NEWS

11. September – 26. October 2025

Live Drawing: “Path 5, Cruise: Dissident Paths (Walking Together as a Method)”, nGbK, Berlin, DE

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Opening: 29. November 2025

Group Exhibition: “In Nobody’s Service”, Thailand Biennale, Phuket, TH


ABOUT

Natthapong Samakkaew’s practice centers on drawing, unfolding through rapid, intuitive gestures that capture the fleeting nature of lived experience. Working on-site with pen and small sheets of paper, Samakkaew engages from spaces where cameras are not welcome—such as clubs, darkrooms, and private gatherings—to apply this practice to everyday encounters, transforming immediate impressions into marks that hover between documentation, memory, and abstraction. In the studio, these drawings are expanded across scale and media, resulting in works that reflect queer experiences, personal memories, and the subtle moments of daily life. Samakkaew positions drawing not only as a medium of representation but also as a way of inhabiting and responding to the environment.

EMAIL

n.samakkaew@gmail.com


SOCIAL MEDIA

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025

“Queer Lives In Transit”, Ovenpå, Copenhagen, DK

“Young Birds from Strange Mountains”, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE


2024

“In the Dark”, Zemin Berlin, Berlin, DE

“In Nobody’s Service”, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, DE


2022

“Anonymous Drawings”, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, DE

“Anonymous Drawings”, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, DE

“Forgetting Thailand (un.thai.tled)”, Fluctoplasma, Hamburg, DE


2019

“Queerness,” Projektraum 145, Berlin, DE
“Fluid Bodies”, Artburst, Berlin, DE
“Ereignis Freihandzeichnung”, Stadtmuseum, Döbeln, DE
“Ereignis Freihandzeichnung”, BBK Leipzig, Leipzig, DE
“Aquamediale 13 Art Festival”, Spreewald, DE


2018

“Bachelor Exhibition”, Burg Gallery, Halle, DE
“The Giebichenstein Award”, Kunststiftung, Halle, DE


2017

“Garten der Lüste”, Kunststiftung, Halle, DE
“Asia Creation Art Exhibition”, The National Art Center Tokyo, JP

SELECTED ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES

2025
Artist Talk: “Young Birds from Strange Mountains”, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE


2022

Intervention: “Forgetting Thailand (un.thai.tled)”, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, DE


PRESS & PUBLICATIONS 

︎e-flux

︎taz

︎aquamediale 13

︎Du bist Halle

︎Schwules Museum

︎Galerie Wedding


AWARD & GRANTS

2022
INITIAL 2 – New Cooperations Grant, Akademie der Künste


2018 
Giebichenstein Designpreis Award, Best Experiment, Move Your Body


2016

Tokyo University of the Arts Scholarship 


COLLECT MY WORK

If you’re interested in purchasing my work, please feel free to contact the museum or gallery where my work is being shown or reach out to me via email.


COPYRIGHT & USAGE

all images © Natthapong Samakkaew Any user, found to replicate, reproduce, reference, circulate, distribute, manipulate or otherwise use these images without the Artist’s prior written consent will be in breach of copyright laws.



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