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National Gallery Singapore joins with Centre Pompidou for inaugural exhibition

June 26, 2015

Singapore's National Gallery is to set up shop in the former Supreme Court and City Hall buildings in the city's Civic District and will set out to offer one of the largest collections of modern art in Singapore and Southeast Asia. – Reuters pic, June 26, 2015.The soon-to-opened National Gallery Singapore has announced a partnership with Paris's Centre Pompidou that will bring a major exhibition of Southeast Asian artworks to the new institution.

Opening in October of this year, Singapore's National Gallery is to set up shop in the former Supreme Court and City Hall buildings in the city's Civic District and will set out to offer one of the largest collections of modern art in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

The institution has now revealed plans to collaborate with several international institutions on its series of exhibitions, beginning with the Centre Pompidou, which houses a significant collection of modern and contemporary art.

In the second quarter of 2016, the two museums will present a co-curated exhibition in Singapore about reframing modernism, examining the relationship between art of Singapore, Southeast Asia and the rest of the world. More than 200 works are expected to be displayed, with more than half coming from the Centre Pompidou.

Future exhibition partners will include institutions in Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan and the Netherlands.

The collaboration is the Centre Pompidou's latest move outside France: earlier this year it opened a five-year pop-up in Malaga, Spain, and in May The Art Newspaper reported that the museum's president was in talks with Chinese officials regarding several joint projects, including possible pop-ups across the country. – AFP, June 26, 2015.