About

Curatorial Team

Arinrung Rungjang

Arinrung Rungjang

is a contemporary artist based in Bangkok and a co-founder of the As Yet Unnamed group. He works closely with local conditions and histories, creating succinct and timely works grounded in personal experience and his country's complex political and cultural history. He has represented Thailand at the 55th Venice Biennale, Documenta 14, and other biennales around the world.

David Teh

David Teh

is a writer and curator working at the National University of Singapore. His books include Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary (2017) and Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992-98 (co-edited with David Morris, 2018). In 2022, he co-curated the 17th Istanbul Biennial (with Ute Meta Bauer and Amar Kanwar).

Hera Chan

Hera Chan

is a curator and writer based in Yogyakarta by way of Hong Kong. Her work engages with performative infrastructures such as elections—as co-producer of KomBIJ1 TV, a political talk show aired in the Netherlands the occupied Dutch Antilles leading up to the Dutch parliamentary elections of 2021, pageantry—as co-founder and curator of platform Miss Ruthless International in Hong Kong, and diasporic networks—as founding director of para-institution Atelier Céladon in Montreal. Currently, she is Adjunct Curator, Asia-Pacific, supported by Asymmetry, at Tate.

Marisa Phandharakrajadej

Marisa Phandharakrajadej

is a curator and lecturer at the School of Architecture, Art, and Design at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand. During her studies in France, she collaborated alongside both Thai and international artists to organize art exhibitions at museums and art spaces in Paris. She also had worked with the curator team at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAMP) on research related to Southeast Asia. Her interests and work practices focus on place-making and community engagement. In 2021, she spearheaded and organized the first Galleries' Nights Bangsaen art festival in Chonburi, which was held again for two more editions in subsequent years, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Thailand.