2024 Programmes

Grants & Foundations

The Chew How Teck Foundation
National Arts Council Capability & Development Grant Scheme

Donors

Dr Lian Tsui Yee
Mr Randy Chan Keng Chong
Anonymous Donor, Sub 45
Mr Ng Chee Hong
Mr Lincoln Paul Benedict
Ms Michelle Chang-Wanlass
Ms Wahyuni Hadi

Partnerships

Á Space, Vietnam
Enable Asia, Singapore

Ecstasy in arts, like in other activities, can only be gotten by persistent and often painful searching and trying. And therefore long-term resource support (manpower and money power) are indispensable.

Kuo Pao Kun
Founder, The Substation
(Open Space, September 1990)

The Substation is an independent, non-profit arts organisation that relies on multiple funding sources to further its mission in nurturing independent, creative practitioners in collaborative community.

Through a combination of support from individual donors, private foundations, government grants and corporate sponsors, The Substation has been able to continue being A Home for the Arts for over 30 years.

What people are saying about
The Substation

'The Substation has been the incubator for artistic personalities over the last generation. [...] And so long as there are still people need [to] and are willing to give to The Substation, it would morph and be what the community needs it to be. So stop expecting. Instead, we should start giving.'
Intersection.sg, the digital quarter of Gallery & Studio Magazine
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'Get ready to ignite your senses for more thought-provoking art, photos, videos and performances.'
Honeycombers

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'The monumental programme demands repeat visits over the whole period of the show and thematises the space in thought-provoking ways.'
Arts Equator

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'…the grandfather of independent art spaces in the city-state.'
10 of the best contemporary art spaces in south-east Asia, The Guardian