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About Visual Arts
The exhibitions at Esplanade's visual arts spaces—Jendela (Visual Arts Space), Esplanade Concourse, Esplanade Tunnel and Esplanade Community Wall—present commissioned site-specific works that undergird the centre's commitment to nurturing new work and supporting the development of long-standing projects by Singapore and Southeast Asian artists.
Presented alongside the exhibitions are companion programmes like talks, guided tours and workshops, and interviews with artists on Esplanade Offstage that endeavour to lend insight to the works and artistic practices.
Engage with commissioned works by Singaporean artists across four exhibitions around Esplanade.
Events
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Reflections
Reflections turns everyday light, streetlamps, and swarmers into installations that reveal unnoticed rhythms, uncertainty and shifting perceptions of daily life.
The Loft Pavilion
The Loft Pavilion explores surveillance, survival, and marginalised identities through pigeons, revealing how inequality shapes aspiration, visibility and resilience.
Present-Tense
Present-Tense reveals artmaking as lived reality, shaped by everyday conditions, unseen labour and deeply human acts of survival and reflection.
A School of Fireworks
Wu Yanrong’s minimalist paintings transform goldfish into reflections on celebration, transience and the quiet wonder of everyday life.
Singapore International Photography Festival
Esplanade co-presents an exhibition at Esplanade Tunnel with SIPF's milestone 10th edition, a biennial photography festival organised by DECK.
Where the city softens
Influenced by plants found along streets, discarded items and everyday objects, Hans Chew uses handmade ceramics to study the value of making things.
The World (Postcards)
The World (Postcards) is a series of drawings made between 2023 and 2024, depicting things encountered by the artist, Lai Yu Tong, during this period, including material objects, flora and fauna.
What is Taste
Wu Mali’s project traces migration histories through food, using interviews and film. Centred on Cijin Island, it invites collective storytelling, workshops, and participatory exchange through cooking and memory.
Spring Petals in a February Breeze 二月风中的春花
Spring Petals in a February Breeze is a series of ceramic works by artist Lewis Choo Li Wei, tracing the early stages of being, shaped by vulnerability, growth and transformation.
No Room For One More Brick
No Room For One More Brick is an improvisational performance art-theatre piece by Stitchen Haus da Opera that extends on the themes of Tang Da Wu's works that focus on non-conformity and the true human potential.
Ikan Besar Skali
Ikan Besar Skali by Hu Qiren reimagines the grandeur of historical whale skeleton displays, evoking the wonder of museum artefacts while reinterpreting it for the present moment, where history and mythology meet.
Rotan Rattan: Meditations
Yanyun Chen and Dave Lim reflect on how childhood discipline is remembered, meditating on ways it might be acknowledged, healed and reimagined.