The Print Show & Symposium 2027: Cosmos & Constellations 21.01.2027 — 13.02.2027

About The Event

The Print Show & Symposium Singapore returns to Singapore Art Week 2027 from 21 January – 13 February 2027. Centred on the theme Cosmos & Constellations, the double-bill programme charts the expanded field of printmaking across historical and contemporary moments, exploring alternative modes of knowing, perceiving and inhabiting the world. Bringing together leading print publishers, artists, thinkers and curators, the programme includes a major group exhibition, and a dynamic two-day forum of talks and discussions.

The Print Show
21 January – 13 February 2027

Across cultures and time, the cosmos has long been an imaginative and generative realm, while print and paper has been the axis along which celestial images and texts were recorded, reproduced and circulated. In collaboration with leading print publishers and galleries, this group exhibition brings together 34 artists and artist collectives whose works can be read in relation to diverse ideas and concepts around the cosmos. Beyond charts and cartographies, they reframe our understandings of time, power, spiritualities and societies by offering alternative perspectives of how we can understand and locate ourselves in the world, today. Here, viewers are invited to question how our beliefs and relationships with planetary challenges—technological and environmental—are complicated by artistic gestures through print and paper.

Featured artists include: Rita Ackermann (Hauser & Wirth), Miya Ando (Sundaram Tagore Gallery), Ana Benaroya (Two Palms), Vija Celmins (Gemini G.E.L.), Nanna Debois Buhl (BORCH Editions), Fyerool Darma (Yeo Workshop), Agnes Denes (acb Galéria), Olafur Eliasson (BORCH Editions), Chitra Ganesh (Atelier Prati), Antony Gormley (Cristea Roberts Gallery), Irfan Hendrian (Sullivan + Strumpf), Jitish Kallat (Nature Morte), Minjung Kim (STPI), Josh Kline (STPI), Lee Bul (STPI), Candice Lin (François Ghebaly), Lin Tianmiao (STPI), Christian Marclay (STPI), Takesada Matsutani (Hauser & Wirth), Emma McIntyre (David Zwirner), John Pule & Gregory O'Brien (Bowen Galleries), Zelin Seah (Richard Koh Fine Art), Shambhavi (STPI), Jangarh Singh Shyam (Museum of Art & Photography), Kiki Smith (Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art), Hiroshi Sugimoto (Gallery Koyanagi), Melati Suryodarmo (STPI), Sarah Sze (LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies), Rirkrit Tiravanija (STPI), James Turrell (Pace Prints), Matthew Weinstein (Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art), Xu Chaojun (Daniel Crouch Rare Books), Haegue Yang (STPI), and Yee I-Lann & Collaborators (Silverlens).

The Print Show is organised in conjunction with The Symposium 2027. 

The Symposium
22 January 2027, 11.30AM – 5.30PM
23 January 2027, 11AM – 6PM

Over two days of dynamic conversations and debates, The Symposium gathers speakers and audiences spanning artistic contexts to map how frameworks, pathways and orientations are continually made and remade across diverse modes of cultural production.

Considering the legacies of print and paper in worldmaking, discussions will revolve around the role of print workshops as cosmic hubs for artistic innovation and exchange; constellations of organised collaboration that can revolutionise visual culture; Indigenous worldviews which remap mainstream cosmologies; and the celestial convergences between divination, algorithmic programming and contemporary art.

Together, these exchanges will trace the shifts and trajectories within artistic worlds today—from decentralised, local epistemologies to global systems of cultural capital and circulation, and back again.

Curated by Stephanie Bailey.

DAY ONE

Keynote Talk | New Cartographies: Printmaking in an Expanded Field
22 January 2027, 11.30AM – 1PM

Anchoring this discussion between artist Christian Marclay and curator Sarah Suzuki is Print/Out, MoMA’s landmark survey of printmaking in modern and contemporary art. The exhibition featured works by artists drawn from MoMA’s collection, including those of Marclay’s, which began in 1929 with eight prints and one drawing. In conjunction with Print/Out, Suzuki and artist Ellen Gallagher organised Printin’, a group show of prints, drawings, films, books, photographs, sculptures, videos, and comics from the 17th century onwards that challenged what print is and can be. Fifteen years later, Marclay and Suzuki reflect on where print has travelled and how their work has evolved alongside it.

Roundtable | Navigating the Workshop: Transformations in Practice
22 January 2027, 2PM – 3.30PM

From historic partnerships between artists and master printers to STPI's contemporary residency programme, print and papermaking workshops are vital sites of experimental exchange between artists and technicians. Considering how these collaborations can transform artistic and specialist practice in unexpected ways, upcoming STPI resident Ho Tzu Nyen will chair a discussion with former residents Melati Suryodarmo and Haegue Yang alongside STPI Workshop Director Oh Thiam Guan, to think about the possibilities and challenges arising from these material and technical encounters.

Roundtable | Social Praxis: The Studio as Site and Situation
22 January 2027, 4PM – 5.30PM

Print technologies have long shaped how visual cultures and ideas circulate in mainstream, peripheral, and underground networks, where collective forms of practice are organised through relationships between artists, writers, editors, printers, publishers, distributors, and readers. How do practitioners build the infrastructures through which their work circulates, and when do those frameworks become integral to the practice? This roundtable with Cassandra Press, New Pessimism Studio, and kekahi wahi considers the studio not simply as a site of production but as an organisational form unto itself.

DAY TWO

Roundtable | Future Cosmologies: After Paper, After Patriarchy
23 January 2027, 11AM – 12.30PM

This discussion explores the material surfaces and pictorial traditions that artists inherit as spaces where colonial and patriarchal histories can be challenged, reimagined, and remade. From Citra Sasmita's recasting of Kamasan painting, a tradition historically dominated by men, and Chitra Ganesh's reframing of 20th century comic-book traditions through feminist perspectives, to Angela Tiatia's films conceived as digital tapa, drawing on Polynesian ceremonial bark cloth, what stories are artists reweaving? What cosmologies are being remapped in the process?

Crit Club: Art in the Age of Generative Reproduction
23 January 2027, 1.30PM – 4PM

CLOSING PANEL | Where to Now? Maps to Multipolar Art Worlds
23 January 2027, 4.30pm – 6PM

Today, the idea of a singular ‘Art World’ is being challenged by formulations that reflect an expanding mosaic of artistic worlds. Yet as artistic centres multiply and long-held industry distinctions become increasingly porous, do these challenges signal a genuine redistribution of cultural power or are they reinscribing existing systems of validation and circulation? This closing roundtable brings together perspectives from across artistic practice, criticism, the market, and museum leadership, to review the current state of the arts.