Montika Kham-on (b.1999, Samutprakarn, Thailand) is an artist and filmmaker working between Berlin and Bangkok. She works across video, performance, installation, and sculpture, investigating collective fear, speculative futures, and embodied resistance to dominant narratives. Centering emotional landscapes and somatic knowledge, her work questions traditional cinematic structures, developing post-tropical forms of thinking and acting that redefine emancipatory imagination and anticipate liberated futures.
Her works have been presented in exhibitions and screening programs across Asia, Europe and Latin America including Transmediale Berlin and ArtScience Museum Singapore. Her recent work, Afterlives (2025), imagines a post-tropical future and was commissioned by GHOST:2568. She is the recipient of a DAAD scholarship and holds a Master's degree from the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin).
Solo Exhibition
2026 Post-Tropical Cinema, GHB Space Geddert Hronjec Berlin, Düsseldorf, DE - upcoming
Selected Group Exhibition
2027 Natural Fictions, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, CZ - upcoming
2026 Transmediale 2026: By The Mango Belt and Tamarind Road, Silent Green, Berlin, DE
2025 GHOST 2568: Wish We Were Here,Baan Thewes, Bangkok, TH
2025 Better Left Unsaid, 20 nine 30, Berlin, DE
2025 PHIMAILONGWEEK2: Midnight Monsoon, Nakhon Ratchasima, TH
2025 After Projection, Half Sister, Berlin, DE
2024 PHIMAILONGWEEK1, Nakhon Ratchasima,TH
2023 Zomia on the Cloud, Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Chiang Rai, TH
2023 Anarcho Animism, Kinan, JP
2023 Rivers of Life: A Tale of Two Rivers, ICONLUXE Pop Up Space, Bangkok, TH
2022 Reborn-Art Festival, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, JP
2021 Crypto for Cryptids, JWD ART SPACE, Bangkok, TH
Selected Screening
2026 Dissolution,Kunstraum Mitte, Berlin, DE
2026 Tímido tirando a incómodo, Proyecto Binario, Bogotá, CO
2026 TONO festival,Museo Amparo, Puebla, MX
2026 Another World is Possible, ArtScience Museum, SG
2025 Unconditional Space, Wonderfruit, TH
2025 Proxy x Ghost 2568: Bodies Dispossessed, Hertwig Proxy, NL
2025 Camp! along the Mekong river, Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, SG
2025 Borderless Film Festival, Khon Kaen, TH
2025 Talking Cine, TCDC Chiangmai, TH
2023 La Chamber Cocon, Part of Tomoya Iwata’s residency show, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, FR
Awards
2024 Recipient of the DAAD Scholarship, Postgraduate Studies in the Fields of Fine Art, Film, Design/Visual
Communication 2024/25
2023 Honorable Mention Award, R.D. Pestonji from the Thai Short Film & Video Festival
2023 Finalist at Bangkok Critics Assembly 2023, Short Film Category
2023 Selected Participant for “The Silent Workshop” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul,
with the support of the Japan Foundation Bangkok and Kick the Machine
2021 Selected Project “The Buried Giant” at Talk-Talk-Vilion Opencall, Bangkok Biennial
Residency
2026 LOMA SERENA Mar 2026 × VIRREINA, Bogotá, CO
Selected Bibliography
Interview } Bangkok and Berlin-based Artist Montika Kham-on, Asian Art Contemporary
SPECTRAL VISION: Moving images haunt at Bangkok's Ghost 2568 festival, Artforum
Ghost 2568: Artist In Focus, GroundControl
AT-SA-JAN Dream in the eyes of the storm, EQ Archive
Drafts/Droughts from ‘Midnight Monsoon’ , Art & Market
Korakrit Arunanonchai & the Thai Artists Series,Dazed Magazine Feature Spring, March
Education
MA, Art in Context, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, DE
BA, Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, TH
contact
kmontika@gmail.com
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