Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Now recognized as a major international filmmaker and visual artist, he made his first films in 1994. In 2002, he won awards at the Cannes Film Festival for Blissfully Yours, which won the Un Certain Regard prize, and Tropical Malady, which won the Jury Prize in Competition in 2004. His works have won him widespread international recognition and numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or in 2010 for Uncle Boonmee, which recalls his past lives. He won the Jury Prize again in 2021 for Memoria, his first film shot outside Thailand, starring Tilda Swinton. The artist has also been awarded the Sharjah Biennale Prize (2013), the Fukuoka Prize (2013), the Yanghyun Art Prize (2014) and the Artes Mundi Prize (2019), among others. In 2021, the Villeurbanne Institute of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition Periphery of the Night. His installations have been shown at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the New Museum in New York, MAIIAM Contemporary in Chiang Mai and Documenta in Kassel. His works have been acquired by major institutions such as the Tate Modern, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Centre Pompidou and the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art.