Belle Phromchanya

artistic research - audiovisual - crossover - design - documentary

Born in Bangkok in 1984, Belle Phromchanya was trained as a graphic designer before relocating to Amsterdam in 2011 to study MA Design at the Sandberg Institute. She continues her artistic practice between The Netherlands and Thailand until today. Her works address subjects such as, political memeification, digital legacy, marginalized-transborder identities, and contemporary migration, many of which are rooted in the unsettling relationship between themselves and the globalized society. Her works have been shown at Beijing Design Week, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, De Appel Arts Centre, Objectifs Singapore, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Porto Design Biennale, and W139 among others. Belle is a co-founder of NON NATIVE NATIVE, an independent platform based in Rotterdam aiming to extend the international, non-western discourses within the cultural landscape, operating in collaboration with various disciplines to celebrate the art of reclaiming the unclaimed.

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    • I was here the whole time (80+)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-03-2022 t/m 20-03-2022
    • In collaboration with: CBK Rotterdam, Mondriaan Fund, and Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries fund The Netherlands
    • Location: W139 (Amsterdam), River City Bangkok (Bangkok), Amsterdam
    • I was here the whole time (+80) is a presentation of a research collection produced as part of Phromchanya's ongoing audiovisual project which explores the construction of one's legacy through the tracing and reappropriating of found digital materials. The project questions how much control and ownership we do have, not just about our own data, but about our memories of others and vice-versa.

    Lands with no Volcanoes at Majhi International Art Residency Programs 2021

    Residencies / exchange

    • 10-10-2021 t/m 21-10-2021
    • In collaboration with: Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF)
    • Location: , Eindhoven
    • Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF) is delighted to announce the launch of the third edition of Majhi International Art Residency in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Ten international artists and art collectives from Bangladesh, Indonesia, the UK, the Netherlands, and Italy will meet and work at the historic Steentjeskerk Church in Eindhoven from October 10, culminating in an exhibition opening on October 21, 2021.
    • https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/423356/third-majhi-international-art-residency/

    Objectifs' Women in Film and Photography

    Project

    • 04-12-2021 t/m 04-12-2021
    • In collaboration with: Objectifs Center of Photogaphy and Film
    • Location: The Projector, Singapore
    • The theme for the sixth edition of Women in Film and Photography is Inheritance. Exploring notions of inherited identities and traditions, familial connections and stories, intergenerational memories and scars, public and private histories — Inheritance seeks to understand who we are. The screening is part of Objectifs' annual Women in Film and Photography showcase. This year's program presents a selection of five short films curated by Leong Puiyee.
    • https://www.objectifs.com.sg/opencall-recap/

    Drifting Lands, Leiden Shorts 2021

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 04-09-2021
    • Location: , Leiden
    • We stand simultaneously in the unsettling and the homeland, trying to start a dialogue between them. Where can we find a connection? How can we make a balance, what are the rewards? The boundary is between the self and the other. Drifting Land reflects on the existing systems of power and questions the notion of identities. It proposes a dialogue between emotions and rationality, duality and non-duality, the wandering and the settlement. Curated by Minhong Yu.
    • https://leidenshorts.nl/session/drifting-lands/

    Kunstfort intervention at World of Earth and Microbial Oasis

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2021 t/m 17-10-2021
    • Location: Kunstfort near Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam
    • Video installation of Though the Mountains Divide, and the Oceans are Wide, as part of an exhibition World of Earth and Microbial Oasis curated by Zippora Elders.
    • https://vimeo.com/590954689

    NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR 2021

    Project

    • 26-06-2021 t/m 02-06-2021
    • Location: WORM Rotterdam, Online
    • The NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR is an experimental hybrid event that brings together Asian creative cultural practitioners from various backgrounds and disciplines to present their work and products in an online trade fair environment. By repurposing the concept of an “Asian cultural fair” - a collage of elements which represent Asian culture - the NNN Fair examines the positions and relationships of Aliens within the Dutch cultural landscape by blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, ap
    • www.nnnfair.com

    Whether it is Art or Not, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Bangkok

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 13-03-2021 t/m 13-07-2021
    • Location: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Bangkok
    • Whether it is Art or Not (2016) installation at the main hall, as part of Massege Exhibition paying tribute to Chavalit Soemprungsuk

    Majhi International Art Residency Programs 2020

    Residencies / exchange

    • 27-08-2020 t/m 15-09-2020
    • In collaboration with: The Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF), Berlin Art Week
    • Location: Der Bogen, Berlin
    • Majhi International Art Residency takes place between August 24th and September 12 th in Berlin, wherewith eight international artists we will reflect upon the question "How to shape a society of care? On kinship and multiple homes", conceived by this edition's curator Zippora Elders.
    • https://majhi.org/

    Capital of Mae La, official selection, The Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Film and Media Festival 2020

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 08-10-2020 t/m 08-11-2020
    • In collaboration with: American Anthropological Association, USA
    • The Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival screens the best ethnographic films and video productions at our annual SVA Film & Media Festival, held in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting. This gives independent filmmakers as well as distributors broad access to a market of several thousand anthropologists and educators.

    Nomination for best short documentary, Bangkok Critics Assembly Awards 2020

    Something News: Deliberating news creation today and alternative approaches to journalism

    • In collaboration with: BOOKMARK MAGAZINE
    • Something News is an online conversation (in Thai) with journalist Pawee Sirimai on the intersection of Art and Journalism. [BOOKMARK MAGAZINE] is an online monthly publication that publishes the in-depth discussion from multidisciplinary practitioners on the topics that emerge in the conversation within the BOOKSHOP LIBRARY. These in-depth discussions open the stage for critical debate on the contemporary
    • https://bookshoplibrary.com/bookmark/bookmark-magazine/something-news/

    Capital of Mae La: Dutch Premiere

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 23-04-2019
    • In collaboration with: Voordekunst crowdfunding platform, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), and Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
    • Location: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
    • Film screening and discussion with Belle Phromchanya: Director 'Capital of Mae La', Designer and Filmmaker, Jiraporn Oil Laocharoenwong: Researcher 'Capital of Mae La' and lecturer at faculty of Political Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Dr. CH (Tina) Harris - Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Amsterdam
    • https://prachatai.com/english/node/8109

    Impartial Spectrum: Porto Design Biennale

    Project

    • 01-10-2019
    • In collaboration with: ACED
    • Location: Sao Bento Station Porto, Portugal, Porto
    • The installation of 80 prints in the main hall of São Bento metro station contains a collection of images and headlines from multiple international media sources, covering the selected cases. Design by Belle Phromchanya & Noortje van Eekelen (ACED) is part of Design Systems curated by Francisco Laranjo.

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Artist Project, Mondrian Fund

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Digital Culture, Creative Industries Fund NL

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Project Grant, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK)

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • Design Grant, Creative Industries Fund NL

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Stimulation Fund for Journalism

    • 2017
      Scholarship

    • National Film and Media Fund, Thailand Ministry of Culture

    • 2017