What's On
Everything happening now and upcoming with DECK
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Plan Your Visit2025-11-07 – 2028-07-01
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Open CallOpen Call: 10th Singapore Young Photographer Award
2026-01-01 – 2026-12-31
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Exhibition2026-06-01 – 2027-02-01
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At DECK, we offer unique perspectives, interviews, and stories in the world of photography.
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FestivalSingapore International Photography Festival (SIPF)
In each biennial edition, the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) hosts some of the biggest names in photography, uncovers new talents, and promotes understanding of the world and society through creative photographic expressions.
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Research & CuratorialThe DECK Associate Creative Programme offers creative thinkers from around the world an opportunity to create and disseminate new knowledge pertaining to the photographic medium, its associated practices, and its transformations. The programme seeks to connect voices in the global exchange of visual culture through the development of new research and programming.
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Research & CuratorialThe DECK Associate Creative Programme offers creative thinkers from around the world an opportunity to create and disseminate new knowledge pertaining to the photographic medium, its associated practices, and its transformations. The programme seeks to connect voices in the global exchange of visual culture through the development of new research and programming.
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Artist SpotlightThe DECK Associate Creative Programme offers creative thinkers from around the world an opportunity to create and disseminate new knowledge pertaining to the photographic medium, its associated practices, and its transformations. The programme seeks to connect voices in the global exchange of visual culture through the development of new research and programming.
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ResidencyA year-round programme at DECK that aims to nurture new and experimental photographic endeavours in Singapore and Asia.
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Festival
Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF)
In each biennial edition, the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) hosts some of the biggest names in photography, uncovers new talents, and promotes understanding of the world and society through creative photographic expressions.
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EducationDECK Student Education Programme was launched in 2012 with the primary goal of elevating the levels of visual literacy amongst our primary, secondary and tertiary level students. We firmly believe that Photography is a powerful means of personal expression and an intuitive way to communicate how we see our world. By developing our student’s photographic line of inquiry, our courses are designed in mind to not only to equip our young people with the essential technical skills, but to also enable them with the visual vocabulary to express creative ideas through Photography.
All Hands on DECK is our invitation to you, a way to belong to something bigger than a membership. By becoming a DECKer, you help keep independent photography alive, relevant, and open to all. You show up for the artists, the exhibitions, and the creative community we are building together.
Find your place, from Ground to Star:
🌱 Ground DECK — $15/month
🎞️ Main DECK — $28/month
⭐ Star of DECK — $600/year
✨ Ace of DECK — our highest calling to build the future with us
Every tier opens the door to exclusive member events, meaningful connections with artists and fellow DECKers, and a hand in shaping DECK`s permanent home, a place for all of us to belong.
Be a DECKer. Find your place among us → link in bio
All Hands on DECK artwork by Theseus Chan ⚡️ (@theseuschanwork)
In the blink of an eye, it`s been four months since Undescribed #11 opened! A huge thank you to everyone who came down to see the works, or joined us for either of our programmes. ❤️
Before the exhibition concludes its run tomorrow, we asked Cavin Lim, Jay Lim, Lydia Koh, Syed Abdullah and Zhixin Sheng to share a little about their work, and the one picture in the exhibition that holds the most significance for them.
⏳ Tomorrow, 30 August, is the LAST DAY to catch Undescribed #11!
📍 Guoco Midtown Public Art Wall
🕗 Open daily, 8AM–10PM
Come by before it’s gone!
#Undescribed11 #DECKSG #Photography
An invitation to look deeper, join artist Gilles Massot (@gilles_massot) for an introduction to Singapore Baraoke, a conceptual framework born from his acclaimed The Coffee Shop Series.
Drawing on 40 years of archives and artistic practice in Singapore, Gilles will share how a personal photographic journey has grown into something far greater: a collaborative, ever-evolving platform woven from stories, images, and community.
Don`t miss out on being a part of this conversation. This programme is co-presented by DECK and Intersections Gallery (@intersectionsgallery)
📅 22 August 2026 | 11am
📍 Shop-House by DECK, 4 Lorong 24 Geylang, Singapore 398616
Register via the Linktree in our bio.
Meet Zhixin Sheng! 👋 Our final artist in this week-by-week series for Undescribed #11.
Zhixin moves between images, words, books and spaces, exploring memory, feeling and the stories that emerge in between. In this week’s video, she breaks down her work in three words, shares what she hopes you’ll feel when you encounter it, and gives us a glimpse into the world behind Working from corners and edges.
Plus, one last round of quick-fire questions. 👀
And that’s a wrap on our artist series! But we’re not quite done yet…
We’ve got something a little different coming your way next week. Stay tuned. 👀
Clocking in for your weekly artist drop 🕐 Meet Syed Abdullah, our fourth artist in the Undescribed #11 series.
His work `Operational Hour` traces an intern navigating corporate life across five stages, where belonging becomes performance and productivity becomes identity.
Watch as Syed describes his work in three words, shares how he wants you to feel when looking at his work, and weighs in on the local art scene. Oh, and yes, there`s a quick-fire round too 🍕
This week, we`re featuring Lydia Koh (LAYDIO), the third artist in our weekly series for Undescribed #11 👋
Working with photography as a way of rethinking space, memory, and perception, Lydia invites us to slow down and see familiar moments differently. In this week`s video, she talks about the ideas behind her practice, what she hopes viewers will take away from her work, and takes on our quick-fire questions.
Stay tuned as we introduce the next artist. 👀
What does it mean to sit between fact and fiction?
As Chen Chuanduan’s residency at DECK comes to a close, we take a moment to reflect on the ideas that have shaped his practice, from the research that underpins each project to his fascination with the space between documentary and fiction.
Chuanduan shares intimate reflections on his creative process, what keeps him going, and why photography remains the medium through which he explores alternate realities.
Swipe through to read more.
Image credits to artist Chen Chuanduan
Slide 3: "Everett`s Notes"
Slide 6: "Transparent Like a beast"
Slide 7: "Belly of the Giant Serpent: Prophecy"
Slide 9: "Restorative Topophilia"
We are grateful to have Joanna Fu (@joannafu) as a 2025/2026 Associate of DECK`s Associate Creative Programme.
A researcher, writer, and curator based between Taipei and Shanghai, Joanna brings a deeply considered and cross-disciplinary lens to her practice. Her work moves fluidly between critical writing, curatorial thinking, and cultural inquiry, tracing the connections between image, memory, and place.
As part of her Associate Creative Programme, Joanna curated 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦-𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘛𝘢𝘪𝘸𝘢𝘯, an exhibition presented at Shop-House by DECK. Bringing together 21 artists working across photography, video, archives, and AI-generated imagery, the exhibition offered a rich and layered portrait of Taiwan`s contemporary visual landscape and the many ways image-making shapes how we understand identity, history, and the world around us.
We are grateful for the care, curiosity, and generosity of vision that Joanna has brought to this collaboration. If you haven`t yet had the chance to experience Subtropical Signals, we warmly invite you to visit Shop-House by DECK before the exhibition closes this week on the 26 July. Open Thursday to Sunday, 1–7pm, with free admission. See you soon!
Say hello to Jay Lim! The second artist in our weekly series for Undescribed #11 👋
𝘢𝘩𝘲𝘶𝘢 uses analogue photography to document the lives of Singaporeans living outside the `Singaporean Dream`. In this week`s video, he describes his work in three words, shares how he hopes you`ll feel when you see it, and weighs in on the emerging local art scene.
And yes, the quick fire round is back. 👀
New artist. Every week.
