The D Foundation for the
Arts is a platform set up in the periphery of Bangkok,
generously endowed and designed by Mr Udom Dansakchai
in 2007 to advance the education of the public by the
promotion of his appreciation of the Arts.
It was established and has thrived in an entirely unexpected
location, away from the big city and the ultramodern
urban centre of Bangkok. This choice of location provided
scope for the development of new forms of dialogue and
symbiosis between unexpected geographies: rural and
industrial, local and global, art from the past and
the art of today, famous artists and emerging ones.
The gallery’s presence in an area that is in a certain
sense “forgotten” but which has a spirit and significant
history of its own, has the ambition to create a reputation
as a centre capable of producing exciting and challenging
contemporary work where it is least expected, unhampered
by the spatial and temporal restrictions of classic
contemporary art institutions.
The foundation comprises a gallery space, as well as
an artist residence and a wide studio space.
Every year the D Foundation proposes a wide range of
activities involving arts in all its shapes.
The foundation is primarily engaged in promoting the
local talents and inviting selected foreign artists
to realize large scale projects, for the most part in
situ.
