EXHIBITION
PRATCHAYA PHINTHONG
A Solo Project
18 July–13 September 2025
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, marking a decade as an independent contemporary art space dedicated to expanding the possibilities of artistic expression and public imagination. Over the past ten years, the gallery has grown into far more than an exhibition venue—it has become a stage for long-term experimentation, a home for emerging voices, and a site for bold ideas that challenge, provoke, and transform.
Founded in August 2015, BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY began as—and remains—a project of belief: belief that every city needs independent art spaces where questions can be asked, where dissent is possible, and where care and courage meet. With no hierarchy of forms or disciplines, BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY has embraced a wide range of practices—from visual art and moving images to installation, publishing, sound, and performance.
This milestone year is both a celebration and a moment of reflection. BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY stands as a living archive of cross-disciplinary practice—shaped by the artists, collaborators, and communities who have made the space their own. From quiet gestures to radical transformations, the gallery has remained guided by principles of openness, generosity, and a commitment to new ways of seeing. It is, above all, a space for connection and possibility.
Looking ahead to the next decade, BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY remains committed to creating space—both physical and conceptual—for practices that challenge, transform, and move us.
To mark this moment, we present A Solo Project by Pratchaya Phinthong, opening on July 18, 2025. Known for his critical and conceptual approach, Pratchaya’s practice often navigates systems of labor, value, and exchange. His new work continues this inquiry while responding to the gallery’s long-standing ethos of collectivity and care. Rather than imposing conclusions, the project creates a vacuum for thought—a suspension of expectation—signaling a shift into a new phase of collective and spatial consciousness.
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INSTALLATION: Paraform Studio; Itsaret Sutthisiri, Tonkao Kwannak, Narupon Piriyapittaya, Phurinad Sugtamna, Somsak Phongwantanakul, Mathus Wattuya, Tontor Glass and Aluminium, ADA Thailand; ThanaThanapalin, Somphorn Ngenchalard, Rawiwan Krongyod, Wichchakorn Crongyod
INSTALLATION VIEW PHOTO: Tanatchai Bandasak
SCENOGRAPHER: SP/N; Irin Siriwattanagul, Nathaphon Phantounarakul
BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY: Op Sudasna, Supamas Phahulo, Setapa Prom, Kantida Busaba, Kanteera Sanguantung, Chollaphat Nuchthongmuang, Krittathat Taveetanathada, Kornkanok Wongsuwan, Sirichart Jitrai, Wichai Ueaareevoralkul, Thamoonphamol Foithapthim, Nathawut Pannakul, Parinya Nimsomboon
Produced by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY
ARTIST
Pratchaya Phinthong. Photo: Tanatchai Bandasak
PRATCHAYA PHINTHONG
b.1974. Lives in Bangkok, Thailand
Pratchaya Phinthong is an alchemist of economic value and social functions. In the work of this Thai artist, financial fluctuations, media alarmism, and the world labor market are transferred into matter as it transforms from solid to liquid to gaseous states, and then back again. Perhaps, we can describe Phinthong as a trader who operates according to a logic opposite to that of profit, and who deals in cultural and value systems, trafficking in everyday meanings, hopes, and troubles. Phinthong accepts the perpetual transformation of forms and politics, of existence and daily life, poetically transferring the metaphor of fluctuation in currency values to various areas of human action. Phinthong’s works often arise from the confrontation between different social, economic or geographical systems. They are the result of a dialogue, and bring all their poetic forces from an almost invisible artistic gesture. (gb agency)