BCK Fellowship 2025→2026: Award Ceremony & Project Presentation

Speakers: [Ceremony Speakers] Marisa Chearavanont, Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Tamayama Takuro, and Yamashita Yukako　[Talk Speakers] Tamayama Takuro　｜　Moderator: Miyake Atsuhiro

The BCK Fellowship was launched in 2025 as a collaboration between Bangkok Kunsthalle in Thailand and ACK, with the aim of supporting the next generation of artists. In 2026, a Fellowship recipient will once again be selected from among the artists exhibiting at the ACK venue to participate in a residency program in Bangkok. Held alongside the award ceremony, this talk will feature an activity report by Takuro Tamayama, recipient of the 2025 BCK Fellowship, reflecting on his residency in Bangkok this summer.

Ceremony Speakers:
Marisa Chearavanont (Founder & President, Bangkok Kunsthalle)
Stefano Rabolli Pansera (Director, Bangkok Kunsthalle)
Tamayama Takuro (Artist)
Yamashita Yukako (Art Producer / YMKY Inc. CEO)

Talk Speaker:
Tamayama Takuro (Artist)

Moderator:
Miyake Atsuhiro (ACK Educational Programs)

Bangkok Collaborate Kyoto Fellowship (BCK Fellowship)

Bangkok’s new cultural institution, Bangkok Kunsthalle, and Art Collaboration Kyoto have jointly launched a new award.
In addition to financial support, the award offers the recipient a residency and exhibition opportunity in Bangkok.
Through encounters with different cultures, the program aims to broaden the recipient’s perspective on artistic expression and open up new possibilities for their creative practice.

Eligibility: Artists who have exhibited with ACK

Selection Process:
From November 6 to 7, four judges will visit each artist’s booth to review the works in person and conduct the evaluation. The results will be announced at the awards ceremony scheduled on November 8, held at the venue of the talk program. Following the announcement, a talk program featuring the judges and special guests will also take place.

Judges:
Marisa Chearavanont (Founder & President, Bangkok Kunsthalle)
Stefano Rabolli Pansera (Director, Bangkok Kunsthalle)
Tamayama Takuro (Artist)
Yamashita Yukako (Art Producer / YMKY Inc. CEO)

Speaker’s Profiles
　

Marisa Chearavanont

Born in South Korea and naturalized Thai, Marisa Chearavanont is a philanthropist, art collector, and patron dedicated to connecting Thai culture with the world through art, education, and gastronomy.
In 2022, she founded Khao Yai Art Forest and Bangkok Kunsthalle, aiming to position Thailand as Southeast Asia’s hub for contemporary art. A member of Tate Modern’s Asia-Pacific Acquisition Committee and the New Museum’s International Leadership Council, she was the inaugural recipient of the RINASCIMENTO+ Award in 2022.

Website: https://www.khaoyaiart.com/

Stefano Rabolli Pansera

A graduate with Honors from the Architectural Association in London, he worked with Herzog & de Meuron. After that, he realized projects at the intersection of art, architecture, and geopolitics across Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean.
He curated the Golden Lion-winning Angola Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, designed the Mangiabarche Open-Air Gallery in Sardinia, and served as Director at Hauser & Wirth in London and St. Moritz from 2017 to 2022, developing major institutional collaborations with Christoph Büchel and the Panza Collection.

Website: https://www.khaoyaiart.com/bangkok-kunsthalle/exhibitions

Tamayama Takuro

Born in Gifu in 1990, he lives and works in Tokyo. After graduating from Aichi University of the Arts, he completed the master’s program at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015. His meticulously constructed spatial installations draw on familiar imagery, incorporating furniture and everyday objects, kinetic movement with subtle color gradations, and vivid lighting and sound to create immersive environments.
In 2025, he received the New Artist Award (Fine Arts Division) of the 76th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize.

Major recent exhibitions included CIRCULATION produce by POETRY Théâtre FAUCET NAGOYA (Nagoya City Matsushige Lock Gate, 2025), Intervenes / Light and Table / Sound as Time / Hole (ANOMALY, 2025), Tamayama Takuro: FLOOR (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2025), ART IN THE PARK (Under Construction) (Ginza Sony Park, 2024), and SENSE ISLAND/LAND 2024 (Kanagawa, 2024).

Yamashita Yukako

Born in Tokyo to a family that runs a 180-year-old tea ceremony utensils business in Kyoto.
After graduating from Keio University, she completed an MA in Art and Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. Following an internship at Sotheby’s London, she joined Sotheby’s Japan, where she oversaw the sales of contemporary art.

From 2017 to 2022, she was the Managing Director of the art gallery THE CLUB, a gallery established as part of CCC (Culture Convenience Club)’s art business initiative, located within GINZA SIX. From 2022, she served as Fair Director of Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK) for four years, and in 2026, she assumed the role of Chairperson of the ACK Ambassadors, an intimate global network of established and next-generation collectors and cultural leaders united by a shared commitment to art and community.

She has since founded YMKY Inc., which handles art projects and cultural strategies both in Japan and internationally. Since 2022, she has served as a Growth Strategy Promotion Advisor for the City of Kyoto (focused on revitalizing the art market) and also works as an Artistic & Cultural Strategy Consultant for the Culture Vision Japan Foundation.