A Year of Extraordinary Women

A Year of Extraordinary Women
ArtScience Museum 2024 Programme Line Up
23 January 2024

On Monday 23 January 2024 we had a very unique event in ArtScience Museum. We had the great pleasure of revealing our exhibition line-up for 2024, along with the theme which is guiding our work this year.

This is the first time we have announced our line-up in advance, and we were very excited to be able to do this in the company of our International Advisory Board, our colleagues from STB, friends from the art, culture and science community from Singapore, and members of the local and international media. Our major exhibitions this year are shows that we feel will shake up the cultural calendar in 2024. There is a theme which unites our programming this year:

2024 will be ArtScience Museum’s Year of Extraordinary Women.

We plan major shows that examine, celebrate, and uncover the stories of women whose lives have influenced society throughout the decades. The exhibitions range from inspiring artists to screen legends. Our exhibitions and programmes this year will explore and celebrate the stories of women who have challenged narratives, defied expectations, and transcended conventions. By bringing focus to the gender revolutionaries of the silver screen, one of the most influential artists of all time in as well as curating programmes throughout the year that focus on women in art and science, we will make 2024 a landmark year for ArtScience Museum.

Our Year of Extraordinary Women has already begun. New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed, running till 3 March, reveals new perspectives on the traditionally male-dominated genre of science fiction through the work of 24 women artists and collectives from Asia. They include major figures in contemporary art including Mariko Mori, Lee Bul, Shilpa Gupta, Patty Chang, and Sputniko!.

Installation shot, In a New Light chapter, New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed, ArtScience Museum

The celebration of Extraordinary Women continued with a focus on the work of Cao Fei, one of China’s most important contemporary artists. Cao Fei has two artworks in New Eden, and is the subject of the cinematic retrospective, Technotopias: A Cao Fei Multiverse. Taking place here in ArtScience Cinema, Technotopias presents the South East Asian premieres of a selection films by Cao Fei, including the critically acclaimed ‘Asia One’ commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum, the short works, ‘La Town’ and ‘The Midnight Wanderer’, and her recent sci-fi feature film, ‘Nova’. Cao Fei’s remarkable career spans two decades and she is the perfect artists to launch our Year of Extraordinary Women with.

The programme is documented here: https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/events/cao-fei-technotopias.html

Technotopias: A Cao Fei Multiverse.ArtScience Cinema

The year continues with three exhibitions which I will be sharing soon, including an exhibition I have been trying to bring to Singapore for all of the ten years I have been here!
I’ll write more about those shows shortly.

See more here: https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/year-of-extraordinary-women.html