Singapore Biennale 2025

Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention

As Singapore marks SG60, the Singapore Biennale 2025 (SB2025) invites audiences from all walks of life to rediscover our city’s evolving identity through contemporary art, experiencing Singapore through its many layers built by all those who have been a part of its history, collectively creating a city that is as planned as it is full of discovery, surprises, and interesting juxtapositions.

Guided by the concept of 'pure intention', SB2025 transforms spaces across the city—such as colonial landmarks reimagined as public spaces, green areas repurposed for recreation, and shopping centres that serve as vibrant social hubs for diverse communities—into settings for fresh perspectives and quiet reflection. Through this, the Biennale reveals a rapidly changing urban environment built upon inextricable layers of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial history.

Through an exploration of art in everyday environments, audiences will be engaged to see familiar spaces in Singapore with fresh eyes and new perspectives, paying attention to the rituals, histories, lived experiences and aspirations that have shaped our environments and urban lives.

SB2025 is organised by Singapore Art Museum, commissioned by the National Arts Council, Singapore, and supported by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth.

Find out more on singaporebiennale.org, and follow us on Instagram (@sgbiennale) and Facebook (@singaporebiennale) for updates.


About the Singapore Biennale

The Singapore Biennale was established in 2006 as the country’s pre-eminent platform for international dialogue in contemporary art. It presents and reflects the vigour of artistic practices in Singapore and the region within a global context, and fosters productive collaborations and deep engagement with artists, arts organisations, and the international arts community.

The Singapore Biennale cultivates public engagement with contemporary art through a period of concerted activities including exhibitions, public engagement and education programmes that feature artist and curator talks and tours, school visits and workshops, and community days. It complements achievements in other areas of arts and culture, collectively enhancing Singapore’s international profile as a vibrant city in which to live, work and play.

Artists (as of published date)

This list is current as of September 2025, with further participants to be announced closer to the opening.

Venues

This edition of the Singapore Biennale will showcase art in several public spaces throughout Singapore, weaving curatorial and cultural conversations into everyday life. From 31 October 2025 to 29 March 2026, the public can look forward to discovering unexpected visual connections at familiar locations, ranging from urban to natural environments within Singapore’s extensive landscape, spread across the island.

Civic District area

  • Fort Canning Centre

  • Fort Canning Lighthouse

  • Fort Canning MRT Station

  • Fort Gate

  • National Gallery Singapore

  • Oldham Theatre

  • Old Married Soldiers Quarters

  • Raffles House Lawn

Rail Corridor area

  • Tanglin Halt

  • Blenheim Court

  • Various outdoor spaces and green spaces

  • Harbourfront MRT Station

Orchard area

  • Far East Shopping Centre

  • Lucky Plaza

  • Orchard MRT Station

  • 20 Anderson Road

Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark

Admission ticket required. 

Ticketing

Early Bird Tickets Now Available – Ends 30 October 2025 (Save 20%; Culture Pass credits accepted)

Early Bird Prices (incl. of booking fee1)

Standard - Adult

SGD 20 (U.P. SGD 25)

Standard - Student / Teacher

SGD 16.00 (U.P. SGD 20)

Standard - Senior2

SGD 16.00 (U.P. SGD 20)

Local - Adults

SGD 12.00 (U.P. SGD 15)

Local - Seniors2

SGD 8.00 (U.P. SGD 10)

1 Prices inclusive of booking fee will be reflected at checkout

2 For persons aged 60 years and above