Performances

ART + LIVE

Art + Live is a series of online multidisciplinary artistic programmes. All programmes will be streamed on the Gallery’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

RESONATES WITH

Sat | 2.30–3pm and 4pm (if performed live) Our monthly concert series invites young and professional musicians to respond to the themes found in our artworks and exhibitions. The sessions will also be available on our Facebook page after the livestream.

Upcoming concerts: Melvyn Tan for Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century 22 May

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for Gallery Children's Biennale 2021: Why Art Matters 29 May

Margaret Leng Tan for Siapa Nama Kamu?: Art in Singapore since the 19th Century, Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century and Something New Must Turn Up: Six Singaporean Artists After 1965 19 June

Fauxe for NG TENG FENG ROOF GARDEN COMMISSION: ANTONY GORMLEY (live) 26 June

TALKS

ARTIST TOUR: GOH BENG KWAN

Sat 29 May | 11am–noon | City Hall Wing, Level 2, Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery | Free, registration required Join this special tour of the exhibition Nervous City, guided by artist Goh Beng Kwan himself. Hear directly from the esteemed artist on how his works were shaped by the epochal era during the 1960s–1980s, when New York and Singapore were rapidly modernising and artists were pushing boundaries of concept, discipline, medium and materials. Nervous City is part of Something New Must Turn Up: Six Singaporean Artists After 1965.

IN-GALLERY SESSIONS

Join us every third Saturday of the month at 11am and listen to Gallery curators, artists, and practitioners discuss the processes and narratives behind selected works in an intimate setting. This series is held within the DBS Singapore Gallery and the UOB Southeast Asia Gallery, and prompts closer examination of artworks that are on display.

ROTUNDA LIBRARY & ARCHIVE

Situated in the heart of the former Supreme Court, where the legal reference library was once located, the Rotunda Library & Archive offers visitors a gateway to the Gallery’s extensive collection of reference and archival materials focusing on 19th to 20th-century art of Singapore and Southeast Asia, and provides a welcoming environment for reading and research.

The Library & Archive collection consists of approximately 20,000 archival and nearly 10,000 reference materials. Of these, the archives consist of artists’ primary resources such as letters, writings, interviews, recordings of performances, sketches and drawings, as well as press clippings and other exhibition-related ephemera. The resources continue to grow thanks to the generous support of artists and their families, collectors and other collaborators.

For assistance or enquiries, please write to library.archive@nationalgallery.sg. You may also access a large selection of resources from our artwork and Library & Archive collections on our Collections Search Portal at collections.nationalgallery.sg.

OPERATING HOURS: Mon–Fri 10am–2.30pm, 2–5pm, Wed 12 & 26 May Closed

ACCESS OVER 4,000 ARTWORKS AND 7,000 ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

*The hours may be changed in accordance with the Government’s latest COVID-19 advisory. Please check the Gallery’s website and social media for latest information.