Yuko Hasegawa delivers a speech at the opening ceremony photo by Zhao Jingnan
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, December 17 (Zhao Jingnan) The 2021 Thai Art Biennale opened in Nakhon Ratchasima province in northeastern Thailand on the 17th, with 53 artists from 25 countries and regions around the world participating.
The exhibited works located in the center of Nakhon Ratchasima province are photo by Zhao Jingnan
Organized by the Ministry of Culture of Thailand, the Biennale aims to invite artists from around the world to create artworks at specific sites of the Biennale in order to tap into the potential of the local area to become a cultural capital and promote the balanced development of thai contemporary art and local art and cultural tourism. The last biennale was held in Krabi Province, Southern Thailand in 2018.
The audience visits the exhibited works photographed by Zhao Jingnan
Yuko Hasegawa, a well-known Japanese artist and chief curator of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, who is the artistic director of this biennale, said that due to the COVID-19 epidemic, most artists were unable to come to Thailand as planned to conduct on-site investigations and complete their works, and they had to revise their art proposals according to the local conditions with the help of curators and local community people, and invite local coordinators and community members to realize the final work of art. This creative process has also become a major feature of this year's biennale.
It is understood that all the artworks of this biennale are distributed in 13 cultural attractions in Nakhon Ratchasima and will continue to be exhibited until the end of March 2022. During the opening week of the Biennial, there will also be a series of workshops and lectures where artists, curators and creative industry leaders will discuss topics such as cross-cultural exchange and the development of contemporary art. (End)