Don’t miss your last chance to discover exclusive Olafur Eliasson artworks in Singapore and explore additional exciting programmes during the final week of September
Venue: Gallery 1 & 3 and The Engine Room, Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Road, Singapore 089065
Date: 14 - 22 September 2024
Admission: Free
The renowned Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has successfully presented his first major solo exhibition in Southeast Asia. After four incredible months in Singapore, Olafur Eliasson: Your Curious Journey is coming to an end. However, the Singapore Art Museum is offering a special treat where you can visit the exhibition for free from 14 to 22 September 2024.
Look forward to other exciting programmes during your visit. Scroll down for more details!
More About Olafur Eliasson: Your Curious Journey
This exhibition showcases 17 mesmerising artworks that employ diverse media, reflecting the diversity of Eliasson’s wide-ranging oeuvre throughout his three-decade-long practice — exploring embodiment, experience, perception, the urgency of climate action, and more-than-human perspectives.
What makes it even more special is that you'll come across never-before-seen works and Singapore-exclusive installations, only available at this leg of the traveling show.
From the moment you step into the venue, you will be immediately greeted by Yellow Corridor (1997), a row of mono-frequency yellow lights illuminates the passageway between Galleries 1 and 2, creating an uncanny somatic experience where your visual spectrum is desaturated and washed in shades of grey.
The work reflects Eliasson’s interest in co-creation with his audiences, where their unique first-person perspective completes the experience.
You can also experience this concept in The Cubic Structural Evolution Project (2004), one of two Singapore-only exclusives. You’re invited to actively participate in building and transforming a LEGO cityscape, which comes to life through your creativity and involvement.
With piles of white LEGO bricks waiting for you to build imaginative structures, this space encourages you to collaborate, play, and create something special together with others.
The exhibition also explores Eliasson’s use of ephemeral and intangible materials like light, wind, fog, and water to create fleeting phenomena, allowing you to experience these invisible elements of the surroundings more directly. You can find another exclusive work in Symbiotic Seeing (2020).
As colored laser lights meet bursts of fog, you will witness a captivating spectacle that seems to hover between physical states. As the fog swirls above, following your movements, you’ll find yourselves directly involved in shaping your surroundings—turning the experience into a memorable moment shared both personally and together.
For more information on the exhibition, you can click here.
Check Out Other Fun Programmes
1. Supersized Weekend: CURIO CITY at SAM
Venue: SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Date: 14 September 2024 (11am - 10:30pm) & 15 September 2024 (11am - 5pm)
Admission: $5
Get ready for a weekend full of festivities at SAM! On 14 and 15 September, let’s participate in a lively two-day programme featuring live music performances from local talents, a makers market, participatory art walls and delicious food and drinks.
CURIO CITY invites the public to celebrate the unseen, the overlooked, and the possibilities that lie in shifting your point of view. Furthermore, with an admission ticket, you can enjoy free admission to not one, but three SAM galleries: Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey, Learning Gallery and the newly-opened Everyday Practices. It is definitely not a weekend to be missed at SAM Tanjong Pagar Distripark!
2. The ELEMENTAL Tour
Venue: Gallery 1 & The Engine Room, SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
Date: 21 September 2024 (2pm - 3pm & 4pm - 5pm)
Admission: Free, registration is required
Experience the final run of The ELEMENTAL Tour, a dramatised, family-friendly tour on Saturday, 21 September. Join Elemental, a playful spirit who speaks in rhyme, as you explore the exhibition Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey and gain a deeper understanding of the artworks.
With interactive elements and in-gallery activities, this free-of-charge tour is perfect for both kids and adults to learn more about Olafur Eliasson’s artistry and enjoy a fun day out together!
Free Shuttle Bus Service
To make your visit even easier, SAM offers a free shuttle bus service between Harbourfront MRT Station Exit D and SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark on weekends and public holidays.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to catch the final week of Olafur Eliasson’s special exhibition before it moves on to its next destination!
Image courtesy of the artist and Singapore Art Museum
