What To Expect At ArtScience Museum’s Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy Exhibit
It’s an intimate and intriguing exhibition that puts the human body — its bones, cells, and all its lived experiences — on display from March 21, 2026.
Think ‘the human body’ — what immediately comes to mind? Is it health? Is it doctors and hospitals? Is it the biology textbooks and scientific terminologies from way back when? The ArtScience Museum’s first anatomy-focused exhibition subverts all these assumptions with their latest exhibition: Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy.
The exhibit opens with this haunting beautiful installation by Chiharu Shiota, The Network Within (2026). Created during her cancer treatment, Chiharu’s work reflects her lived experience and references the flow of blood in the body and the Japanese mythology of unseen red thread that links one life to another.
Opening on March 21, 2026, the exhibition is a dissection of the human body and lived experiences. From 18thcentury art reference and medical textbooks documenting human anatomy, to real pathological specimens loaned from Nanyang Technological University, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine’s Anatomy Department and the Institute for Plastination in Germany, to artwork documenting artists’ battle with cancer and scoliosis — it’s an exhibit that reframes the conversation about the human body, balancing scientific and philosophical paradigms across 160 artefacts and artworks across nine galleries.
Life-sized historical prints from the 18th century.
A major highlight: 30 detailed historical prints and medical books, loaned from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, dating back to the 18th century. For the morbidly curious: you’ll get to see real human organ specimens donated from people who have agreed to donate their bodies to science.
When: March 21 to August 16, 2026, 10am to 7pm (Sundays to Thursdays) and 10am to 9pm (Fridays and Saturdays)
Where: ArtScience Museum, 6 Bayfront Aenue
Get your tickets and find more information here.
Scroll on for a preview of each gallery at the exhibit.
GALLERIES AND HIGHLIGHTS AT THE “FLESH AND BONES: THE ART OF ANATOMY” EXHIBITION AT ARTSCIENCE MUSEUM SINGAPORE
1. The Body Imagines
From left to right: Ecorche Figure, Seen from the Front (1780) by Antonio Cattani, Juliette (2019) by Angela Su; Second Level of Muscles (1781) by Anton io Cattani, all courtesy of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2. Drawing The Body
A section of the Drawing The Body gallery.
3. Surface and Structure
A section of Woong Soak Teng’s rules for photographing a scoliotic
patient. (2022)
4. Circulation and Flow 1
TransPollock #3 (red shift, blue shift), (2018) by Takerng Pattanopas Curtin
Evolver (2022) video installation by Marshmallow Laser Feast
5. Circulation and Flow 2
Acupuncture Point Reference Charts provided by Singapore Chinese Physicians’ Association
6. Inside Stories
Iron Lungs (2025) by Kray Chen.
7. Saints and the Living Dead
Passage to the Song of Truth and Absolute Equality (2014) by Natee Utarit
8. Anatomical Ideal
Left to right: Wanderer (2024-2025)Trust Fall (2023 -2025) by Liao Wen
9. Final Gallery
The Lament: Mountain Ghost (2018) by Cheng Ran