Bangkok Art Biennale 2024

The Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) 2024 titled Nurture Gaia  after one of the many personifications of Mother Earth, her various historical expressions as a symbol of mother, nurturer, and giver of life, reaches across time and links cultures. Beyond Gaia’s mythic and mystical manifestations, she has also inspired scientific theories and philosophies. BAB 2024 will focus on differences between nature and nurture, complex ideas of femininity and feminine values, and contemplative engagements with ecopolitics, animism, and the supernatural.

In 2024, get ready to be dazzled by the works of world-renowned artists including Joseph Beuys (Germany), Louise Bourgeois (France), Amanda Coogan (Ireland), Yanawit Kunchaethong (Thailand), Princess Marsi Paribatra (Thailand), Jessica Segall (USA), and more.

Pejvak is the long-term collaboration between Felix Kalmenson and Rouzbeh Akhbari. Kalmenson is an artist and filmmaker. His work variably narrates the liminal space of a researcher’s and artist’s encounter with landscape and archive. Rouzbeh Akhbari is an artist working in video installation and film based between Toronto and Lisbon. His practice is research-driven and usually exists at the intersections of storytelling, political ecology, critical border studies, and human geography. Their collective works have been exhibited at museums and galleries internationally and their films have screened in numerous international film festivals.

"Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts" is a transhistorical hybrid documentary that traces a polyphony of characters, sites and encounters related to infrastructures of space travel and cosmic imaginaries. Following a vertiginous narrative connecting various cosmic machinations from the 12th century Persianate world to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the present moment, the film weaves historical facts and archival fabulations, and questions our common perceptions of time and space.