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Happy Khmer New Year! SA SA BASSAC is closed from 13 April and we re-open on 24th April.
សួស្តីឆ្នាំថ្មី!
ស​ ស​ បាសាក់ នឹងឈប់សម្រាកចាប់ពីថ្ងៃទី១៣ ខែមេសា ហើយនឹងបើកវិញនៅថ្ងៃទី​ ២៤ ខែមេសា។

Please join curator Vera Mey and exhibiting artist Tith Kanitha for our In Conversation event on Wednesday, 28 March at 6:30pm!

SA SA BASSAC congratulates the artists we've worked with on their participation in the 21st Sydney Biennale including Svay Sareth, Nguyen Trinh Thi, and Sa Sa Art Projects co-founders Vuth Lyno, Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina!

Please join us in opening our first solo exhibition with Tith Kanitha on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 from 6-8pm! Public program soon to be announced on facebook.

Please join us for double solo openings on 3 October: Klah Klok by Than Sok and New Khmer Architecture:Vessels by Albert Samreth.

From September 14-16, SA SA BASSAC hosts the closed-door symposium facilitated by Clementine Deliss and Tran Luong titled "Remediating Collective Memories: Photographic Documents on the Borderline Between Politics and Art" - the first of four roundtables on the future of museums on Southeast Asia, a project of Goethe Institute.

Please join us on Monday, July 10th from 6:30 - 8:30PM for the screening of the award-winning feature film By The Time It Gets Dark by Anocha Suwichakornpong’s with a response by May Adadol Ingawanij.

Due to pre-election rallies, SA SA BASSAC will be closed on Friday and Saturday, June 2+3. Thanks for your understanding!

Dreaming and Driving: Screenings and Talks with artists Chia-En Jao and Davy Chou | Monday, 22nd May, 6:30 - 9:30PM @ SA SA BASSAC.

Join us at Java Cafe on Wednesday, 10th May for the Book Launch of "Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey" with author Zhuang Wubin followed by a conversation with photographers Neak Sophal and Sovan Philong | 6.30 - 8:00 PM | English with simultaneous Khmer translation

Khmer New Year is soon upon us! SA SA BASSAC will be closed from April 5-15th. Visit us in the New Year of the Rooster - our READ program continues through 6 May. We're open Wednesday-Saturday 10AM-6PM.

First press for Yim Maline's Decomposition, with thanks to The Cambodia Daily and Michelle Vachon!

Find SA SA BASSAC at Art Stage Singapore's Southeast Asia Forum Exhibition "Net Present Value: Art, Capital, Futures" with works by Than Sok, Svay Sareth and Jakkai Siributr. Thursday 12th - Sunday 15th , January, 2017.

First press for Yim Maline's Decomposition, with thanks to The Cambodia Daily and Michelle Vachon!

Visit SA SA BASSAC, Booth A106 at ASIA NOW, Paris / October 19 – 23

Singapore Art Archive Project at SA SA BASSAC is previewed by the Cambodia Daily

Singapore Art Archive Project at SA SA BASSAC is previewed by the Phnom Penh Post

Review of Poetic Topographies exhibition by Ben Valentine at Hyper Allergic.

SA SA BASSAC and Sa Sa Art Projects are among the "5 Places to Peruse Art in Phnom Penh", alongside Bophana, Meta House and Java, in Taipei Times. By Dana Ter.

Svay Sareth is in residence with NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore through May.

Poetic Topographies opens at SA SA BASSAC on Wednesday, 6 April 6-8PM and runs through June 4. Please join us!

Futurographies opens at SA SA BASSAC on Tuesday, 9 February 6-8PM and runs through March 26. Please join us!

Svay Sareth wins Prudential Eye Award Best Emerging Artist Using Sculpture and Overall Best Emerging Artist in 2016!!

Please join us for our January 2016 Public Programs! Full details here.

