AttractionsMuseums across the region are stepping up their game with a curation of excellent exhibitions for travellers after a dose of art and culture.

Fascinating exhibitions around Asia to add to the bucket list

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Tomorrow Today is an ongoing exhibition at Dubai's avant-garde museum that showcases technology prototypes.
Tomorrow Today is an ongoing exhibition at Dubai's avant-garde museum that showcases technology prototypes. Photo Credit: Museum of the Future

For jetsetting culture enthusiasts looking for some art and culture during their travels, several museum exhibitions in Asia are worth checking out in the coming months. Here are several highly recommended exhibitions to visit:

Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience

Resorts World Sentosa, till Q3

Fascinating exhibitions around Asia to add to the bucket list
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The digital exhibition Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience has arrived in Singapore, featuring some of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, such as Starry Night and Sunflowers, projected across walls, ceilings, and floors.

The exhibition, located at Resorts World Sentosa, includes a virtual reality tour, a gallery dedicated to Van Gogh's life story and the story of his family, and the highlight: a 40-minute immersive experience that takes visitors on an emotional journey through Van Gogh’s world. The exhibition takes place across two floors, with the first floor featuring a drawing studio and café, and visitors can purchase merchandise such as a Sunflower-printed tote bag.

Sneakertopia: Step into Street Culture

ArtScience Museum, till 30 July

Fascinating exhibitions around Asia to add to the bucket list
Photo Credit: ArtScience Museum

Los Angeles street culture exhibition Sneakertopia has made its first stop in Asia at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum. Paying homage to multiple aspects of street culture, this wide ranging exhibition features street art, murals, music performances - as well as an impressive curation of over 100 pairs of limited edition sneakers.

Some of the world’s most sought after footwear, including limited-edition models from the Off White and Nike collaboration as well as the ultra-rare Dior Air Jordan 1 are on display. There are also personal collections by local street culture trailblazers including Mandeep Chopra, founder and CEO of sneaker boutique Limited Edt and influential sneaker artist Mark Ong aka Mr Sabotage to check out.

Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now

M+, till 14 May

Fascinating exhibitions around Asia to add to the bucket list
Photo Credit: ArtScience Museum

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who is famed for her polka dotted motifs, is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time. For insights into her body of work, this exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+ is showcasing the largest retrospective of the artist in Asia outside Japan. Curated both chronologically and thematically, there are over 200 works to peruse, including paintings, sculptures and archival material from her earliest drawings dating to World War II to recent installations.

Tomorrow Today

Museum of the Future, ongoing

Fascinating exhibitions around Asia to add to the bucket list
Photo Credit: Museum of the Future

The museum building itself is an architectural marvel built in a show stopping circular shape meant to represent humanity and covered in elegant calligraphy. Officially launched in 2022, this avant garde museum focuses on showcasing high-tech experiences such as an imagined space station. Look out for Tomorrow Today, an ongoing exhibition that showcases a variety of technology prototypes - many of which were invented by women - that have the potential to transform the environmental, social and political issues of these modern times.

Painting Love in the Louvre

The National Art Centre Tokyo, till 12 June

Fascinating exhibitions around Asia to add to the bucket list
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Love is not only a basic human emotion, it is also one of the most enduring themes in art. From desire and passion to religious devotion, artists have sought to express love through their creations. This exhibition in Tokyo features 73 paintings by Western artists that have been selected from the Musee du Louvre’s collections and include works by European masters including Francois Boucher and Jean-Honore Fragonard.

Who is he? A Geng Jianyi Retrospective

UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art, till 11 June

Fascinating exhibitions around Asia to add to the bucket list
Photo Credit: UCCA

Now that travel restrictions in China have been lifted, it is time to rediscover the cultural and artistic riches of this fascinating country. This retrospective on one of China’s most thought provoking contemporary artists features around 90 of Geng Jianyi’s works through his lifetime. His installations, collages and art revolve around the themes of individual identity, reflections on the everyday and the use of investigation as a mythodology.

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