Alexandra Maul did not come to Kep to paint. She came to remember why she paints. Alexandra Maul Five in the morning. The sun is not yet there. Alexandra Maul gets on her bicycle and rides along the sea. The air smells of salt and something harder to name — that particular coastal scent of Southeast Asia before the heat sets in. She stops somewhere simple, drinks her coffee. No one around. Just the water, the still-dark horizon, and a calm she will learn, over the weeks, to c

Kep-sur-Mer was once a dream made concrete. Modernist villas rising from the jungle above a silken Gulf. French colonists and Khmer royalty. Prince Sihanouk shooting films in golden light. Then, almost overnight, the rockets came. And the silence that followed lasted decades — a silence inhabited only by ghosts, roots, and the sea. Emmanuel Pézard in Residency with Art For Kep It is into this silence that French writer Emmanuel Pézard has stepped. In residence at Knai Bang Ch

By Zea Asis | Art & Market 3 min Read Knai Bang Chatt has launched Art for Kep, a programme structured around three chapters: art, music, and marine conservation and restoration. The programme is chaired by Jef Moons, a Belgian-Khmer citizen who has lived and invested in Cambodia since 2003. Its steering group includes Satcha, the Cambodia International Film Festival, Kep Music City, and Marine Conservation Cambodia. Moons describes the programme's origins in terms of a bro

By Ocean Magazine 3 min Read Off the quiet coastline of Kep, where Cambodia meets the sea in fragments of memory, reef, and rhythm, a new kind of institution is beginning to take shape beneath the surface. Knai Bang Chatt by Kep West, together with Art for Kep and Marine Conservation Cambodia, has unveiled plans for the S.E.A. Ocean Gallery, Asia’s first large scale underwater museum where contemporary art, marine regeneration, and cultural narrative converge. Positioned ap

By Marissa Carruthers | Kiripost 3 min Read Kep is set to host Asia’s first large-scale underwater museum, blending contemporary art, cutting-edge design and marine conservation to create a living, regenerative ocean ecosystem

By Cambodge Mag 2 min read Cambodia innovates with the S.E.A. Ocean Gallery, Asia's first large-scale underwater museum, located off the coast of Kep. This project fuses contemporary art, marine restoration, and local culture to transform the coast into an ecological and artistic hub.

By Christophe Gargiulo | Cambodge Mag 4 min read With Beneath the Sea, presented in Kep as part of CIIF 360 and Art for Kep, director Vinay Bharadwaj delivers a film that is both aesthetic and committed, conceived to celebrate the beauty of the coastline while raising awareness about the fragility of the marine world. Vinay Bharadwaj is a creator with a singular background. Born in India and based in Singapore for his higher education, he first built a career in banking and

By Michelle Vachon | Cambodianess 3 min read The CIFF 360 IN KEP 2026 film festival taking place through May 17 is not just a continuation of the Cambodian International Film Festival (CIFF) held in March in Phnom Penh.

By Cambodge Mag 3 min read Ciff-360 in Kep – a four-day program of films, forums, and panel discussions. An exceptional weekend for both professionals and locals. Featuring a curated selection of documentaries, children’s films, historical cinema, workshops, and architectural tours. A memorable weekend for everyone who came to Knai Bang Chatt and Kep West.