SA SA BASSAC highlighted as "most proactive art space in Phnom Penh" in a look ahead to 2016 by the Phnom Penh Post

FIELDS: An Itinerant Inquiry Across the Kingdom of Cambodia was launched at CCA Singapore and is now available at SA SA BASSAC - contact us for your copy (in Khmer and English)!

Lim Sokchanlina and Svay Sareth open in Weaving The Asian Democracy, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju. Through December 24, 2015.

Svay Ken in inaugural exhibition Between Declarations and Dreams, Southeast Asian Art Since the 19th Century at the National Gallery Singapore.

Vuth Lyno speaks at Moving and Shaking, APT8 Conference Session 1

Khvay Samnang in The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8), Queensland Art Gallery from 21 November 2015 - 10 April 2016

Vandy Rattana and Khvay Samnang open in Celeste Prize Finalist exhibition in Milan!

Congratulations to Vandy Rattana on the opening of Hugo Boss Asian Art Prize at Rockbund Museum, Shanghai! The exhibition runs from 30 October, 2015 - January 3, 2016.

Lim Sokchanlina opens in the group exhibition "City: Remembrance, Reimagining", curated by Arco/Labs in collaboration with Center for Art and Community Management Surya University Jakarta and Korea-ASEAN. If you're in Jakarta, join the opening tonight! Exhibition runs from 28- October – 08 November 2015.

Khvay Samnang in the Dehli Photo Festival as part of group exhibition "I See You See Me" curated by Kanika Anand at Gallery Threshold, New Dehli. Vernissage 23 October at 6pm. Exhibition runs through 15 November, 2015.

Khvay Samnang opens a solo exhibition "Enjoy My Sand" at Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo tomorrow, Wednesday 21 October. If you are in Tokyo, please join! There will be a conversation between the artist and Yusaku Imamura (Director of Tokyo Wonder Site) at 18:00–19:30 , 8/ COURT (in front of 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery on the 8th floor of Shibuya Hikarie).

SA SA BASSAC Artistic Director Erin Gleeson opens the solo exhibition Letters from Panduranga by Nguyen Trinh Thi as part of Satellite 8 Program at Jeu de Paume. If you are in Paris, please join us for the opening tomorrow, Monday October 19th from 6pm. Exhibition runs through 24 January 2016.

Art Radar Asia on Hugo Boss Asian Art Prize Finalists including Vandy Rattana. The newly commissioned works are complete and installation at Rockbund Museum in Shanghai begins in one week!

SA SA BASSAC's Community Project's Manager Meta Moeng joins the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators in Vienna, 17-22 October, with Cambodian Living Arts and with thanks to support from the U.S.Embassy Phnom Penh.

SA SA BASSAC is soon to present a solo booth with Svay Sareth at ASIA NOW, Paris Asian Art Fair at Espace Pierre-Cardin, Paris from 20-22 October.

Khvay Samnang and Svay Sareth in GLOBALE: GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, 03 October, 2015 - 01 May, 2016

Yim Maline at Open Studios, Triangle Arts Association in NYC, 1 October, 2015, 6-9PM

Rubber Man, a solo exhibition by Khvay Samnang opens at CAPC Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux 17 September - 15 November, 2015

Khvay Samnang with Nget Rady for Where is My Land? in Asian Film and Video Art Forum, curated by May Adadol Ingawanij, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, on Saturday 12th September.

Vandy Rattana talks with Emma Ota on Tokyo Art Beat.

The Vann Molyvann Project Summer School 2015 is coming to a close at SA SA BASSAC. Please join us for a reception to view the project's many accomplishments on Saturday, 5 September, 5:00 - 8:00PM.

Khvay Samnang opens solo exhibition Footprints of Yantra Man at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 27 August, 7pm / 28 August–20 September 2015

Vandy Rattana in the group exhibition Offen at Galerie EIGEN+ART in Berlin, through 5 September.

