Singapore Art Museum
71 Bras Basah Rd, Singapore 189555
Phone : +65 6589 9580
The Singapore Art Museum focuses on contemporary art practice in Singapore and Southeast Asia. It advocates and makes accessible interdisciplinary contemporary art through research-led and evolving curatorial practice.
Opened in January 1996, the Singapore Art Museum has built up one of the most important collections of contemporary art from the region.
Exhibitions change every few months and feature a wide range of art forms, from paintings and sculptures to installation art and moving media. SAM also regularly collaborates with leading international museums to present shows covering both local and international art practices, as well as cutting edge art expressions.
Housed in a restored 19th-century mission school, St Joseph’s Institute, SAM has more to offer than just art. Architecture lovers will have a field day too, exploring the carefully conserved building which was established in 1867. The original details of the building structure have been retained as much as possible, including the plasterwork of the façade at the main entrance, the roof patina, and floor tiles, while keeping in mind the stringent requirements of an art museum.
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Collections
SAM’s approach is to present works curated from the Permanent Collection alongside changing exhibitions, to offer a well-rounded aesthetic experience of Asian contemporary art. From 2001, the museum began acquiring works and accepting donations from around the region, including regional contemporary artists like Cheo Chai Hiang, Dinh Q Le, Natee Utarit, Nge Lay, Suzann Victor and Titarubi.
The museum also regularly partners with other leading art institutions to co-curate and produce exhibitions, such as the collaboration with Deutsche Bank and the Yokohama Museum of Art for Still Moving: A Triple Bill on the Image; Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art for Trans-Cool TOKYO (highlighting works by Japanese artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Yasumasa Morimura); and Video, An Art, A History with the Pompidou Center (Bill Viola, Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Nauman).
The museum organizes regularly contemporary art exhibitions and events. It has for example invited twice the French artist Stéphane Blanquet to present installations. Once for the Night Lights festival in 2012, with “Distorted Forest” and once for Art Gardens in 2013, with “Glossy Dreams in Depths”.
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Opening hours & Admission
Getting there : MRT : 2-minute walk from Bras Basah MRT Station. 10-minute walk from Bugis, Dhoby Ghaut or City Hall MRT stations.
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