ShanghART Singapore

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.

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.

Robert Zhao Renhui is currently participating in “Red Rocks, Rivers and Monkeys”, a group exhibition at Hampi Art Labs i...
27/08/2026

Robert Zhao Renhui is currently participating in “Red Rocks, Rivers and Monkeys”, a group exhibition at Hampi Art Labs in Hampi, India, on view through 4 November 2026.

In the exhibition, the same landscape in Hampi emerges through two distinct modes of attention, moving between its living ecologies and material histories. Robert Zhao traces animal life persisting across the ruins, grasslands and mining zones, while Atul Bhalla turns his attention to the red rocks, mineral surfaces and waters of the Tungabhadra.

Curated by Yasufumi Nakamori, the exhibition unfolds as an ongoing exploration of Hampi’s ecology, developed through the collaboration between The Institutum and Hampi Art Labs.

Red Rocks, Rivers and Monkeys
Hampi Art Labs, Hampi, India
5 Aug - 4 Nov 2026

“The Fish Does Not Know the War is Over“ by Robert Zhao is a commissioned work presented as part of the group exhibition...
23/08/2026

“The Fish Does Not Know the War is Over“ by Robert Zhao is a commissioned work presented as part of the group exhibition Art Remembers, on view at National Gallery Singapore through 18 October 2026.

Comprising a series of prints and a two-channel video installation, the work traces the tilapia’s journey from wartime Singapore to postwar Taiwan as a reliable food source. Introduced during the Japanese Occupation to supplement food supplies, the fish later became Taiwan’s prized national commodity while remaining feral in Singapore’s urban waterways – drains, canals, and reservoirs. Through archival research, film, and images, Zhao reframes this dual history from the tilapia’s imagined perspective, reflecting on migration, belonging, and naturalisation.

Art Remembers reflects on how art can recover silenced histories, confront historical inequalities and offer new ways of remembering Southeast Asia’s past. Working with official records, personal photographs, mass media, digital communities, and traces in the natural environment, the artists approach archives in expansive and unexpected ways.

Art Remembers
21 August – 18 October
National Gallery Singapore

Image courtesy of National Gallery Singapore.

Taiki Sakpisit’s solo exhibition 13 Nightmares is currently on view through 4 October at ShanghART Singapore.Dreams ofte...
21/08/2026

Taiki Sakpisit’s solo exhibition 13 Nightmares is currently on view through 4 October at ShanghART Singapore.

Dreams often blur the boundaries between memory and reality, revealing what lies beneath the surface of consciousness. At the heart of the exhibition is a 16-minute two-channel video installation, where parallel streams of image and sound create shifting connections and tensions. Alongside photographs drawn from Taiki’s encounters with places and histories, the works unfold through fragments, displacement, and transformation.

Taiki Sakpisit: 13 Nightmares
15 Aug – 4 Oct 2026
Wed - Sun: 12 - 6pm

ShanghART Singapore
9 Lock Road, #02-22
Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108937

Thank you to everyone who gathered with us yesterday evening for the opening of 13 Nightmares at ShanghART Singapore, wi...
16/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who gathered with us yesterday evening for the opening of 13 Nightmares at ShanghART Singapore, with the artist Taiki Sakpisit also joining us in person. We were delighted to share the exhibition with you and to see the evening unfold through so many conversations and encounters.

In 13 Nightmares, exhibiting artist Taiki Sakpisit transforms the gallery into a labyrinth of moving images, photography and sound, where dreams, memory, grief and premonition converge. Through fragmented narratives and spectral presences, the exhibition invites audiences to inhabit cinema as a psychological and spatial experience shaped by personal and collective histories.

The exhibition is on view through 4 October 2026. We hope to see you in the coming weeks.

Taiki Sakpisit: 13 Nightmares
15 Aug – 4 Oct 2026
Wed - Sun: 12 - 6pm

ShanghART Singapore
9 Lock Road, #02-22
Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108937

Alongside Taiki Sakpisit’s solo exhibition at ShanghART Singapore, opening tomorrow at 4pm, here are some of his other e...
14/08/2026

Alongside Taiki Sakpisit’s solo exhibition at ShanghART Singapore, opening tomorrow at 4pm, here are some of his other exhibitions and projects currently taking place internationally.

