Join the Biennale Bicycle Tours for a unique journey through Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention.
The Biennale Bicycle Tours will offer participants a moving journey—both physically across Singapore’s heritage core, and conceptually across layers of intention, identity, and transformation. Cycling becomes more than transport: it is a metaphor for momentum, continuity, and navigating flux—resonating with SB2025’s exploration of Singapore’s multifaceted identity and the pure, yet sometimes complex intentions that shape urban change.
Hosted by local tour guides at Let’s Go Tour Singapore, these tours are held in conjunction with Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention, organised by Singapore Art Museum.
TOUR ITINERARY:
1. Lavender → Fort Canning (Bukit Larangan & Spice Garden) : Riders begin in Lavender, a site symbolic of working-class roots and urban renewal, before ascending Bukit Larangan (Forbidden Hill) — where myth, kingship, and colonial conquest converge. The hill represents Singapore’s earliest myths of origin and later colonial intentions of power and order. This aligns with SB2025’s questioning of “pure intention”—what does it mean to build a city from myth, trade, or conquest? Then, we explore the Spice Garden via the escaltor. Spices were once the purest drivers of exploration, yet also instruments of exploitation. This tension reflects the Biennale’s dialogue between tradition and modernity, desire and domination, and connects to works like Feudal Fields, which interrogates land, labour, and power.
2. Fort Canning Centre (Biennale Exhibitions) : Here, historical narratives meet global contemporary artworks, situating Singapore’s story within international conversations about land, migration, ecology, and memory. The juxtaposition of Fort Canning’s heritage from Early Kings to Colonial Era to World War, with Biennale works such as Flowers for Africa and White Noise Zen Fountain reminds us how monuments are both constructed and forgotten. The artworks here frame Singapore’s urban and historical contradictions alongside global narratives of memory, ecology, and resilience. We wish for your support to be able to enter the Fort Canning Centre for this tour.
3. Return via Waterloo Street (Streets of Harmony) : The ride concludes through a living streetscape of temples, mosques, and churches, embodying coexistence, plurality, and the evolving social fabric of the city. The coexistence of Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian sites shows how pure intentions of faith and belonging can shape inclusive spaces. This resonates with Biennale Objectives, to explore the interconnectedness between humans, nature, and the larger ecosystem.
2025 TOUR DATES:
08 Nov Sat | 18 Nov Tue
06 Dec Sat | 16 Dec Tue
