The former National Aerated Water Co, with its facade conserved, but its structured transformed into a residential development.

(Singapore, 19 December 2025) In a city where change is often celebrated as momentum, OH! Open House returns with the 12th edition of its flagship artwalk, OH! Moonstone: Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same - a reminder to pause and consider what transformation can quietly erase.

Running from 18 to 25 January 2026, the artwalk unfolds across Moonstone Lane, a neighbourhood shaped by decades of rebuilding, adaptation, and lived-in resilience. Through site-specific artworks situated within its everyday spaces, the experience invites visitors to look beneath the surface of urban renewal and reflect on the ways of life, memory, and connection that endure, or slip away, as the city continues to remake itself.

Along the route, Moonstone Lane (Image Credit - Marvin Lee) 

On paper, Moonstone Lane appears straightforward - a small residential enclave folded into the city’s fabric. But walking through it tells a different story. Here, domestic life mingles with remnants of industry; private homes sit alongside shrines, factories, niche businesses, and improvised uses that resist neat zoning. The neighbourhood reveals itself as a place shaped not only by planning, but by the habits, histories, and idiosyncrasies of the people who have moved through it. Through five installations by Singaporean and international artists, OH! Moonstone invites visitors to notice these subtle complexities and to consider how ordinary spaces accumulate meaning over time.

John Tung, Curator of OH! Moonstone stated, “I hope the presentation encourages visitors to reflect more deeply about the spaces we inhabit. Across the Artwalk, the history of sites across Moonstone and encounters with the artworks offer reflections on how we inscribe these spaces with meaning through our activities and experiences. Cumulatively, it prompts us to how our recognition of places is simultaneously a recognition of ourselves.”

Site-Specific Encounters Along Moonstone Lane

Site-specific encounters along Moonstone Lane unfold across intimate and everyday spaces, beginning within a 1950s home, occupied by the same family for over seven decades. Here, personal recollections intertwine with photographic imagery to reflect on care, loss, and how private memory intersects with Singapore’s broader urban transformation. Nearby, a working carpentry atelier, MUYI, becomes a site of quiet persistence, where labour, material, and repetition reveal how craft and artistic practice endure through the slow accumulation of time, even as surroundings continue to change.

Sidhu Home where a family stayed for 7 decades (Image Credit - Marvin Lee)

The walk also moves into deeply personal worlds shaped by devotion and care. Within the densely layered interior of Daily Diecast, a contemporary intervention engages a vast collection of miniature cars, revealing how tactility, obsession, and meticulous attention become acts of memory-keeping and community-building.

Extending outdoors, a large-scale installation spreads across a green patch within the estate, forming a shifting topography that mirrors how land is continually reshaped, reclassified, and reimagined, often faster than people can adapt. Along the way, visitors also encounter sites such as Lau Clan House, Sin Choon Huat Temple, and Poh Leng Building, approached not as heritage monuments but as living neighbours whose layered histories subtly inform the artwalk experience.

Featured Artists

Artist Jarupatcha Achavasmit (Photo Credit - Adisorn Rutsameeronchai)

● Ang Song Nian – Maps land and transformation through large-scale, biodegradable outdoor installations.

● Jarupatcha Achavasmit – Investigates collecting, tactility, and emotional devotion through textile-based work.

● Milenko Prvački – Presents an intimate portrait of artistic life shaped by labour, material, and time.   

(Milenko Prvački Photo Credit - Zoran Jovanovic Macak)

● Robert Zhao Renhui – Explores lived memory, care, and urban change through photography-based installation.

"Moonstone is the kind of place most people pass without a second thought, and that’s precisely why it matters. Some places fall outside the official story of Singapore, and those are the ones OH! hopes to hold space for. Art allows us to surface what might otherwise fade, reminding us that a neighbourhood is shaped by people and memory, not zoning lines or whatever label it’s given. OH! Moonstone is a reminder that if we don’t look closer, we’ll lose places before we even realise what they meant,” said Alan Oei, Executive Director, OH! Open House.

Preserving OH! Open House Storytelling

At a time when Singapore’s landscapes shift faster than their stories can be told, OH! Moonstone offers a rare chance to slow down and listen to the places we pass by. The artwalk is not designed to romanticise the past or resist change; instead, it reveals how transformation and continuity coexist, how memories linger beneath new surfaces, and how art can create the conditions for these conversations to happen.

By stepping into someone’s home, workplace, collection, or patch of land, visitors are invited to rethink what it means to belong to a place. OH! Moonstone is ultimately a reminder that cities are not just built, they are felt. And sometimes, the most compelling stories are found not in landmarks, but in the overlooked corners where life simply continues. OH! Moonstone continues OH!’s commitment to creating encounters with art that bring Singapore’s unseen stories into focus.

Lau Clan Association (Image Credit - Marvin Lee)

OH! Moonstone is made possible through the support of partners who share OH! Open House’s commitment to arts access, cultural storytelling, and community engagement. OH! Open House is a proud partner of the SG Culture Pass, and tickets to this event are eligible for purchase using SG Culture Pass credits. The artwalk is supported by the Arts Fund, National Arts Council, and the Cultural Matching Fund (CMF), with Deutsche Bank as Founding Sponsor and Binjai Tree as Patron. Other partners include Factory as Official Creative Partner, Amici as Official Gastronomy Partner, Aloft as Official Hotel Partner and Klook as Official Ticketing Partner.

OH! Open House has previously presented artwalks across neighbourhoods such as Katong–Joo Chiat, Kampong Gelang, Emerald Hill and Tiong Bahru, as well as events like New World’s End, continuing its practice of working with artists and communities to surface the layered social, cultural, and lived histories embedded in Singapore’s everyday spaces.

Tickets to OH! Moonstone Art Walk are available with a donation of $40.

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