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Life is beautiful
Manit Sriwanichpoom at kathmandu gallery
From 31 July – 31 August 2008
With their clear gaze and innocent smiles, these fourteen children represent thousands upon thousands of other guiltless victims just like them scattered across Thailand. They were born with AIDS virus that was their inheritance from their parents. But growing with HIV is not their only misfortune. The society that surrounds them also conspires to stigmatise them by cutting them off from the world of normal people; they are forced to struggle against one more virulent disease, namely the ‘virus of prejudices.’


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More to Love: The Art of Living Together #1
24 July – 15 August 2008
This year, ARTAIDS organize the art event “More to Love: The Art of Living Together” with collaborations from government and non-government sections in order to raise the awareness on fighting with stigma around HIV by using art and creative activities to convey the message of that we can live together with HIV/AIDS. As well as, to create a new perception of HIV through various kinds of media, we have more than 100 people who contribute in this project, including doctors, people living with HIV, NGO, artists, curators, writers, art and cultural workers, musicians, actor and actress. “More to Love” was started in July 2007 and has different activities between artists-artists and artists-doctors in order to encounter this issue and create the artworks under the concept of living together which will be exhibited in July – August 2008 at 4 venues in Bangkok and December 2008 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.


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New Identity
Ohm Phanphiroj
18 July - 17 Aug 2008 at whitespace
New Identity is a series of triptychs of Thai transsexuals which employ historical conventions from ethnographic photography. That is, conventions which suggest an objective truth about ‘types’ of people. However, rather than claiming a general truth about the nature and appearance of trans-sexuality, Phanphiroj invites the viewer to consider the psychological dimensions of physical transformation.



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Navin’s Sala
4 ๋July
Navin’s Sala is an event not to be missed! Internationally renowned Indian-Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul celebrates the Asian premier of his unique artist’s monograph alongside the artist’s first ever retrospective exhibition.

Navin’s Sala is the much anticipated collaborative monograph by internationally renowned Indian-Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul. Recognised for creating an imaginative brand of installation and interactive art that delivers novel methods of introducing contemporary art to the public, Navin celebrates the Asian premier of this unique artist’s publication with the artist’s first retrospective exhibition. First presented at the Cannes International Film Festival in May this year, this special event marks the first art exhibition to be held at Bangkok’s design conscious, waterfront landmark, The River Promenade.


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NANOTHAILAND
19 Jun at 100 tonson gallery
NANOTHAILAND is a series of photographs that addresses the artist's interest in cultural hybridism. The artist has photographed so-called minorities going about their daily lives in Thailand. Montri's subjects include immigrants, refugees and exiles. However, rather than reinforcing the idea of a minority - the idea that some people are essentially different from a general populace – Montri asks us to consider the fact that all societies and cultures are fundamentally a melting pot of differences.


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Japanese Legs - L'en dedans
Claude Estèbe
14 June at Kathmandu gallery
For foreigners in Japan and even for the natives the gait of Japanese women is an endless source of fascination. Their flexible and unusual way of squatting, standing and walking seems to come from complex etiquettes of an ancient civilisation.


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Face to Faces
10 June
"Face to Faces" is an exhibition presented under the programme "Dialogues d'images", initiated by Culturesfrance in 2005. The programme sets out to address contemporary issues in photography, video, graphics and drawing, by confronting a fixed corpus of 30 to 50 works by French and European artists with a series of works by artists from the country hosting the exhibition. The latter are to be selected jointly by the French curator and a curator from the host venue. Works of artists from the host country enrich these major exhibitions which in turn become unique at each stage.


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The Dark Age
Vasan Sitthiket
10 May at Numthong gallery
Nowaday, the politics, Economy and society are declined and collapsed to the greed of power-obsessed rulers of only few families, driving this world into such a chaotic disaster.


Globbal warming, iceberg melting, new kinds of diseases, earthquake. snow and great storm are now happening here there and everywhere people yet struggle to survive under the rules and laws written by those thieves.


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Altered Faces
Le Quang Ha
26 Apr at Thavibu gallery
Le Quang Ha was born in Hanoi in 1963 and graduated from the Hanoi Industrial College of Fine Arts in 1992. Le Quang Ha avoids traditional, academic subjects in his art, and instead chooses to address issues that many artists prefer to overlook or even ignore in their work. There is much vitality, meaning, and social critique in the brutal honesty of his art.


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Beyond...
Kamin Lertchaiprasert
24 Apr at 100 Tonson gallery
"Beyond…" an art of dharmic truth on canvas by top avant-garde artist,Kamin Lertchaiprasert. As the aim of artist, title of exhibition "Beyond…" also brings beholders a silent wonder on the connection of puzzle of religious precepts. He stated that "Some matters can't be perceivable by human senses; some visible matters can't understandable by eyesight. A question on a limitation among the communication, the truth and the front sight is a challenge to reach human passion; love, greed, anger and lust."


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Will Not Cry in Public
Yield
17 Apr at Art Center Chula
A media art exhibition
By Olan Netrangsi, Pathompon Tesprateep, and Sathit Sattarasart
With a guess writer: N. Paksnavin
17th April – 17th May 2008
Opening reception: Friday, 25th April 2008 from 6 pm. onwards
Art Center, Center of Academic Resource Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Will Not Cry in Public is a media based art exhibition by yield


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WHITE SPACE
1 Year anniversary
April 5 at WHITE SPACE
The show is a celebrated spectrum of the arts community. Whitespace Gallery reaches out to 12 artists; where future, present and past shows are given the opportunity to exhibit together. We are thrilled to kick off with an amazing line up of so many extraordinary artists living in Thailand.


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