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 August.
1. Audemars Piguet: Perspectives on Time
Four rooms, four different ways of looking at time.
Looking Back and Beyond traces Audemars Piguet’s history back to its 1875 founding in Le Brassus through rare archival timepieces, while Guided by the Cosmos covers the house’s astronomical complications with a live demonstration of one of its most intricate calendar mechanisms.
The Beauty Within gets up close with openworking technique across vintage and current designs, and Giving Time a Voice demonstrates one of watchmaking’s rarest complications — a chiming mechanism — in person.
Sessions are limited, so register in advance at bit.ly/ap-perspectivesontime. Walk-ins are welcome, subject to availability.
Date: 10–13 September 2026
Location: National Museum of Singapore (Gallery Theatre), 93 Stamford Rd, Singapore 178897
2. Art Seasons: From Landscape to Abstraction — The Visual Language of Than Htay
When does a landscape stop being a landscape and turn into pure colour? This talk sits with that exact question for two hours.
Held alongside Than Htay’s solo show Untitled: Memory and the Reimagining of Homeland, the session traces the Myanmar artist’s shift from figurative scenes toward geometric abstraction, and how colour keeps his otherwise disparate paintings visually tied together. Part of Singapore Gallery Month, free to attend, no registration needed.
Date: 6 September 2026, 2-4pm
Location: Art Seasons, 50 Genting Lane #03-02, Cideco Industrial Complex, Singapore 349558
Admission: Free
3. Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery: Assembled World — The Evolution of Collage and Pop Art
Collage didn’t just influence Pop Art — this talk argues it built the entire visual vocabulary Pop Art later borrowed.
Assembled World: The Evolution of Collage and Pop Art traces how cut-and-paste techniques evolved from early 20th-century experiments into the bold, visually loud world of Pop Art, following artists across cultures who reassembled found images and cultural icons into something new. Free to attend, but RSVP first since space is limited to the gallery floor.
Date: 11 September 2026, 5-6:30pm
Location: Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, 30 Beach Road #01-01, Singapore 189763
Admission: Free (RSVP required)
4. 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
5. FOST Gallery: Grace Tan — 10cm square, more or less
Grace Tan is turning a stone tile factory that’s about to shut for good into a one-morning collaborative artwork, and the visitors are the labour.
Part of her ongoing 5cm square, more or less project, this site-specific activation invites participants to arrange stone fragments found on-site into a 10cm grid across the factory floor, as the land prepares to return to the state. The process doubles as a quiet study of how land, labour and industry get reorganised by systems bigger than any one factory. The session is filmed, so RSVP with that in mind.
Date: 12 September 2026
Location: Tien Seng Marble Pte Ltd, 38 Sungei Kadut Street 1, Singapore 729343
Opening hours: 10am-12:45pm
Admission: $15 (free for Patrons Pass holders); RSVP required
6. cizucu: Photo Poster Project — Touch
One photo, one afternoon, one wall of A2 prints — this is the most low-key art show on this list and also the easiest to just walk into.
cizucu is a global photography community that turns up in cities one weekend at a time, and Singapore’s edition runs on the theme Touch. Participating photographers each submit a single portrait-orientation image, printed and pinned up as posters for a four-hour window. Viewing is free, and if you’re one of the photographers, you get to take your poster home at the end.
Date: 12 September 2026
Location: Prinsep Gallery, Selegie Arts Centre, 30 Selegie Road, Singapore 188351
Opening hours: 12-4pm
Admission: Free
7. artcommune gallery: Textures of Longing and Belonging
Tung Yue Nang paints Singapore the way you’d remember it after a long walk home, not the way a tourist board would.
Textures of Longing and Belonging, his solo debut at artcommune, brings together around 15 works made between 2018 and 2026, tracing the same streets — Chinatown, Clarke Quay, Joo Chiat — through shifting light and years of change. Curator Yang Jye Ru has arranged the show so the paintings read almost like a diary of the city rather than a single body of work.
Date: 19-30 September 2026
Location: artcommune gallery, 76 Bras Basah Road #01-01, Carlton Hotel Singapore 189558
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sun: 12-7pm
8. Artcade: A Cosmic Beginning
Skip the white cube for a weekend and go where the illustrators, crafters and fan artists actually hang out.
More of an art market than an exhibition, Artcade has built its following almost entirely on Instagram and TikTok rather than gallery mailing lists, and this edition, A Cosmic Beginning, brings together over 200 independent artists. Expect original prints, zines and one-off pieces you won’t find resold anywhere else. Admission is free, so budget for impulse buys instead.
