Singapore Biennale 2025
Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention will be held from 31 October 2025 to 29 March 2026.
Artists and thinkers enliven residential neighbourhoods and the urban core across four distinct areas of the city, inviting the public to reimagine Singapore’s rapid change through everyday encounters. Commissioned by National Arts Council, Singapore (NAC) and organised by SAM, the event includes more than 80 artists and over 100 artworks, which includes more than 30 new commissions.
Through the lens of pure intention, artists and audiences are invited to look closer at the rituals and lived experiences that have shaped urban environment—from pre-colonial and colonial landmarks to shopping malls, historic housing estates, and green spaces. SB2025 hopes to spark critical dialogue on contemporary issues with a Southeast Asian lens.
Highlights include:
- The Rail Corridor and adjacent neighbourhoods feature artwork highlights such as an installation by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand) and Guo-Liang Tan (Singapore)
- Artist Emily Floyd (Australia) presents a new rendition of her Field Library series
- At the Tanglin Halt market, Joo Choon Lin’s (Singapore) immersive performance installation challenges the conventions of human perception
- Curatorial contributor Asian Film Archive (Singapore) will present a multidisciplinary project, featuring three newly commissioned installations and an experimental film programme excavating the layers of loss, decay, and the possibilities of re-emergence within the film archive.
- In collaboration with H.O.M.E. and Filipino domestic workers in Singapore, Eisa Jocson (the Philippines) presents a new commission through a series of karaoke videos.
- Riar Rizaldi’s (Indonesia) Mirage: Agape further blurs the lines of dream and reality by exploring the relationship between science and spiritual knowledge systems.
- Akira Takayama/Port B (Japan), directed by Akira Takayama, is set to present a newly commissioned project in collaboration which will take the form of a pop-up board game centre.