Greetings:

Tonight, Tuesday, Meta House, the presentation of the Soul Kitchen project by German visual artists Vera Lossau and Lilla von Puttkamer.  The two artists aim to produce a Cambodian-German artists’ cookbook with recipes and stories of the women/artists who contribute these recipes. The project also plans for an exhibition in Berlin at the non-commercial art project space “mp43”, operated by Carola Rümper.
More info 
 
Thursday Tales at The Exchange, this Thursday and next, a digital tribute and remembrance for Victor Leon, aka LeoNeoArt, plus Theo Vallier.  6 – 10 pm. 
 
This Friday the French Institute begins a three day festival to celebrate 30 years of their presence in Phnom Penh.  A feast of dance (featuring the Ballet Royal du Cambodge, New Cambodian Artists, L’Ecole de Danse and more), music (including KlapYaHandz and Kong Nai), shadow puppetry, theatre, cinema, fashion and more through to Sunday evening.  Free entry. 
More info  
 
On Saturday, N o w h e r e Art Studio presents a group exhibition, Toch Toch, at Plantation. “Toch Toch will showcase 26 multinational artists from different levels and artistic backgrounds selected from an open call and exhibit more than 200 small pieces of varied, original artworks ranging from doodles, paintings, and silkscreens to embroideries and ceramics.”
 


On March 20 Raffles Le Royal hosts an evening of chamber music from Vienna featuring Sharon Lui on violin, Anton Isselhardt on flute, and Kathy Lo Wing on piano.
 
For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.

Send a ‘subscribe’ email to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com to receive Kumnooh in your inbox every Tuesday lunchtime.

Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.

See you about…

Fabian Hipp
Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com
 

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Ongoing…. exhibitions, dance performances and others

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Exhibitions:  

Chhan Dina Gallery
Newly opened at #178 St 13, near the National Museum.  An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career will be augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters.  In March the work of Suos Sodavy is on display and on sale. 
More info

The Gallerist
Featuring works by Stan, DinArt, TheamL and Chhim Sothy.
More info

Ikigai Arts Center
Until April 20, Ikigai Arts Centre presents SELF – an introspective art experience:  “a journey of exploration through the non-visible part of the SELF, towards the Unconscious.  Through four different spaces, the visitor, guided by sounds and movements, will take an hour to dive into the Unconscious, th uncontrolled part of the SELF.”    Created by Miguel Jeronimo, Rady Nget, Erick Gonzalez, Shanghai Chang and Shiva.  Audience limited to eight people at a time.  Bookings at Ikigai Arts Center or www.ikigai-artscenter.com/exhibition-store.      
More info

La Java Bleue  (Kampot)
Exhibition of paintings by Paul Charles Kitchingman, until 31 March.   Media:  Le Petit Journal
More info

Meta House
Auspicious Charm, a group show at by artists of Colors of Cambodia in Siem Reap. 
More info

Pi-Pet-Pi Gallery
The Past is the Road to the Future by Chan Phuon.  “For these works are made according to the changing situation of Cambodia.   The current rich in all kinds of machines and the development of new machines in the future.  Some people who live in the modern world and are obsessed with new technologies, in part, lose their identity, which is rich in art and culture.  And those people will have to face a wandering life that does not know who they are.”
More info

Romcheik5 Art Space
Whose Fault is it? by Chanpenh Nget.  “Throughout 15 paintings, he describes a country in chiaroscuro where the skins are coppery but the skies leaden … alternating a diversity of browns and grays, tanned skins under dark skies. In the background of his paintings, all in the semi-darkness, the weather is not nice … The sun never shines in Chanpenh’s kingdom.” 
More info

Rosewood Phnom Penh

The Shapes of Shapes and Colours, a new collection of works by artist Pen Robit curated by Yean Raksmey of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik  art space.  Media:  Cambodge magazine 

Sa Sa Art Projects
Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina and Vuth Lyno.  Limited number of visitors in the gallery space at a time.   Visits to the exhibition must follow Covid-19 safety procedure.  A group exhibition by Cambodian arts collective Stiev Selapak. The exhibition introduces their recent works in the form of videos, sculptures, photographs, and light installation, focusing on beliefs in nature and practices in the supernatural, animism, and the powerful spirits that take care of our homes, lands, people, animals, and living beings.  Until 31 March. 

More info
 
Shophouse Gallery
For the month of March, a Frida Falcón exhibition of paintings: Portraits of Friends I Don’t Have.  Saturdays and Sundays, 12 – 6 pm. 
More info
 
Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
The Artist event #2:  Chan Dany.  “For two months (February 15 – April 15), the artist will research and produce a new body of work. He wants to invite you to visit his sacred space, where his creative process will be seen from today onwards.”
More info 
 
Space Four Zero
Prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, CDs and vinyl.  Open daily. 
More info 
 
Sra’Art
From Digital To Tangible, by Rodrigo Garzón, self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, and Jash Pushkin an all-round Russian artist best known for his colorful tattoo-orientated art.   Media: CambodgeMag
More info 
 
Regular events, classes, sessions:
 
Thursdays 6 pm at Sra’Art, the weekly Sip & Paint event – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.  
More info 
 
Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Thursdays, with teacher), 6.30 pm
More info 
 
Ikigai Arts Center, as part of their interactive SELF – an introspective art experience presentation, offer a SELF-portrait class in mixed media, Saturdays at 10 am, until April 9. 
More info 
 
Regular on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.  
More info 
 
Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
More info  
 

Greetings:

Friday 11, Sa Sa Art Projects presents an on-line artist talk, I Found It Somewhere, but I Cannot Find It, by artist in residence Jaro Varga .  “Jaro Varga conditions the choreography of the visitor’s movement in a well-known space, or else he initiates the visitor’s translocation into unknown circumstances through fiction. He tries to construct new topographies and he wants to engage the visitor in a different understanding of the contexts relating to spaces otherwise stereotypically fixed in our memory.”  In English with Khmer translation.  6 – 7:30 pm.  To register: shorturl.at/beCJX.
More info 
 
Coming soon:
 
Next Tuesday, March 15 at Meta House, the presentation of the Soul Kitchen project by German visual artists Vera Lossau and Lilla von Puttkamer.  The two artists aim to produce a Cambodian-German artists’ cookbook with recipes and stories of the women/artists who contribute these recipes. The project also plans for an exhibition in Berlin at the non-commercial art project space “mp43”, operated by Carola Rümper.
More info 
 
Opening March 19: N o w h e r e Art Studio presents a group exhibition, Toch Toch, at Plantation. “Toch Toch will showcase 26 multinational artists from different levels and artistic backgrounds selected from an open call and exhibit more than 200 small pieces of varied, original artworks ranging from doodles, paintings, and silkscreens to embroideries and ceramics.”
 
