Places of Rebirth2009Tate Triennial: AltermodernTate Britain, London, UK Places of Rebirth is inspired from Navin Rawanchaikul’s first visit to Pakistan, the birthplace of his ancestors. It deals with the artist’s background as a son of the Hindu-Punjabi Diaspora and his cross-border, cross-cultural negotiations. Painted in the style of a typical Indian movie poster, it blends generational […]
We Love You Comrade Navin2009Café for Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada North Vancouver’s newest contemporary art space and café opened its inaugural exhibition We Love You Comrade Navin. This exhibition presents two projects from Navin Party, a globetrotting narrative developed by artist Navin Rawanchaikul and café for contemporary art director Tyler Russell. Gallery
Quotations of Comrade Navin2009Take 2Sakshi Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan A group show of international Indian artists, the second exhibition of Sakshi Gallery in Taipei included Navin Party’s limited edition ceramic and book set Quotations of Comrade Navin and series of woodblock print that produced in 2007 for 9th Navin Party Summit in Beijing.
SUPER CHINA!2009Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, China For his first solo exhibition in China, SUPER CHINA!, Navin Rawanchaikul transforms UCCA’s Nave into a playful zone calling for immediate reflexivity about Chinese contemporary art world and its current values. The project begins with a dialogue to the “past” tale of Old Navin and Curatorman, the two protagonists who fight […]
Hong Rub Khaek (Khaek Welcome)2009Unreal Asia, 55th International Short Film Festival OberhausenOberhausen, Germany Curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong and David The, Hong Rub Khaek (Khaek Welcome) has been selected to be official screened within the theme “Unreal Asia” of 2009’s festival of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Gallery
Who is Navin?2009Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden
Intra Radee Intra Radia2009-10Fat Festival 9Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand As part of an annual music festival hosted by Bangkok-based indie radio station FM 104.5 Fat Radio, and in collaboration with Duck Unit under the direction of Thai contemporary artist Wit Pimkanchanapong, Navin Production studio was commissioned for a site-specific project for this large-scale event. […]
Long Heart2008Navin’s Sala Appropriated from 70’s style fashion and film magazines where text bubbles accompany photo stories like a comic strip, Navin Production’s first photo novel Long Heart is the result of a collaboration with Thai young photographer Alongkorn Sriprasert and a team of creative designers who together in 2008 put together a retrospective of the artist […]
Navin’s Sala2008Festival de CannesVilla UGC, Cannes, France Hosted by Galerie Enrico Navarra, an exclusive presentation of Navin Production’s paintings and the edition of Quotations From Comrade Navin ceramic bust and book set were displayed in a UGC villa in Cannes during the 2-week period of the 61st Film Festival. With the villas used to host international film related executives […]
Navinland Cinema2008Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India For Navin Rawanchaikul’s first ever exhibition in India, Navinland Cinema featured selected works by Navin Production that focused on the Navin Party project, an ongoing series that has developed collaboratively between Navin and Canadian Tyler Russell. The first major Navin Party project was Navins of Bollywood, a Bollywood-style short musical film directed by Mumbai-based Director […]