Preview of ART SG 2026
Meno Parkas Gallery, LEE & BAE, kó, Commonwealth and Council, Patel Brown
ART SG returns for its fourth edition from 23 to 25 January 2026. The international art fair brings together more than 100 exhibitors from over 30 countries and territories. The 2026 edition marks the debut of S.E.A. Focus at ART SG with a themed presentation The Human Agency curated by John Tung. There are also new collaborations with Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, Singapore-based arts non-profit The Institutum, and the TVS Initiative for Indian and South Asian Contemporary Art.
ART SG Co-founder Magnus Renfrew emphasises the fair’s role as an integrated platform.“Through expanded programming, innovative curatorial initiatives, and strengthened partnerships, ART SG reinforces Singapore’s role as a vibrant hub and gateway to the region, amid the rising prominence of Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific contemporary art on the global stage,” says Renfrew.
Ahead of the fair’s opening, we speak with five participating galleries to find out about the artworks they are bringing to the fair.
Meno Parkas Gallery
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, The Swamp Observatory Eco-monsters of the Future Swamp, 2025, digital jacquard weaving, 112 x 142cm. Image courtesy of the artists and Meno Parkas Gallery.
Meno Parkas Gallery in Kaunas, Lithuania, was founded by the Lithuanian Artists Association in 1997. For their first participation at ART SG, the gallery curated a selection of works by Lithuanian artists Žilvinas Landzbergas, Simona Žemaitytė, and the duo Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. These artists are connected by their approach towards art as a form of investigation, bringing to the fore themes of mythology, embodied knowledge, ecology, and technological experimentation. Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas’s critically acclaimed Swamp project proposes wetlands as active sites of imagination. At the fair, the duo’s The Swamp Observatory Eco-monsters of the Future Swamp (2025) will be presented as an immersive constellation of textile works and digital interface.
Director Arvydas Žalpys hopes that the gallery’s debut at the fair will open pathways to future collaborations, art fairs, and international projects. “We see ART SG 2026 as a significant opportunity to introduce contemporary Lithuanian art to a region where it remains relatively underrepresented,” Žalpys explains. “As first-time participants, we also value the opportunity to build long-term partnerships, exchange knowledge with fellow galleries and artists, and position Meno Parkas Gallery within a broader global art network.”
LEE & BAE
Eun Lee, Sea – Day and Night, 2025, canvas, mixed clay, cobalt pigment, transparent glaze, 62× 62 × 6cm (2 pieces). Image courtesy of LEE & BAE.
Returning to ART SG for a third time, Busan-based LEE & BAE will bring to the fair artworks by Sungpil Chae, Eun Lee and Sangmin Lee. The three Korean artists are connected by their engagement with materials and space. For Eun Lee, the landscape is an image distilled from memory and sensation. Her work is made through a labour-intensive process of cutting and drying clay into various forms, and then painting each piece in cobalt blue. The clay pieces are consolidated into compositions that conjure vivid impressions of the sea in her hometown, Busan.
kó
Diana Ejaita, Exercises in Liberation IV, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 70cm. Image courtesy of kó Art Space.
Lago-based kó is participating in ART SG for the first time, and it is also the gallery’s debut presentation in Singapore. Their booth spans modern and contemporary practices, from early modernist painting of the 1960s to multimedia practices. Featuring artists from Africa Obiora Udechukwu, Modupeola Fadugba, and Diana Ejaita, their works explore themes of cultural identity and social history, with an emphasis on storytelling. Ejaita has Italian and Nigerian roots, and her practice embodies the idea of assembled histories. Her totemic compositions blend forms that resemble bodies, natural elements, and ritual objects, with references to West African literature and textile traditions.
Commonwealth and Council
Lotus L. Kang, Mother (Spore, 2022-2023), 2022-23, stainless steel mixing bowls, pigmented silicone, rubber, cast aluminum anchovies, cast aluminum Asian pears, cast aluminum chestnuts, cast aluminum lotus root, cast aluminum kelp knots, cast aluminum dried pear, cast aluminum cabbage, dried lotus tubers, nylon, hat, installation dimensions variable (10 parts). Photo by Paul Salveson. Image courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council.
Alongside Shanghai-based gallery Antenna Space, Commonwealth and Council from Los Angeles presents works by Jesse Chun, Kang Seung Lee, Leslie Martinez, Lotus L. Kang, and Rosha Yaghmai. These four artists share an interest in unpacking their inheritances, from personal histories to cultural knowledge, to consider how the narratives that shape our lives and worldviews can be expanded and reimagined. During the fair period, Kang’s work is also on view in Tanoto Art Foundation’s exhibition Rituals of Perception (2026).
Patel Brown
Marigold Santos, balancing precious ancestry (ochre hues), 2025, etching on paper with hand coloured pencil, 20 x 16in. Image courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery.
Patel Brown, which has spaces in Toronto and Montréal, Canada, brings together works by diasporic artists who have settled in Canada: Shaheer Zazai, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, and Marigold Santos. Across various mediums, their artworks speak to the multifarious reality of selfhood, as something assembled, layer by layer, through memory, migration, and material labour. A highlight is Santos’ work, which draws upon traditional Filipino needlework and contemporary tattooing. She transforms skin and surface into talismanic sites, ripe with flora, folklore, and ancestral symbols. Santos reconnects diasporic bodies to collective memory.
The gallery looks forward to expanding their reach beyond North America and to build visibility in Asian markets. “Participating in ART SG 2026 would place Patel Brown, a Canadian contemporary art gallery, on one of the most important art stages in Southeast Asia,” says the gallery’s spokesperson. “Equally important is the opportunity to learn from the region, discover new artists, and engage with different cultural perspectives that can inform future programming.”
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ART SG 2026 is happening from 23 to 25 January 2026, at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore. For more information, click here.