SINGAPORE.- The Sixth VH AWARD Exhibition as part of Singapore Art Week 2026, in partnership with the National Arts Council Singapore, is on view from January 20 to 31, 2026. The Sixth VH AWARD Exhibition, featuring five commissioned audiovisual artworks by Wendi Yan, Lêna Bùi, HUDA x MUNGOMERY, Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit, and Inhwa Yeom, is held at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, along with other Singapore Art Week programmes.
Through the continued partnership with National Arts Council, this is the second exhibition of the VH AWARD as part of Singapore Art Week, following The Fifth VH AWARD Exhibition at Objectifs during Singapore Art Week 2024. The Sixth VH AWARD Exhibition at Singapore Art Week 2026 is its fifth exhibition, following the previous exhibitions at HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel, Switzerland (June 16–22, 2025), the Hyundai Motor Group Vision Hall in Yongin, South Korea (June 18–September 18, 2025), the Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, China (June 18–August 31, 2025), and the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria (September 9–13, 2025).
Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD organised by Hyundai Motor Group has been discovering and cultivating emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia and push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to reflect on how we understand ourselves and one another in relation to the past, present, and future. The next open call for entries for the seventh VH AWARD will be announced in May 2026.
The artworks
Dream of Walnut Palaces by Wendi Yan (b. 1999, Beijing), the Grand Prix recipient of the 6th VH AWARD, is a CGI film reimagining knowledge exchange between Asia and Europe in the 18th century. Exploring the psyche of a fictional Daoist in a Paris lab, it addresses the East-West encounter of epistemic visuality and proposes an alternative to techno-Orientalism.
dream(machine, human) by Lêna Bùi (b. 1985, Da Nang) presents a non-linear narrative on humans and machines that can be read as machine-salvaged fragments of human memories or a mythology of human demise and metamorphosis.
Within Tirta by the artist collective HUDA x MUNGOMERY (founded 2022), delves into the mythology of Princess Mandalika and ecological urgency, seeking what we must sacrifice to sustain nature.
40 Epochs, a semi-fictional short film by Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit (founded 2021, New York), explores the heart of identity, spiritual displacement, and the unseen labor behind the voices that engender human-like technologies.
War Dance by Inhwa Yeom (b. 1991, Seoul) reflects on Asian women’s entanglement between production and reproduction, love and care, drawing from the Korean myth and the natural phenomena of sundog and moondog.
Opening hours: Daily from 10am to 7pm. Extended hours until 10pm on January 23 and 24. Admission is free.
