Studio 88 Artist Residency

Borjana Ventzislavova

November 21, 2025November 28, 2025Studio88

Studio 88 Artist Residency is pleased to welcome filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Borjana Ventzislavova, whose work moves between cultures, histories, and forms. Joining our residency in November–December 2025, she plans to explore connections between indigeneity, meditation, and everyday practices of awareness in Northern Thailand. During her residency, she will visit local communities, document lived experiences, and gather material for her new project The Ghost is Present. Borjana Ventzislavova’s residency is funded by Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture.

Nontawat Machai

November 13, 2025November 13, 2025Studio88

Studio 88 is delighted to introduce Nontawat Machai (Golf) — a visionary artist, curator, and leading figure in Chiang Mai’s performing arts scene. Renowned for his contribution to performance art, festival creation, and the preservation of performing arts history, Golf plays an integral role in shaping the region’s cultural landscape. Studio 88 has had the pleasure of collaborating with him on numerous occasions, and we are excited that he is now actively engaging with our artists-in-residence program.

Roman Ne

October 31, 2025November 21, 2025Studio88

Roman Ne is a Zurich-based multimedia artist and digital consultant. With a background in new media, sound, and Web3 tools, his work spans visual design, immersive audio, and experimental mindfulness formats. After five years as a core team member of Acud Macht Neu in Berlin, he now develops conceptual and participatory projects such as Hardcore Yoga Nidra, exploring collective attention and contemporary states of rest. He is artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November-December 2025.

Virginia Kennard

October 31, 2025Studio88

Virginia Kennard is Live Artist, Choreographer, Producer, Dance Writer from New Zealand. Her work spans over 15 years, and includes performance installations to dance reviewing, producing to pole performances. An eclectic live artist, she holds an MA Performance from Leeds Beckett University, UK and is currently based in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa, New Zealand. She is artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November 2025.

Ebony Rattle

October 31, 2025Studio88

Ebony Rattle is a performance artist, arts worker and disability advocate of Irish and Ukranian Jewish ancestry based on Wurundjeri Country, Australia. Their work investigates performance art through an experimental and accessible methodology, predominantly examining metaphysics; alternative universes steeped in questioning identity, existence, possibility, actuality, corporeality, informed by their own lived experience as a physically disabled queer person. They are artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November 2025.

Katherine Clarke Langlands

October 31, 2025October 31, 2025Studio88

Katherine Clarke Langlands is a visual and conceptual artist whose work is shaped by the natural world and the interplay between the abstract and the tangible. She is artist-in-residence at Studio 88 in November 2025. She would use this residency to explore her evolving relationship to performance, which is new medium for her, within her art.

Testimonial – Natthawut Jaikla

October 13, 2025October 31, 2025Studio88

Natthawut Jaikla is a visual artist and sculptor selected to participate in the Studio 88 x NY20+ residency in Chengdu, China. His artistic practice focuses on terracotta, mixed media, and installation art. Through his work, he addresses significant social issues, including human rights, animal rights, climate change, and cultural concerns.

Testimonial – Wuko

September 29, 2025Studio88

Wuko, a Thai illustrator from Bangkok, has been selected for the Studio 88 x NY20+ Residency Programme in Chengdu. Reflecting on his very first residency abroad, he shared how valuable the experience was in encouraging him to step beyond his comfort zone and discover new perspectives.

Testimonial – Keryn Robinson

September 28, 2025Studio88

Keryn Robinson is an artist from Melbourne, Australia. She discovered Studio 88 online, and its emphasis on experimentation without the pressure of a formal show appealed to her.

Call for Applications – Reviving Nature 2026

September 23, 2025December 19, 2025Studio88

Studio 88 Artist Residency invites artists worldwide to apply for Reviving Nature 2026 in Chiang Mai, Thailand — program dedicated to exploring art, nature, well-being and creative exchange. Ranging from three to eight weeks, the residency takes place from January 4, 2026 to February 28, 2026, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The deadline to apply for this extended call is November 29, 2025.