About this Event
Join the Biennale Bicycle Tours for a unique journey through Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention.
The Biennale Bicycle Tours will offer participants a moving journey—both physically across Singapore’s heritage core, and conceptually across layers of intention, identity, and transformation. Cycling becomes more than transport: it is a metaphor for momentum, continuity, and navigating flux—resonating with SB2025’s exploration of Singapore’s multifaceted identity and the pure, yet sometimes complex intentions that shape urban change.
Conducted by local tour guides of Let's Go Tour Singapore, these tours are held in conjunction with Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention, organised by Singapore Art Museum.
Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention presents contemporary art in multiple venues and public spaces, inviting audiences of all walks of life to experience Singapore’s many layers built by all of those who have been a part of its history, collectively creating a city that is as planned as it is full of discovery, surprises and interesting juxtapositions.
Through an exploration of art in everyday environments, audiences will be engaged to see familiar spaces in Singapore with fresh eyes and new perspectives, paying attention to the rituals, histories, lived experiences and aspirations that have shaped our environments and urban lives.
As part of the SG60 celebrations, the Biennale offers Singaporeans an opportunity to reflect on the nation’s historic milestones and shared aspirations while imagining possible collective futures.
The Biennale will engage with spaces ranging from pre-colonial and colonial landmarks transformed into public, green areas repurposed for recreation, residential neighbourhoods and lived spaces, to shopping centres that have evolved into social spaces for Singapore’s diverse communities.
About Singapore Biennale
The Singapore Biennale was established in 2006 as the country’s pre-eminent platform for international dialogue in contemporary art. It presents and reflects the vigour of artistic practices in Singapore and the region within a global context, and fosters productive collaborations and deep engagement with artists, arts organisations, and the international arts community.
The Singapore Biennale cultivates public engagement with contemporary art through a period of concerted activities including exhibitions, public engagement and education programmes that feature artist and curator talks and tours, school visits and workshops, and community days. It complements achievements in other areas of arts and culture, collectively enhancing Singapore’s international profile as a vibrant city in which to live, work and play.
The 2006 and 2008 editions of the Biennale were organised by the National Arts Council (NAC). NAC has commissioned SAM to organise the Biennale since 2011.
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Facebook: @singaporebiennale
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Website: https://singaporebiennale.org/
About Let's Go Tour Singapore
Founded in 2013, Let's Go Tour Singapore is a multiple award-winning licensed Tour Operator that specialises in Experiential Tourism. Our wide variety of tours include Bike Tours, Cooking Tours, Boat Tours, Educational Learning Journeys and more. Priding ourselves on our innovation and passion, Let’s Go Tour Singapore is delighted to be the proud recipient of Singapore Tourism Board’s Tourism Award for 4 years consecutively.
Agenda
Lavender → Fort Canning (Bukit Larangan & Spice Garden)
Info: Riders begin in Lavender, a site symbolic of working-class roots and urban renewal, before ascending Bukit Larangan (Forbidden Hill) — where myth, kingship, and colonial conquest converge. The hill represents Singapore’s earliest myths of origin and later colonial intentions of power and order. This aligns with SB2025’s questioning of “pure intention”—what does it mean to build a city from myth, trade, or conquest? Then, we explore the Spice Garden via the escalator. Spices were once the purest drivers of exploration, yet also instruments of exploitation. This tension reflects the Biennale’s dialogue between tradition and modernity, desire and domination, and connects to works like Feudal Fields, which interrogates land, labour, and power.
Fort Canning Centre (Biennale Exhibitions)
Info: Here, historical narratives meet global contemporary artworks, situating Singapore’s story within international conversations about land, migration, ecology, and memory. The juxtaposition of Fort Canning’s heritage from Early Kings to Colonial Era to World War, with Biennale works such as Flowers for Africa and White Noise Zen Fountain reminds us how monuments are both constructed and forgotten. The artworks here frame Singapore’s urban and historical contradictions alongside global narratives of memory, ecology, and resilience.
Waterloo Street (Streets of Harmony)
Info: The bike tour concludes as we cycle through Waterloo Street: a living streetscape of temples, mosques, and churches, embodying coexistence, plurality, and the evolving social fabric of the city. The coexistence of Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian sites shows how pure intentions of faith and belonging can shape inclusive spaces. This resonates with Biennale Objectives, to explore the interconnectedness between humans, nature, and the larger ecosystem.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Let's Go Tour Singapore, Block 462 Crawford Lane, Singapore, Singapore
SGD 30.00
