NEWS
29. November 2024 – 4. August 2025
Group Exhibition: Young Birds from Strange Mountains, Schwules Museum, Berlin
1. September – 30. September 2025
Cruise Walking: Dissident Paths (Walking Together as a Method), nGbK, Berlin
ARTIST BIO
Natthapong Samakkaew is a visual artist based between Berlin and Krabi, whose practice centers on live drawing as a way of observing and connecting with the world around him.
He also expands his live drawing practice onto canvas and into other mediums such as sculpture, video, installation, and printed matter, allowing the work to shift in form while remaining grounded in direct observation. He earned a BA in Illustration from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, where his award-winning dissertation Move Your Body examined the representation of people in Berlin’s darkrooms.
His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including The National Art Center Tokyo, Kunststiftung Halle, Aquamediale Art Festival, BBK Leipzig e.V., Artburst Berlin, and Projektraum 145. Recent exhibitions include Galerie im Körnerpark, Fluctoplasma Festival, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (as part of Unthaitled), Zemin Berlin, and Galerie Wedding. His work is currently on view at Schwules Museum, Berlin.
EMAIL
SOCIAL MEDIA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Currently on view: 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
Young Birds from Strange Mountains, Schwules Museum, 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
ARTIST TALK & TEMPORAL INTERVENTION
2025
Artist Talk: Young Birds, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE
2022
Intervention: Forgetting Thailand (un.thai.tled), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, DE
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
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.