From 31 October 2025 to 29 March 2026, Singapore Biennale 2025 will showcase over 100 works by more than 80 artists across four key locations in Singapore, namely the Civic District, Rail Corridor area, Orchard Road, and Singapore Art Museum (SAM) at Tanjong Pagar Distripark.
Singapore Biennale 2025: Immersive and Site-responsive Experiences in the City
Themed “pure intention”, the Singapore Biennale enters its eighth edition with a contemplative narrative that encourages everyone to explore the urban fabric of the city through new ways of seeing, feeling, and connecting through the lens of contemporary art.
As a SG60 signature event, the Biennale reflects on the city-state’s historic milestones and invites us to imagine the future ahead, shaped by our everyday environment and us, as people who drive the transformation engine across time.
UE SQUARE’S COSMIC SPACE EXPEDITION: Have An Out-Of-This-World Adventure!
CARNIVAL OF CHRISTMAS CHEER: Celebrate and Win at Plantation Plaza and Northshore Plaza!
SNOW MUCH TO CELEBRATE: Christmas Fun at The Centrepoint
The Biennale is stretched across an extensive range of locations from historic sites to modern commercial districts, complemented by roving projects curated to spark dialogues across cultures and communities.
Visitors can look forward to a diverse array of immersive installations and thought-provoking site-specific works that respond uniquely to each location. The Biennale promises to transform familiar cityscapes into vibrant artistic playgrounds, where everyday spaces are animated by creative interventions and unexpected encounters with art.
First Things First: Getting Around and Admission
Wondering how you could shuttle across the venues? Not to worry, as complimentary shuttle buses will operate on weekends, connecting key Biennale sites for visitors to explore the various venues across the city!
Admission to Biennale venues, except SAM at Tanjong Pagar, is free and open to all. Admission to SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark is ticketed at S$15 for Singaporeans and Permanent Residents, and S$25 for tourists and foreign residents.
Singaporeans can use their SG Culture Pass credits to purchase tickets. Local students, educators and children 6 years & below enjoy free admission.
Highlights to Look Out for at Singapore Biennale 2025
Explore the Interplay of Memory and Daily Life in SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Street food, stacked parcels and roadside kiosks – sound familiar to us? All these that we encounter on a day-to-day basis are re-imagined in the artworks that invite visitors to connect in the dialogue on rapid urban development and its impact on our everyday lives.
Artworks by well-known artists such as Pierre Huyghe, Álvaro Urbano, Cui Jie, Ju Young Kim and Ming Wong and more are exhibited across the vast spaces from the reception foyer to the café, and exhibition gallery in SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark.
Just before you enter the museum, step into CAMP’s Metabolic Container, a 20-foot shipping container that is built from 400 boxes of everyday goods moving weekly from Batam to Singapore. A montage of boxes for common everyday items like sambals and perfume lay side by side. See if you could recognise some of the items on these boxes!
As you move into the reception foyer, you will be welcomed by Paul Chan’s Khara En Tria (Joyer in 3), where three colourful nylon figures dance joyfully.
Enter into the museum’s café, and you’ll find a tapestry of cookbooks, magazines, street-food packaging, alongside paintings, artisanal plates and sculptures in RRD’s (Red de Reproducción y Distribución) Gastrogeography: Stories from Mexico to Singapore to talk about our favourite topic – food, more specifically the trans-global networks that connect Singaporean and Mexican culinary cultures.
Where: Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Road, #01-02 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Step Back in Time at Tanglin Halt Along the Rail Corridor
Transport back in time, as you find yourself in an old Hong Kong film set and old shophouse units with neighbouring shops that sell nostalgic old-school titbits. Adrian Wong’s With Hate from Hong Kong stems from connections drawn to his grandfather Eddie Wang’s prolific career as a composer for over 300 films.
Singaporean artist Joo Choon Lin’s installation, The laugh laughs at the laugh, The song sings at the song brings together sound, and balloon-based sculptures. Sound plays a key role, guiding visitors’ attention, linking listening to looking.
Where: Tanglin Halt Road, Blocks 47 to 49
Discovering Different Façades of Retail Spaces at Orchard Road
Think that retail therapy at Orchard Road is only by burning a hole through your wallet? Discover how technology, music and memories can come together in retail spaces within Lucky Plaza and Far East Shopping Centre.
Join the locally based Filipino community at Eisa Jocson’s installation at Lucky Plaza, The Filipino Superwoman X H.O.M.E. Karaoke Living Room, transforms a shop unit into a Filipino communal space that celebrates resilience and humour.
Watch scenes from Singaporean film director Tan Pin Pin’s films, juxtaposed together in a dual-sided presentation at the On a Clear Day You Can See Forever installation, to present a dialectic discourse on the biological and the engineered.
Walk over to Far East Shopping Centre, where Yuri Pattison presents entropy study, an installation that features architectural scale models originally created for projects in China, sourced from second-hand marketplaces following the onset of the ongoing real estate crisis.
It was interesting to learn that the real-time animation of an open sky in the backgrounded is generated through a quantum random number generator, intended to draw visitors on a reflective journey on financial speculation and climate projection, echoing people’s desire to predict the future.
Where: Far East Shopping Centre and Lucky Plaza Along Orchard Road
New Ways of Seeing and Listening at National Gallery Singapore
At National Gallery Singapore, bask yourselves in a sensory experience, by taking part in the creation of a healing soundscape at the installation Temple by Tuan Andrew Nguyen.
The monumental installation comprises elements made from defused unexploded ordnance found in the Quảng Trị province of central Vietnam.
You can also get up close to Seung-taek Lee’s Earth Play, a seven-metre hand-painted PVC balloon that resembles Earth, housed on the third floor of the Supreme Court Foyer.
Where: National Gallery Singapore, Civic District
Drinkable Art
Get your bottle of drinkable art! Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih collaborated with Singaporean brand Moon Juice Kombucha to develop a series of kombucha flavours brewed with herb and economic crops from the artist’s hometown in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
The end result? Momocha is born, symbolising cultural hybridity and resonates with the ideas of agriculture and migration. Visitors can literally savour the art, transforming a seemingly simple refreshment into an extension of the artistic journey.
Where: Vending machines at National Gallery Singapore, Blenheim Court, 20 Anderson Road and over the counter at SIP at SAM
Other Public Programmes at Singapore Biennale 2025
Beyond the exhibitions, visitors can look forward to insightful artist talks by Ahmet Öğüt, The Packet, Fiona Amundsen, Gabriela Golder and RRD (Red de Reproducción y Distribución), performance activations by Joo Choon Lin and Hothouse, as well as a hands-on workshop by RRD that introduces participants to the mimeograph, a portable and versatile printing machine.
Singapore Biennale 2025
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