Common Grounds – Gallery Open House at National Gallery Singapore

Thinking of how to spend your weekend? Visit the Gallery’s community open house where you will get to enjoy a fun day out with family and friends!

The Gallery’s upsized weekend festival, Common Grounds features a wide variety of exciting programmes and interactive activities all over the Gallery, throughout the day. Grab an activity trail map, complete the activities and receive a prize (while stock last)!

Watch captivating performances at the Padang Atrium, play old-school games at the pop-up market streetscape, eat snacks of Singapore’s yesteryears and take advantage of the multiple Instagrammable photo opportunities with life-sized 3D artworks! There’s something for everyone.

Things to Look Out For

Art Alive!

Strike a pose at the 3D photo backdrops and floor vinyl as the Gallery brings artworks from the exhibitions to life. Dry salted fish with the women from Cheong Soo Pieng’s Drying Salted Fish, play with the lions in Raden Saleh’s Forest Fire, or sit on a sampan in Liu Kang’s Life by the River.

Nostalgic Pop-Up Market

Relive the markets of the past with a pop-up street scape at the Gallery’s basement concourse. Take part in nostalgic games like chapteh or pick-up sticks. You can even try a hand at calligraphy, silkscreen or papercutting at the various stations in the pop-up market. Feeling peckish? Enjoy traditional snacks like kacang putih sold at the Padang Atrium!

Family Fun

waken the natural curiosities in your children and stretch their imagination to a whole new level! Designed in collaboration with art practitioners, Family Weekends feature a line-up of parent-child interactive programmes that use the Gallery’s collection as a springboard to introduce little ones to art.

Fusion Music Performances

Catch French and Southeast Asian-inspired fusion music performances throughout the day, in conjunction with the ongoing special exhibition, Reframing Modernism. From the traditional to the contemporary, from jazz to world music, it will be a feast for the ears at the Padang Atrium.