Biggest ever LGBT Asian contemporary art show heading to Bangkok

Spectrosynthesis II will be held at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre from November 23

More than 50 artists will feature, including Sunil Gupta, Arin Rungjang, Maria Taniguchi, Hong Kong’s Samson Young and the late Ren Hang

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“The New Pre-Raphaelites #5” (2007) by Indian photographer Sunil Gupta. Selections from the series will be shown at the “Spectrosynthesis II” LGBT contemporary art show in Bangkok this November. Photo: Sunil Gupta

Published: 6:02pm, 9 Jan 2019Updated: 7:37pm, 10 Jan 2019

A Hong Kong-based charity that uses art to fight sexual-orientation discrimination is taking the largest ever LGBT Asian contemporary art exhibition to Bangkok in November.

“Spectrosynthesis II” is the expanded second edition of a similar exhibition that the Sunpride Foundation co-presented at Taipei’s Museum of Contemporary Art in 2017.

Patrick Sun Kai-yit, the founder of Sunpride, announced today that the 2019 exhibition will be held at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre from November 23.

“Thailand is a natural choice for us because Bangkok, like Taipei, is another home base for me outside of Hong Kong,” Sun said. “The city has always had a reputation for being friendly to the LGBT community, now strengthened by plans for a bill to legalise same-sex civil partnership.”

“Untitled” (2011) by the late Ren Hang, a young, gay, Chinese artist who left behind a series of striking portraits of his friends after taking his own life in 2017.

The foundation was also pleased to find a partner in the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), the city’s biggest contemporary art space, which promotes diversity and inclusiveness as part of its official mission, Sun added.