The Pop-Up Print Kit is a D.I.Y Mobile Exhibition consisting of a printable set of designed pages with art and media from the community—inspired by zines, origami, and printmaking—that can be exhibited in any of your own spaces, such as your living rooms, a favorite cafe, a park, etc.
We wondered how we can distribute art outside of traditional galleries and art spaces. Through printing, the goal is to make the exhibition space more expansive and accessible. It should be a flexible space that allows anyone with access to a printer to be a curator and participant. The essence is to share the art, and not to keep it. We celebrate in abundance and multiplication because the main vision of this is for the art to be seen and appreciated. People can pick and choose the elements of the Print Kit they want to print out, and modify it in different ways and scales to exhibit it as they see fit—there are even opportunities to remix the art itself.
This project will be a space to explore the relationship between the physical and the virtual, the bridge and process that is manifested via the printer, creating a new space that holds elements of both as well as what’s in between. It is also a space to reclaim art spaces to yourself and your community by building and hosting your own exhibition within your respective community spaces.
It is a project we hope to be expanding with respective agents (we call them human printers) hosting Print Kit Exhibitions in their own towns and countries. To be a human printer, you just need to download the PDF Print Kit Files we have designed and host your own gathering!
For assistance in setting up your own Print Kit exhibition, or to submit photos of your latest showcase to be displayed on this website, email
Click the title to download the PDF with more information on the exhibit item, and instructions for assembling.
Tea Gallery16-17 March 2024Yangon, Myanmar
Hosted at Pan Chan Cafe, exhibited in an outdoor cafe space over 2 days with a roundtable discussion and exquisite corpse collaborative game workshop.
Print Room16 March 2024Chicago, USA
Hosted in an apartment in the Albany Park neighborhood, in collaboration with practice room, featuring music from DJ Lula.
Main Ma So Tar Bar LaeEvelina
Yangon's NightlifeOperation Kino
The artwork is a way for me to describe how I see Yangon at the time with the use of a new art brushes and neon colors that I was exploring. Mostly it was Yangon's nightlife through my eyes, infused with the sentiment of falling out of love with the city. The series was created in 2023. I drew them because I was sad.
ColorsNeutron Aung
Turns out sexuality is attached in you as an essential part of your being. However, when being homosexual is considered wrong, you want to cut yourself out. As you cut, you bleed in color. As I am my being, I have to constantly remind myself by splitting myself and tell the other me 'It is OK.' I hope I am listening.
Mahaar Duu / Chin LoneKhant Myat Thein
When I was a high school student, my friends and I could only play chin lone due to a lack of space for other sports. Chin lone is a team sport, allowing for 2 to 15 players. I had numerous memorable moments with this sport, which I am unable to recreate today. As a result, I created an illustration called "Chin Lone" to capture those memories.
What Was I Made ForFreya Thu
Inspired by the Barbie movie.
The TravelersTaiki
It was taken in 2021. I was going to Dala with my dad in the misty morning. When I saw a group of people and the boats, it felt very surreal to me and I took the shot. Surreal travelers in the surreal reality.
Traveller in PainWai Yan Htut
In this year, I have experienced regret, the feeling of missing someone, failure, and grieving, which has transformed into a poem. And it's simple. It resides simply in my heart, flowing like liquid verse.
Psychedelic BluesThura Khaing
Love and Swan / Sun, Glass, and MagicDasom Seint
Love and Swan, I paint[ed] this when I felt really alone and I found myself while painting this. Sun,Glass and Magic, when I was young I really liked Tangled, the Disney movie, so I got inspired.
Hopeless Midnight / Portrait of my BroskiWai Yan Phyo
Hopeless Midnight: In the depths of midnight, thoughts ebb and flow like the tide. When will the sense of being lost and hopeless come to an end? Portrait of my Broski: In January 2022, one night, I heard the news that one of my broski sacrificed his life in Yangon. I drew this portrait that night to respect and honor him. However, a few months later, fortunately he has escaped death.
Heavy / HelpWai Yan Phyo
Heavy: The weight of thoughts intensifies when there's no one to share and bear them with. Help: A man felt lost and needed help, but nobody heard him.
Homes from HomesEddie
The collages were created away from the hearth of familial relationships, develops as a clandestine dialogue with isolation, reflecting the perseverance and adaptability that sprout from the harshnesses. A spectral play evolves between the pixels as an act of intimate connection born from an enigmatic embrace of distinction. As a person who experienced the challenges of losing both parents during early childhood and adolescence, I experienced a chaotic journey marked by transitions from one household to another due to financial constraints and difficult living conditions. I am currently living far away from my family, relatives, and friends. These circumstances have compelled me to develop resilience and adaptability in order to survive. Despite suffering from clinical depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and extreme introversion, I have overcomed the hardship to connect with diverse people and collaborate effectively, even when our perspectives do not fully align.
