drawing

Oct

2022

Abdullah Ibnu Thalhah

Artist Bio

Exhibition

2013
‘ROB’ Galeri Nasional Jakarta

2011
‘Menjadi Abadi’ 70 years Gunawan Muhammad, Galeri Semarang

2010
Sign & After, Contemporary Islamic Art, Lawangwangi, Bandung
Coexistence, Dinamic Art Galery, Surabaya
Transfiguration, Galeri Semarang, JAD Jakarta
Bayang, Contemporary Islamic Art, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta

2009
Different, Galeri Semarang
Poetical Junctures, La Lanta Art Galery, Bangkok
Traversing, Galeri Salihara, Jakarta

2008
Manifesto, Galeri Nasional Jakarta
Sketsa, Drawing & Cartoon, Galeri Semarang
Indonesia Art Award (IAA), Galeri Nasional Jakarta

2007
The Beautiful of Death, Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta.
Immagined Affandi, Gedung Arsip Nasional by Galeri Semarang, Jakarta
Demi Massa, Pameran Seni Rupa Nusantara, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta
Force Majeure,International Literary Biennale, Galeri Langgeng, Magelang

2006
Visual of Words, Galeri Semarang, Semarang
The 12th International Bienial Print and drawing Exhibition, R.O.C., Taiwan

2005
Pameran seni rupa untuk Korban Tsunami, Bentara Budaya Jakarta
Intermezzo, Galeri Langgeng, Magelang
Jalan Angin, Respon Sastrawan Triyanto Triwikromo dan Sitok Srengenge, Semarang
Pra Bali Biennel 2005, Rumah Seni Yaitu, Semarang
Bali Biennel 2005, Ubud-Bali

2004
Pameran Karikatur “ Pemilu Langsung dalam Karikatur”, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta

2003
Semarang Koeroeng Boeka, Dibya Puri, Semarang

2002
Spirit of Paper, Galeri Siena, Semarang

2001
Respondent book “Rezim Sex” by Triyanto Triwikromo, Lengkong Cilik, Semarang

Award

2012
Komik “lamafa”, runner up III, Kompetisi Komik Indonesia, Kementrian Pariwisata dan Industri Kreatif, Jakarta

2011
The Best Cartoon.Prize, the 20 th Daejeon International Cartoon Contest, South Korea

2010
The Best Illustration Prize, Master Cup International Cartoon and Illustration Biennial, Beijing, China
Comic Award: Most Conceptual Design Prize, Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest China

2009
Komik Terbaik I, Bank Indonesia, Jakarta

2008
Poster Terbaik I, Bank Indonesia, Jakarta

2005
Kartunis Terbaik II, Lomba Karikatur YCAB – UNIC Award

2004
Kartunis Terbaik II, Lomba Karikatur nasional “pemilu Langsung” Koran Kompas Jakarta.

2001
Kartunis terbaik II, Lomba Desain Kera Sakti Semarang

1997
Kartunis terbaik II, Lomba Kartun Mahasiswa nasional, Univ. Jember Malang

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Oct

2022

S.E. Dewantoro

S.E. (Gepeng) Dewantoro’s bizarre drawings and artworks explore and question the relationship of man (human) with his surroundings. A complicated strings of web and thoughts about existence, politics, religion. His depictions of bare flesh and human bodies are intense and some challenge the tough Indonesian censorship.

Though he explores different media and materials, working on paper has his preference. He draws directly and almost instantaneously on the paper, connecting the lines and figures he has meticulously imagined in his head.

Next to a fine-art artist, Gepeng Dewantoro is also a performance and theatre artist in Bandung, Indonesia.

