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ShanghART Singapore ShanghART Singapore is the official Singapore space for ShanghART Gallery. ShanghART Gallery was established in Shanghai in 1996.

It has since grown to become one of China’s most influential art institutions and a vital player in the development of contemporary art in China, representing over 60 pioneering and emerging artists, including DING Yi, LI Shan, Arin RUNGJANG, Melati SURYODARMO, Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL, XU ZHEN®, YANG Fudong, ZENG Fanzhi, and ZHAO Renhui Robert. ShanghART Singapore was established in 2012 as the gallery’s Southeast Asia wing, located in the contemporary art cluster Gillman Barracks. The gallery’s first overseas space serves as a platform to introduce Chinese contemporary art to the region while developing collaborations with Southeast Asian artists and bringing them to the international art scene.

Lai Yu Tong’s “The Crows”, his first solo exhibition in Korea, is currently on view at YPC Space in Seoul through 1 Nove...
14/10/2026

Lai Yu Tong’s “The Crows”, his first solo exhibition in Korea, is currently on view at YPC Space in Seoul through 1 November 2026.

Long attentive to the wild animals living within Singapore’s highly ordered urban environment, Lai turns in this exhibition to the crows he has observed over years in his everyday surroundings. Often regarded as nuisances or threats to the city’s cleanliness, the birds reappear here in shifting forms assembled from small fragments of black paper.

Hovering between flight and fall, belonging and wandering, presence and shadow, these works bring back into view lives that the city continually pushes to its margins.

Lai Yu Tong: The Crows
8 October – 1 November 2026
YPC Space, Seoul, South Korea

Since its World Premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, Magic Atlas has continued its remarkable journey across seve...
10/10/2026

Since its World Premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival, Magic Atlas has continued its remarkable journey across several major international film festivals.

A decade in the making, the animated feature film by artist Sun Xun premiered in Switzerland in August 2026, before being selected for the Feature Film Competition at the 50th Ottawa International Animation Festival, where it received an Honourable Mention, and the Main Competition at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival — marking the first time in the festival’s history that an animated feature has been selected for the Main Competition.

The film will also feature at the upcoming DOK Leipzig, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

79th Locarno Film Festival
5–15 August 2026
Celebrated its World Premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival.

50th Ottawa International Animation Festival
23–27 September 2026
Selected for the Feature Film Competition and received an Honourable Mention.

39th Tokyo International Film Festival
26 October–4 November 2026
Became the first animated film in the festival’s history to compete for the Tokyo Grand Prix.

69th DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
26 October–1 November 2026
Selected for the International Animation Film Competition.

19th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
30 October 2026
Nominated for Best Animated Film.

63rd Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
6–22 November 2026
Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 63rd Golden Horse Awards.

Robert Zhao Renhui is currently featured in three group exhibitions across Singapore, India and France, each extending h...
04/10/2026

Robert Zhao Renhui is currently featured in three group exhibitions across Singapore, India and France, each extending his ongoing exploration of ecology, history and the relationships between human and non-human worlds.

1. Art Remembers
21 August – 18 October 2026
National Gallery Singapore

In his commissioned work The Fish Does Not Know the War is Over, Robert traces the tilapia’s journey from wartime Singapore to postwar Taiwan, reflecting on migration, belonging and naturalisation through archival research, film and images.

1. Art Remembers
21 August – 18 October 2026
National Gallery Singapore

In his commissioned work The Fish Does Not Know the War is Over, Robert traces the tilapia’s journey from wartime Singapore to postwar Taiwan, reflecting on migration, belonging and naturalisation through archival research, film and images.

1. Art Remembers
21 August – 18 October 2026
National Gallery Singapore

In his commissioned work The Fish Does Not Know the War is Over, Robert traces the tilapia’s journey from wartime Singapore to postwar Taiwan, reflecting on migration, belonging and naturalisation through archival research, film and images.

2. Red Rocks, Rivers and Monkeys
5 August – 4 November 2026
Hampi Art Labs, Hampi, India

Robert traces animal life persisting across Hampi’s ruins, grasslands and mining zones, revealing the landscape through its living ecologies and layered histories.

2. Red Rocks, Rivers and Monkeys
5 August – 4 November 2026
Hampi Art Labs, Hampi, India

Robert traces animal life persisting across Hampi’s ruins, grasslands and mining zones, revealing the landscape through its living ecologies and layered histories.

2. Red Rocks, Rivers and Monkeys
5 August – 4 November 2026
Hampi Art Labs, Hampi, India

Robert traces animal life persisting across Hampi’s ruins, grasslands and mining zones, revealing the landscape through its living ecologies and layered histories.

3. The Monkey and the Clay
30 May 2026 – 3 January 2027
Fondation d’entreprise Martell, Cognac, France

Within an exhibition exploring collaboration and interdependence between species, Robert’s work offers a counter-narrative to human-centred understandings of eco

On view as part of “pbdq 排排” at ShanghART SG Annexe, Cally Tan’s “Milky Way Finds” gathers a series of trinkets contrib...
01/10/2026

On view as part of “pbdq 排排” at ShanghART SG Annexe, Cally Tan’s “Milky Way Finds” gathers a series of trinkets contributed by friends, held within double-woven silk pockets. Building on her earlier textile installation “Sayang Sayang in My Wet Pockets (2022)”, the work brings small, often overlooked objects into view, tracing how everyday remnants—from the traces of familiar routines to objects connected to a loved one—can hold memories and affection. The pockets function as viewfinders, framing these cherished, misplaced, forgotten, or lingering objects as akin to spotting debris orbiting within the Milky Way.

