Pongpan Suriyapat

Thai

An artist and an architect by training, Pongpan Suriyapat specializes in museum design as well as various media exhibits within the museum, especially digital media and interactive media.  He has a particular interest in creating artwork that combines creativity, technology, and new media for example computer technology, electronics, as well as science and natural phenomena such as gravity and free motion of mass.  

Pongpan has led the team to design and build several museums, exhibitions, learning centers and installation arts in the forms of kinetic art, interaction art, and generative art for local and international institutions. For instance, he laid the digital foundation for the Expressway Authority of Thailand Museum and Rangsit Planetarium, worked on an exhibition with the National Film Archive of Thailand, and set up Kinetic art installations for notable brands including Adidas and AIS at their flagship stores. In 2016, he received the Red Dot Design Award and the Media Agency Association of Thailand Award. 

Pongpan earned a M.Sc. Information Technology: Art and Technology from Chalmers Tekniska Högskola in Göteborg, Sweden in 2007.  In 2019, he furthered his study in Contemporary Curating from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zurich, Switzerland.  Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate majoring in Design from the school of Interior Design, Silpakorn University, Thailand.  

Exhibitions

Polluted Currents

Pongpan Suriyapat
November 10, 2023 - January 25, 2024
Through this engaging art installation, viewers are encouraged to contemplate the fragility of our ecosystem and egosystem that revolves around the PM 2.5 air pollution in Thailand. Visualizing not only the atmospheric pollutant, but also the controversial opinions towards the ‘culprit’ that engender this obstinate problem, this exhibition traces the bread crumbs to see who or what is contributing to the situation.