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16 January, 2026
Congratulations to Curatorial Fellow Anantaya Chanlertpaisal
OPPORTUNITY
Learn more about our latest curatorial fellow, Anantaya Chanlertpaisal (Ice). With thanks to all who applied for this Open Call!
26 September, 2025
OPEN CALL: in-tangible Curatorial Fellowship #2
OPPORTUNITY
in-tangible institute is offering a 1-year part-time fellowship for an aspiring Thai curator. During this fellowship, you will assist/contribute to the development and realization of in-tangible institute’s programs, particularly those that connect the Chiang Mai art community to a wider network of artists, curators, thinkers, and institutions through conversations and collaborations. Applications close 1 November, 2025.
14 July, 2025
Creative In Residence:
Paolo Diaz
RESIDENCY
in-tangible institute is pleased to welcome Paolo Diaz to its ‘Creative In Residence’ from 4 August – 26 September, 2025, with thanks to the POZEN Family Centre for Human Rights, University of Chicago.
15 July, 2025
in-tangible Team Changes: Blake Palmer as Program Director, Zoe Butt as Director-at-Large
STAFF ANNOUNCEMENT
in-tangible institute is proud to announce that Blake Palmer has taken on the role of Program Director, overseeing and developing in-tangible’s community programming. Zoe Butt will continue to oversee in-tangible institute as Director at Large, in addition to her new role as Artistic Director for deCentral.
10 January, 2025
Congratulations to participants of CULTIVATE Module 2!
PROGRAM
in-tangible institute is pleased to announce Module 2 participants of ‘CULTIVATE: A Professional Development Program for Curators and Arts Managers’. Module 2 is hosted by Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
23 OCTOBER, 2024
Welcome Blake Palmer to
in-tangible team!
STAFF ANNOUNCEMENT
in-tangible institute welcomes Blake Palmer to the team as Program Manager (Editorial & Research). As a writer and cultural critic whose academic research covers anthropology, to indigenous way finding in agriculture and all things food – Blake offers a rich interdisciplinary voice to our work that supports the development of contemporary art in Thailand (and more broadly across Southeast Asia).
4 OCTOBER, 2024
Conversation with Curator and Writer Zoe Butt
ARTICLE
Speaking with editor Ian Tee, Zoe shares her curatorial practice, alongside her role at in-tangible, discussing its programs and how they engage the urgent challenges in Southeast Asia’s art ecosystem.
9 SEPTEMBER, 2024
OPEN CALL: CULTIVATE MODULE 2
PROGRAM
Applications for CULTIVATE: Module 2 are now open. Applications close 9 November, 2024.
This professional development program, organized for curators / arts managers, targets current staff of art entities and freelance operators in Southeast Asia, focuses on ‘Patronage’, examining the current structures of support in the Arts, with particular reflection on the financial, intellectual and ethical impact of its assumptions on the growth of the arts ecology in Southeast Asia.
17 JULY, 2024
Creative in Residence:
Shiraz Bayjoo
RESIDENCY
in-tangible institute is pleased to welcome Shiraz Bayjoo to its ‘Creative In Residence’ program from 17 July. Born in Port Louis, Mauritius, much of Bayjoo’s art explores colonial histories of exchange between and across the Indian Ocean.
6 JUNE, 2024
Congratulations to participants of
CULTIVATE Module 1
PROGRAM
in-tangible institute is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of CULTIVATE: Professional Development for Curators and Arts Managers. Module 1 is co-organized by Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (Asian Culture Council Grantee, 2024).
1 JUNE, 2024
Creative in Residence:
James Roberson
RESIDENCY
in-tangible institute welcomes James Roberson as its inaugural ‘Creative In Residence’ from 1 June – 15 July, 2024, with thanks to the POZEN Family Centre for Human Rights, University of Chicago.
20 FEBRUARY, 2024
POLLINATION Ed. 4 BEGINS!
PROGRAM
POLLINATION Edition 4 kicks off in March 2024 with emerging curators Diana Nway Htwe (Yangon) and Mark Teh (Kuala Lumpur) and curatorial advisors Penwadee Nophaket Manont, Rahel Joseph and Sumit Mandal.
Edition 4 is initiated and managed by in-tangible institute, co-developed and co-sponsored with and by ILHAM Gallery, the Sidharta Aboejono Martoredjo (SAM) Fund for Arts and Ecology, and Foundation for Arts Initiatives, New York.
29 November, 2023
Welcome
Ariana Chaivaranon
NEW STAFF ANNOUNCEMENT
Artist and curator, Ariana Chaivaranon begins as part of the curatorial team with in-tangible institute! She brings a dynamic set of skills and perspectives to her passion for art in Thailand and beyond, having studied and worked in both academic and institutional contexts in the USA and China.
5 June, 2023
Kamonpan Tivawong MAIIAM Curatorial Fellow
OPPORTUNITY
Learn more about the MAIIAM Curatorial Fellow, a collaboration between in-tangible institute and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum. With thanks to all who applied for this Open Call!
19 March, 2023
OPEN CALL: Curatorial Fellowship
OPPORTUNITY
Under the mentorship of Zoe Butt, in-tangible institute offers an emerging Thai curator the opportunity to learn the necessary skills and tasks of building and delivering programs with a private collection, to be showcased at the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai. Applications close 21 April, 2023.
4 December, 2022
Art Exchange: Future museums
PANEL DISCUSSION
With Maud Page, Suhanya Raffel, Aaron Seeto and Zoe Butt, for the inaugural opening of Sydney Modern, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
29 November, 2022
We are not the stories we tell ourselves
PUBLICATION
by Zoe Butt and Lee Weng Choy for the ‘American Historical Review’, Volume 127, Issue 3, Chicago, September 2022
24 october, 2022
Radical Hospitalities,
Radical Pedagogy
PANEL DISCUSSION
With Sandi Hilal, Zoe Butt; Morton Goll, Sara Alberani; Judith Weilander and Nico Dockx for Expanded Academy, Royal Academy of Art, Antwerpen, Belgium