Born in 1972, Da Nang, Viet Nam, Bùi Công Khánh is a multimedia and multidisciplinary artist who works across painting, performance, video, photography, and installation, taking an interest in vernacular materials such as ceramics, textiles, and indigenous Vietnamese woods and their carved ornamentation. Bùi Công Khánh’s pieces explore paradoxes and frictions of culture, identity, history, politics, and society in the Vietnamese context as well as beyond. He is especially interested in the place of the Vietnamese in the world, both historically, and today. His practice melds a research approach to social and historical realities, a commitment to form and aesthetics, and the belief that art can play a part in the spread of social justice at home and overseas.

Bui Cong Khanh has participated in numerous international group and solo exhibitions including APT6, 2009; the traveling group show (2013-2019) Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia (Bangkok; Hanoi; Jogjakarta; Yangon); APT11, 2024; Green Island Biennial, Taiwan, 2025, among others. He is also active as a performance artist, participating in festivals such as Asia Topia and others. Works by Bùi Công Khánh are in notable institutional collections such as that of the Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; and M+, Hong Kong.

Born in 1969 in Bangkok, Jakkai Siributr works across media, with a special focus on textile and sewing, adopted for their tactile and interactive features. His intricately sewn and embroidered tapestries and installations convey powerful responses to contemporary and historical societal issues in Thailand and beyond, revolving around migration and personal stories of grief and remembrance.

Siributr’s immersive practice highlights overlooked and neglected histories of groups that have been largely ignored, in recent years addressing the experiences of ethnic minorities who are displaced refugees.

Siributr has participated in prestigious exhibitions around the world, including the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Spirits of Maritime Crossing at the 2024 Venice Biennale, and the 15th Gwangju Biennale, 2024, among others. His works are collected by major institutions globally.

Born in 1966 in Singapore, Jason Lim is a ceramist and performance artist. Fascinated with the language of clay, he often uses the medium beyond its traditional applications, favouring a minimalist sensibility and the involvement of the viewer. Lim’s artworks focus on the interaction between body, matter and spirit.

Jason Lim studied at Central Saint Martins, London, and acquired his MFA from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Lim has performed in over 20 countries including Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. In 2007, Lim presented Just Dharma and Light Weight at the Singapore Pavilion of the 52nd Venice Biennale. In the same year, he presented Walking Sticks at the 4th World Ceramics Biennale in Korea. His ceramic work has been acquired by public museums, art institutions, companies and private collectors, both in Singapore and globally.

Justin Loke is an interdisciplinary artist who through language, image, and storytelling examines various kinds of social and historic paradoxes and dysfunctions. Cultural translation and the diasporic condition, in Singapore, Asia, and globally are predilections, threaded into his installation, painting, and theatre. He is the director of Singapore collective Vertical Submarine.

Loke’s accolades include the President’s Young Talents Award (Singapore) and the Japan Foundation Arts Award in 2009. His works have been exhibited internationally at major institutions, museums, and biennales including National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, Saatchi Gallery (London), and Arter (Istanbul). He participated in the 2012 Gwangju Biennale. Currently, Loke is directing Tran-Slates: Cultural Heritage Craft x Contemporary Design for the National Heritage Board (Singapore).

Born in 1980, Aung Ko studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Culture, Yangon. He began his career as a painter but later embraced sculpture, installation art and video. Through these mediums, and by using natural, recycled or reused materials such as bamboo, Aung Ko observes and records traditional craft making, beliefs and practices which are threatened by modern life. Central to his concerns are political upheavals in Myanmar, as well as those caused by climate change. The landscapes of his native village and the traumas generated by the successive civil wars feed his practice. In a country where artistic creation is constrained by censorship, together with his life partner Nge Lay, Aung Ko founded the Thuye’dan Village Art Project in his native village in northern Myanmar. This art project encouraged collaboration with artists and villagers to create community-based artworks. In Myanmar and during his travels around the world, Aung Ko consistently and methodically films his daily environment, creating what he calls a diary of memories. Aung Ko left Myanmar in February 202. He has obtained refugee status and lives and works in Paris, France.

Aung Ko has participated in the Singapore Biennale 2008, 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale in 2009; Goethe Institutes’ 2012-2013 travelling exhibition Riverscapes IN FLUX in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta and Manila; the traveling group show (2013-2019) Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia (Bangkok; Hanoi; Jogjakarta; Yangon) an artist residency at the Pavillon du Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2015; the Children Biennale 2019, National Gallery Singapore; The Time is Yours, the art component of the Singapore Festival in Yangon in 2020.

Born in 1979, Nge Lay has a Bachelor Degree in economics and in fine arts from Yangon University of Culture. Nge Lay’s work is centred on gender issues and freedom in her country. Nge Lay left Myanmar in February 2021 and today, having received refugee status from France, lives, studies and works in Paris. She expresses herself mainly through performance and installation art and photography.

Together with her husband Aung Ko, Nge Lay has sponsored and funded community projects in her husband’s hometown Thuye’dan Village 340 km from Yangon (main activities are forest exploitation and charcoal production): the 1st Thuye’dan Village Art Project took place in 2007 and included artist participants such as Aung Myint, Aung Way, Cho Iwin, Kyee Myint, Moe Satt, Sann Oo, Than Htay Maung, Tun Win Aung, Wah Nu. Subsequent editions of the Village Art Project took place in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2013.

Nge Lay has participated in numerous solo and group shows internationally. She took part in If The World Changed at the Singapore Biennale 2013; the traveling group show (2013-2019) Concept Context Contestation: art and the collective in Southeast Asia (Bangkok; Hanoi; Jogjakarta; Yangon); the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) QAGOMA, Brisbane (2016); BAB Bangkok Art Biennale (2018); the Children’s Biennale at the National Gallery Singapore (2019). She was shortlisted for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2020.

Nge Lay’s work is in the collections of major public institutions, such as the Singapore Art Museum and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of modern Art.

Born in 1987 in Yangon, Myanmar, Yadanar Win is a multidisciplinary artist. Interested in international exchanges from an early age, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English, later joining Aye Ko’s New Zero artistic space, Yangon, in 2009. She is part of the cultural scene as an artist, but also as a cultural project coordinator. Detaching herself from traditional practices, she uses her body as a means of experimentation. Her performances promote peace, and interrogate politics and the condition of women in Myanmar. She has taken part in exhibitions (The Substation, Stealing Public Space, 2020) and performance festivals and events in Myanmar, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, the UK, and France. She is a member of l’Atelier des artistes en exil and lives in Marseille.