ARTIST NAME Suwan Laimanee
TEAM NAME
GROUP Group XVI, Apr 03 - Sept 03
DISCIPLINE Art
WEBSITE
BIO Born in Lampang, Thailand
Lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Education

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Sculpture - Michelangelo Pistoletto
Thai traditional healing massage at the foundation of Moh Schivaga Komarpaj, Traditional medicine hospital, Chiang Mai

Selected Exhibitions

2012
- "Extreme Craft," Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2009
- "Travels," Gallery NIklas Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden
- "Become A Thai Masseur Within One Week," Berlin, Germany
- "Discursive Picnic," Görlitzerpark, Monbijoupark, Berlin, Germany
- "Supermarket Art Fair," Stockholm

2008
- "IPAH Festival Of Performance Art," Hildesheim, Germany
- "No Patents On Seeds T-Shirts," August Strasse, Berlin, Germany
- "Performance Art From Southeast Asia," GfBK, Berlin, Germany
- "Raketa Guesstar," Titanic Gallery, Turku, Finland
- "Rejmyre Matters Inconnection With Raketa," Sweden, Germany

2007
- "Become a Thai masseur within one week", the land foundation Chiang Mai, Thailand (Solo Exhibition)

2006
- "Temporary Museum Soi Sabai", Bangkok, Thailand (Group Exhibition)

2005
- "Moderna Museet´s lounge", Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
- "Aurafilm" at Aura, Krognos House, Lund, Sweden
- "Borders", one minute film screening, Verkligheten, Umea
- "MAF 05", Thailand new media arts festival, Bangkok, Thailand

2004
- Phirasi Grant, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- "Tanja ostojic special guest - Salon for Body and Soul care", Salon of the Museum of contemporary art, Belgrade, Serbia
- "Home", Tadu contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
- "Soi Sabai", graf media gm Osaka, Japan

2003
- "BizArt", Art Center, Shanghai, China
- "No patents on Thai Jasmine Rice", MAK Center, Los Angeles

First introduced Thai Massage as art and science at The Biennale die Firenze in 1996. 1997 Documenta X, Video art work and ducumentation "Thai massage in the public space" in connection with Michelangelo Pistoletto´s Progetto Arte
PORTRAIT
Suwan Laimanee portrait
© Suwan Laimanee
FINAL PROJECT
"Nuad Thai" and "I Drink Therefore I Am," Performance and video, 2003
"Nuad Thai" and "I Drink Therefore I Am," Performance and video, 2003 image
© MAK Center / Joshua White

Project Details...
JURY
Franz Graf
Boris Groys
Zvi Hecker
Egidio Marzona
Peter Noever