Singapore Art Museum (SAM)

39 Keppel Rd, #01 02, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065

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Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness  

10 May 2025 - 17 Aug 2025

Gallery 1, Level 1, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness reads as a survey of artworks by Heman Chong. From artworks first made in 2003 to new works, the exhibition charts his prolific conceptual practice over the last two decades. An invitation into Chong’s incisive use of words, objects, situations, logics and affinities, the exhibition presents his critical and affective interrogation of our shared human condition in the 21st century.

Banner image: Heman Chong, Perimeter Walk, 2013–2024. Offset print postcards, 550 pieces. Commissioned by UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. Development of Perimeter Walk supported by M Art Foundation. Courtesy of the artist

Everyday Practices

30 Aug 2024 - 20 Jul 2025

Gallery 4, Level 3, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

“My art is doing time, so it’s not different from doing life or doing art, or doing time. No matter whether I stay in ‘art-time’ or ‘life-time,’ I am passing time.”—the artist Tehching Hsieh thus describes his durational performances, which turn the banality of life and the passage of time into medium and subject for his art.

Building on Hsieh’s philosophy, the exhibition Everyday Practices examines the inventive ways artists have appropriated quotidian routines and lived experiences to express powerful statements of resilience and endurance. Through their works, we witness ongoing conflicts, humanitarian crises and asymmetrical power relationships. In this context, the gestures that the artists have employed, by dint of repetition, reveal themselves as small acts of resistance that return agency to the individual. Art, as we see here, offers a means of sense-making and coping in the face of adversity.

Drawing from the collection of Singapore Art Museum, Everyday Practices brings together artworks by diverse artists across different generations and geographies in Asia. They affirm that the collective strength found in individual actions cuts across cultural practices and conditions. The question that is universal to us all is: “In the face of life’s challenges, how do we go on going on?”

Hello Future: Sharing Our Journey Together

23 Aug – 13 Sep 2025

Level 1 Atrium, Harbourfront Centre

*Free admission

What are our shared experiences as a nation—and what are our hopes for the future?

This exhibition invites you to explore these questions through the eyes of preschool children.

Hello Future: Sharing Our Journey Together is part of the Think! Contemporary Preschool programme, presented by Singapore Art Museum (SAM) in collaboration with 24 preschools across Singapore—a significant increase from the eight schools that were involved in the previous edition.

Through this programme, contemporary art becomes a gateway for young children to explore and make sense of the world around them. The children were introduced to exhibitions at SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, including the Learning Gallery and Seeing Forest by Robert Zhao Renhui, Singapore's representative at the Venice Biennale 2024. These artworks presented issues of our time and reflect the themes of Singaporean identity, community and our changing environment.

In response, the children began to see Singapore as not just a country, but a shared space full of stories, memories and possibilities. Guided by their teachers and inspired by contemporary art, the children channelled their understanding into expressive artworks and stories.

Join us and see how our youngest voices view our past, present and future: imagining Singapore as a community where we share, care and create together.

Opening Hours

SUNDAY, 10:00 - 19:00

MONDAY, 10:00 - 19:00

TUESDAY, 10:00 - 19:00

WEDNESDAY, 10:00 - 19:00

THURSDAY, 10:00 - 19:00

FRIDAY, 10:00 - 19:00

SATURDAY, 10:00 - 19:00

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