1. Asia, The Apparatus
19 Mar – 27 Sep 2026
The National Asian Culture Center, South Korea

Marking the ACC’s 10th anniversary, “Asia, The Apparatus” brings together experimental films and moving-image works from across Asia. Taiki Sakpisit presents Apprehension Engine (2026) in the exhibition.

1. Asia, The Apparatus
19 Mar – 27 Sep 2026
The National Asian Culture Center, South Korea

Marking the ACC’s 10th anniversary, “Asia, The Apparatus” brings together experimental films and moving-image works from across Asia. Taiki Sakpisit presents Apprehension Engine (2026) in the exhibition.

1. Asia, The Apparatus
19 Mar – 27 Sep 2026
The National Asian Culture Center, South Korea

Marking the ACC’s 10th anniversary, “Asia, The Apparatus” brings together experimental films and moving-image works from across Asia. Taiki Sakpisit presents Apprehension Engine (2026) in the exhibition.

2. October 6th: a reconfigured archive
10 Jul – 30 Nov 2026
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 6 October 1976 Thammasat University massacre, the exhibition revisits this unresolved history through personal and collective memory, bringing together works by artists across generations.

3. Focus Asia Residency
Jun – Sep 2026
Parramatta Artists Studios, NSW, Australia

As the recipient of “Focus Asia: Residency, Commission, Acquisition”, Taiki is undertaking a three-month residency at Parramatta Artists Studios to develop a new moving-image and performance-based commission. The resulting work will premiere at ACMI in Melbourne and enter its collection.

Meet Taiki Sakpisit (ไทกิ ศักดิ์พิสิษฐ์, b. 1975), the Bangkok-based filmmaker and visual artist behind 13 Nightmares, h...
08/08/2026

Meet Taiki Sakpisit (ไทกิ ศักดิ์พิสิษฐ์, b. 1975), the Bangkok-based filmmaker and visual artist behind 13 Nightmares, his first solo exhibition with ShanghART Singapore.

Over the past two decades, Sakpisit has developed one of Southeast Asia’s most distinctive practices, moving between experimental cinema, photography and installation. Frequently drawing upon Thailand‘s histories, folklore and political imaginaries, his works explore the unstable terrain where personal memory and collective consciousness intersect.

His films are characterised by precise and sensorially immersive combinations of image and sound, creating atmospheric worlds in which memory, history and violence unfold through fragments, ambiguity and suggestion. His feature-length film ”The Edge of Daybreak“ (2019) received the FIPRESCI Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam for its atmospheric and hypnotic treatment of trauma, violence and decades of political turmoil in Thailand.

In 13 Nightmares, Sakpisit extends this cinematic practice into the gallery, bringing together moving images, photography and sound to explore the uncanny intersections between dreams, memory, grief and premonition.

Taiki Sakpisit: 13 Nightmares
Opening: 15 Aug 2026, 4pm
15 Aug 2026 – 4 Oct 2026

ShanghART Singapore
9 Lock Road, #02-22
Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108937

ShanghART Singapore presents 13 Nightmares, a solo exhibition by Taiki Sakpisit, opening next Saturday, 15 August 2026, ...
05/08/2026

ShanghART Singapore presents 13 Nightmares, a solo exhibition by Taiki Sakpisit, opening next Saturday, 15 August 2026, at 4pm. Over the past two decades, Sakpisit has developed one of Southeast Asia’s most distinctive practices, dissolving the boundaries between cinema and contemporary art. Frequently drawing upon Thailand’s histories, folklore and political imaginaries, Sakpisit’s works are rooted in the unstable terrain where personal memory and collective consciousness continually intersect.

The premise of this exhibition can be traced back to a nightmare Sakpisit experienced in Singapore in 2018. A phone call from his brother awoke him from the nightmare, informing him about the passing of a family member. Since then, Sakpisit has become increasingly drawn to the intersections between dreams, memory, grief, and premonition, culminating in this exhibition.

Taiki Sakpisit: 13 Nightmares
Opening Reception: 15 Aug 2026, 4pm
15 Aug 2026 - 4 Oct 2026

ShanghART Singapore
9 Lock Road, #02-22
Gillman Barracks
Singapore 108937

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