Korakrit Arunanondchai
Sonsbeek 2026
Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem and POST, Arnhem
Inleiding
With a history in a room filled with people with funny names 4; Will you find beauty in this sea of data? We left it behind just for you. A cloud that will rain down on your skin. And absorb into your body, 2026
Photo: Django van Ardenne
In this presentation, the artist and filmmaker revisits a 2017 video and installation from a series centered on a denim painter—played by [Korakrit]—negotiating globalization and belief systems back home and weaving autobiography into “a memory palace." ... The work that extends into the park shows the post-human landscape inherited by the rat, where ritualistic objects made of leftover banana leaf and found wood surrender to growth’s slow indifference. The sculptures are claimed by plants from which the text in the video protrudes. A buried instrument breathes with the video—its vibration moving from gentle tremor to abrupt rupture. Just as in the video, memory loops
About the artist
Korakrit Arunanondchai (b. 1986, Bangkok) is an artist and filmmaker based between New York and Bangkok. Interested in animism and science fiction, Arunanondchai often creates work as a kind of autofiction. He explores spaces as animistic bodies and activates them through installation and performance. Arunanondchai received his MFA from Columbia University, New York in 2012 and his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence in 2009. His solo shows have taken place at venues including Museum MACAN, Jakarta, 2024; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2022; Museion, Bolzano, 2016; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2015; UCCA, Beijing, 2015; and MoMA PS1, Queens, New York, 2014. His work also appears in international group exhibitions at venues including, in 2025, 36th Bienal de São Paulo, Taipei Biennial, and National Gallery of Australia, and earlier at Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2022; and 13th Gwangju Biennale, 2021. His works are held in collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Tate, London; and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Thanks to production manager Rudolf Samohejl and Mees Helldorfer of Soepel Projecten BV. Special thanks to Kukje Gallery (Seoul/Busan) for production support; Commissioned by Sonsbeek 2026
Presented in collaboration with POST
Made possible in part by Kukje Gallery, Seoul/Busan
With thanks to the artist; Bangkok CityCity Gallery; Carlos/Ishikawa and Kukje Gallery