Past Exhibitions

01.08.2023 - 14.07.2024

CARBON

CARBON, the first exhibition-season in our own building, called into question our existing relationship with carbon. 

We are all made of carbon, as is everything around us. From medicine and machinery to architecture and art—the sooty fingerprints of carbon are visible on almost everything humanity has built. How do we make sense of this paradoxical element—critical to life yet capable of suffocating it? CARBON explored these critical and conflicting ideas.

01.04.2022 - 15.05.2022

PSYCHE

PSYCHE, our second fully digital exhibition-season, explored the mind, the brain, and the complexities of thinking and feeling.

This season hosted ten interactive exhibits that explored mental health, artificial intelligence, social impediments to mental wellbeing, and more. The accompanying 90+ programmes engaged with the complex nature of the human psyche through lectures, performances, workshops, and films discussions. At PSYCHE, we hoped to provide visitors exciting, new, and diverse ways to engage with the mysteries of the mind.

30.04.2021 - 31.12.2021

CONTAGION

CONTAGION was designed as a public platform, especially for the young, to explore transmission of diseases, behaviours and emotions.

CONTAGION hosted sixteen interactive exhibits and connected lectures, tutorials, workshops and masterclasses, events, and films as a way to provide our visitors multiple doors of entry into understanding contagion. Through the exhibition, we provided hope from the knowledge that there have been pandemics before and therefore, collectively, we are likely to have the resources to face the current COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021, CONTAGION was selected as a Falling Walls Winner in the Science Engagement category.

21.08.2020 - 30.08.2020

PHYTOPIA

Plant-like life has been around for about 3000 million years. They have witnessed the birth and death of species, have travelled across continents on the heels of explorers, seeded cultures around the world and may soon become the first species to thrive on mars. We brought together engineers, scientists, designers, artists and biohackers to create an experience for you to explore and experiment beyond the kitchen, the lab and the farm.

15.12.2019 - 30.01.2020

SUBMERGE

When we think of water, we are mostly thinking of the 3% that is freshwater on Earth. What does it mean to think of water beyond its being a resource: water is after all a weird substance. It is present in the smallest of living cells as well in gigantic glaciers and oceans.

05.10.2019 - 11.10.2019

ELEMENTS

The concept that our world is not just made up of matter but of particular types of matter is old. Elements have properties, characteristics and even character. They have been shaped, traded exploded, created, destroyed and even worshipped. In the pursuit to understand these elements, many attempts were made to tame them, the most successful being the Periodic Table.