Pratchaya Phinthong

Born in 1974 in Ubon Ratchathani, he lives an works in Bangkok.

Pratchaya Phinthong creates situations as an invitation made to the visitor to share an experience with him. His projects (without any specific or pred-defined forms) suggest a crack in which the spectators are invited to fill the gaps. He builds a set, a fiction, or a process where he can test our perceptions. He proposes to his audience a story with multiple paths. A trip down memory lane combined with subjective perceptions. His projects are often constructed in a dialogue between the artist and the others, making the artist’s movement glide towards the social field. Beyond any artistical or formal experience, the artist is looking to find his place and his identity playing on the economic representations and cultural existences.The ‘gallery’ space becomes a free area. Therefore, Pratchaya Phinthong works in a dynamic area in between different realitie sunderlining the space and distance that separates them: two geographical points, two societies, two economic systems.

Traveling is also a key element of his work. The experience of displacement was the focal point of the exhibition “if I dig a very deep hole” that took place in gb agency in 2007. A mental and physical displacement all at once. Sort of a self-portrait of the artist in Paris, “if I dig a very big hole…” portrayed two moons on a negative. The artist found where the extreme geographically opposite place would be to Paris if we could draw a straight line through the globe. He then went to photograph the full moon on the Chatham islands (New Zealand) before coming to Paris to photograph the same full moon. The same motive, the same thing, two places diametrically opposite from one another, two individual experiences, two different moments are reunited in this work. The clear resolution of this long trip appeared hollow, as a kind of negative or print, almost unperceivable.

Pratchaya Phinthong: Movement is a Medicine

Solo show
The island club, Limassol
March 31 - April 29, 2023

signals…瞬息: signals…storms and patterns

Group exhibition with the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
Para Site, Hong Kong
March 18 - September 29, 2024

Cosmos

Group show including the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
Frac Lorraine, Metz
March 4 - April 23, 2023

Nesting - Cavities

A duo exhibition by Nicholas Mangan and
Pratchaya Phinthong
Storage, Bangkok
February 4 - April 2, 2023

The Singapore Biennial

Biennial including the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore
Biennial, until March 19, 2023

The Istanbul Biennial

Biennial including the works of Pratchaya Phinthong
The Istanbul Biennial, Istambul
September 17 - November 20, 2022

Le tour du jour en quatre-vingts mondes

Group show including the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
CAPC, Bordeaux
December 15, 2020 - December 11, 2022

Art Basel 2022

Art Fair
Art Basel, Messe Basel
June 14 - 19, 2022

Vulnerable Critters

Group show, including the works of Pratchaya Phinthong
La Casa Encendida, Madid
May 27 - September 18, 2022

Pratchaya Phinthong: The Organ of Destiny

Solo show
gb agency, Paris
May 14 - July 23, 2022

The immeasurable and World's End

Group show with works by Deimantas Narkevicius and Pratchaya Phinthong
JWD Art Space, Bangkok
30 April - 28 August, 2022

Affaires étrangères. Foreign Affairs / Negocios Estrangeiros

Group show with works by Mark Geffriaud and Pratchaya Phinthong
AIR351, Cascais
April 8 - June 5, 2022

Ce devant quoi

A collective exhibition by Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
March 26 - May 7, 2022

Ketchup Session: Pratchaya Phinthong

Online conversation
Kadist, Online
August 26, 2021

Staple, what's on your plate?

Group show with works by Pratchaya Phinthong
Hayy Jameel, Jeddah
From November, 2021

Pratchaya Phinthong: Waiting for Hilsa

Solo project
Galleries Curate, online
April 19 - 25, 2021

Here to Stay, new arrivals to the collection

Group show including the works of Roman Ondak, Ryan Gander and Pratchaya Phinthong
Museion, Bolzano
March 26 - August 8, 2021

Pratchaya Phinthong: Extended Release

Solo exhibition by Pratchata Phinthong
Silpakorn University Art Center, Bangkok
Until May 15, 2021, extended to July 16, 2021

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Group exhibition with works by Pratchaya Phinthong
CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
Until February 27, 2021

Global(e) Resistance with Pratchaya Phinthong

Group show including the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
Centre Pompidou, Paris
September 15, 2020 - January 4, 2021

Activity of Matter

Group show
gb agency, Paris
From November 30th 2019 to January 11th, 2020

Fiac 2019

Art Fair
Grand Palais, Paris
October 17 - 20, 2019

Pratchaya Phinthong, Social Sculpture Project

A solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency, Paris
From March 9 to May 4, 2019

Pratchaya Phinthong, Demonstrations

Solo exhibition
Frieze Art Fair
October 4 - 7, 2018

Pratchaya Phinthong, A whole from a different half

A solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency, Paris
March 17 - April 28, 2018

Art Basel in Hong Kong 2016

Art Fair
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).
March 22 - 26, 2016

The Stratagems of the Intellect with Pratchaya Phinthong

Group installation
Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux
October 11–December 13, 2015

Pratchaya Phinthong: Who will guard the guards themselves?

a solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency
From May 28 to July 18, 2015

Art 45 Basel

Art Fair
Art Basel
June 19 - 22, 2014.

And I laid traps for troubadours who get killed before they reached Bombay with Roman Ondak and Pratchaya Phinthong at Clark House

Group Exhibition
Clark House, Colaba, Bombay
7th February - 30th April 2014

Pratchaya Phinthong: A proposal to set CH4 5.75H20 on fire

Solo Show
KIOSK, Gand. Belgium
30 Nov 2013 - 26 Jan 2014

Pratchaya Phinthong, A piece that nobody needs

Solo Show
Lothringer 13_halle, Munich
22 nov 2013 - 26 jan 2014

Pratchaya Phinthong at Artists' Film Club, London

Screening
Aetists’ Film Club, ICA, London
30 July 2013 - 6:45 pm

Documenta 13

Kassel, Germany
9 June - 16 September 2012

Pratchaya Phinthong

Solo exhibition by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency
September 8 - November 3, 2012

Pratchaya Phinthong

A solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency
From September 5 to October 10, 2009

Nord, Nord-Ouest

Group show
gb agency
From June 25 to July 25, 2009

Cinematic Panorama

Group exhibition
gb agency
From 1 December to 19 January 2008

Pratchaya Phinthong: if I dig a very deep hole

A solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency
From September 8 to October 13, 2007

Petites compositions entre amis - Sequence 3

Group exhibition
gb agency
5 November to 22 December 2005

Exhibition view, Pratchaya Phinthong: The Organ of Destiny, gb agency, Paris

Exhibition view, Pratchaya Phinthong: The Organ of Destiny, gb agency, Paris

Exhibition view, Pratchaya Phinthong: Extended Release, The Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 2021.
Curated by Kritsada Duchsadeevanich, Photo Pratchaya Phinthong

Exhibition view, Pratchaya Phinthong: Extended Release, The Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 2021.
Curated by Kritsada Duchsadeevanich, Photo Pratchaya Phinthong

Exhibition view, Pratchaya Phinthong: Extended Release, The Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 2021.
Curated by Kritsada Duchsadeevanich, Photo Pratchaya Phinthong

Exhibition view, Pratchaya Phinthong: Extended Release, The Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 2021.
Curated by Kritsada Duchsadeevanich, Photo Pratchaya Phinthong