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Event listings:
On Wednesday 18 from 4 pm at FT Gallery is [RE]CONNEXION, created by Brazil-based artist Delphine Fabbri Lawson, ft. FONKi. “This powerful journey celebrates collective memory and ancestral wisdom while reimagining a sustainable, harmonious future.” Until February 1st, 2025, open daily from 10 am to 6 pm.
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Wednesday 18 Sra’Art hold a Chrtistmas party featuring an artist talk by Fang Bo Hung. From 6 pm.
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Also on Wednesday 18, Musica Felice choir perform at Le Moon rooftop, 7 pm.
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Thursday 19 sees the reopening of Chhan Dina Gallery, on St 470 in Tuol Tom Pong (between Sts 135 and 155). The event will feature live painting, a performance by Geography of the Moon and DJ to follow.
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Opening on Saturday 21 at Plantation is Metals of Life: Echoes from Nature, an exhibition of paintings by Ouk Chim Vichet. “His art seeks to transcend suffering and loss, offering a message of love, humanity, and peace.” Until February 7.
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Until December 21 Photo Phnom Penh Festival 2024 events will be held at the French Institute, Studio Images, Factory Phnom Penh, Bophana Center, Friends Futures Factory, Java Creative Café, Sra’Art Gallery, Duo Coffee, and The Peak. View the full programme here.
Ongoing….
Exhibitions:
Anantara Angkor Resort (Siem Reap)
Kbach Comeback, a solo exhibition by artist Kanika. “Khmer Kbach refers specifically to the ornamentation often seen above doorways and on ancient temples. It also entails certain movements, such as those of the traditional Apsara dancers, and is seen as conveying a spiritual.”
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Blue Art Hub (Siem Reap)
Dream Odyssey, an exhibition by Seyha Hour. Media: KHMERer Until January 5.
FT Gallery
[RE]CONNEXION, created by Brazil-based artist Delphine Fabbri Lawson, ft. FONKi. “This powerful journey celebrates collective memory and ancestral wisdom while reimagining a sustainable, harmonious future.” Until February 1st, 2025, open daily from 10 am to 6 pm.
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The Gallerist
Looking Forward, an exhibition by painter Chov Theanly. “This new series is following one of his earlier projects, Surviving – The Rise, which he began in 2012. Looking Forward explores the power of dreams — how having our own dreams gives us the strength to move forward in life.”
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Java Café Tuol Tom Pong
In Between Breaths, an exhibition of photographic images by Eleonore Sok, “both as a performer and in collaboration with other performance artists including New Cambodian Artists and Eric Ellul. These works explore the intersection of performance, visual art and poetry, where the internal world is breathed into the physical experience.”
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Meta House
En Route to Phnom Penh, an exhibition of paintings by Berlin-based artist Christine Falk. “Her artistic work is deeply connected to travels in other cultures, exploring their culturally influenced architecture as well as local architectural forms. Her paintings navigate between abstraction and reality, drawing inspiration from the roots of classical modernism. In her work, she constantly seeks the essence of a place, a glimpse of beauty within a human-designed world. Her highly abstracted architectural fragments thrive on a musical balance between simple flatness, serial details, and harmonious use of color.”
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MiMü
Mini-Museum of Contemporary Art at Meta House features research, knowledge sharing, workshops, and visual presentations through various media, showcasing videos, prints, installations, and fine arts through interactive events and live performances.
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Photo Phnom Penh Festival 2024
15th edition. Until December 21 events will be held at at the French Institute, Studio Images, Factory Phnom Penh, Bophana Center, Friends Futures Factory, Java Creative Café, Sra’Art Gallery, Duo Coffee, and The Peak. View the full programme here.
Plantation
Opening on Saturday 21 at Plantation is Metals of Life: Echoes from Nature, an exhibition of paintings by Ouk Chim Vichet. “His art seeks to transcend suffering and loss, offering a message of love, humanity, and peace.” Until February 7.
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Romchiek 5 Art Space
Battambang contemporary art studio. Rolling exhibitions.
Pteah Chas
In the Stillness: Echoes of a Suppressed Past, by Myanmar artist Naw Nan Noan Hom. “Each photograph features a unique style, transforming the landscape into monochromatic tones while keeping living subjects vibrantly colored, symbolizing the contrasts in her personal journey. This exhibition combines photography, poetry, and experimental sound art, reflecting shared struggles of expression and resilience witnessed in Cambodia.”
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Space Four Zero
Prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, CDs and vinyl. Open daily.
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Tribe Cambodia (Siem Reap)
Reopened in their new location, 655 Hup Guan Street. Media: Kiripost
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Regular events, classes, sessions:
More Flamingos present art workshops on Thursday evenings from 6.30 pm at WILD
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Thursdays to Sundays at K’Atelier – art classes for all levels of experience.
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N o w h e r e Art Studio
A range of arts and crafts workshops mostly on weekends.
A weekly class in life drawing for kids with Anastasia at Pteah Chas Community.
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Khmer Architecture Tours conducts Sunday architecture tours in Phnom Penh to promote the understanding of modern architecture in Cambodia, focusing on buildings erected after independence in 1953, described as ‘New Khmer Architecture’, while setting these in the historical context of Phnom Penh. Here is the schedule for August – December 2024.
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