Arin Rungyang
Arin Rungjang (* 1975 in Bangkok ) is a Thai video and object artist .
education
His first solo and group exhibitions began in 1998. In 2000 he received an annual grant from the French government for what is now the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . In Paris had him Christian Boltanski added to his studio. Back in Thailand, he successfully completed his art studies in 2002 at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics at Silpakorn University . He also represents concepts of social plastic .
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Arin Rungjang creates music and text videos that describe personal fates and reveal insights into collective history. He works out events, things, texts, pieces of music, "which can be assessed more easily and more precisely if you are presented with the history of their origins".
As a participant in documenta 14 , he exhibited a sculptural installation, some pictures and objects in the old main post office in Kassel , supplemented by a video film about two world-historic sites. He showed the Monument to Democracy in Bangkok and the National University in Athens . In 1973, there were popular or student uprisings against the military governments of the time in both places . These historical events are currently presented and assessed very differently. Rungjang's work conveys this contradiction by creating inconsistent documentation based on oral reports and archive material.
For Rungjang, history is not objective. History is made by people who also have their own ideals. In 2018 he exhibited for the first time in Germany in a solo exhibition at the Portikus in Frankfurt .
Arin Rungjang lives in Berlin , previously in Bangkok.
Exhibitions
- 2013: 55th Biennale di Venezia , Thai pavilion
- 2014: Singapore Biennale
- 2015: Mongkut , CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
- 2017: Jakarta Art Biennial, Jakarta
- 2017: documenta 14 , Kassel and Athens
- 2018: Bengawan Solo , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
- 2018: From Le Brassus to Bangkok , Bangkok
- 2018: Absurdity in Paradise , Kunstverein Kassel , Kassel, curated by Aime Suphavanij
literature
- David Teh: Art of domestication. Arin Rungyang. In: contemporary visual art + culture broadsheet , 40.1, 2011, pp. 50–55 ( online ).
- Daybook Documenta 14. Pestel, Munich, London New York 2017.
Web links
- Literature by and about Arin Rungjang in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Biographical entry: Arin Rungjang. In: westdenhaag.nl. Stichting West, The Hague, accessed on September 6, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arin Rungjang. In: www.westdenhaag.nl. Stichting West, The Hague, accessed on September 6, 2018 .
- ^ David Teh: Art of Domestication. Arin Rungyang. In: contemporary visual art + culture broadsheet , 40.1, 2011, pp. 52, 55 ( online ). Retrieved September 6, 2018.
- ↑ Christian Huter: Life and Death as a Long River. The Frankfurt Portikus is showing a history-laden music and text video by Arin Rungjang. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from July 6, 2018.
- ↑ Andreas Montag: Politics is part of it, but also art - world art show - first in Athens, now until September 17th in Kassel. But how is it received? A dichotomy opens up that provides debate. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of August 5, 2017.
- ↑ Arin Rungjang. Mongkut. In: capc-bordeaux.fr. Retrieved September 6, 2018 (French, exhibition information).
- ↑ The Nation (Thailand) June 12, 2018
- ↑ The Bangkok Post (Thailand) of August 30, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rungyang, Arin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Thai video, object and installation artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bangkok |