Khvay Samnang in THINKING CURRENTS curated by Leeza Ahmady | Asia Contemporary Art Week, Curatorial & Educational Platform | Seattle Art Fair, July 30 – August 2, 2015

SA SA BASSAC hosts symposium Interpreting Modern Concrete: Vann Molyvann in Context | Saturday 25 July, 2PM | English and Khmer languages

Vuth Lyno and Sa Sa Art Projects in "No Things to Hang" curated by Luisa Tresca | 23 July -3 August at Gaffa, Sydney.

Vandy Rattana and Tith Kanitha open their two-person exhibition Today of Yesterday at Yamamoto Gendai in Tokyo | July 11 - July 28, 2015

In Studio: Svay Sareth in Gallery Magazine of the National Gallery of Victoria's recent issue

Vandy Rattana and Tith Kanitha are in-residence with Arts Initiative Tokyo / AIT

Join the public presentation in Khmer about Vann Molyvann Project by Pen Sereypagna
on Friday 19th from 2-4pm at Norton University at Chroy Chungvar, Phnom Penh

Join our opening of The Vann Molyvann Project: Summer School 2015
on Saturday 13 June, 6-8PM

Join Than Sok at the opening of his solo exhibition Objects of Belief at Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Thursday 11 June at 6PM

Khvay Samnang solo exhibition L'Homme caoutchouc opens at Je de Paume
2 June - 27 September, 2015

Vandy Rattana opens in Time of Others at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 11 April - 28 June

CHAN Dany, KHVAY Samnang, and YIM Maline in the group exhibition “And That Which Was Always Known” curated by Roger Nelson at Yavuz Gallery in Singapore, 18 April - 24 May 2015.

A film portrait by Jeu de Paume with Vandy Rattana on his new work MONOLOGUE

Svay Sareth at Palais de Tokyo on Telerama

Svay Sareth in Secret Archipelago, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 27 March - 17 May, 2015

Khvay Samnang with Nget Rady in Forces and Volumes: A selection of films curated by May Adadol Ingawanij at the first Essay Film Festival at Birbeck Institute for the Moving Image, London, 24-29th 2015

MILK magazine on Travels by Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai

Khvay Samnang announced as Finalist for Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong

The film Day by Day by Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai screens at Bophana Center in Phnom Penh, 5pm on Saturday 14 March.

Vuth Lyno in South by Southeast, a group exhibition curated by Patrick Flores and Anca Verona Mihulet at Osage Gallery, Hong Kong / 8 March - 3 May, 2015

Changing Exchange, a review of Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared in The Advisor

Parsons The New School for Design -Book Launch: New York, Meet Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh, Meet New York / Order your book here

Vandy Rattana's MONOLOGUE open at Jeu de Paume 24 February - 17 May

Rates of Ex-change, Un-Compared reviewed in Cambodia Daily

A glance at a selection of what's coming up in 2015 for SSB artists at home, in Singapore, and elsewhere

CAPC, Bordeaux opens Satellite 8 Programme with MONOLOGUE by Vandy Rattana, 22 January - 3 June, 2015

Phnom Penh Post's The Man Behind the Mask- the mutable art of Khvay Samnang

Chan Dany, Khvay Samnang, Svay Sareth in Southeast Asia Platform, Art Stage Singapore on 22-25 January 2015.

Khvay Samnang in Prudential Eye Awards Exhibition in Art Science Museum at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on 17 January - 31 March 2015.

Khvay Samnang in SEA (Social Engagement Artist / Southeast Asia) at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore on 16 January - 15 March 2015.

Time, Space, Voice: Phnom Penh's White Building - a symposium presented by SA SA BASSAC and Sa Sa Art Projects

Tablet article on Tomer Kep: Israeli Photographer Navigates Cambodian Roots

randian reviews Traitor and Tradition at ARNDT Berlin, with Svay Sareth, Pich Sopheap, Mit Jai Inn and Pinaree Sanpitak

Khvay Samnang, Lim Sokchanlina, Pen Sereypagna, Tith Khanitha, Amy Lee Sanford and Sovan Philong in "Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh", an exhibition co-curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtain at H Gallery (Sathorn Soi 12), Bangkok, Thailand, opening 4 December 2014.

