The Tang Chang Private Museum is featured in “New museum brings Thai artist Tang Chang back into focus” by Joseph Rachman in Nikkei Asia.
Now, more than three decades after Tang's death, his work is once again accessible to the public at the Tang Chang Private Museum in Nakhon Pathom, about 40 minutes' drive from Thonburi to the west of Bangkok, which opened on May 1 with an inaugural exhibition titled Poet Tang Chang's Institute of Modern Art. The exhibition, curated by Nawapooh, is open until April 30, 2027, and visits are available by appointment on the second and fourth Sundays of each month.
The museum's creation owes much to Nawapooh. Encouraged by his parents to study and understand the work, he later completed a doctorate focused on his grandfather and has made it his mission to reintroduce Tang's oeuvre to the world.
A major Bangkok exhibition in 2013 was followed by shows in Shanghai, Singapore and Berlin. The family also broke Tang's long-standing taboo on sales, allowing several works on paper to be purchased by collectors, with the proceeds used to help establish the museum.
The inaugural exhibition offers a broad retrospective of Tang's work -- or as broad a survey as possible for an artist who was both prolific and constantly experimental. "He started with realism, traveled to abstraction and came back to realism," observes Nawapooh.
