Tilda Swinton narrates a one-night show in Golden Mile Tower for Singapore Art Week 2027

The headline act of Art Week is 30 minutes long, happens once and stars a melting sun.

Singapore Art Week's 15th edition runs from Thursday 21 to Sunday 31 January 2027, and the National Arts Council has published the programme. The headline for most people will be the smallest thing in it: on Friday 22 January, the artist Dawn Ng stages the world premiere of four chapters of The Last Sunset, a 30-minute, one-night-only live cinema performance on the fifth floor of Golden Mile Tower on Beach Road, with a live choir among the audience and a cast of narrators that includes Tilda Swinton. Tickets have not been announced; Nicoll Highway MRT is about 200m away.

The one thing you can book today is ART SG, the art fair, back for a fifth year at Marina Bay Sands Expo from 22 to 24 January, with S.E.A. Focus included in the ticket. Standard tickets are S$40 on the Friday and S$44 at the weekend, children 16 and under go free with an adult, and the fair is selling two tickets for the price of one until 11.59pm on 24 November. SG Culture Pass credits work for ART SG, S.E.A. Focus and the Art Week forum.

The rest is a long list, much of it free. Amanda Heng's A Pause, her Venice Biennale pavilion, comes home to Singapore Art Museum from 15 January to 23 May. ArtScience Museum opens an Es Devlin retrospective on 23 January. The Asian Civilisations Museum has the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang and a hundred masterpieces from the Louvre. Sun Xun's Magic Atlas fills the Esplanade tunnel from 22 January, an art bus returns to the roads, UOB Plaza becomes a projection screen from 20 January (best seen from the river in front of ACM), and up to 40 artists open their studios from 23 to 31 January. Pop after Pop at the National Gallery and Light to Night carry the pop theme across the Civic District.

Why it matters: Art Week can look like an insiders' fortnight of gallery openings and collectors' dinners. This edition is built for people who will never buy a painting, and the best of it costs nothing (art, it turns out, is cheapest when you walk past it).

Our advice: if you will go to ART SG anyway, buy before 24 November and take a friend; the Friday is cheaper and calmer. Follow @sgartweek for The Last Sunset, because a 30-minute show in one building will not hold many people. For everyone else, plan one evening around Light to Night and the UOB Plaza projection, and keep a Saturday for the open studios. What else is coming next year is in our Singapore in 2027 guide, and the fair's dates in our ART SG story.

Good to know Singapore Art Week 2027 (15th edition), 21-31 Jan 2027, organised by the National Arts Council, supported by STB; 100+ events. The Last Sunset by Dawn Ng: Fri 22 Jan 2027, Golden Mile Tower #05-00, 6001 Beach Road (199589), one night only, 30 minutes; ticketing not published (checked 13 Nov 2026); nearest MRT Nicoll Highway. ART SG (5th edition) with S.E.A. Focus: MBS Expo and Convention Centre, 22-24 Jan 2027 (vernissage 21 Jan, 6-9pm); Fri 22 Jan 12pm-7pm S$80 for two (concession S$68), Sat 23 Jan 11am-7pm and Sun 24 Jan 11am-6pm S$88 for two (concession S$74); under-16s free with a ticketed adult; two-for-one early-bird offer ends 24 Nov 2026 11.59pm (artsg.com). SG Culture Pass for ART SG, S.E.A. Focus and the SAW Forum. Amanda Heng: A Pause, Singapore Art Museum, 15 Jan-23 May 2027. Es Devlin retrospective, ArtScience Museum, from 23 Jan 2027. ACM: Sacred Caves: Dunhuang, Buddhism, and the Silk Road; Crosscurrents (100 masterpieces from the Musee du Louvre). Magic Atlas by Sun Xun, Esplanade Tunnel, 22 Jan-18 Jul 2027. ASEAN-Unite projection, UOB Plaza, 20-31 Jan 2027. Inside Insight Studio: up to 40 artists' studios, 23-31 Jan 2027, free visits and ticketed curator-led tours. Alighting in...1, 2, 3 art bus, 21-31 Jan 2027. Light to Night 15-31 Jan 2027.

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Singapore Art Week 2027 | Across Singapore; The Last Sunset at Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road, #05-00