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Event listings:

Opening tonight, Tuesday 26, at Meta House, is Tides Between Worlds: Urban Currents, an exhibition by German artist Alexandra Maul.  “Her expressive paintings move between urban energy, nature, and emotional landscapes. Inspired by travel, music, and life between cultures, she creates intuitive works filled with movement, color, and atmosphere.”  From 6 pm. 
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Also tonight, Tuesday 26, at Bophana Center is a lecture by Dr Chhom Kunthea entitled Learning about Numbers and Quantities in Khmer through Inscriptions.   “Khmer inscriptions from the 6th century onwards record the times when certain rituals and ceremony were performed at temples and the number of attendants and offerings to the gods at the temples. Chhom Kanthea’s presentation will explain both written numbers and the words used to count or read those numbers, in chronological order.”  Khmer language event.  6.30 pm. 
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On Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27, Art & Copy will host a two-day daytime workshop for people  interested in exploring the process of making a zine.  
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On the evening of Thursday 28 Institut Francais presents Snow White: The Second Bite, a new dance performance by New Cambodian Artists (Ny Lai & Khun Sreynoch).   7 pm.  Tickets available here. 
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From Friday 29 at The Gallerist is a new exhibition by Luna Kol, Suspended Silence.  “From luminous abstractions to intimate gestures, the exhibition explores the quiet dialogue between inner landscapes and artistic expression — where silence becomes form and pigments become emotion.”  From 10 am, through to June 12.  
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Also on Friday 29, at Bong Bonlai/YK Art House, Scott Bywater launches his latest book of poetry, the drunk monk express  (volume 17 in the silverpepperofthestars series) with a reading and signing event. 
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Friday 29 and Saturday 30 at Sra’Art, “join Dipika Kohli for a two-evening conversation salon exploring beauty  identity, perception and presence through open, face-to-face dialogue with curious minds and creative guests.”   Friday session from 7 pm, Saturday session from 2 pm.  Tickets available here.
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Comedy in Cambodia have announced their next Page to Stage stand up comedy course to take place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31, with a graduation show on Saturday 13 June.  To be held at The Box Office.
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On Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 at the Institut Francais, La Troupe de Theatre Francophone de Phnom Penh present Discordes, directed by Charlotte Alesi. 
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Coming on Sunday 31 to Plantation is Abstract Impressions of Cambodia’s Cultural and Religious Heritage, an exhibition of paintings by DinArt. 
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Vann Molyvann House has announced artist grants – five selected artists will each receive $1,200 to develop original works, to be presented in a group exhibition is August 2026.  Deadline for applications is Monday June 1 at 5 pm. 

The schedule has been announced for the the Golden (r)Age Performing Art Festival presented by The Last Stage, featuring artists, directors, writers, choreographers, and circus performers from around the world, from 4 – 14 June.     

Opening on June 5 at The River Gallery in Siem Reap is Green Season Reverie, a group exhibition of works by artists from Cambodia and around the world.  From 6 pm. 
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On June 6 the Phnom Penh Players present their annual awards show, The Plazzies, at The Box Office.   
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At the end of June, the weekend of 27 and 28, a special group exhibition, Where Nature Speaks: Living Your Senses, will be held at Six Senses Krabey Island (off Sihanoukville).  Featured artists are Anya Minko, FONki, Dylan Maddux and TYTAART, along with exclusive screenings of short films by acclaimed cinematographers Davy Chou and Visal Sok. 
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Ongoing….

Exhibitions:  

Bossbha’s House (Battambang)
Faces of the Railway, an exhibition of photographs by Hsu Hung Chieh.  “Faces of the Railway traces Cambodia’s war-disrupted and long-abandoned railway system, using images to reflect on how the fate of a rail line becomes intertwined with the lives of those who live around it […] a long-term documentary journey from 2011 to 2023: from the stillness that followed decades of suspended operations, to the reconstruction works that slowly revived the tracks, and finally to the day the trains began to run once more.”  Until June 30. 
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The Gallerist
Rolling exhibitions of mostly Cambodian artists.   From Friday 29 a new exhibition by Luna Kol, Suspended Silence.  “From luminous abstractions to intimate gestures, the exhibition explores the quiet dialogue between inner landscapes and artistic expression — where silence becomes form and pigments become emotion.”  From 10 am, through to June 12.  
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Kep ArtBar
Reclamations, an exhibition of new artworks by Mary Volm.
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Meta House
Tides Between Worlds: Urban Currents, an exhibition by German artist Alexandra Maul.  “Her expressive paintings move between urban energy, nature, and emotional landscapes. Inspired by travel, music, and life between cultures, she creates intuitive works filled with movement, color, and atmosphere.” 
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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.  Currently on display is Sopheap Pich: The Process of Creation.  “This exhibition gives us insight into the artist’s creative process by relating his sculptural work with his graphic work.  The show is a journey of artistic creation as both a conceptual and deeply personal act.”  Media:  Cambodianess
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Plantation
Makaras and Motodops, an exhibition of ten years of drawings by former Phnom Penh and now Siem Reap resident Joshua Chiang.   Media:  Phnom Penh Post
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Raffles Grand Hotel D’Angkor (Siem Reap)
Current artist in residence is DinArt. 
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The River Gallery (Siem Reap)
Apsara: Off the Wall, an exhibition of paintings by American born long-time Singapore resident Bill Gentry, who has been visiting Cambodia since 1999.   
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Romchiek 5 Art Space
Battambang contemporary art studio.  Rolling exhibitions.  Media: Le Petit Journal (FR)(June 2025)

R5 Showroom Phnom Penh
Escaping the Grid, a duo exhibition of works by watercolourist Mil Chankrim and abstract painter Nget Chanpenh.  “Together, these works reveal two conditions of contemporary existence: the external grid that confines us and the internal grid that fragments the self.  Escaping the Grid becomes both a political and psychological act — a search for wholeness in a world that surveils, divides, and dissolves human identity.” 
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Rosewood Phnom Penh
Tonle to Treeline, an exhibition of works by Anya Minko, Ouk Chimvichet and Hom Rith.  “A journey through Cambodia’s landscapes, from river to forest.”   Media:  KumnoohThe Better CambodiaCambodgemag
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Sosoro – Preah Srey Içanavarman Museum
The current temporary exhibition is Into the Light: the retrieved painting of Phnom Penh’s Silver Pagoda, paintings rediscovered in the Preah Keo Morkot Church. Open daily (except Monday) from 9 am – 6 pm. 

SNA Arts Management
Remembering, a solo exhibition by Kaeu Sreypeou. 
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Space Four Zero
Art gallery and vinyl lounge featuring prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, books, CDs and rare vinyl, collectables and groovy gifts.  Open daily at new premises at #25 Street 240 near Street 19 (by The Shop and Red Apron)
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Tribe Cambodia (Siem Reap)
Permanent showroom for works of Nak Noy.
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Regular events, classes, sessions:

N o w h e r e Art Studio (relocated to Maloop) occasional workshops. 

No Frame Party hosts weekend art workshops in a variety of forms at venues around Phnom Penh. 

More Flamingos present art workshops on Tuesday 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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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 December 2025 – March 2026. 

Kumnooh was established in May 2013 as a sister publication to LengPleng.com, the online music magazine for Cambodia, to provide basically a gig guide for the wider arts, covering art galleries, literature, dance, cinema, photography and now comedy. 

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