Cally Tan is a textile-forward object-maker whose practice explores objecthood, material agency, and the ways non-human matter can shape memory and emotion. Working through slow, accumulative textile processes, she creates works that reflect both intimate and unfamiliar relationships between people and everyday artefact.

Last 3 days to view the artworks before it closes on this Sunday, 4 Oct 2026.

26/09/2026

Taiki Sakpisit, Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares, 2026.

Final two weekends of "13 Nightmares" at ShanghART Singapore.

Taiki Sakpisit

For “pbdq 排排” at ShanghART SG Annexe, Catherine Hu presents “Found Tile Stool (2023)” and “I think you dropped this (202...
26/09/2026

For “pbdq 排排” at ShanghART SG Annexe, Catherine Hu presents “Found Tile Stool (2023)” and “I think you dropped this (2025)”, two works that are rooted in collecting and recontextualising overlooked objects. The former reassembles discarded mosaic tiles gathered from streets, drains, parks, beaches and carparks into a functional form, while the latter brings together jewellery found along the artist’s walks, turning abandoned objects into traces of movement, place and everyday encounters.

Catherine Hu’s art practice spans sculpture and print media, often recreating existing objects to explore the gradient between looking like and being something. Like puns, her works gather multiple meanings into a single form, bringing seemingly disparate ideas into contact.

Last week to view the exhibition before it closes on 4 Oct 2026.

Images courtesy of the artist. Last photo by Genevieve Leong.

Genevieve Leong presents “An attempt at solidifying make-believe landscapes” as part of “pbdq 排排“ at ShanghART SG Annexe...
17/09/2026

Genevieve Leong presents “An attempt at solidifying make-believe landscapes” as part of “pbdq 排排“ at ShanghART SG Annexe. This series of object assemblages extends her earlier exploration of landscape and perception. Translating two-dimensional forms into physical constellations arranged on the ground, the work draws from children’s imaginative play and a traditional game “masak masak” to explore the possibilities of turning abstract forms into object landscapes.

Genevieve Leong’s art practice attempts to visualise the intangible. Combining text, image, found and made objects, and the manipulation of space, she creates what she describes as “an almost physical image”, giving physical form to perception, memory, sensation, and ineffable experiences.

The exhibition has been extended and remains on view through 4 October 2026.

Images courtesy of the artist

Taiki Sakpisit is currently participating in the group exhibition “Crash, Crush” at Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, on vi...
11/09/2026

Taiki Sakpisit is currently participating in the group exhibition “Crash, Crush” at Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, on view through 11 October 2026.

For the exhibition, Sakpisit presents “Seeing in the Dark”, a moving-image work connecting the mountainous landscape of Khao Kho with images of contemporary Bangkok. Through layered image, sound and shifting temporalities, the work reflects on how unresolved histories and structures of violence continue to reverberate into the present.

This Sunday, Sakpisit will also be doing an artist talk at 3pm. Taking Seeing in the Dark as a starting point, he will reflect on his practice—from early reworkings of Thai popular cinema and folklore to expanded cinema, moving-image installations and feature films—and discuss how editing, long takes, space, light and sound shape his engagement with history and political violence.

Slow Dissolve: Taiki Sakpisit Artist Talk
13 Sep 2026, 3–4:30pm
Artist: Taiki Sakpisit
Moderator: Cao Liyao
Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum

Featuring Robert Zhao Renhui and eight other international artists, “The Monkey and the Clay” is on view at Fondation d’...
10/09/2026

Featuring Robert Zhao Renhui and eight other international artists, “The Monkey and the Clay” is on view at Fondation d’entreprise Martell in Cognac, France, through 3 January 2027.

The exhibition explores collaboration and interdependence between human and non-human worlds. Through installations, films, sculptures and sound works, it reflects on new forms of coexistence across animal, vegetal, mineral and technological life.

Within this context, Robert Zhao’s work contributes a counter-narrative to human-centred understandings of ecology, drawing attention to the complex relationships between species, environments and the systems that shape them.

The Monkey and the Clay
30 May 2026 – 3 Jan 2027
Fondation d’entreprise Martell, Cognac, France

Amanda Heng’s Another Woman series is a deeply personal exploration of the artist’s relationship with her mother, and of...
04/09/2026

Amanda Heng’s Another Woman series is a deeply personal exploration of the artist’s relationship with her mother, and of the roles women occupy within the family.

The series began in the 1990s, when Heng’s mother asked her to take her funeral portrait. Instead, Heng invited her mother to make photographs together. Through embraces, shared gazes and the spaces between their bodies, the resulting images reflect on intimacy, distance, female identity and the often unspoken ties between generations. Over time, the series has also become a record of change, tracing the passage of time across both women’s bodies.

Selected images from Another Woman will be presented at the 16th Gwangju Biennale, taking place from 5 Sep to 15 Nov 2026.

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