Artists + Archaeologists / Mexico + Cambodia
A talk by Fernando Aceves Humana and Chan Vitharin Wednesday 26th November, 2014
6:30 – 7:30PM In English and Khmer, simultaneous translation

Chan Dany, Khvay Samnang and Nget Rady in Swimming in Sand; Planting Rice Under an Umbrella, No Vacancy, Melbourne, Australia/ parallel programming at National Gallery of Victoria's Ian Potter Centre and Federation Square, 25 November - 07 December 2014.

Than Sok in Haunted Thresholds Spirituality in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Kunstverin Gottingen, Germany, 09 November - 21 December 2014

Vuth Lyno in Family Snaps: Photography in Southeast Asia, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 07 - 14 November 2014

Lim Sokchanlina begins artist in residence program, Johannesburg

Congratulations to Pete Pin on being awarded the prestigious Open Society Documentary Photography Project Audience Engagement Grant Program!

Traversing Expanses: The Cambodian-American Diaspora Experience by Vuth Lyno in Trans Asia Photography Review

Lim Sokchanlina in Mekong Platform at MIA Singapore, 24-26 October 2014

Khvay Samnang in Inventing the Possible, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, 14 October 2014 - 08 February 2015

Screening of Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology at Goldsmiths, University of London / SEA ArtsFest 2014, on Friday 26th September

Mit Jai Inn, Svay Sareth, Pinaree Sanpitak and Sopheap Pich in Traitor and Tradition, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany, September 20 - October 18, 2014

Albert Samreth opens Dancers on a Plane (DMZ) The REAL DMZ PROJECT, Korea 31 August - 27 September, 2014

Than Sok's artist talk and performance at San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, On Saturday 30th August 2014 at 4PM

Khvay Samnang, Svay Sareth and Vandy Rattana in Looking at the Big Blue Sky, Meta House, Phnom Penh, Saturday 23 August 2014 at 6PM

Svay Sareth's Warning House (Gwangju) and Mon Boulet in The Mirror and Monitor of Democracy in Asia, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea, 22 August - 28 September 2014

SA SA BASSAC at Asian Art Space Network, Gwangju / Sept 20-23

Lim Sokchanlina's Urban Street Night Club in Darwin Festival, Australia, 8-24 August 2014

Than Sok in Conjuring Capital, San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, 8 August - 30 October, 2014

Albert Samreth at Yamamotogendai, Tokyo / 12-26 July

Albert Samreth and Khvay Samnang in A Time For Dreams, The IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art / 26 June - 10 August

Artist and curator Vuth Lyno IN CONVERSATION with Khvay Samnang, Tuesday 17th June at SA SA BASSAC, 6.00 - 7.30PM

Lim Sokchanlina's Urban Street Night Club review in Art Asia Pacific

Khvay Samnang's Human Nature at Tomio Koyama Singapore, 30 May - 13 July

Art Radar Asia: Vandy Rattana as 1 of 6 Southeast Asian photographers you should know

Mit Jai Inn's Postpositve; Freaky You Are Always reviewed in randian

Mit Jai Inn in Medium At Large, Singapore Art Museum

VOTE NOW! Vandy Rattana nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize

Report on Roundtables: The Body, The Lens, The City in Art Radar Asia

Rescue Archaeology in The Disappearance at Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore April 5-6

Albert Samreth in Veils, The Underground Museum, LA

Vandy Rattana in Lost in Landscape, MaRT

Chan Dany at 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong

Sa Sa Art Project's Pisaot Open Studio with Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai

Khvay Samnang on SAM TV

Medicine to Heal: Cambodian photography since 2000 curated by Zhuang Wubin

Vandy Rattana opens in the Kemper Museum exhibition In The Aftermath of Trauma, alongside Yael Bartana, Alfredo Jaar, Phil Collins and Amar Kanwar

