After being awarded the winner of the second Han Nefkens Foundation – BACC Award for Contemporary Art in January this year, the Indian artist, Mr. Anup Mathew Thomas has arrived in Bangkok, Thailand from Kochi, India to participate in the Artist-in-residence programs from 16 June – 31 July 2015.
 

During the residency in Bangkok, Mr. Mathew has been visiting various places, exhibitions, museums, galleries and meeting with the local artists such as Mr. Piyatat Hemmatat, Mr. Manit Sriwanichpoom and Mr. Petch Osathanugrah. Mr. Mathew also travelled to Chiang Mai for 3 days to visit galleries and artists including Mr. Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Mr. Navin Rawanchaikul, Mr. Kosit Juntaratip and Mr. Tawatchai Punsawat.
 

After the residency, Mr. Mathew will travel back to India and work on his exhibition which will present his concern together with situations he has been involving during his visits to Bangkok and between. The exhibition is scheduled to be displayed at Studio, 4th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre from 

2 February – 6 March 2016.

 

‘Han Nefkens Foundation-BACC Award for Contemporary Art’
 

In 2012, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) together with the Han Nefkens Foundation, Spain initiated Han Nefkens – BACC Award for Contemporary Art.  This biannual award seeks to encourage artists in Asia under the age of 40 who already have a solid body of work but have not yet been showcased in major institutions. The award consists of 15,000 US dollars: a $3,000 artist’s fee and $12,000 towards the production of new work as well as a residency and an exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.

 

For more information about  ‘Han Nefkens Foundation-BACC Award for Contemporary Art’: http://en.bacc.or.th/event/Han-Nefkens-2015.html

 

 

Anup Mathew Thomas

Anup Mathew Thomas works primarily with the medium of photography and his work often engages ostensibly local narratives. Over the last decade he has produced a series of projects that engage with and make reference to the cultural history of his native Kerala. Thomas’s works introduce audiences to stories that may have gone missing from the archive. In exploring the slippages between documentary and artistic practice, Thomas employs both anecdotal and factual narrative styles, and his work often culminates in carefully staged portraiture. His practice explores the immediacy of the photograph, and its potential for ambiguity, as a medium for storytelling.
 

Anup Mathew Thomas lives and works in Bangalore, India.
 

His recent participation in group exhibitions include Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi (2012); The Matter Within, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2011); Generation in Transition, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2011); The Self and the Other, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (2009-10); and Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Arnolfini, Bristol (2009). Solo exhibitions include shows at Gasworks Gallery, London (2007); The Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (2010) and Lothringer13, Munich (2013). He is a recipient of The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2014.

 

The Han Nefkens Foundation – BACC Award for Contemporary Art is a collaboration between the Han Nefkens Foundation and the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.

The Han Nefkens Foundation promotes and enables the production of art by young, up-and-coming artists by financing the production of work and providing a platform to show the pieces through collaboration with international art institutes.

 

For more information

Ms. Laila Bunnag

Arts Network Department (International Relations), BACC

Tel: 02 214 6630-8 ext. 528

Fax: 02 214 6639 

Email: [email protected]

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A meeting with Piyatat Hemmatat, a photographer and founder of RMA Institute at RMA Institute

A preliminary meeting with Ms. Pichaya Suphavanij, Head of Exhibitions, BACC 

Visit Lyla Gallery in Chiang Mai

Visit The Land Foundation with Mr. Prachya Compiranont

Empty Space Chiang Mai, a public theatre and art space by Mr. Manuel and Mrs. Noi Lutgenhorst 

Visit Mr. Tawatchai Punsawat's sculpture studio

Meet with Mr. Navin Rawanchaikul at O.K. Studio as part of the Commemorative Exhibitions to mark the 20th anniversary of Navin Production

Visit the 31st Century Museum of Contemporary Spirit by Kamin Lertchaiprasert, a prominent figure in Thai contemporary art

A Northern lunch with Prof. Kosit Juntaratip, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University

Tales of Navin, the Commemorative Exhibitions to mark the 20th anniversary of Navin Production at DC Collection