Belle Phromchanya (b.1984, Bangkok, Thailand) is an artist, filmmaker, and cultural worker based in Rotterdam. Since earning her MA in Design from the Sandberg Instituut in 2013, she has developed an interdisciplinary practice that explores themes such as political memeification, diasporic identities, and digital legacies. Phromchanya's artistic investigations stem from her own situated experiences navigating the tensions between local and global, self and other. By incorporating archival materials, personal narratives, and audiovisual elements, her work seeks to unpack and renarrate contemporary realities through the lens of transborder positionality.
Alongside her artistic practice, Phromchanya is currently a tutor at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and co-founder of NON NATIVE NATIVE, an independent platform that extends international, non-Western discourses within the cultural landscape by collaborating across diverse disciplines to celebrate the art of reclaiming the unclaimed.
︎ bellephrom@gmail.com
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NNNFAIR 2023: PRO$PERITY NOW!
2023, Project Organizer, Cultural Fair, Framer Framed Amsterdam
I WAS HERE THE WHOLE TIME (80+)2022, 6-channel video installation, 16:9, Sound, Color, 107:63 min.
I WAS HERE THE WHOLE TIME (-3,653)
2022, 6-channel video installation, 16:9, Sound, Color, 107:63 min.
NNNFAIR 2021: GREATER THAN THE OLYMPICS
2021, Project Organizer, Hybrid Cultural Fair, WORM Rotterdam
LANDS WITH NO VOLCANOES
2021, Single-channel video, 16:9, Sound, Color, 7:50 min.
THOUGH THE MOUNTAINS DIVIDE, AND THE OCEANS ARE WIDE
2020, Single-channel video, 4:3, Sound, Color, 11:30 min.
TIGER EYES
2020, Documentary, Single-channel video, 16:9, Sound, Color, 30:00 min.
WHETHER ART IS LIFE OR NOT
2019, Documentary, Single-channel video, 16:9, Sound, Color, 80:08 min.
CAPITAL OF MAE LA
2019, single channel video, 16:9, sound, color, 38:09 min.
IMPARTIAL SPECTRUMS
2019, Installation, 80 Inkjet Panels, 170 x 60 cm, Double-sided 4-color Print, Porto Design Biennale
A YEAR IN GRAYSCALE
2018, Visual Research, Symposium Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
WHETHER IT IS ART OR NOT
2017, Single-channel video, 16:9, Sound, Color, 32:07 min.![]()
A GUIDE TO GAME OF THAIS (2014)
2014, Installation, 30 Inkjet on Paper, A4, 4-color Print, World Design Capital, Cape Town
IF I CAN’T TAKE A SELFIE, I DON’T WANT TO BE PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION
2013, Installation, Mix-media, De Punt, Amsterdam
THE RISE OF THE MOON
2013, installation, single-channel video, 7 panel (180 x 90 cm.) inkjet on back lit films, lenticular prints (various size), one-colour newspaper, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
OPEN HOLLAND
2012, Masterclass, De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
POLITICAL SPECTRUM SERIES
2010–2012, a series of information graphics, observations on the media depiction of 2010–2011 political unrests in Thailand