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Myanmar artists explore new media, produce courageous art
MYANMAR ART Asian Art News reports that some Burmese artists are bravely stepping outside the restrictions of censors and the pressures of the tourist market to create a new kind of art. Three...
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Balgo Hills art: Indigenous Australian art by renowned masters in rare tour...
CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN ART Bright colors and mythical subjects in 26 works of internationally-renowned Balgo-style Australian desert art on tour in Asia: information about the show and a...
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Currency Crisis: Southeast Asian artists talk money in Bangkok – picture feast
The first regional group exhibition at Bangkok’s Whitespace Gallery addresses the ubiquitous issue of money and its place in our world. From 2 November to 29 December 2013, six artists from Thailand,...
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Art and queer ideas from Bangkok and Manila: Radiation – in pictures
“Radiation” features artists exploring queer identity in two Southeast Asian capitals. The exhibition “RADIATION” at The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, presents the work of 25...
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“Southeast Asian art history doesn’t have a canon yet”: Isabel Ching – interview
Singaporean curator and academic Isabel Ching discusses the challenges of making art in Southeast Asia. Art Radar met up with Isabel Ching in Bangkok, where she is currently curating the Brandnew Art...
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Anxiety in Thailand: Suwit Maprajuab and Peerawayt Krasaesom – in pictures
Amidst political chaos and social turmoil, Whitespace Gallery Bangkok hosts a two-person show addressing the fear and uncertainty gripping the country. Young Thai artists Suwit Maprajuab and Peerawayt...
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8 young Thai artists to know
Mirror mosaics, edible heads and Buddhism: Art Radar profiles 8 young and emerging Thai contemporary artists. Thailand’s contemporary art scene is rife with artists using cutting-edge art practices....
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When Bangkok meets Phnom Penh, ‘un-compared’– in pictures
An exhibition at H Gallery, Bangkok, deliberately ‘un-compares’ art from Bangkok and Phnom Penh. “Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared”, a collaborative project between Bangkok and Phnom Penh, deviates from...
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Back from the dead: Reclusive Thai artist Chatchai Puipia returns to Bangkok...
Thai artist Chatchai Puipia has virtually returned to Bangkok for a landmark exhibition that celebrates the launch of a new online archive. 100 Tonson Gallery is collaborating with...
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“The Southeast Asia Movie Theatre Project”: An Installation by Philip Jablon...
Follow American researcher Philip Jablon’s photographs of abandoned movie theatres in Southeast Asia is on show in Bangkok. “Future’s Ruins”, on show at H Project Space from 28 January to 29 May 2016,...
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MAIIAM: Thailand’s newest museum set to open in Chiang Mai
Follow The MAIIAM Museum of Contemporary Art Chiang Mai will open its doors on 3 July 2016. Founded by the Bunnag-Beurdeley family, the Museum shares a private collection built over the last 30 years....
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“Fear”: new works by Thai artist Manit Sriwanichpoom at Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
Follow Manit Sriwanichpoom temporarily retires his distinctive ‘Pink man’ character to take an extended look at politics and power in his native Thailand. Showing concurrently in Singapore and...
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“The Serenity of Madness”: Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong...
Follow A travelling exhibition of the Thai artist and filmmaker co-organised by ICI Curators International is now at Chiang Mai’s MAIIAM and will soon move to Hong Kong’s Para Site. On the occasion of...
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“Elemental” by Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich at H Gallery Bangkok
Follow In his third solo show at H Gallery in Bangkok, Sopheap Pich presents a major new work. Since returning to his homeland in 2002, Pich has created a delicate yet intricate style in his...
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“The Game | Viet Nam”: the LE Brothers at Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok
Follow Drawing on their experiences in the post-war period, the twin brothers explore current day Vietnam. The LE Brothers have placed themselves between the north and south of Vietnam in order to...
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“Destination: Still Unknown”: Thai photographer Pramuan Burusphat’s...
Follow Thai photographer Pramuan Burusphat holds retrospective show at BACC. New Zealand-based Thai photographer Pramuan Burusphat enjoys a retrospective survey at Bangkok Art and Cultural Center...
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Potted plants, boxed trees: Singaporean photographer Ang Song Nian explores...
Follow The artist turns his lens on plants and trees to understand the paradoxical human need to be close to as well as control nature. Ang Song Nian’s exhibition “As They Grow Older and Wiser” at...
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Subconscious Sewing: Thai painter Narissara Pianwimungsa’s Threadwork – in...
Follow Art Radar interviews Thai artist Narissara Pianwimungsa about her oeuvre’s shift from painting to embroidery. After a notable break from making art, Narissara Pianwimungsa returns to the art...
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“People, Money, Ghosts (Movement as Metaphor)”: curator Roger Nelson on...
Follow The recent group exhibition at Jim Thompson Art Centre reflected on the increasing global mobility in the artistic community and beyond. Art Radar explores the themes in the exhibition and...
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“Jaonua: The Nothingness & Sanook Dee Museum”: Thailand’s Araya...
Follow Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook explores awareness, attachment and the relations between film and buddhism Art Radar talks to the artist about her current exhibition project “Jaonua: The...
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