Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB), set in the capital city of Thailand, was founded in 2017 with the mission to transform the bustling city of Bangkok into Southeast Asia’s leading contemporary art destination. Taking over public spaces around the city including temples and heritage sites over the course of four months, the biennale highlights the city’s charm by bridging Rattanakosin cultural heritage with Bangkok urbanism.

As a freely accessible platform, the past four biennales attracted nearly five million visitors. More than 300 artists from Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and Africa participated. During the pandemic, the biennale also launched BAB Virtual Venue, an online platform which has garnered over 2.3 million viewers from around the world. 

The theme of each previous biennale, Beyond Bliss, Escape Routes, CHAOS : CALM, Nurture Gaia, evolved around the events of the world, and calls attention to relevant socio-political and environmental issues in a glocal scale, and seek to question through art, what it means to be contemporary.

For more information please visit the Bangkok Art Biennale website.

Tagged 09/11.