Phương Linh Nguyễn Gives Nothing Away
These works are so taciturn, so purposefully distilled, that to explain them along their social and historical contexts seems a betrayal
Aichi Triennale 2025, “A Time Between Ashes and Roses”
Prominent visual cues evoke a state of uneasy in-betweenness. Daisuke Igarashi’s illustration of a pink rose springing from skull-strewn rubble—the key visual of this edition of the Aichi Triennale—suggests a despoiled yet salvageable environment, and an artwork displayed in the tenth-floor entrance of the main venue, the Aichi Arts Center, envelops us in one. Crocheted by women in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Mulyana’s fabric installation Between Currents and Bloom (2019–present) features corals, mar...
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: Dog Days
Where does the artist’s fascination with dogs spring from? And what does it tell us about her longstanding preoccupations with death and mortality, desire and difference?
Chinese censorship rankles Thai art scene
Partial silencing of Bangkok exhibition has amplified its impact
The Fruits of Bachtiar Siagian
The prolific Indonesian director’s work has been censored, cancelled and erased. What can we learn from that which remains?
Are They Truly Willing to Trade Earth for This?
Exploring the late philosopher Bruno Latour’s concept of ‘landing’, a group show in Bangkok explores cross-border journeys
"The Plantation Plot" review
In a far corner of ILHAM plays Gogularaajan Rajendran’s Coolies’ Chorus (2025), a seventy-minute video in which Indian singers and musicologists coax back into being the tunes once sung on Malay plantations by indentured Tamil workers.
Surajate Tongchua Tells It to the Mountain
What does Tongchua want us to see about the Thai nation-state in his glowering pitch-black pinnacles and serrated lines?
Return of Ban Chiang Artifacts & UNESCO Seminar
Report on UNESCO Bangkok ceremony and seminar on the illicit trafficking of cultural property
How Asian artists made their mark on Paris
National Gallery Singapore exhibition reframes modern art history of French capital
7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Review: Maximalist Proof
After a 13-year hiatus, BEFF returns as a collective display of artistic might
The Lofty Ambitions of Thailand’s New Art Forest
It’s fun to frolic amid art and nature in Thailand’s newly opened Khao Yai Art Forest, but it might yet take some time for this utopic enterprise to bloom
“Archival Time On Our Retina" review
One surprising legacy of the United States’ public diplomacy across Southeast Asia during the Cold War
How Sakon Nakhon Weavers are Spinning Threads into the Future
In the Thai province of Sakon Nakhon, artisanal natural dyes and textile traditions are inspiring a whole new aesthetic
How Thailand Became a Refuge for Displaced Myanmar Creatives
Artists at risk back home are finding solace and relative safety in Thailand’s remote corners and art communities
Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 Review: What, Exactly, Is Being Nurtured?
In Nurture Gaia, the glamour of the global overrides the lure of the local
Iola Lenzi’s “Power, Politics and the Street”
In December 2013, visitors to the Bangkok iteration of “Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia”
Ways of Living
A new show at Storage, Bangkok takes a range of subaltern, diasporic and postcolonial perspectives on home and belonging
What a Long-Banned Film Reveals About Thailand’s Political Agenda
There’s more than meets the eye in Shakespeare Must Die. Max Crosbie-Jones unpicks the saga of the Thai film in light of a longstanding ban being overturned this year
How Photography Tells Lies
From AI-generated ‘promptography’ to dreamy sci-fi images, what constitutes truth when it comes to photography today?
New Thai PM spearheads economy-orientated 'soft power' drive
Paetongtarn Shinawatra has promised a creative boom, but critics point to daunting bureaucracy and confusing vision
James Prapaithong: How to Paint Emptiness
Inspired by Cézanne and Ozu, the artist’s smallscale works are masterstrokes in economy and ellipsis
Gone Walking (While Kicking a Stone for 900km)
How Chinese artist Cheng Xinhao explores his home province’s history, culture and psychogeography through long-distance foot journeys and related ‘performative madness’
Truong Cong Tung’s “The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream”
Across the highlands of Vietnam, gourds have stored water, made music, and inspired legends for centuries.
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