HBF collaborated with Asia House, London, to present the first UK exhibition of a Burmese artist – Mr. Htein Lin. The three months long exhibition "Htein Lin: Burma Inside Out" was accompanied by an education and events programme focusing on contemporary Burmese culture and society. It aimed to raise greater awareness among UK-based opinion formers of both artistic and civil society initatives inside and outside Myanmar/Burma to better understand the present power, social and cultural realities of the country. 

On the Asia House exhibition "Htein Lin: Burma Inside Out"
More information on Htein Lin: http://www.hteinlin.com/

Art project and exhibition: “Such is Life! By Beauty Suit”, 11-30 November 2006, Chiang Mai

The visual arts in Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries possess a unique reflecting and anticipatory power that bundles a variety of opinions and statements. It has been the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) Regional Office’s strategy to promote and use this two-fold power for awareness raising processes on various levels (individuals, social groups, social structures, especially media structures). The exhibition “Identities versus Globalisation?” aimed to continue this strategy, while simultaneously encouraging the consolidation of regional networks (particularly between artists, i.e. those active in the art business, and those active in the political arena).

Between February 2004 and January 2005 the Heinrich Boell Foundation organized three exhibitions in Chiang Mai, Bangkok and Berlin, as well as a number of accompanying events. 60 artworks of artists from the ten ASEAN countries were on display. The artists presented with their installations, photographies, paintings and video works diverse variations of the theme. Issues ranged from cultural frictions, the perpetuation of identity in processes of modernization and their political implications to socio-historical perspectives and utopian visions of a "good" globalization.

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Womanifesto: No Man's Land. A web-based art project with a 1-day launch in Chiang Mai, supported by HBF

"Consider this territorially imagined line – the border, its powers of inclusion and exclusion, and its ability to simultaneously promote both unity and conflict. Borders also contain/define/give rise to our sense of nationalism, and related historical and current cultural practices and narratives that are perpetuated in a variety of ways help to define ones sense of nation-hood and ownership.

Consider, also, the ‘no man’s land’ itself; it is at once, the in-between space of the border, the borderless scape of cyber space, and the place within us that cannot so easily be explained by the nationality on our passport. The no man’s land, in all its diversity is a relevant space that is the reality of many in the globalized world of today.

The project 'No Man’s Land' invites participants from diverse locations and backgrounds to utilize cyber space as the primary space, to expand upon and/or oppose these and other related points that may arise out of their own personal experiences".

For more, see: http://www.womanifesto.com/en/events.asp?eventNo=5