Artist Bio

Solo Exhibitions

2015
“THE BACKYARD: CARGO CULTURE” Canopy Art Centre, Cairns, Australia

2013
“DONGENG SEBELUM TIDUR” Tembi Rumah Budaya, Yogyakarta

2012
“DONGENG SEBELUM TIDUR” COMMON ROOM, Bandung
“I&ME&MY” Galeri Kecil Kebun Seni Bandung

2010
“KaryaNaskah John Doe – “JEAN”, Ruang Budaya, Kedai Mediterrazia Bandung

2009
“DARI MASA LALU”, Ruang Budaya, Kedai Mediterrazia,Bandung

2007
“MIMPI-MIMPI” (“Dreams”) Potluck Café, Bandung

2002
“SUARA ITU DATANG DARI SINI” (That sound comes form here.”) Black Peppers Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
“A SOLO EXHIBITION” Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Group Exhibitions

2018

Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Gallery Lukisan, The Netherlands
First Art Fair, Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, Gallery Lukisan, The Netherlands

2016
Art Laren, Gallery Lukisan, Laren, The Netherlands
“BATANG ART TENTION 3” Batang, Jawa Tengah
“pra event GREECLICHE” Gedung IKA UNS, Solo

2015
“MBEBER KUTHA SALA” Balai Soedjatmoko, Solo
“OUTLINE ! INDONESIA DRAWING FESTIVAL” Gedung Indonesia Menggugat, Bandung
“KOLAM SUSU” Taman Budaya Yogyakarta

2014
“INSYAALLAH KONTEMPORER” Galeri Merak,Semarang
“TANPA NARASI” Galeri Orasis,Surabaya
“HOW TO DRAW: RE-IMAGINE” Gedung Gas Negara,Bandung
“MINI ART PROJECT” Galeri Soemardja ,Bandung
“TANDA MATA X “ Bentara Budaya,Yogyakarta

2013
“STRING THEORY” Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta
“MEMAYU HAYUNING BAWANA” Galeri Surabaya,Surabaya

2011
“INI PERANG” Kelompok kembang gula rasa baru di galeri 212 STSI Bandung

2010
“MISTIK” Pameran bersama di STISI Bandung

2008
“MIMPI BURUK” Kelompok GERBONG BAWAH TANAH,
Taman Budaya Jawa Barat, Bandung

2006
“KOTA INI MILIK SIAPA?” Kelompok GERBONG BAWAH TANAH,
Taman Budaya Jawa Barat, Bandung

2004
Pameran di “Buahbatu Art Festival” STSI Bandung

2002
“TERROR!, the exhibition” Jaarmbi Gallery, Melbourne,Australia
“DAMAI ITU.INDAH” Shini Art Galelery ,Ubud,Bali
-Instalasi dan Perfomance Art “Monumen Agung yang Bernama Pembangunan” di event Indonesian Peoples Forum, Nusa Dua, Bali.
-Instalasi dan performance Art, festival performance art, UniversitasUdayana, Denpasar, Bali.
-Instalasi dalam event “Art and religiosity”, di Galeri Gaya, Ubud, Bali.

2001 – 2002
“POEM OF WOUNDS”, di Galeri Borneo, Ubud, Bali.

2000
“JENDELA”, di Galeri Archipelago, Ubud, Bali.
Pameran lukisan dan performance art “LIYANE LIYAN” di jalananUbud,Bali.

1999
Pameran lukisan “Kelompok Hatch”, Sriwedari, Solo.
Pameran lukisan “RAGAM GAYA DALAM DINAMIKA SITUASIONALNYA”, Taman Budaya Solo.
Instalasi “SENI RUPA PEMBUSUKAN”, Surabaya

1998
Pameran karya seni visual, Rumah Sewa Jurug, Solo.
Instalasi “IDEOLOGI RUANG PINGGIR”, untuk hari bumi, Solo.

1997
Pameran kolaborasi antara Universitas Sebelas Maret dan Universitas
Southern Queensland, di Solo.
“KEPADA INGAT” Taman Budaya Jawa Tengah .Solo.

1996
“BERLIMA”, Laba-laba Café, Yogyakarta.
“SERATUS FINALIS PHILLIP MORIS”, Jakarta.

1995
“PENGHARGAAN NYOMAN GUNARSA” Taman Budaya Jawa Tengah .Solo.

1994
Pameran “100 PELUKIS” Taman Budaya Jawa Tengah, Solo.

Performance art

2002
“GONG” Pada waktu pembukaan pameran “Sound” seniman Rie Watanabe dan Eric Neufield, di Galeri Sembilan, Ubud, Bali.

