Light to Night Singapore 2025, a marquee event of Singapore Art Week, returns from 17 January to 6 February 2025 to transform the city's civic district into a captivating canvas of light, art, and innovation across core venues like The National Arts Gallery, The Arts House at the Old Parliament and The Padang.
Across three exciting, art-filled weeks, the city will light up with over 70 artworks and activities, including luminous projection mappings on iconic cultural landmarks, large-scale art installations, and engaging and immersive public programmes.
This year, the theme “Do You See Me?” explores the complex identities that make up our communities to prompt new perspectives on self, others, diversity and belonging. The festival, presented by National Gallery Singapore, also captures the nation’s multifaceted identities in celebration of SG60, and showcases unique perspectives those from lesser-seen communities.
Here are some must-see artworks:
1. Travelling Through the Tropical Rainforest by renowned local sculptor and Cultural Medallion recipient Han Sai Por. The six striking, large-scale inflatable sculptures at the Padang is a commentary on the interplay between the natural and urban environments in a city’s evolving landscape.
2. Projection mapping works by late printmaker and Cultural Medallion recipient Chng Seok Tin, painter and Cultural Medallion recipient Goh Beng Kwan, and the late batik artist Jaafar Latiff.
3. Claire Teo’s multi-sensory installation Through The Looking Glass (inspired by her experiences as a visually impaired individual), and TraseOne’s light projection Now You See Us? on the evolution of Singapore’s graffiti scene (projected on the facade of The Arts House at the Old Parliament). They shed light on lesser seen communities in Singapore while serving as a platform to tell their stories.
4. A Little Bead of Work by Singaporean artist Kray Chen at the Outdoor Lawn of The Arts House at the Old Parliament. This is an interactive installation that features thousands of glow-in-the-dark alphabet beads spread across nine shallow planter beds.
5. Blades, Shrapnel, a performative installation that features a roving live performance art piece by local artist Ang Song Nian. It is held at the Padang and Empress Lawn on selected days during the festival. The performance uses laser-emitting grass cutters to simulate synchronised grass-cutting activities, drawing attention to the unseen efforts that exist alongside our manicured landscapes.
6. Art X Social: Festival Street at St Andrew’s Road will take place across all three weekends with plenty of delicious food and beverage options for visitors to enjoy, alongside roving live performances and games.
7. Festival-goers may also look forward to a series of ticketed interactive artworks and programmes, including Singapore-based collective Rainshadow Studio’s Scarce City, an immersive installation experience which seeks to spark conversations on climate change and sustainability through interactive light gameplay.
Light to Night Singapore 2025, a marquee event of Singapore Art Week is from 17 January to 6 February 2025 at Singapore Civic Districts and galleries across National Arts Gallery, The Arts House at the Old Parliament, The Padang, Empress Lawn, Outdoor Lawn and Festival Street at St.Andrew’s Road. For more information on the Light to Night festival’s full line-up, visit lighttonight.sg.
