Pop after Pop: Art around Us

The soup cans are coming. So is everyone who answered them from this side of the world.

If you think you already know what pop art looks like, this is the show to test that, and it is a ready answer to the wet school-holiday afternoon. Pop after Pop: Art around Us runs at National Gallery Singapore from 11 December 2026 to 4 April 2027, with more than 200 works by over 100 artists, and the Gallery bills it as Southeast Asia's largest Pop Art group exhibition. The compromise is size: it won't fit into a quick hour, so start with the artists you don't know while you are fresh, and check the exhibition page for prices and timed entry before you go.

It is the Gallery's first collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, and the household names turn up as promised: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Barbara Kruger among them. The more interesting part is who they share the billing with: Southeast Asian artists including Ming Wong, FX Harsono and Manit Sriwanichpoom. The 'after' in the title is where we would spend our time, on what pop became once it travelled rather than where it started.

Don't expect it to stay politely in one room. The Star reports that it will spread across several gallery spaces and public areas of the building, so leave time for the corridors as well as the galleries. With the UOB Southeast Asia Gallery shut for renewal until late 2027, a show that hangs regional artists beside global names fills a noticeable gap.

Pop art usually gets told as an American story of soup cans and comic strips. This one has the floor space to argue otherwise, and a December opening that puts it squarely in the school holidays.

Good to know 11 December 2026 to 4 April 2027 at National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew's Road (nearest MRT: City Hall). Ticket prices are reported but not confirmed by us; check the Gallery's exhibition page for prices, child rates and timed entry.

Pop after Pop: Art around Us | National Gallery Singapore, 1 St Andrew's Road, Singapore 178957 | Nearest MRT: City Hall