NEWS

29. November 2024 – 4. August 2025
Group Exhibition: Young Birds from Strange Mountains, Schwules Museum, Berlin

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1. September – 30. September 2025

Cruise Walking: Dissident Paths (Walking Together as a Method), nGbK, Berlin

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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

n.samakkaew@gmail.com


SOCIAL MEDIA

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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 

︎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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