CHITTI KASEMKITVATANA
Chitti Kasemkitvatana (Born in 1969, Bangkok) is a Bangkok based artist, independent curator and educator. His methodology relies on research-based art practice that relates to the use of archival fragments and spatial practice. Applying the new materialist lens, he focuses on entangled ideas in sociocultural history, especially on the moment in which various spheres become “porous”. His artistic operation involves transmission of collective memories via object-device and conversion of data that entails an active process of construction of time in the society. It is to study the convergence of things - in the form of conversation, collision, as well as diffraction.
At the turn of the millennium, he worked with Rirkrit Tiravanija at Namdee Publishing Station producing Thailand’s first audio-visual magazine VER and curated exhibitions for About Art Foundation (aka AARA - About Art related Activities) at About Studio/About Cafe. From 2011 onwards he has been part of various collectives producing numbers of projects including Messy Project Space, Messy Sky Magazine and encrypted/decrypted. His recent curatorial works include The Immeasurable and World’s End (JWD Art Space, 2022) and The Architectural Ensemble of Wang Na (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 2018).
A recipient of the 22nd Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grants in 2023 and DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Programme in 2014, his work has been shown in national and international institutions such as The Art Centre Silpakorn University, Bangkok; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; Centre Pompidou, Paris; daadgalerie, Berlin; CEAAC, Strasbourg; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou; Le Plateau, Paris; Art in General, New York; Succession, Vienna; CAPC, Bordeaux and PS1, New York. His recent exhibitions include Contemporary Art of Thailand : Dream and Reflection (Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, 2025); Bangkok Art Biennale (National Museum Bangkok, 2024), The Mountain Algorithms (Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2024), The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, a collateral event of 60th La Biennale di Venezia (Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana, 2024), Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai (Wat Pa Sak and National Museum Chiang Saen, 2023), Bangkok Art Biennale (The Prelude : One Bangkok, 2022), The Tenebrous Spiral Staircase of the - (Gallery VER, 2021) and Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves With (MOCA Taipei, 2019).
Chitti Kasemkitvatana (Born in 1969, Bangkok) is a Bangkok based artist, independent curator and educator. His methodology relies on research-based art practice that relates to the use of archival fragments and spatial practice. Applying the new materialist lens, he focuses on entangled ideas in sociocultural history, especially on the moment in which various spheres become “porous”. His artistic operation involves transmission of collective memories via object-device and conversion of data that entails an active process of construction of time in the society. It is to study the convergence of things - in the form of conversation, collision, as well as diffraction.
At the turn of the millennium, he worked with Rirkrit Tiravanija at Namdee Publishing Station producing Thailand’s first audio-visual magazine VER and curated exhibitions for About Art Foundation (aka AARA - About Art related Activities) at About Studio/About Cafe. From 2011 onwards he has been part of various collectives producing numbers of projects including Messy Project Space, Messy Sky Magazine and encrypted/decrypted. His recent curatorial works include The Immeasurable and World’s End (JWD Art Space, 2022) and The Architectural Ensemble of Wang Na (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, 2018).
A recipient of the 22nd Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grants in 2023 and DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Programme in 2014, his work has been shown in national and international institutions such as The Art Centre Silpakorn University, Bangkok; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; Centre Pompidou, Paris; daadgalerie, Berlin; CEAAC, Strasbourg; Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou; Le Plateau, Paris; Art in General, New York; Succession, Vienna; CAPC, Bordeaux and PS1, New York. His recent exhibitions include Contemporary Art of Thailand : Dream and Reflection (Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, 2025); Bangkok Art Biennale (National Museum Bangkok, 2024), The Mountain Algorithms (Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2024), The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, a collateral event of 60th La Biennale di Venezia (Palazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana, 2024), Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai (Wat Pa Sak and National Museum Chiang Saen, 2023), Bangkok Art Biennale (The Prelude : One Bangkok, 2022), The Tenebrous Spiral Staircase of the - (Gallery VER, 2021) and Stories We Tell To Scare Ourselves With (MOCA Taipei, 2019).