curated an entire museum exhibition around what it actually is.
Singapop! traces 60 years of Singaporean cultural identity through music, food, fashion, and film — five chapters that track how immigration and collision produced something that couldn’t have come from anywhere else. It’s interactive (each visitor gets a wrist tag that tracks their journey through the show) and designed to be revisited.
Date: 21 March–16 August 2026
Location: ArtScience Museum, 6 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018974
Opening hours:
Mon-Thu: 10am-7pm
Fri-Sat: 10am-9pm
Sun: 10am-7pm
20. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s first major Southeast Asia exhibition — 63 works across 11 series alongside 14 fossils from his personal collection, laid out as a mandala the artist designed himself.
Date: 29 May-4 October 2026
Location: 39 Keppel Rd, #01-02, Singapore 089065
Opening hours: 10am-7pm
21. After the Monsoon: Art & War in Southeast Asia
National Gallery’s next blockbuster reframes WWII and the Vietnam War through Southeast Asian eyes.
Opening 22 May 2026 at National Gallery Singapore, After the Monsoon gathers 280 works across painting, drawing, photography, installation and interactive art to re-examine how the region has documented and challenged dominant war histories. The title borrows from the monsoon’s wet-and-dry cycle as a metaphor for conflict, destruction, and renewal.
Date: 22 May-18 October 2026
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Rd, Singapore 178957
Opening hours: 10am-7pm daily
22. Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise
The National Gallery’s boldest recent show — women artists across Southeast Asia refusing the given options.
Fear No Power brings together works by women artists from the region whose practices ask what different futures might look like if they were built on different foundations. The exhibition spans historical and contemporary work, placing figures from the twentieth century in conversation with artists working today. Free for Singaporeans and PRs. On until November.
Admission: Free for Singaporeans/PRs; standard admission for others
Dates: Until 15 Nov
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Road
Opening hours: Daily 10am–7pm
23. Temple by Tuan Andrew Nguyen
One of the most powerful video installations at the National Gallery right now — war, memory, and the objects that survive.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s practice has long circled colonial violence, memory, and the art objects that outlast conflict. Temple distils that work into a single sustained installation — demanding, patient, and quietly devastating. If you only see one video work at the National Gallery this month, make it this one. Free for Singaporeans and PRs. On until November.
Admission: Free for Singaporeans/PRs; standard admission for others
Dates: Until 10 Nov
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Road
Opening hours: Daily 10am–7pm
24. Singapore Odyssea: A Journey Through Time
Be one of the first to check out National Museum of Singapore’s newest exhibition this weekend.
Singapore Odyssea: A Journey Through Time, an immersive gallery filled with breathtaking light shows, moving animations, and interactive floor projections that respond to your every step. The centrepiece? A glowing suspended LED globe and a cinematic digital waterfall that parts as you approach.
But it’s not just an exhibition. Before entering, you’ll get to put on a personalised wristband that glows and interacts with the space around you, adding a whimsical touch to your photos.
Free admission.
Date: From 8 August 2025
Location: 93 Stamford Rd, Singapore 178897
Opening hours: 10:30am-8:30pm
25. Harry Potter: Visions of Magic in Singapore
Immerse yourself in the world of Harry Potter at one of the most popular attractions in Sentosa.
Tickets are priced at $49 for adults and $39 for children, available for purchase on their official website.
Location: WEAVE, Level B1, Resorts World Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway, Sentosa Island, 098269
Opening hours: 11am-10pm
26. Van Gogh Inside 2026: Love, Vincent
Vincent’s most famous works wrap around you, floor-to-ceiling, in a one-hour immersive at Parkview Square.
Van Gogh Inside drops you into the world of the post-impressionist through projection, classical scoring and a narrator who walks you through his life across 19th-century Netherlands and France.
The full experience runs about an hour — roughly 35 minutes of immersive screening plus 15 minutes of highlights and hands-on installations.
Tickets from $12.5.
Date: From 25 April 2026
Location: 3rd Floor, 600 North Bridge Road, Parkview Square, Singapore 188778
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri: 10am-7pm
Saturday: 10am-8pm
Sunday: 10am-7pm
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