With works by Som Supaparinya

April 24 — June 7, 2026
Opening: April 23, 6 pm

Melted Stars is the first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin by Som Supaparinya (DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Fellow 2021/22). In an audiovisual long-term research project that began in 2016, the artist—who is originally from northern Thailand—addresses Thailand’s problematic entanglement with Japan during World War II as well as the deliberate repression of this history within the national culture of remembrance.

The new video installation Melted Stars focuses on the changing landscape of northern Thailand and neighboring areas, which were used as strategic terrain during the war to violently enforce colonial and political interests.

Through film-documented observations, field trips, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and archival research, Supaparinya examines the functional transformations of infrastructures and landscapes. At the same time, she makes processes of memory, their transmission, and the conditions and forms of remembrance itself visible.

Curated by Natalie Keppler

Events:

02.05.2026, 6:00 om
Screening, Tasting, Talk
Som Supaparinya, Taste of Noodles/ รสของก๋วยเตี๋ยว/Huong Vi Pho, 2006 (20:57 min)

31.05.2026, 4:00 pm
Artist and Curator’s Tour
through the exhibition with Som Supaparinya and Natalie Keppler

Image: Som Supaparinya, Melted Stars (2026), video still.