Art for Kep Kep International Art Week Art for Kep · Edition 01
Architectural exhibition

Molyvann 100

Kep’s 1950s French colonial villas, read through gallery-booth photography and archive.

Venue
Butterfly House Open
11–14 Dec 2026, then two-week extension 10:00–18:00 Curator
Art for Kep curatorial team Admission
Free during Art Week
A grid of 49 photographs of Kep’s modernist villas: breeze-block screens, stone walls, louvred shutters, spiral stairs, tiled floors and concrete canopies
Kep’s modernist villas in detail examples : screens, stone, shutters, stairs and canopies. (by Walter Koditek)

Curatorial note

Kep-sur-Mer was built as a modernist leisure town. Its villas, white and linear and turned towards the sea, stood silent for a generation. This exhibition comes back to that architecture without spectacle.

Molyvann 100 is an ode to the New Khmer Architecture of that era and to its master, the late Vann Molyvann, who would have turned 100 this year. The exhibition brings together photographs, maquettes and maps of Kep and this inside the Butterfly House, one of the remaining landmark buildings.

How to visit

Self-directed from 09:00 on Thursday. Press guided visit Friday 14:00. No ticket. Colour tag in the printed programme: sand/tan.

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