On March 20 Raffles Le Royal hosts an evening of chamber music from Vienna featuring Sharon Lui on violin, Anton Isselhardt on flute, and Kathy Lo Wing on piano.
 
For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.
Send a ‘subscribe’ email to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com to receive Kumnooh in your inbox every Tuesday lunchtime.


Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.

See you about…


Fabian Hipp
Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com
  

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Ongoing…. exhibitions, dance performances and others

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Exhibitions:  
Chhan Dina Gallery
Newly opened at #178 St 13, near the National Museum.  An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career will be augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters.  In March the work of Suos Sodavy is on display and on sale. 
More info

The Gallerist
Featuring works by Stan, DinArt, TheamL and Chhim Sothy.
More info

Ikigai Arts Center
Until April 20, Ikigai Arts Centre presents SELF – an introspective art experience:  “a journey of exploration through the non-visible part of the SELF, towards the Unconscious.  Through four different spaces, the visitor, guided by sounds and movements, will take an hour to dive into the Unconscious, th uncontrolled part of the SELF.”    Created by Miguel Jeronimo, Rady Nget, Erick Gonzalez, Shanghai Chang and Shiva.  Audience limited to eight people at a time.  Bookings at Ikigai Arts Center or www.ikigai-artscenter.com/exhibition-store.      
More info

La Java Bleue  (Kampot)
Exhibition of paintings by Paul Charles Kitchingman, until 31 March.   Media:  Le Petit Journal
More info

Meta House
Auspicious Charm, a group show at by artists of Colors of Cambodia in Siem Reap. 
More info

Pi-Pet-Pi Gallery
The Past is the Road to the Future by Chan Phuon.  “For these works are made according to the changing situation of Cambodia.   The current rich in all kinds of machines and the development of new machines in the future.  Some people who live in the modern world and are obsessed with new technologies, in part, lose their identity, which is rich in art and culture.  And those people will have to face a wandering life that does not know who they are.”
More info

Romcheik5 Art Space
Whose Fault is it? by Chanpenh Nget.  “Throughout 15 paintings, he describes a country in chiaroscuro where the skins are coppery but the skies leaden … alternating a diversity of browns and grays, tanned skins under dark skies. In the background of his paintings, all in the semi-darkness, the weather is not nice … The sun never shines in Chanpenh’s kingdom.” 
More info

Rosewood Phnom Penh
The Shapes of Shapes and Colours, a new collection of works by artist Pen Robit curated by Yean Raksmey of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik  art space.  Media:  Cambodge magazine 

 
Sa Sa Art Projects
Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina and Vuth Lyno.  Limited number of visitors in the gallery space at a time.   Visits to the exhibition must follow Covid-19 safety procedure.  A group exhibition by Cambodian arts collective Stiev Selapak. The exhibition introduces their recent works in the form of videos, sculptures, photographs, and light installation, focusing on beliefs in nature and practices in the supernatural, animism, and the powerful spirits that take care of our homes, lands, people, animals, and living beings.  Until 31 March. 
 
Shophouse Gallery
For the month of March, a Frida Falcón exhibition of paintings: Portraits of Friends I Don’t Have.  Saturdays and Sundays, 12 – 6 pm. 
More info
 
Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
The Artist event #2:  Chan Dany.  “For two months (February 15 – April 15), the artist will research and produce a new body of work. He wants to invite you to visit his sacred space, where his creative process will be seen from today onwards.”
More info 
 
Space Four Zero
Prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, CDs and vinyl.  Open daily. 
More info 
 
Sra’Art
From Digital To Tangible, by Rodrigo Garzón, self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, and Jash Pushkin an all-round Russian artist best known for his colorful tattoo-orientated art.   Media: CambodgeMag
More info 
 
Regular events, classes, sessions:
 
Thursdays 6 pm at Sra’Art, the weekly Sip & Paint event – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.  
More info 
 
Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Thursdays, with teacher), 6.30 pm
More info 
 
Ikigai Arts Center, as part of their interactive SELF – an introspective art experience presentation, offer a SELF-portrait class in mixed media, Saturdays at 10 am, until April 9. 
More info 
 
Regular on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.  
More info 
 
Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
More info  
 

Greetings:

Last chance tonight, Tuesday 1, to view Keo Socheat’s exhibition White at Meta House.  From 7.30 pm. 
More info 
 
Opening Wednesday 2, Auspicious Charm, a group show at Meta House by artists of Colors of Cambodia in Siem Reap. 
More info
 
Friday 4 at Chhan Dina Gallery the opening of an exhibition featuring the works of Sous Sodavy.  From 4 pm to 8 pm. 
More info

Sunday 6 at Shophouse Gallery on St 110, the opening of Frida Falcón, exhibition Portraits of Friends I Don’t Have.
More info

Coming soon:
 
Opening March 19: N o w h e r e Art Studio presents a group exhibition, Toch Toch, at Plantation. “Toch Toch will showcase 26 multinational artists from different levels and artistic backgrounds selected from an open call and exhibit more than 200 small pieces of varied, original artworks ranging from doodles, paintings, and silkscreens to embroideries and ceramics.”
 

For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.

Send a ‘subscribe’ email to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com to receive Kumnooh in your inbox every Tuesday lunchtime.

Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.

See you about…
Fabian Hipp
Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com
 
 

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Ongoing…. exhibitions, dance performances and others

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Exhibitions:  

Chhan Dina Gallery
Newly opened at #178 St 13, near the National Museum.  An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career will be augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters.  In March the work of Suos Sodavy is on display and on sale. 
More info

The Gallerist
Featuring works by Stan, DinArt, TheamL and Chhim Sothy.
More info

Ikigai Arts Center
Until April 20, Ikigai Arts Centre presents SELF – an introspective art experience:  “a journey of exploration through the non-visible part of the SELF, towards the Unconscious.  Through four different spaces, the visitor, guided by sounds and movements, will take an hour to dive into the Unconscious, th uncontrolled part of the SELF.”    Created by Miguel Jeronimo, Rady Nget, Erick Gonzalez, Shanghai Chang and Shiva.  Audience limited to eight people at a time.  Bookings at Ikigai Arts Center or www.ikigai-artscenter.com/exhibition-store.      
More info

Odom Garden
MHOPe, a collaborative media project and an open-air exhibition on food systems in Cambodia, featuring work from photographers such as Pidor Ham, Daniel Eang, Roun Ry, Mean Lux, Chansakun Chea, Ken Bo, Shunsuke Miyatake, Cindy Liu, Raphael Pech, Yann Bigant, Kim Sokvisal, Thomas Cristofoletti, Miguel Jeronimo and Joaquin Barata.  Food stalls, talks and activities – until Saturdays and Sundays until March 3. 
More info

Pi-Pet-Pi Gallery
The Past is the Road to the Future by Chan Phuon.  “For these works are made according to the changing situation of Cambodia.   The current rich in all kinds of machines and the development of new machines in the future.  Some people who live in the modern world and are obsessed with new technologies, in part, lose their identity, which is rich in art and culture.  And those people will have to face a wandering life that does not know who they are.”
More info

Romcheik5 Art Space
Whose Fault is it? by Chanpenh Nget.  “Throughout 15 paintings, he describes a country in chiaroscuro where the skins are coppery but the skies leaden … alternating a diversity of browns and grays, tanned skins under dark skies. In the background of his paintings, all in the semi-darkness, the weather is not nice … The sun never shines in Chanpenh’s kingdom.” 
More info

Rosewood Phnom Penh
The Shapes of Shapes and Colours, a new collection of works by artist Pen Robit curated by Yean Raksmey of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik  art space. 