Svay Sareth and Yim Maline Art present with Asia Art Archive in America

Khvay Samnang in Staging Cambodia at HAU Berlin January 16-19

Pich Sopheap votes Yim Maline as Favorite New Artist

FIELDS: An Itinerant Inquiry Across Cambodia, December 2-22

Khvay Samnang in Censorship, The 7th Move On Asia

Curatorial Visit with Ute Meta Bauer
Public Talk: Do-It-Yourself: Exhibitions by Artists for Artists /
Nov 6, 6.30pm Meta House

Video Art from Cambodia launches Sights and Sounds at The Jewish Museum, NYC
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Khvay Samnang voted one of "5 Artists to Know" in Singapore Biennale

Singapore Biennale opens!, including works by Albert Samreth, Svay Sareth, and Khvay Samnang

Khvay Samnang opens in Asian Art Biennale, Taipei

Svay Sareth at Center for Khmer Studies new program Artists at Work

Vandy Rattana for inaugural screening at VIDEOARTGARAGE, Berlin

Vandy Rattana opens in Document at Plymouth University Gallery, UK

Vandy Rattana in Unknown Forces at Tophane i Amire Culture and Arts Center in Istanbul

Coming out in Cambodia: art series captures stigma

June Yap's interview with Svay Sareth on Singapore Biennale 2013 tumblr

Aperture and Creative Time Reports host Part II of Out of Nowhere: Photography in Cambodia

Chan Dany hosts workshop with Wat Ounalom children's program

Vuth Lyno at Salzburg Global Seminar

Chan Dany at Art Basel HK

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Erin Gleeson and Leeza Ahmady in conversation at Independent Curators International on Tuesday 14th May

Creative Time Reports presents Out of Nowhere: Photography in Cambodia, curated by Leeza Ahmady and Erin Gleeson

Vuth Lyno's Thoamada at Equality Forum's 14th Annual LGBT Art Exhibit

Announcing the exhibition and book Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology | Contemporary Art and Urban Change in Cambodia, opening ifa Galleries, Berlin, 21 March

Chan Dany in Possession, Bangkok Art and Culture Center

Parsons The New School for Design + SSB = Living Arts City workshop video

Khvay Samnang and Pich Sopheap in Deep S.E.A. reviewed in Art Asia Pacific

Lim Sokchanlina joins Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT) curated by Edwin Ramoran at Boston Center for the Arts

Interview with Vuth Lyno on Fridae

New essay by June Yap highlights Svay Sareth: Undoing Regionalism in Southeast Asia

Vandy Rattana and Than Sok in Art Stage Singapore's SEA Market Report

Poetic Politic an Art Forum's pick

Vuth Lyno writes on Cambodian photography in Trans Asia Photography Review

Heng Ravuth in Identities, The East Gallery, Toronto

Khvay Samnang in MONDI, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi at Dryphoto arte contemporanea, Prato [press release] [postcard]

Vandy Rattana and Khvay Samnang in Poetic Politic, a San Art exhibition curated by Zoe Butt, at KADIST Foundation, San Francisco

Chan Dany at Pagoda Paris: L'Asie En Vogue

Silk Threads, a solo exhibition by Yim Maline at The Insider Gallery through 28 October

Vandy Rattana in new book UNFIXED: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art

SA SA BASSAC Co-Founder and Artistic Director nominated for Curatorial Award

Vandy Rattana in TRACES at The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok

Khvay Samnang and Vandy Rattana open in Noorderlicht: Terra Cognita

Khvay Samnang, one of 18 most-searched Asian contemporary artists

Art Monthly Australia previews new artefacts

Vandy Rattana in dOCUMENTA(13)

Vandy Rattana in Kyiv Biennale 2012

Vuth Lyno named Visual Arts Curator for Cambodian Youth Arts Festival 2012

5 SA SA BASSAC artists in Tobias Rehberger's You Owe Me. I Don't Owe You Nothin, ROUNDTABLE Gwangju Biennale

Khvay Samnang and Lim Sokchanlina in Current Views and Actions: Photography and Performance Documentation from Phnom Penh
August 28 - November 17, 2012
Northern Illinois University Museum Rotunda Gallery