Date: 26-27 September 2026
Location: Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hall 404, 1 Raffles Boulevard, Singapore 039593
Opening hours: 12-7pm
Admission: Free
9. 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
10. Choibusu: Shopping Arcade
Cute is optional at Choibusu’s first Singapore solo show — most of these keychains would rather frown at you.
The Japanese artist has built a cult following at home making keychains that lean into looking a little ugly instead of running from it, grumpy uncles and food that stares back, with more personality than polish. Her Singapore debut, Shopping Arcade, recreates the wandering feel of a Japanese shōtengai shopping street inside Heartware Store & Gallery.
Date: 7 August-13 September 2026
Location: Heartware Store & Gallery, 350B Joo Chiat Road, Singapore 427598
Opening hours: 12-7pm daily
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. FOST Gallery: The Lie of the Land
FOST’s National Day-tied group show has turned into an annual check-up on the state of the nation, minus the parade.
Six Singaporean artists respond to this year’s edition of The Lie of the Land, FOST Gallery’s recurring group exhibition built around how the country actually feels versus how it’s supposed to feel. The opening reception runs 15 August from 3pm to 7pm, with an artist walkthrough the same afternoon and further tours in Mandarin and English later in the run.
Date: 15 August-13 September 2026
Location: FOST Gallery, 1 Lock Road, #01-02, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108932
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sat: 11am-7pm
Sunday: Closed
16. ShanghART: Taiki Sakpisit — 13 Nightmares
Taiki Sakpisit’s first solo show with the gallery turns the whole space into something you’d rather not walk through alone.
The Thai filmmaker and artist builds a labyrinth of moving image and sound, with photographs woven through, for 13 Nightmares. Sakpisit’s work has circulated through film festivals more than galleries, so this run doubles as a rare chance to see his imagery slowed down and installed rather than screened.
Date: 25 July-27 September 2026
Location: ShanghART, 9 Lock Road, #02-22, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108937
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wed-Sun: 11am-7pm
17. Prestige Gallery: Cleanse — Asia Pacific Now
Prestige Gallery treats cleansing as a body of theory this round, not just a spa word.
Cleanse: Asia Pacific Now brings together artists from across the region examining cleansing as ritual, psychological state, and cultural inheritance, closer to a purification rite than a wellness trend. The group show runs the length of Singapore Gallery Month at the gallery’s Tanjong Pagar Distripark space.
Date: 15 August-27 September 2026
Location: Prestige Gallery, 39 Keppel Road, #03-01, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Opening hours:
Monday: Closed
Tue-Sun: 11am-7pm
Admission: Free
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. A Satori Moment
This show is happening inside a hotel school on Lady Hill Road, which makes it one of the more unexpected gallery settings in Singapore right now.
A Satori Moment brings Mona Choo, Jan Wisse, and Quek Kiat Sing together around the Zen concept of satori — the sudden flash of insight when the boundary between the everyday and something larger briefly disappears. The EHL Campus, a colonial-era estate in Tanglin, gives the work a quiet remove from the typical gallery circuit that suits the subject well. The show runs until early September, so there’s no urgency — but it’s worth knowing about now.
Date: 21 April–4 September 2026
Location: EHL Campus Singapore, 3 Lady Hill Road, Singapore 258672
Opening hours: Contact EHL Campus Singapore to confirm visiting hours
22. 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
18. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. Under Our Skin
Southeast Asian artists take on gender, identity, and the body — raw, personal, and not easy to shake.
Under Our Skin: Conversations on Gender, Identity, and Body brings together works from the National Gallery’s collection and regional loans, tracing how artists across Southeast Asia have examined the body as a site of politics, desire, and resistance. Painting, photography, and video are in conversation across multiple galleries.
Free for Singaporeans and PRs.
Date: Mar-Oct 2026
Location: National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew’s Road
Opening hours: 10am–7pm
28. Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy
Five centuries of how we learned to see the human body — through science, art, and obsession.
ArtScience Museum’s Flesh and Bones traces the history of anatomical illustration and the relationship between art and medicine from the Renaissance to today. The show includes original manuscripts, scientific instruments, and contemporary artworks exploring how our understanding of the body has shifted from mysticism to empiricism — and back again. Equal parts beautiful and unsettling.
Location: ArtScience Museum, 6 Bayfront Avenue
Opening hours: 10am–7pm
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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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