Sa Sa Art Projects
Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina and Vuth Lyno.  Limited number of visitors in the gallery space at a time.   Visits to the exhibition must follow Covid-19 safety procedure.  A group exhibition by Cambodian arts collective Stiev Selapak. The exhibition introduces their recent works in the form of videos, sculptures, photographs, and light installation, focusing on beliefs in nature and practices in the supernatural, animism, and the powerful spirits that take care of our homes, lands, people, animals, and living beings.  Until 31 March. 
 
Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
Soft opening and fundraiser, featuring artwork by Chan Dany, Chea Sereyroth, Chhim Sothy, Heng Ravuth, Khiev Kanel, Pen Robit, Sao Sreymao, Srey Bandaul and Svay Ken.
More info 
 
Space Four Zero
Prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, CDs and vinyl.  Open daily. 
More info 
 
Sra’Art
From Digital To Tangible, by Rodrigo Garzón, self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, and Jash Pushkin an all-round Russian artist best known for his colorful tattoo-orientated art.   Media: CambodgeMag
More info 
 
Regular events, classes, sessions:
 
Thursdays 6 pm at Sra’Art, the weekly Sip & Paint event – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.  
More info 
 
Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Mondays (no teacher) and Thursdays (with teacher), 6.30 pm
More info 
 
Regular on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.  
More info 
 
Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
More info  
 

Greetings:
Wednesday 23, meet the artists Chhim Sothy and Chhan Dina at Chhan Dina Gallery, 2 pm – 7 pm. 
More info   
 
Thursday 24, at The Exchange, Thursday Tales features Theo Vallier and Thierry de Roland Peel.  From 6 pm.
More info 
 
Friday 25 at Factory is the launch party for the Murals for Cambodia festival – events through the weekend including live music and DJs and an artists talk on Sunday at 4 pm. 
More info
 
Starting Friday at Ikigai Arts Centre is SELF – an introspective art experience:  “a journey of exploration through the non-visible part of the SELF, towards the Unconscious.  Through four different spaces, the visitor, guided by sounds and movements, will take an hour to dive into the Unconscious, th uncontrolled part of the SELF.”    Created by Miguel Jeronimo, Rady Nget, Erick Gonzalez, Shanghai Chang and Shiva.  February 25 – April 20; audience limited to eight people at a time.  Bookings at Ikigai Arts Center or www.ikigai-artscenter.com/exhibition-store.       
More info
 
The Writers & Readers Table is up and running at The Bean Embassy in Siem Reap, a collaboration between the cafe, Howl Cambodia and Angkor International Festival of the Arts.  “The Table is a place to read, to be inspired, and create.”   With a special competition:  two free room-nights at Song Saa Private Island will be won by the best poem left in the dedicated Table notebook (also open to email entries: readers-writers@aifa-cambodia.com).  Also the Instagram post featuring the Table that gets the most likes wins one free room-night.  The competitions run until September 30.
 
Coming soon:
 
Opening March 2: Auspicious Charm, a group show at Meta House
by artists of Colors of Cambodia in Siem Reap. 
 
Opening March 19: N o w h e r e Art Studio presents a group exhibition, Toch Toch, at Plantation. “Toch Toch will showcase 26 multinational artists from different levels and artistic backgrounds selected from an open call and exhibit more than 200 small pieces of varied, original artworks ranging from doodles, paintings, and silkscreens to embroideries and ceramics.”
 
 
For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.
Send a ‘subscribe’ email to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com to receive Kumnooh in your inbox every Tuesday lunchtime.
 
This is a free service but any donations are welcome to keep the ship afloat.
Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.
See you about…
Fabian Hipp
Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com
 

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Ongoing…. exhibitions, dance performances and others

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Exhibitions:  
Chhan Dina Gallery
Newly opened at #178 St 13, near the National Museum.  An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career will be augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters.  In February the work of Chhim Sothy is on display and on sale. 
More info

The Gallerist
Featuring works by Stan, DinArt, TheamL and Chhim Sothy.
More info

Odom Garden
MHOPe, a collaborative media project and an open-air exhibition on food systems in Cambodia, featuring work from photographers such as Pidor Ham, Daniel Eang, Roun Ry, Mean Lux, Chansakun Chea, Ken Bo, Shunsuke Miyatake, Cindy Liu, Raphael Pech, Yann Bigant, Kim Sokvisal, Thomas Cristofoletti, Miguel Jeronimo and Joaquin Barata.  Food stalls, talks and activities – until Saturdays and Sundays until March 3. 
More info

Pi-Pet-Pi Gallery
The Past is the Road to the Future by Chan Phuon.  “For these works are made according to the changing situation of Cambodia.   The current rich in all kinds of machines and the development of new machines in the future.  Some people who live in the modern world and are obsessed with new technologies, in part, lose their identity, which is rich in art and culture.  And those people will have to face a wandering life that does not know who they are.”
More info

Romcheik5 Art Space
Whose Fault is it? by Chanpenh Nget.  “Throughout 15 paintings, he describes a country in chiaroscuro where the skins are coppery but the skies leaden … alternating a diversity of browns and grays, tanned skins under dark skies. In the background of his paintings, all in the semi-darkness, the weather is not nice … The sun never shines in Chanpenh’s kingdom.” 
More info

Rosewood Phnom Penh

The Shapes of Shapes and Colours, a new collection of works by artist Pen Robit curated by Yean Raksmey of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik  art space. 

Sa Sa Art Projects
Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina and Vuth Lyno.  Limited number of visitors in the gallery space at a time.   Visits to the exhibition must follow Covid-19 safety procedure.  A group exhibition by Cambodian arts collective Stiev Selapak. The exhibition introduces their recent works in the form of videos, sculptures, photographs, and light installation, focusing on beliefs in nature and practices in the supernatural, animism, and the powerful spirits that take care of our homes, lands, people, animals, and living beings.  Until 31 March. 
 
Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
Soft opening and fundraiser, featuring artwork by Chan Dany, Chea Sereyroth, Chhim Sothy, Heng Ravuth, Khiev Kanel, Pen Robit, Sao Sreymao, Srey Bandaul and Svay Ken.
More info 
 
Space Four Zero
Prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, CDs and vinyl.  Open daily. 
More info 
 
Sra’Art
From Digital To Tangible, by Rodrigo Garzón, self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, and Jash Pushkin an all-round Russian artist best known for his colorful tattoo-orientated art.   Media: CambodgeMag
More info 
 
Regular events, classes, sessions:
 
Thursdays 6 pm at Sra’Art, the weekly Sip & Paint event – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.  
More info 
 
Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Mondays (no teacher) and Thursdays (with teacher), 6.30 pm
More info 
 
Regular on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.  
More info 
 
Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
More info  

Greetings:

This Thursday 17 and next at The Exchange, Thursday Tales features Theo Vallier and Thierry de Roland Peel.  From 6 pm.
More info 

Friday 18 from 6 pm – 8 pm, Chhan Dina Gallery is open to meet the artists – Chhim Sothy and Chhan Dina – with refreshments available. 
More info

Friday 18 at Sra’Art, live painting and happy hour with Rodrigo Garzón, as part of the joint exhibition From Digital To Tangible, by Rodrigo and Jash Pushkin.  From 6 pm.
More info 

Friday 18 at 9 pm, Silapak Trotchaek Pneik (STP) gallery at YK Art House hosts a soft opening and fundraiser, featuring artwork by Chan Dany, Chea Sereyroth, Chhim Sothy, Heng Ravuth, Khiev Kanel, Pen Robit, Sao Sreymao, Srey Bandaul and Svay Ken.
More info 

This Saturday morning Ikigai Arts Center hosts The Body Electric, a physical theatre workshop presented by Shawn Thomas O’Docharty.  “We will look at dance theatre, corporeal mime, mask work, theater of objects, puppetry, Commedia Dell’arte, tragedy, melodrama, buffooning and clowning.”   Two hour sessions, starting at 10 am. 
More info  

Saturday 19, The Secret Garden family-friendly concert at Sofitel featuring Maki Orkestr, Master Kong Nai and much more.  Khmer Nights article to read here.  Doors open 4 pm.   Tickets available here.

Sunday 20 at 10 am, tropical blueprints workshop with Alexia at The Plantation:  cyanotype technique, a very ancient photographic process that produces unique cyan blueprints.  Two hour session. 
More info 

Sunday 20 at Raffles Le Royale, Europe meets the New World, featuring selections by Kurt Weill, Erwin Korngold, Paul Hindemith, Erwin Schulhoff and Samuel Barter.  With Issei Sakano (piano) and Anton Isselhardt (flute).  7 pm. 
More info 

Monday 21 at The Box Office, filmmaker Jason ‘Camerado’ Rosette presents a selection of his short films, including Bookwars and Freedom Deal: The Story of Lucky.  Q&A to follow the screenings. 
More info

The Writers & Readers Table is up and running at The Bean Embassy in Siem Reap, a collaboration between the cafe, Howl Cambodia and Angkor International Festival of the Arts.  “The Table is a place to read, to be inspired, and create.”   With a special competition:  two free room-nights at Song Saa Private Island will be won by the best poem left in the dedicated Table notebook (also open to email entries: readers-writers@aifa-cambodia.com).  Also the Instagram post featuring the Table that gets the most likes wins one free room-night.  The competitions run until September 30.

Coming soon:

• Murals for Cambodia festival launch party at Factory, February 25
• SELF – an introspective art experience:  “a journey of exploration through the non-visible part of the SELF, towards the Unconscious.  Through four different spaces, the visitor, guided by sounds and movements, will take an hour to dive into the Unconscious, th uncontrolled part of the SELF.”    Created by Miguel Jeronimo, Rady Nget, Erick Gonzalez, Shanghai Chang and Shiva.  February 25 – April 20; audience limited to eight people at a time.  Bookings at Ikigai Arts Center or www.ikigai-artscenter.com/exhibition-store.       
  More info

For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.

Send a ‘subscribe’ email to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com to receive Kumnooh in your inbox every Tuesday lunchtime.

This is a free service but any donations are welcome to keep the ship afloat.

Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.

See you about…

Fabian Hipp

Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

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Ongoing…. exhibitions, dance performances and others

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Exhibitions:  

Chhan Dina Gallery
Newly opened at #178 St 13, near the National Museum.  An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career will be augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters.  In February the work of Chhim Sothy is on display and on sale. 
More info

Friends Futures Factory
Creative Generation – Worlds Unknown.   A long list of workshops, poetry readings, artist talks, performances and more. There are five exhibitions on view daily from 2 pm – 9pm:  Resistance: To Live, Ry Roun; Ambivalence: Macrocosm, Song Seakleng, Untold Story, Mech Choulay, Mindfulness, Kong Siden; Reflection, Vong Chandarey.  Full programme can be downloaded here.    Until Sunday 13.
More info 

The Gallerist
Featuring works by Stan, DinArt, TheamL and Chhim Sothy.
More info

Odom Garden
MHOPe, a collaborative media project and an open-air exhibition on food systems in Cambodia, featuring work from photographers such as Pidor Ham, Daniel Eang, Roun Ry, Mean Lux, Chansakun Chea, Ken Bo, Shunsuke Miyatake, Cindy Liu, Raphael Pech, Yann Bigant, Kim Sokvisal, Thomas Cristofoletti, Miguel Jeronimo and Joaquin Barata.  Food stalls, talks and activities – until Saturdays and Sundays until March 3. 
More info 

Pi-Pet-Pi Gallery
The Past is the Road to the Future by Chan Phuon.  “For these works are made according to the changing situation of Cambodia.   The current rich in all kinds of machines and the development of new machines in the future.  Some people who live in the modern world and are obsessed with new technologies, in part, lose their identity, which is rich in art and culture.  And those people will have to face a wandering life that does not know who they are.”
More info  

Romcheik5 Art Space
Whose Fault is it? by Chanpenh Nget.  “Throughout 15 paintings, he describes a country in chiaroscuro where the skins are coppery but the skies leaden … alternating a diversity of browns and grays, tanned skins under dark skies. In the background of his paintings, all in the semi-darkness, the weather is not nice … The sun never shines in Chanpenh’s kingdom.” 
More info

Rosewood Phnom Penh
The Shapes of Shapes and Colours, a new collection of works by artist Pen Robit curated by Yean Raksmey of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik  art space.

Sa Sa Art Projects
Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina and Vuth Lyno.  Limited number of visitors in the gallery space at a time.   Visits to the exhibition must follow Covid-19 safety procedure.  A group exhibition by Cambodian arts collective Stiev Selapak. The exhibition introduces their recent works in the form of videos, sculptures, photographs, and light installation, focusing on beliefs in nature and practices in the supernatural, animism, and the powerful spirits that take care of our homes, lands, people, animals, and living beings.  Until 31 March. 

Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
Soft opening and fundraiser, featuring artwork by Chan Dany, Chea Sereyroth, Chhim Sothy, Heng Ravuth, Khiev Kanel, Pen Robit, Sao Sreymao, Srey Bandaul and Svay Ken.
More info 

Space Four Zero
Prints, paintings, vintage posters, pop art, CDs and vinyl.  Open daily. 
More info 

Sra’Art
From Digital To Tangible, by Rodrigo Garzón, self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, and Jash Pushkin an all-round Russian artist best known for his colorful tattoo-orientated art.   Media: CambodgeMag
More info 

Regular events, classes, sessions:

Thursdays 6 pm at Sra’Art, the weekly Sip & Paint event – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.  
More info 

Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Mondays (no teacher) and Thursdays (with teacher), 6.30 pm
More info 

Regular on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.  
More info 

Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
More info  

Greetings:

On Wednesday, 6.30 pm, as part of the Friends Futures Factory Creative Generation – Worlds Unknown art festival, an audio-visual performance by ambient composer Warren Daly, Chromothesia. The full festival programme can be downloaded here.   

On Saturday at Odom Garden, an open-air exhibition entitled MHOPe, a collaborative media project on food systems in Cambodia, featuring work from photographers such as Pidor Ham, Daniel Eang, Roun Ry, Mean Lux, Chansakun Chea, Ken Bo, Shunsuke Miyatake, Cindy Liu, Raphael Pech, Yann Bigant, Kim Sokvisal, Thomas Cristofoletti, Miguel Jeronimo and Joaquin Barata.  Food stalls, talks and activities – until March 3. 
More info  

This Saturday morning, and the following Saturday, Ikigai Arts Center hosts The Body Electric, a physical theatre workshop presented by Shawn Thomas O’Docharty.  “We will look at dance theatre, corporeal mime, mask work, theater of objects, puppetry, Commedia Dell’arte, tragedy, melodrama, buffooning and clowning.”   Two hour sessions, starting at 10 am. 
More info  

Saturday evening, Meta House presents Edition 1 of Short Flicks & Chill, the screening of short films by Cambodian filmmakers alongside other digital art.  From 6 pm.  
More info  

Also Saturday at 6 pm, Sa Sa Art Projects presents a panel discussion, part of the public programme for the current exhibition Master of Lands and Waters (Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlin, and Vuth Lyno.  Khmer language event.
More info  

Also also on Saturday at 6 pm, the closing of the Cambodian astronomical exhibition at Cloud, including a presentation and interpretation by five experienced photographers: Mardy Suong, Sonic Duran, SereyWat, Pheak and Nara.
More info  

On Sunday afternoon, artist Ny Vannak is hosting an open house at her new studio/working space in the area off St 51 just south of Wat Langka, near Embargo.  Exhibited will be a collection of her current work, including a collaboration with poet Scott Bywater involving photographic self-portraits a la Cindy Sherman.  Refreshments will be provided.   1 pm – 6 pm.
More info  

Now showing at  Rosewood Phnom Penh, The Shapes of Shapes and Colours, a new collection of works by artist Pen Robit curated by Yean Raksmey of Silapak Trotchaek Pneik  art space. 
More info

Keep an eye out for news from Howl Cambodia about their Writers and Readers Table at The Bean Embassy in Siem Reap, complete with wall art depicting Allen Ginsberg. 

Kumnooh, arts guide for Cambodia – originally established in 2013, dormant since August 2020 and now back in early 2022 – aims to deliver a weekly guide covering contemporary visual and graphic arts, sculpture, dance, architecture, cinema and some music – for the rock’n’roll and jazz end of the spectrum check out lengpleng.com.     Our email service is also now up and running again – send a ‘subscribe’ email to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com to receive Kumnooh in your inbox every Tuesday lunchtime. This is a free service but any donations are welcome to keep the ship afloat.

Coming soon:

February 18 at Sra’Art, Live painting and happy hour with Rodrigo Garzón. 

February 19, The Secret Garden family-friendly concert at Sofitel featuring Maki Orkestr, Master Kong Nai and much more.  Tickets available here

February 20 at Raffles Le Royale, Europe meets the New World, selections by Kurt Weill, Erwin Korngold, Paul Hindemith, Erwin Schulhoff and Samuel Barter.  With Issei Sakano (piano) and Anton Isselhardt (flute)
More info 

Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.

See you about…

Fabian Hipp
Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

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Ongoing…. exhibitions, dance performances and others

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Exhibitions:  

Chhan Dina Gallery
Newly opened at #178 St 13, near the National Museum.  An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career will be augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters.  In February the work of Chhim Sothy is on display and on sale. 
More info

Cloud
Cambodian astrophotography exhibition by five experienced photographers: Mardy Suong, Sonic Duran, SereyWat, Pheak and Nara.
More info  

Friends Futures Factory
Creative Generation – Worlds Unknown.   A long list of workshops, poetry readings, artist talks, performances and more. There are five exhibitions on view daily from 2 pm – 9pm:  Resistance: To Live, Ry Roun; Ambivalence: Macrocosm, Song Seakleng, Untold Story, Mech Choulay, Mindfulness, Kong Siden; Reflection, Vong Chandarey.  Full programme can be downloaded here.    Until Sunday 13.
More info 

The Gallerist
Featuring works by Stan, DinArt, TheamL and Chhim Sothy.
More info

Meta House
White, an exhibition by Koem Keosocheat.  “Through intricate large-format pencil drawing, the artist explores gender roles and gender equality in past and present Cambodia.”   Note the new address for Meta House, #48 Street 228.
More info 

Pi-Pet-Pi Gallery
The Past is the Road to the Future by Chan Phuon.  “For these works are made according to the changing situation of Cambodia.   The current rich in all kinds of machines and the development of new machines in the future.  Some people who live in the modern world and are obsessed with new technologies, in part, lose their identity, which is rich in art and culture.  And those people will have to face a wandering life that does not know who they are.”
More info  

Romcheik5 Art Space
Whose Fault is it? by Chanpenh Nget.  “Throughout 15 paintings, he describes a country in chiaroscuro where the skins are coppery but the skies leaden … alternating a diversity of browns and grays, tanned skins under dark skies. In the background of his paintings, all in the semi-darkness, the weather is not nice … The sun never shines in Chanpenh’s kingdom.” 
More info

Sa Sa Art Projects
Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina and Vuth Lyno.  Limited number of visitors in the gallery space at a time.  A group exhibition by Cambodian arts collective Stiev Selapak. The exhibition introduces their recent works in the form of videos, sculptures, photographs, and light installation, focusing on beliefs in nature and practices in the supernatural, animism, and the powerful spirits that take care of our homes, lands, people, animals, and living beings.  Until 31 March. 

Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
Wings of tomorrow by Pen Robit. 
This series has its genesis in my lifelong fascination with the concepts of and the correlation between power, military, governmentality and subjectivity.”  Media:  Sovrin Magazine (Khmer); KleyKley Magazine (Khmer); Phnom Penh Post (English) Until 10 February. 
More info 

Sra’Art
From Digital To Tangible, by Rodrigo Garzón, self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, and Jash Pushkin an all-round Russian artist best known for his colorful tattoo-orientated art.   Media: CambodgeMag
More info 

Regular events, classes, sessions:

Thursdays 6 pm at Sra’Art, the weekly Sip & Paint event – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.  
More info 

The newly opened Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Mondays (no teacher) and Thursdays (with teacher), 6.30 pm
More info 

Regular on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.  
More info 

Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
More info  

Greetings:

From last week:

The time has come for a relaunch of Kumnooh, arts guide for Cambodia – originally established in 2013 but dormant since August 2020 – aiming to deliver a weekly guide covering contemporary visual and graphic arts, sculpture, dance, architecture, cinema and some music – for the rock’n’roll and jazz end of the spectrum check out lengpleng.com. It may take a while to get back up to speed, with old art spaces now closed and new ones springing up; please let us know if there are things we are missing, particularly outside Phnom Penh where we are rather thin. Our email service is also now up and running again – send a ‘subscribe’ email to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com to receive Kumnooh in your inbox every Tuesday lunchtime. This is a free service but any donations are welcome to keep the ship afloat.

And now on with the listings.

Wednesday 2, 6 pm at Meta House, a double book launch and presentation by Glen Felgate, (From Phnom Penh with Love) and Matthew Robinson (Duel for Supremacy). 
More info  

Friday 4, from 5 pm, meet woodcut artist Morn Chear at Shophouse Studio gallery on Street 110.
More info

Friday 4, 6 pm at Sra’Art, an artist talk by Rodrigo Garzón. “I am a self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. With my paintings, I seek to explore the cyber-nature of human kind: a sort of balance between the digital self and its organic counterpart; trying to find a certain beauty within the erratic coexistence of both realities.”
More info 

Opening Friday 4 and continuing until Sunday 13: Friends Futures Factory – Creative Generation – Worlds Unknown.   A long list of workshops, poetry readings, artist talks, performances and more. There are five exhibitions on view daily from 2 pm – 9pm:  Resistance: To Live, Ry Roun; Ambivalence: Macrocosm, Song Seakleng, Untold Story, Mech Choulay, Mindfulness, Kong Siden; Reflection, Vong Chandarey.  Full programme can be downloaded here.   
More info 

Saturday 5, 11 am to 6 pm, it’s the grand opening for Ikigai Arts Center on St 240, featuring performances, workshops, activities galore. 
More info   

Also on Saturday 5 at 6 pm, Chhan Dina Gallery opens a display of recent works by Chhim Sothy.   More details to come via their Facebook page. 
More info

And also also on Saturday 5, 6 pm at Sra’Art, the Sip & Paint Chinese New Year special – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.   (Plus the regular Thursday session)
More info  

Newly opened on the corner of Sts 240 and 19 is The Gallerist contemporary art gallery.  The month of January features works by Stan, DinArt, TheamL and Chhim Sothy.
More info

Coming soon:

February 18 at Sra’Art, Live painting and happy hour with Rodrigo Garzón. 
More Info

February 20 at Raffles Le Royale, Europe meets the New World, selections by Kurt Weill, Erwin Korngold, Paul Hindemith, Erwin Schulhoff and Samuel Barter.  With Issei Sakano (piano) and Anton Isselhardt (flute)
More info  

For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.

Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.

See you about…

Fabian Hipp

Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

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Ongoing…. exhibitions, dance performances and others

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Exhibitions:  

Chhan Dina Gallery
Newly opened at #178 St 13, near the National Museum.  An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career will be augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters such as Chhim Sothy, Leang Seckon and Suos Sodavy. 
More info

The Gallerist
January features works by Stan, DinArt, TheamL and Chhim Sothy.
More info

Meta House
White, an exhibition by Koem Keosocheat.  “Through intricate large-format pencil drawing, the artist explores gender roles and gender equality in past and present Cambodia.”   Note the new address for Meta House, #48 Street 228.
More info 

Pi-Pet-Pi Gallery
The Past is the Road to the Future by Chan Phuon.  “For these works are made according to the changing situation of Cambodia.   The current rich in all kinds of machines and the development of new machines in the future.  Some people who live in the modern world and are obsessed with new technologies, in part, lose their identity, which is rich in art and culture.  And those people will have to face a wandering life that does not know who they are.”
More info  

Romcheik5 Art Space
Whose Fault is it? by Chanpenh Nget.  “Throughout 15 paintings, he describes a country in chiaroscuro where the skins are coppery but the skies leaden … alternating a diversity of browns and grays, tanned skins under dark skies. In the background of his paintings, all in the semi-darkness, the weather is not nice … The sun never shines in Chanpenh’s kingdom.” 
More info

Sa Sa Art Projects
Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina and Vuth Lyno.  Limited number of visitors in the gallery space at a time. Visits to the exhibition must follow Covid-19 safety procedure.  A group exhibition by Cambodian arts collective Stiev Selapak. The exhibition introduces their recent works in the form of videos, sculptures, photographs, and light installation, focusing on beliefs in nature and practices in the supernatural, animism, and the powerful spirits that take care of our homes, lands, people, animals, and living beings.  Until 31 March. 

Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
Wings of tomorrow by Pen Robit. 
This series has its genesis in my lifelong fascination with the concepts of and the correlation between power, military, governmentality and subjectivity.”  Media:  Sovrin Magazine (Khmer); KleyKley Magazine (Khmer); Phnom Penh Post (English) Until 10 February. 
More info 

Sra’Art
From Digital To Tangible, by Rodrigo Garzón, self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, and Jash Pushkin an all-round Russian artist best known for his colorful tattoo-orientated art.   Media: CambodgeMag
More info  

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Regular events, classes, sessions:

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Thursdays 6 pm at Sra’Art, the weekly Sip & Paint event – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.   
More info 

The newly opened Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Mondays (no teacher) and Thursdays (with teacher), 6.30 pm
More info 

Regular on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.  
More info 

Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
More info  

Greetings:

The time has come for a relaunch of Kumnooh, arts guide for Cambodia – originally established in 2013 but dormant since August 2020 – aiming to deliver a weekly guide covering contemporary visual and graphic arts, sculpture, dance, architecture, cinema and some music – for the rock’n’roll and jazz end of the spectrum check out lengpleng.com. It may take a while to get back up to speed, with old art spaces now closed and new ones springing up; please let us know if there are things we are missing, particularly outside Phnom Penh where we are rather thin. Our email service is also now up and running again – send a ‘subscribe’ email to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com to receive Kumnooh in your inbox every Tuesday lunchtime. This is a free service but any donations are welcome to keep the ship afloat. And now on with the listings.

