Exterior of National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall buildings

National Gallery SingaporeCivic District

Art Remembers

Ended21 August 2026 – 18 October 2026Ticketed, see website

This exhibition has ended.

Twenty artworks explore how Southeast Asian artists engage with archives to surface overlooked histories, treating art as a record of the past and the artist as storyteller.

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Josh Kline took iPhones and processed them into paper pulp. Powdered iPhone was made during a residency at Singapore Tyler Print Institute, and this is its first showing anywhere.

Twenty works by artists from Singapore and Southeast Asia treat the archive as something to question and rebuild, whether it is state records, community collections or mass media images. Robert Zhao Renhui's new film follows a tilapia from wartime Singapore to commercial success in Taiwan. Ahmad Fuad Osman slips figures in modern clothes into Malaysian photographs from after independence. Kline's pulped phones are a kinder fate than the one in your drawer, still waiting for a Carousell listing.

It is on Level 3 of the City Hall Wing and closes on 18 October. General Admission applies, with free entry for Singapore citizens and PRs and for children 6 and under. A curator tour runs on 9 October, 7:30pm to 8:30pm. We found no published review, so there is no verdict here.

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Twenty works by Southeast Asian artists who use archives to bring overlooked histories back into view, with the artist cast as storyteller.

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Powdered iPhone, Josh Kline
Phones are processed into paper pulp, shown for the first time after Kline's residency at Singapore Tyler Print Institute.
The Fish Does Not Know the War Is Over, Robert Zhao Renhui
A new 13-minute black-and-white two-channel video tracing a tilapia from wartime Singapore to commercial success in Taiwan.
Recollections of Long Lost Memories, Ahmad Fuad Osman
A slide projection of altered post-independence Malaysian photographs, with figures in modern clothing inserted into the historical scenes.
Mendjelang Hari Gemilang, Krack!
A new mural by the Yogyakarta printmaking collective, built from wartime print imagery including propaganda from the magazine Djawa Baroe.
The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, Ho Tzu Nyen
A multi-channel video installation with algorithmic editing and LED lights, looping an ever-changing digital archive.