Reviving Nature 2027

September 8, 2026koihin

Plearn 2027

Play • Learn • Perform • Participate

International Artist Residency and Festival

January–March 2027 | Chiang Mai, Thailand
Part of Reviving Nature 2027

Applications close: 31 October 2026

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What if environmental action began with curiosity?

What if climate conversations could be playful, creative, participatory and joyful?

Plearn (เพลิน) is an international artist residency and festival exploring how art can inspire environmental awareness through play, imagination and shared experience.

The Thai word เพลิน means to enjoy, to become absorbed in an experience and to find pleasure in the moment. It invites us to slow down, explore and reconnect—with nature, with communities and with one another.

Rather than approaching climate change only as a crisis, Plearn asks:

How can artists create experiences that make people care because they have participated, discovered, played and imagined together?

We invite artists to transform environmental learning into an open playground where audiences become participants rather than spectators.

Artists Don’t Need Our Permission

August 31, 2026August 31, 2026koihin

Lily Kaiser, Artist in Residence in discussion with Aom, Director of Studio 88

The art world has an odd habit of waiting to be chosen.

Apply for the residency. Hope you get in. Find a gallery. Get noticed by a curator. Win the grant. Get invited to the exhibition. Meet someone who knows someone. None of these things is bad. Artists need opportunities, and many good things begin with someone opening a door. The challenge comes when being chosen starts to feel like validation of your work.

Gardika Gigih

August 23, 2026Studio88

Gardika Gigih is an Indonesian composer, pianist, and soundscape researcher. He will be participating in the Studio 88 “Summer Residency” programme as one of the selected Southeast Asian artists who has received full residency waiver. He will spend 2 weeks in Doi Saket, working on his unique audio works.

Storyscapes Festival 2026 – Begins 26 September

August 20, 2026September 5, 2026koihin

Storyscapes Festival 2026

Stories as Community

Beginning 26 September 2026
Studio 88 Artist Residency, Doi Saket, Chiang Mai

Stories help us understand where we come from, encounter lives different from our own, and find common ground.

Storyscapes Festival 2026 explores the theme Stories as Community: how stories carry knowledge and culture, shape identity and belonging, and bring people together across different backgrounds and generations.

The festival begins on 26 September with Gathering of Stories, its principal public event. It continues with Guardians of Phaya Luang, an immersive story adventure created especially for young children, alongside further activities during the festival period.

Jay Cheng

August 12, 2026September 2, 2026Studio88

Jay Cheng is a Hong Kong-born artist and practitioner currently living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, whose creative journey has evolved through different forms of making, identity and care. Currently in transition from her longstanding practice as a hat-maker towards healing and mediumship, Cheng is exploring this transformation through her healing art. Her first exhibition “A Moving Ceremony: The Art of Becoming” is taking place at Studio 88 in September – October 2026.

Creative Research Stay – Professor Michael Huang, Nanhua University, Taiwan

August 9, 2026August 18, 2026koihin

In July 2026, we were honoured to welcome Professor Michael Huang 黄天祥 from the Department of Architecture at Nanhua University, Taiwan, to Studio 88 as part of our Creative Research Stay programme. Professor Huang was in Chiang Mai on an exploratory visit and came to Studio 88 on recommendation.

創意研究駐留 (Creative Research Stay) – 黄天祥教授, 南華大學, 台灣

August 9, 2026August 18, 2026koihin

2026 年 7 月，我們非常榮幸迎來來自臺灣南華大學建築學系的黃天祥教授，參與 Studio 88 的「創意研究駐留」（Creative Research Stay ）。當時，黃教授正在清邁進行探索性參訪，經由推薦來到 Studio 88。

Hatnim Lee

July 26, 2026July 26, 2026Studio88

Hatnim Lee is a Brooklyn-based photographer specialising in portraiture, creative direction, and editorial storytelling. For her first visit to Thailand, she has chosen to undertake a residency at Studio 88, where she will engage with local communities through photography, exploring the people, cultures, and traditions of Northern Thailand.

Nancy Lu Rosenheim

July 26, 2026July 29, 2026Studio88

Nancy Lu Rosenheim is a visual artist from Chicago, Illinois, USA, whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, drawing, and printmaking. A Studio 88 Artist Residency alumni, she returns in July–August 2026 for a solo residency, continuing an evolving body of research that began during her previous stay in Chiang Mai.

Ellie Hatte

July 26, 2026Studio88

Ellie Hatte is an Australian photographer partaking in the “Summer Residency” programme as one of the selected partially funded international artists. In Doi Saket, she will continue her photo series “Light Beings”.