Opening tonight, Tuesday 25, 6 pm at Meta House, is White, an exhibition by Koem Keosocheat.  “Through intricate large-format pencil drawing, the artist explores gender roles and gender equality in past and present Cambodia.”   Note the new address for Meta House, #48 Street 228.
More info  

Wednesday 26, from 6 pm, Pi-Pet-Pi gallery presents The Past is the Road to the Future by Chan Phuon.  “For these works are made according to the changing situation of Cambodia.   The current rich in all kinds of machines and the development of new machines in the future.  Some people who live in the modern world and are obsessed with new technologies, in part, lose their identity, which is rich in art and culture.  And those people will have to face a wandering life that does not know who they are.”
More info   

Thursday 27, 6 pm at Sra’Art, the weekly Sip & Paint event – materials, drinks and support – $25 for a two hour session.   
More info  

At the newly opened Ikigai Arts Center offer life drawing sessions on Mondays (no teacher) and Thursdays (with teacher), 6.30 pm.
More info  

Regularly on Saturdays at Sra’Art offer classes in art history and techniques: 9 am for children and 11 am for adults.   
More info  

Also regular on Saturdays mornings at Botanico, presented by Sra’Art, hour-long kids’ art sessions, 10 am and 11 am. 
More info   

On Saturday 29 at 2 pm, an artist hangout with Monnyreak at Ikigai Arts Center. 
More info  

Saturday 29 is the 15^th anniversary party for Meta House, with a concert by Major/Minor and Geography of the Moon.  Doors open at 5 pm, music begins 6 pm. 
More info  

Also Saturday 29 at 6 pm, Sa Sa Art Projects presents a panel discussion, part of the public programme for the current exhibition Master of Lands and Waters (Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlin, and Vuth Lyno.  Khmer language event.
More info  

Call for artists!  N o w h e r e Art Studio requests submissions from artists for a group exhibition, Toch-Toch, at Plantation in March.  “As the title implies, the exhibition theme will focus on the size itself — Small. We truly feel small-sized works of art can create a big impression and build an intangible bond between audience and artwork.”  Applications close February 1. 

Coming soon:

February 4: artist talk at Sra’Art by Rodrigo Garzón. “I am a self-taught visual artist from Mexico City, currently living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. With my paintings, I seek to explore the cyber-nature of human kind: a sort of balance between the digital self and its organic counterpart; trying to find a certain beauty within the erratic coexistence of both realities.” 
More info  

February 5: Ikigai Arts Center grand opening featuring performances, workshops, activities galore. 
More info    

February 5 – 13: Friends Futures Factory – Creative Generation – Worlds Unknown.   Exhibitions on view 2pm-9pm:  Resistance: To Live, Ry Roun; Ambivalence: Macrocosm, Song Seakleng, Untold Story, Mech Choulay, Mindfulness, Kong Siden; Reflection, Vong Chandarey.  Full programme can be downloaded here.    
More info  

February 5 – 27: Shophouse Studio presents The Art of Morn Chear, open Saturdays and Sundays 12 – 6 pm

For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.

Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.

See you about…

Fabian Hipp

Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

Ongoing….

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Exhibitions:  

Chhan Dina Gallery
Newly opened at #178 St 13, near the National Museum.  An on-going display of Chhan Dina’s work from throughout her career will be augmented, on a rolling schedule, with works of contemporary masters such as Chhim Sothy, Leang Seckon and Suos Sodavy.  Media: Khmer Nights
More info

Sa Sa Art Projects
Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters) by Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina and Vuth Lyno.  A group exhibition by Cambodian arts collective Stiev Selapak. The exhibition introduces their recent works in the form of videos, sculptures, photographs, and light installation, focusing on beliefs in nature and practices in the supernatural, animism, and the powerful spirits that take care of our homes, lands, people, animals, and living beings.  Limited number of visitors in the gallery space at a time.  Until 31 March. 

Cloud
Cambodian astrophotography exhibition by five experienced photographers: Mardy Suong, Sonic Duran, SereyWat, Pheak and Nara.
More info  

Silapak Trotchaek Pneik // by YK Art House
Wings of tomorrow by Pen Robit.  “This series has its genesis in my lifelong fascination with the concepts of and the correlation between power, military, governmentality and subjectivity.”  Media: Sovrin Magazine (Khmer); KleyKley Magazine (Khmer) Until 10 February. 
More info  

Greetings: 

Thursday 27 at The Plantation, the opening of a photographic exhibition, People of the Wakhan, by Joaquin Barata.  “This exhibition portrays a unique journey over high-altitude passes and through colourful nomadic settlements in one of the most remote areas of Afghanistan. In this part of the world, little has changed over the last centuries and the harshness of life is reflected onto the faces of the people.”  From 6 pm.
More info

Friday 28, at Mirage Contemporary Art Space in Siem Reap, the opening of I am Nature?, an exhibition by Khchao Touch, featuring both oil on wood and pen on paper.  “Khchao Touch’s practice explores the questions of the origin and purpose of self and it’s in the act of creation where she finds stillness and calmness. Nature is the essence of it. Tribal and organic, intricate, nature-inspired, abstract patterns of Khchao Touch may seem psychedelic in tone, yet they stem from a profound experience of meditation, deeply embedded in the artist’s life and practice.”  From 6 pm.  An artist’s talk will follow on Saturday 29 at 1 pm, with a workshop at 2 pm.
More info

On Saturday 29 from 6 pm at Sra’Art, the opening of a joint exhibition The Art of Detachment,  by Adana Mam Legros and Roman Koenig.
More info

Also on Saturday 29, at Good Times X, the new gallery/hostel/rooftop bar on the corner of Sts 19 and 172, a closing eventn for the photographic exhibition, Before the Fall: Phnom Penh 1973 – April 7th, 1975, by Colin Grafton, featuring a blues jam by Colin and friends.  More info

Saturdays in August, Java Tuol Tom Pong presents A new dawn, by dance troup New Cambodian Artists.   Doors open 6.30 pm, tickets $15.  “This piece reflects the past two years of NCA – the travels and performances in and outside of Cambodia. The international teachers and fellow artists we have worked with made us realize contemporary dance is an international language with people from all over the world cooperating together. This piece is an ode to our teachers and influences from Japan to Germany, from Britain to Holland. NCA, the world is our stage.”
More info   

Howl Cambodia is compiling an anthology of words centred on the events and stories of this year, Face Masks and Hand Gels: A Year of Living Covidly. If you would like to submit an original poem or a prose piece (English, 400 words max.), email wayne@songsaa.com for details.
More info

We note the end of an era with the closure on 31 August of Java Café Independence after 20 years, and wish the continued flourishing of Java at Tuol Kork, Tuol Tom Pong and Futures Factory.  Coming soon is an on-line archive of 20 years of exhibitions here.

