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Andy Warhol may be Pop Art's poster boy, but he's far from the whole picture. National Gallery Singapore's upcoming blockbuster exhibition is here to fill in the blanks.
Set to be Southeast Asia’s largest group exhibition dedicated to Pop Art, Pop after Pop: Art around Us will land at the gallery on December 11, housing more than 200 artworks by over 100 artists spread across four exhibitions. The show is massive – it stretches across the Singtel Special Exhibition Galleries 1 and 2, Gallery 3, the Ngee Ann Kongsi Gallery on B1 and even spills into public spaces throughout the museum.
This is National Gallery Singapore's first-ever collaboration with New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, bringing together major loans from the Guggenheim alongside works from the Gallery's own collection, as well as private and institutional lenders.
Pop Art has been around since the 1950s. In this exhibition, you’ll get acquainted with one of the world’s most famous art movements, while exploring how it has travelled across borders, evolved over decades and continues to influence contemporary art today.
Yes, the big names will all be present – Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Barbara Kruger included. But the real draw lies in how the exhibition pairs these icons with Southeast Asian artists who reworked Pop Art's visual vocabulary to reflect their own cultures, politics and lived experiences.
Among them are Singapore's Ming Wong, Indonesia's FX Harsono, the Philippines' Antipas Delotavo and Thailand's Manit Sriwanichpoom, whose works tackle everything from politics and consumer culture to urban life and identity. But instead of simply echoing Western Pop Art, these artists turned familiar imagery from advertising, newspapers and everyday life into sharp commentaries on the societies they lived in. Their works come in all sorts of mediums – think paintings, sculptures, prints, installations and moving-image works.
Pop after Pop: Art around Us runs from December 11, 2026 to April 4, 2027 across several exhibition galleries and public spaces at National Gallery Singapore. Tickets cost $15 for Singaporeans and PRs and $25 for foreign residents and tourists, while Gallery Insiders members enjoy unlimited admission to the exhibition as part of their membership.
Find out more about the exhibition here.
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