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ABOUT
Natthapong Samakkaew’s practice centers on drawing, particularly through live drawing. Working on-site with pen and small sheets of paper, he responds to people, places, and situations through direct observation and presence. Often drawing in spaces where cameras are not welcome, such as clubs, darkrooms, cruising areas, and private gatherings, he records encounters, movements, and atmospheres through marks that exist between documentation and improvisation.
In the studio, these live drawings are expanded across scale and media, resulting in works that reflect personal memories, heritage, queer experiences, and everyday life. Samakkaew approaches drawing not only as a medium of representation but also as a method of seeing, inhabiting, and responding to the world around him.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
“Dissident Paths (Traces)”, nGbK, Berlin, DE
“To Bergen, with love”, Fresh Salad Art, Bergen, NO
2025
“In Nobody’s Service”, Thailand Biennale, Phuket, TH
“Queer Lives In Transit”, Ovenpå, Copenhagen, DK
2024
“Young Birds from Strange Mountains”, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE
“In Nobody’s Service”, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, DE
“In the Dark”, Zemin Art Space, Berlin, DE
2022
“Forgetting Thailand (un.thai.tled)”, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, DE
“Forgetting Thailand (un.thai.tled)”, Fluctoplasma, Hamburg, DE
“Anonymous Drawings”, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, DE
“Anonymous Drawings”, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, 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
2026
“Book Launch: In Nobody’s Service” (Live Drawing, Artist Talk), Galerie Wedding, Berlin, DE
“Walk Notations: A reading in-motion” (Live Drawing), Miss Read, Berlin, DE
“In Nobody’s Service” (Drawing Workshop and Conversation), Thailand Biennale, Phuket, TH
2025
“Dissident Paths” (Live Drawing), nGbK / Re-Routing / Cruising Curators, Berlin, DE
“Young Birds from Strange Mountains” (Artist Talk), Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE
2024:
“TODO & FRIENDS (Conversations on Diaspora, Queerness and Archives)” (Poster), Berlin, DE
2022
“Forgetting Thailand / un.thai.tled” (Intervention), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, DE
2019 – Present: Member of the un.thai.tled collective, Berlin, DE
2016: Participation: “Skizzen Festival”, Weimar, 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
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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.