For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.

Note: we are now accepting donations for the on-going work of Kumnooh, which can be made either via payment to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com at Paypal, or alternatively in cash which can be arranged by emailing to the same address. Your small contributions will help continue our free and advertising free service into the great, wide future of contemporary arts in Cambodia.

Are we missing something?  Let us know at fabianhipp@kumnooh.com.

See you about…

Fabian Hipp

Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

 

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Ongoing….

Exhibitions:  

At Meta House, a joint photographic exhibition, Cambodia before COVID, featuring the work of Steve Porte, Jean Francois Perigois, Thomas Hommeyer and Raphael Pech.  “This exhibition offers a selection of random images by four local photographers, all made prior to March 2020. The goal is simply to illustrate daily life across the country before the onset of COVID-19.”
More info

At Good Times X, the new gallery/hostel/rooftop bar on the corner of Sts 19 and 172, a photographic exhibition, Before the Fall: Phnom Penh 1973 – April 7th, 1975, selected photos from Dancers 1973 and Phnom Penh Before the Fall: Snapshots From a Besieged City by Colin Grafton.
More info

Java Creative Café has declared its Open Walls on-line exhibition open, with works by a variety of artists from the Phnom Penh community.  You can view it here. 

Kampot Art Gallery presents Chan Phoun and Vodka in one exhibition.  “Besides the exhibition there’s a fish room to dive through and a gift shop with Mathilda Graphic designs, upcycled jewellery, comicbooks by Nicolas C. Grey, greeting cards and art supplies.”
More info

Transit, an exhibition by Marie Le Mounier and Studio Images, at the French Institute.  “It enters into her concerns regarding the portrayal of reality, in which she shows people questioning the inner working of their urban environment, which they constantly keep passing through.”
More info

Activities:

Every Wednesday at Azure Bar & Grill, Sip and Draw with Olga Shkylar – $20 for a two hour workshop; includes drawing materials and a drink.
More info

Also on Thursdays, Sra’Art is holding a kids’ art club, with art-based activities for kids of different ages through the day.
More info

 

Greetings:

Tonight, Tuesday 11 at Meta House, the opening of a joint photographic exhibition, Cambodia before COVID, featuring the work of Steve Porte, Jean Francois Perigois, Thomas Hommeyer and Raphael Pech.  “This exhibition offers a selection of random images by four local photographers, all made prior to March 2020. The goal is simply to illustrate daily life across the country before the onset of COVID-19.”  From 6 pm.
More info

On Thursday 13 Howl Cambodia is hosting a poetry night/word jam at Miss Wong’s in Siem Reap , featuring Phnom Penh poet Scott Bywater’s northern launch of his new volume the dream orchestra keeps playing the same tune, plus many other contributors.  7 pm start.
More info

On Friday 14, the second edition of #MIRAGEinsight at Mirage Contemporary Art Space in Siem Reap, a projection night showcasing work submitted in response to an invitation to digital artists in Cambodia.  “Join us and be moved, surprised, amused, and inspired.”  7 pm and again at 8.30 pm.
More info

Saturday 15 at Meta House, a night of cinema, poetry and music with RJ Marshall and Antonio Pineda.  “RJ Marshall will premiere a pop video titled Hey You from his new LP 1042 Express, recorded and produced in Phnom Penh at North Sea Music mobile sound studio.   Antonio Pineda will screen a short movie that features him entitled Bumdog and the Bargirl directed by Bumdog Torres, and read from his new novel.   RJ and Frisco Tony will also perform psychedelic rock and originals.”  8 pm.
More info

Saturdays in August, Java Tuol Tom Pong presents A new dawn, by dance troup New Cambodian Artists.   Doors open 6.30 pm, tickets $15.  “This piece reflects the past two years of NCA – the travels and performances in and outside of Cambodia. The international teachers and fellow artists we have worked with made us realize contemporary dance is an international language with people from all over the world cooperating together. This piece is an ode to our teachers and influences from Japan to Germany, from Britain to Holland. NCA, the world is our stage.”
More info  

An Arts and Environment Festival is being held this weekend in Battambang – featuring presentations, workshops and performances.
More info

YouTube channel Cambodia’s Beauty of Life has just released this short multi-language video featuring master painter Chhim Sothy.

Coming soon:

• The next Thursday Tales event upstairs at The Exchange will be held on August 20
• Photo exhibition People of the Wakhan by Joaquin Barata opens at The Plantation on August 27.  “This exhibition portrays a unique journey over high-altitude passes and through colourful nomadic settlements in one of the most remote areas of Afghanistan. In this part of the world, little has changed over the last centuries and the harshness of life is reflected onto the faces of the people.”

For a more rock’n’roll view of Phnom Penh and the wider Cambodian music scene, please check out our sister publication lengpleng.com, the long running live music gig guide.

Note: we are now accepting donations for the on-going work of Kumnooh, which can be made either via payment to fabianhipp@kumnooh.com at Paypal, or alternatively in cash which can be arranged by emailing to the same address. Your small contributions will help continue our free and advertising free service into the great, wide future of contemporary arts in Cambodia.

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Fabian Hipp

Kumnooh
fabianhipp@kumnooh.com

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Ongoing….

Exhibitions:  

At Good Times X, the new gallery/hostel/rooftop bar on the corner of Sts 19 and 172, a photographic exhibition, Before the Fall: Phnom Penh 1973 – April 7th, 1975, selected photos from Dancers 1973 and Phnom Penh Before the Fall: Snapshots From a Besieged City by Colin Grafton.
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Java Creative Café has declared its Open Walls on-line exhibition open, with works by a variety of artists from the Phnom Penh community.  You can view it here. 

As part of the Sra’Art Human Interaction cycle, the gallery presents work by Kok.  “Kok created his pieces by starting from a small dot of paint, putting the thousand of small dots together to create unique pieces full of color and pleasure to the eyes!”
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Kampot Art Gallery presents Chan Phoun and Vodka in one exhibition.  “Besides the exhibition there’s a fish room to dive through and a gift shop with Mathilda Graphic designs, upcycled jewellery, comicbooks by Nicolas C. Grey, greeting cards and art supplies.”
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Transit, an exhibition by Marie Le Mounier and Studio Images, at the French Institute.  “It enters into her concerns regarding the portrayal of reality, in which she shows people questioning the inner working of their urban environment, which they constantly keep passing through.”
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Activities:

Every Wednesday at Azure Bar & Grill, Sip and Draw with Olga Shkylar – $20 for a two hour workshop; includes drawing materials and a drink.
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Also on Thursdays, Sra’Art is holding a kids’ art club, with art-based activities for kids of different ages through the day.
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