Contemporary Art Exhibition

School Visits (Self Directed)

Educators may self-guide their students between 10.30am and 4.30pm on weekdays, admission fees apply. Bookings must be made at least five weeks in advance by completing the School Visit Booking Form and emailing it to [email protected].

To ensure a smooth visit, we recommend a maximum of 50 students per gallery at a time. Larger groups may need to rotate through the galleries.

Educators who wish to book guided tours may email us at [email protected] for more information, subjected to availability.

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¹Valid proof of identity (e.g., passport, school pass) must be presented at the ticketing counter to enjoy concession admission.

²One caregiver accompanying visitors with disabilities will enjoy free admission, regardless of the caregiver's nationality.

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• Last admission at 6:30pm.
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Exhibition Description: Performance art never sits still. Belonging to time, it vanishes just as it happens – leaving behind questions, afterimages, even a bit of chaos. But what if what remains is not merely a trace, but an opening for something else? 

The Living Room explores how museums might collect, care for, and re-present performance-based practices. Like the living room in a home, this exhibition considers what it means to create a space that is private yet shared, settled yet always in flux. More than a metaphor, it becomes a way of being: a model for how an exhibition might gather people, hold ideas, and remain open. Here, The Living Room invites us to think of performance traces not merely as static records, but as elements in a shifting space of encounter and exchange. 

This show completes a three-part collaboration between Singapore Art Museum (SAM), Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), and Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). It brings together works from the collections of the three institutions alongside invited artists. Through ephemeral gestures, participatory encounters, unrealised proposals, and archival fragments, The Living Room reflects on the afterlives of performance – not as endings, but as openings for reactivation, relation and return. 

Find out more here.

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

12 Sept 25 - 19 July 26

SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Gallery 4

10AM - 7PM

Talking Objects examines the meanings that quotidian objects and everyday representations amass through use and circulation. Casting daily encounters in new light, the artists in the exhibition explore the emotions and value we accord to the material and visual world around us.

Presented in unexpected or unsettling contexts, commonplace objects are imbued with human experience and emotions, revealing ambiguous histories and memories. By the actions of artists, the mundane is transformed into incisive instruments of expression—words become gestures, language turns visual, the intangible is rendered material and the inanimate comes to life.

Drawn primarily from the collection of Singapore Art Museum, the works in Talking Objects encourage us to take a close look at the world we inhabit and seek new ways of seeing, thinking and meaning-making. As we face an entropy of images, information and values, how do we talk with and about objects, and what do objects say of us?

Find out more here.

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

12 Sept 25 - 19 July 26

SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Gallery 4

10AM - 7PM

What does it mean to imagine a world otherwise? 

How To Dream Worlds, the second edition of SAM Contemporaries, brings together six artists whose practices span installation, moving image and materially driven forms. Their works emerge from diverse concerns—body-machine intimacies, the uncovering of dominant and erased narratives, and the politics of cultivated space—each grounded in the specificities of their own research and lived experiences.

The exhibition’s title proposes a reading of these practices, approaching dreaming as a method and form of resistance, gesturing towards other ways of living, relating and perceiving from within the conditions of the now. Some works speculate on possible futures; others dwell in the traces of what was. Many attend to the present, paying close attention to the undercurrents that shape daily experience. These are not visions of utopias but propositions in motion, open-ended and continuously unfolding. Rather than offering solutions or conclusions, they linger in uncertainty and possibility.

As you move through the exhibition, you are invited to journey alongside the artists in asking what it means to imagine something otherwise. Here, dreaming is not about arriving at a final, perfected “elsewhere,” but about staying with the process—the slow, ongoing work of questioning the world as it is, and imagining what it could still be and become.  

Find out more here.  

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

01 Aug 25 - 16 Nov 25

SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 3, Gallery 3

10AM - 7PM

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Learning Gallery

Art and childhood share a natural connection. 

Both involve freedom, curiosity and fearless exploration. Many of us first create art as children, a time when we learn about the world and shape our emotions, beliefs and memories. What if we could return to that childlike spirit, open to discovery and unafraid to try something new? 

This second edition of the Learning Gallery invites you to look beyond the everyday. Explore possibilities, experiment with different ideas and materials, and venture outside the familiar. The artworks here span across diverse mediums and explore themes of identity, home, nature and the environment, people and places, space and memory. They ask meaningful questions about life and inspire new ways of seeing and understanding contemporary art. 

Find out more here.   

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

2 Aug 25 - 28 Jun 26

SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Level 1, Gallery 2

10AM - 7PM 

Free Admission

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Conditions of Entry

• Admission is subject to valid tickets produced at the entrance
• Each ticket admits one person

All information is correct at time of publishing but may be subject to change without prior notice.

The Promoter reserves the right to amend the above without prior notice. In the event of any dispute, the Promoter's decision is final.