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.

A small shift in orientation, and one thing becomes another.Cat, Cally and Gen revisit works, materials and obsessions t...
17/06/2026

A small shift in orientation, and one thing becomes another.
Cat, Cally and Gen revisit works, materials and obsessions that have stayed with them: found tiles, woven pockets, a view from a window, looped jewellery.

Like the letters p, b, d, q — which become one another through simple rotation — each work carries traces of something that came before, landing somewhere new.

A view from a window becomes a landscape you share space with. A found tile, recognised only years later, becomes a stool. An object carried in a pocket becomes something held up to the light.

Featuring Cally Tan, Catherine Hu and Genevieve Leong
Initiated by shu

排排 pbdq
27 Jun - 8 Aug 2026
Opening: 27 Jun, 4-7pm
Wed - Sun: 12 - 6pm

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

cally tan
Cat Hu
Genevieve Leong
Shu

Happy Birthday to Lynn Hershman Leeson! As a pioneering artist whose practice has continually challenged the boundaries ...
17/06/2026

Happy Birthday to Lynn Hershman Leeson! As a pioneering artist whose practice has continually challenged the boundaries between technology, identity, surveillance, and human agency, Lynn Hershman Leeson has shaped generations of artists through her visionary work spanning more than five decades.

Wish Lynn a wonderful year ahead and look forward to her upcoming solo exhibition in South Korea this October.

Image: Logic Paralyzes the Heart (2021), single-channel video, 13m 35s

“Simplified“ by Tang Maohong is on view at ShanghART Singapore, running through the end of this month. “At the end of 20...
10/06/2026

“Simplified“ by Tang Maohong is on view at ShanghART Singapore, running through the end of this month.

“At the end of 2020, I returned from Seoul to Guilin. Due to the pandemic, I was quarantined in a hotel in Shenzhen for two weeks, during which I made some small acrylic paintings on paper. Working under limited conditions, I mixed paints directly on the surface of the work, using it as a palette. As a result, two things remained on the surface: the image I intended to paint, and the colours that would otherwise have stayed on the palette. Every colour thus appeared in duplicates.

This led me to consider reversing the process. If colours are mixed to create a painting, then painting itself can also become a way of mixing colours. In that sense, it becomes natural for the colour patches to remain on the surface and take part in the composition—the painting becomes a palette, where one paints on the palette itself. In the process of painting, the painted image and the color patches shape and complete each other, mutually causal, each with its own integrity.

This is not a new technique, but a way of presenting new relationships on the painted surface: the painted image and the paint that produces it together form a complete composition. These reflect my thoughts on “what to paint” and “how to paint“.

Why do I paint in this way? Because it makes me feel grounded.

What is painting? It is not about solving problems, but about holding myself accountable to time.”
—— Tang Maohong

Tang Maohong: Simplified
16 May - 28 Jun 2026
Wed - Sun: 12 - 6pm

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

“The World (Postcards)” by Lai Yu Tong is now on view at the Esplanade Tunnel running until 28 June 2026. This new serie...
04/06/2026

“The World (Postcards)” by Lai Yu Tong is now on view at the Esplanade Tunnel running until 28 June 2026. This new series consists of multiple postcard-sized works created between 2023 and 2024; each piece comprising both a drawing of a single material object or living presence encountered by the artist, and a postage stamp affixed to the upper corner, matching the drawing’s color. These works reflect on the shared experience of living, while quietly contemplating what images might await us upon our death.

Plan your visit to experience the show at the Esplanade Tunnel before it ends!

Lai Yu Tong: The World (Postcards)
19 Mar – 28 Jun 2026
Esplanade Tunnel, 1 Esplanade Drive, Singapore 038981

Image courtesy of Lai Yu Tong

“Alien 2 – Sleeping Hermaphroditos, Western Han Dynasty Female Musician Playing a Zither” by Xu Zhen is now on view at S...
31/05/2026

“Alien 2 – Sleeping Hermaphroditos, Western Han Dynasty Female Musician Playing a Zither” by Xu Zhen is now on view at ShanghART Singapore Annexe.

