mARTarello
ABOUT mARTarello
mARTarello is a Contemporary Art and Research and Exchange Initiative founded by Chattiya Kate Nitpolprasert, (Curator and Researcher) and Tarandeep Anand (CEO) based in Antwerp. ‘mARTarello’ (or an artistic rolling pin) acts as an Innovative Asia-Europe Contemporary Art & Culture Exchange and Platform with the aim to bridge Thailand, Asia and Europe contemporary art via art exhibition, research and exchange and bring Thai conceptual and contemporary artists to Antwerp, while inviting Belgian artists for art exchange in Thailand.
ABOUT CHATTIYA KATE NITPOLPRASERT
Chattiya Kate is a Thai curator, she has conducted various types of contemporary art exhibition since 2005. Completed Master of Arts in Art Management in 2005, she started her career as curatorial team at The Art Centre, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Her curatorial focus is around developing thematic exhibition through conceptual art questioning social issues and raising awareness on social myth and propaganda via different mediums including photography, site-specific installation, painting, film, video and digital art.
She has worked with international and Thai artists, curators, art institutions and galleries such as curators: Eugene Tan (National Gallery Singapore), Hilde Teerlinck (H+F Collection), Osage Gallery (Hong Kong), Zara Stanhope (Director of Auckland Art Gallery), and artists: Yoshitomo Nara (JP), Leo Copers (BE), Erich Weiss (BE), Otto Berchem (BE/US), Gerald van der Kaap (the Netherlands), Chen Man (China), and Lieko Shiga (Japan). In 2008, she was an appointed curator for ARTAIDS by H+F Collection conducting a commissioned contemporary art exhibition to fight with stigma against HIV/AIDS in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Thailand and Madrid, Spain. In 2009, she co-curated and represented ‘Thai Pavilion’ at the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale), Venice, Italy. And she was a chief curator of the exhibition on Mekong funded by Rockefeller Foundation exhibited in four countries – Thailand, Laos PDR, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Since 2010, she conducted research and implementations utilizing creative and art approach for HIV prevention communication campaigns in six countries in Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan). She received advanced research training from University of North Carolina School of Medicine in the United States and Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp in Belgium. Between 2024 and 2026, she combines both of her curatorial background and research skills to revisit the Thai contemporary art scene and work on the exhibitions focusing on Asia and Europe context.
ABOUT TARANDEEP ANAND
Mr. Tarandeep Anand (CEO) has excelled in global health and arts fundraising, scientific research and implementation, grant and manuscript writing. Anand has secured grants and closely worked with USAID, US National Institute of Health, ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, Aidsfonds the Netherlands, and amfAR for implementing projects across Asia. He has been invited as a plenary speaker at HIV Glasgow in Scotland and European AIDS Conference in Basel, Switzerland and International AIDS Conference 2016 in Durban, South Africa. Anand has published research manuscripts and review papers on implementation science in high impact journals including Wiley and Taylor and Francis Journal.