
Exhibition preview·Singapore
ART SG teams with Artspace Sydney on a Pinaree Sanpitak takeover of Singapore heritage venue 72-13
ART SG has announced a January 2027 Singapore presentation by Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak, the second chapter of a three-year collaboration with Artspace Sydney. Titled How We Hold What's Possible — Movement II and curated by Victor Wang, the 11-day exhibition turns the former rice warehouse 72-13 into a space mixing artworks, plants, food, performance and conversation.
ART SG is extending its programme beyond the fair calendar with a major Singapore presentation by Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak. The exhibition, How We Hold What's Possible — Movement II, opens with a reception on 20 January and runs 21 to 30 January 2027. It is curated by Victor Wang, executive director of Artspace in Sydney, and staged in collaboration with ART SG. The project forms the second chapter of a three-year partnership between Sanpitak and Artspace. For Singapore, the artist will take over the upper floor of 72-13, a heritage building that once served as a rice warehouse and is now home to the transdisciplinary arts company T:>Works, which joins as presenting partner. Works drawn from more than four decades of her practice will be arranged as a living environment where sculpture, plants, scent, food, performance and discussion meet, and the space will keep evolving across its eleven days. The exhibition centres on the body as a place of connection, contemplation and exchange. A new activation of Breast Stupa Cookery, developed with Chef Ivan Brehm of Nouri Restaurant, carries that thinking into food and hospitality. The title work Gathering Tables Gather depicts a table rooted with recurring Sanpitak motifs — breast clouds, breast stupas, offering vessels — all linked together, reflecting the building's history and the ingredients of the gatherings it will host. Wang has said the collaboration is built over time, on trust and shared curiosity, connecting communities across Thailand, Australia and Singapore. Sanpitak, long recognised for her breast-stupa motif fusing a sacred Buddhist icon with symbols of femininity and fertility, has spent decades exploring the multi-faceted narratives around these familiar forms. The Singapore chapter invites the public to gather, share, eat, listen and contribute alongside the works.


