September 2026
September 2026 at a glance: 0 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 21 more were on view across the city.
National Museum of SingaporeFreePast
A family-friendly voyage through Singapore's maritime history, from a fishing settlement to a global port city, across five immersive sections.

STPI – Creative Workshop & GalleryFreePast
Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho's surreal masked creatures and hybrid forms, in screenprints, wood lithography and pulp paintings, made during his STPI residency.

Singapore Art MuseumPast
Sugimoto's first major Southeast Asian survey: 63 works across 11 series in photography, sculpture and installation, plus fossils from his personal collection.

National Gallery SingaporePast
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.
Singapore Art MuseumPast
A fictional island imagined through sculpture, textiles and text, using a fruit, insect and bird to frame how its inhabitants track environmental change.
Singapore Art MuseumPast
An online exhibition of artworks and texts challenging the idea of technological neutrality, proposing alternatives to how digital systems distribute power.
ArtScience MuseumPast
A descent through six ocean zones using rare deep-sea footage and technology from OceanX's research vessel OceanXplorer, from sunlit waters to the abyss.

National Gallery SingaporeFreePast
A children's exhibition co-curated with the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, inviting young visitors to explore nature through two immersive installations on environmental sustainability.

National Gallery SingaporeFree
Five Southeast Asian artists, Amanda Heng, Dolorosa Sinaga, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, Nirmala Dutt and Phaptawan Suwannakudt, examined through decades of personal and political art-making.

Singapore Art Museum
Amanda Heng transforms the Arsenale's Sale d'Armi into a space for rest and observation, using photography, video and architecture built on everyday gestures.

Singapore Art Museum
Taniguchi's first monographic show, built around her hand-drawn "brick paintings", plus new sculpture and video exploring repetition, time and labour.

National Gallery SingaporeFree
A monumental site-specific installation in the Padang Atrium by Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul: hand-painted billboard panels, video interviews and a travelogue film capturing Singapore's diverse communities.

Singapore Art Museum
First phase of a multi-part curatorial project: three commissioned music videos on maritime work songs, exploring displacement, labour and sonic memory.
NUS MuseumFree
435 polychrome Straits Chinese export ceramics donated by Alice and Peter Tan, spanning 19th-century Qing kilns to Peranakan tableware and ceremonial wares.
Science Centre Singapore
World-premiere immersive exhibition built on 20 years of Tara Ocean Foundation research, with 360-degree ocean projections, free-roaming VR and ten walk-through zones.
Asian Civilisations Museum
100 Islamic-art masterpieces from the Louvre alongside 30 ACM works, tracing the 16th-18th century world connecting the Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman empires with Southeast Asia.

NUS MuseumFree
Revisits sculptor Ng Eng Teng's fascination with the human head as a fragment, from early realist portraits to later abstracted forms, ahead of the Ng Eng Teng Gallery's revamp.
Singapore Art Museum
A hands-on gallery for exploring contemporary art through curiosity, with works by five artists touching identity, home, nature and memory. Free admission.
NUS MuseumFree
While NUS Baba House undergoes restoration, its Straits Chinese furniture, decorative arts and architectural fragments are regrouped and displayed in a new setting at NUS Museum.

National Gallery Singapore
A Dalam Singapore focus exhibition on Nanyang artist Lai Foong Moi (1931-1995), examining gender, labour and urban life in 1960s Singapore and Malaya through portraiture, still life and landscape.

Singapore Art Museum
Public outdoor commissions by Singapore-based artists tucked into the CBD's streets and passageways, exploring the district's layered history and rhythms.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.