Montika Kham-on (*1999) works as an artist and filmmaker between Berlin and Bangkok. Her practice explores collective fear, speculative visions of the future, and the struggle over definitions outside dominant narratives, she centers emotional landscapes and embodied knowledge. Drawing from theater, dance, and ritual, not as references, but as methods of resistance, her work engages movement as a language in its own right.
Her recent works have been presented in exhibitions, experimental screening programs, and artist-run platforms across Asia and Europe. She is the founder of Phimailongweek, a site-specific art festival supporting emerging artists through experimental, context-responsive practices.
She is currently based in Berlin, Germany, supported by a scholarship from the DeutscherAkademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). She is pursuing a Master’s degree at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin).
contact
kmontika@gmail.com
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2025 GHOST 2568. Baan Thewes, Bangkok, Thailand
2025 Better Left Unsaid. ThreeSoundExpo: Political Disappointment, 20 nine 30, Berlin, Germany
2025 PHIMAILONGWEEK2: Midnight Monsoon, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
2025 After Projection, Half Sister, Berlin, Germany
2024 PHIMAILONGWEEK1, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
2023 Zomia on the Cloud, a pavilion from Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand
2023 LAF: Loei Art Fest 5, Loei, Thailand
2023 Anarcho Animism, Kinan, Japan
2023 OFF the Ground, a video festival from alternative spaces around the world
2023 Rivers of Life: A Tale of Two Rivers, commission for an art project from the Embassy of the United States of
America in Thailand ICONLUXE Pop Up Space, Bangkok, Thailand
2022 Reborn-Art Festival, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
2021 Crypto for Cryptids, curated by SPEEDY GRANDMA, JWD ART SPACE, Bangkok, Thailand
2021 Talk-Talk-Vilion, curated by SPEEDY GRANDMA, part of the Bangkok Biennial, RDX offsite, Bangkok, Thailand
SCREENING
2025 Camp! along the Mekong river, Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, Singapore
2025 Borderless Film Festival, Khon Kaen, Thailand
2025 Talking Cine, TCDC Chiangmai, Thailand
2025 Talking Cine, Lopburi, Thailand
2025 Talking Cine, Phayao, Thailand
2025 Talking Cine, Udon Thani, Thailand
2023 La Chamber Cocon, Part of Tomoya Iwata’s residency show, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris,
France
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 Documentary Collective.
2021 Selected Project “The Buried Giant” at Talk-Talk-Vilion Opencall, Bangkok Biennial
PUBLICATION AND ARTICLE
2025 AT-SA-JAN Dream in the eyes of the storm
https://www.eq-archives.com/stories/at-sa-jan-phimailongweek?
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2025 Drafts/Droughts from ‘Midnight Monsoon’
https://www.artandmarket.net/event/2025/10/21/drafts-droughts-from-midnight-monsoon
2022 Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, The Horizon and the Holy: Re-imaging
the Thai Monarchy Following the 2020 Protests, Volume 6, Number 2, October 2022
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/43/article/871502/pdf?fs=e&s=cl
2022 Dazed Magazine Feature Spring 2022: Korakrit Arunanonchai & the Thai Artists Series, March 2022