iSTPI – Creative Workshop & GalleryRobertson Quay
Eko Nugroho: STRANGE MONSTER VIEW
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Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho's surreal masked creatures and hybrid forms, in screenprints, wood lithography and pulp paintings, made during his STPI residency.
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One of the works is called Chili Crab Mask. Eko Nugroho spent a residency at STPI in 2025, and he turned Singapore's tourist postcards into masked, half-machine creatures with a sense of humour about it.
The show is new prints and paper works made in the workshop: screenprints with foiling and flocking on linen canvas, mokulito (wood lithography), woodblock prints with flocking, embossing on handmade pulp paper, and pulp painting. Titles do the talking, from We Are Real Tourist and Now Everyone Is Lost to the We Care, We Share and We Aware series. Nugroho mixes street art, graffiti and comics with Indonesian wayang and batik, on themes of phone alienation, surveillance and belonging. The masked figures have a live model on the Downtown Line at 8:40am, where nobody looks up.
It closes tomorrow, Saturday 10 October. The building's facade carries a large mural, and Fort Canning MRT station shows three of the artworks.
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Masked creatures and hybrid figures in screenprint, wood lithography and pulp painting, made during Nugroho's STPI residency. Free.
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Chili Crab Mask
A masked figure built around Singapore's best-known dish, listed among the works shown.
We Watch Behind the Grass and We Watch Behind the Bones
Two 2025 screenprints with foiling and flocking on linen canvas, the larger one 124 by 88 cm.
We Care #3 and We Share #2
Two 111 by 77 cm woodblock prints with flocking, part of the CARE, SHARE and AWARE messaging.
The mokulito prints
Wood-lithograph works including We Are Real Tourist and Now Everyone Is Lost, made at STPI's workshop.
The facade mural
A large-scale mural on STPI's own building, visible without going in.
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Image credits
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- STPI – Creative Workshop & GalleryJoyce at STPI Gallery / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fear No Power: Women Imagining OtherwiseCourtesy of National Gallery Singapore
- Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026Courtesy of Singapore Art Museum
- Maria Taniguchi: AfterimageCourtesy of Singapore Art Museum
- The BattleboxJoyofmuseums / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Children's Museum SingaporeElisa.rolle, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Chinatown Heritage CentreSengkang / Wikimedia Commons
- Peranakan MuseumGoAheadFan95 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0