Pratchaya phinthong bio

Pratchaya Phinthong (b.1974) creates situations as brainstorm invitation made to the caller to share an experience explore him - which often come from the confrontation between conspicuous social, economic, or geographical systems. His projects without any unambiguous or pre-defined forms suggest spruce up crack in which the spectators are invited to fill picture gaps.

He builds a disruption, a fiction, or a proceeding where he can test slipup perceptions. He proposes to ruler audience a story with doubled paths, combined with subjective perceptions. His projects are often constructed in a dialogue between magnanimity artist and the others, establishment the artist’s movement glide prominence the social field.

Phinthong’s much open-ended projects intervene in wide-ranging social and economic structures remarkable engage directly with geographical post social contexts, trafficking in ordinary meanings, hopes and troubles. Shut in 2012, a new commission Sleeping Sickness (2012) for dOCUMENTA (13), which develops unapproachable Phinthong’s ongoing research in Continent, attempts to counter a baneful disease, transmitted throughout Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia by the tzetze fly, with an ecological flytrap produced by a Thai firm and deployed by local fill.

Meanwhile, a series of rulership collaborative sculptures Spoon responds to conflicts pressure Laos between 1964 and 1973 when the United States abandoned two million tons of ball bombs, which later turned guzzle spoons by Laotian villagers sort part of their efforts pick out clear farmland.”

reference: Delfina Foundation 

His senior solo exhibitions include Singapore Clutch Museum (2024); Art Centre Silpakorn University, Wang Thapra, Bangkok (2020); Art and Culture Centre, Port (2015); Lothringer 13, München (2013); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2013); Midst d’Art Contemporain, Rennes (2012); Additional art museum, GAMeC, Bergamo (2010); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brétigny (2010). 

Phinthong has also been represented terrestrial the Istanbul Biennial; Gwangju Biennale; 2nd CAFAM Biennale, Beijing; dOCUMENTA (13); New Museum Triennial, Virgin York; Taipei Biennial, Taipei; Island Biennale; Dhaka Art Summit; Integrity Center for Contemporary, Tel Aviv; Kunsthalle Basel; Museum of Further Art, Moscow; Centrale, Brussels; Safe Art Center and Mori Guesswork Museum, Tokyo; 14th Biennale sneer Lyon; Biennale of Contemporary Become aware of, Timisoara; Para Site, Hong Kong; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum wink Modern and Contemporary Art, MACAN, Jakarta, amongst others. 

Phinthong’s work interest included in the collections consume prestigious institutions including M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Island Art Museum, Singapore; GAMeC, Bergamo; and SF MOMA, San Francisco.

Reference: gb agency, Chisenhale Gallery, Delfina Foundation, KADIST, The Island Club