Drawing from both the Hermaphroditos of Greek mythology and a female figure from the Western Han Dynasty, the work brings together Eastern and Western visual traditions in a hybrid form, creating a juxtaposition akin to that of “Eternity–Buddha in Nirvana”. Through this unexpected encounter, Xu Zhen explores the intricacies, curiosity, and desire that emerge as different civilizations draw closer to one another.

XU ZHEN
Alien 2 - Sleeping Hermaphroditos, Western Han dynasty Female Musician Playing a Zither
2017–2018
Mineral-based composite, stainless steel, acrylic paint
130(H)*200*165cm
Edition of 3
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"Simplified" by Tang Maohong opened last Sat and continues to be on view at ShanghART Singapore. The act of painting typ...
22/05/2026

"Simplified" by Tang Maohong opened last Sat and continues to be on view at ShanghART Singapore.

The act of painting typically results in two outcomes - the image on the canvas and the mixed colours on the palette. This body of work stems from the approach of mixing colours directly on the painting surface instead of using a palette. This simple gesture collapses two planes into one, creating a mutually-influencing relationship within the same pictorial space.

Tang Maohong: Simplified
16 May - 28 Jun 2026
Wed - Sun: 12 - 6pm

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

Twenty years since Tang first exhibited in Singapore as part of the inaugural Singapore Biennale in 2006 with his animat...
16/05/2026

Twenty years since Tang first exhibited in Singapore as part of the inaugural Singapore Biennale in 2006 with his animation work "Sunday", the artist returns with a solo exhibition "Simplified", presenting his latest body of works.

Across two decades, Tang sought to refine and distill his approach in the pursuit of the same fundamental questions in our relationship with images.

Join us for the opening reception of the exhibition in the artist's presence later today at 4pm.

Image: Tang Maohong, Sunday, 2006, 5-channel animation video, 6mins

Happy Birthday to Tang Da Wu! Wishing the ever hardworking artist a renewed curiosity in his encounters with the world e...
12/05/2026

Happy Birthday to Tang Da Wu! Wishing the ever hardworking artist a renewed curiosity in his encounters with the world everyday, and may we learn from his spirit of raising questions in the everyday.

ShanghART Singapore is delighted to present Simplified, a solo exhibition by the Chinese artist Tang Maohong, opening on...
08/05/2026

ShanghART Singapore is delighted to present Simplified, a solo exhibition by the Chinese artist Tang Maohong, opening on next Sat, 16 May 2026 at 4pm. This exhibition brings together a selection of the artist’s latest paintings, developed extensively over the past year following his relocation to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It also marks his return to Singapore after his 2019 solo exhibition, and twenty years since his participation in the first Singapore Biennale.

Tang’s new body of work reflects a significant development in his practice, centered around explorations into the process of painting, and its relationship with the result. The act of painting typically results in two outcomes - the image on the canvas and the mixed colours on the palette. The works stem from the approach of mixing colours directly on the painting surface instead of using a palette. This simple gesture collapses two planes into one, creating a mutually-influencing relationship within the same pictorial space.

Tang Maohong: Simplified
Opening Reception: 16 May 2026, 4pm
16 May 2026 – 28 June 2026

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

Happy Birthday to Tang Maohong, who opened his solo exhibition "Noa Noa" in our Singapore space 7 years ago. He returns ...
03/05/2026

Happy Birthday to Tang Maohong, who opened his solo exhibition "Noa Noa" in our Singapore space 7 years ago. He returns to Singapore later this month with his latest body of paintings that he has been working on for the past few years, to be shown publicly for the first time in his exhibition "Simplified" opening mid-May.

Stay tuned to more information about the exhibition very soon.

Artwork image: Tang Maohong, Night Wave, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 91 x 4cm

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