2000
“MALAIKAT IS DEAD”, SaiSai Bar, Ubud, Bali.
“DOA UNTUK BUNGA”,(Prayers for Flowers”) dalam event Sharing Art and Religiusity, SamuanTiga, Bali.
“RUWATAN”, berkolaborasidengansenimandariJawa, InggrisdanJermandalam event Sharing Art and Religiusity, Tejakula, Bali.
“RITUAL” berkolaborasidenganAgusBimo (Solo), WayanSudiarta (Bali)
dan Lyn Vetter (Jerman).

1999
“VICTIM OF IDEOLOGY” Solo.
“CERITA SINGKAT DALAM TOILET” (An abbreviated story in the toilet.”)Pejeng, Bali.

1996
“MY HEAD ON THE CLOSET” Solo.

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Oct

2022

Maryanto

With his activist art, Maryanto has gained international recognition, a number of international art collaboration projects and exhibitions in important art events. His works come into existence from his deep desire to expose the negative ecological damage human brings into the nature and to the living environment.

Maryanto creates evocative, black and white paintings, drawings, and installations that undermine the romantic language of traditional landscape painting to examine socio-political structures in the physical spaces that he depicts. Through fable-like and theatrical settings, these landscapes are subjected to the whims of colonisers and capitalists through technological development, industrialisation, pollution of the land and exploitation of its natural resources. (Source: Yeo Workshop, Singapore)

Maryanto makes artworks that serve as a form of storytelling with the impression of theatrical stage or landscape setting. The work as stories explores and transfers knowledge through historical research, myths and stories combined with the artist’s own artistic imagination and constructed forms. The results are dramatic and romantic black and white installations made of paintings, etchings, rich charcoal drawings that evoke stories and environments. The subject of his ongoing project that commenced several years ago has to do with his curiosity on resources and its effect on a country and politics. In his daily observations of life in Indonesia, combined with his formal training in the arts at the Institute of the Art, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and his subsequent residencies in the Netherlands at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and the Esculea de Orient programme at Casa Asia Barcelona, Spain, as well as his gallery solo shows, he is able to compare and explore the history of colonialism and its role in the allocation of resources. He sees “resource” as a pandora’s box; that a country with big resources could cause tension and conflict between the systems that navigates and governs economics and daily life of the people.

Maryanto recently exhibited at the “Discoveries” section of Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, the Setouchi Triennale 2016, Bazaar Art Jakarta 2016, and Art Stage Singapore 2017. He also participated at the Yogyakarta Biennale 2015 “Hacking Conflict, Indonesia meets Nigeria”, creating a large entrance piece, and the Jakarta Biennale 2015 “Neither Forward Nor Back” as curated by Charles Esche with an installation work “Temah Ruah di Wonocolo”.
(Source: The Artling)

Artist Bio

Solo Exhibitions

2017
Yeo Workshop, Singapore

2015
Yeo Workshop, Singapore

2016
Art Basel Hong Kong, Discoveries Section

2013
The Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ArtAffairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heden, The Hague, The Netherlands

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018
Koganei Art Spot Chateau, Tokyo

2017
The Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia
The Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, South Korea
The Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

2015
The Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2013
The Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Oct

2022

Juni Pattimahu Kusumanto

Juni Pattimahu-Kusumanto (1957) was born in Bandung, Indonesia, and migrated at the age of twelve to the Netherlands, where she attended St. Joost Breda Academy of Arts in 1990-1995. Believing in the nonviolence[1] philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi as the only way to find the harmony among different and often conflicting interests of many people in the world, she herself seeks to find this harmony in her art. The balance but also duality between light and darkness always present in her works.

More recent works put nature more central, showing the artist’ deep concern towards the ecological crises that increasingly confront life on planet earth. In these later works, Juni has chosen the rainforest ecological system as a metaphor of harmony and balancing acts of the different creatures, including humans. These works seem also to tell that there is no rigid divide between the conscious and the unconscious; both make part of one ecological entity.

Working on various media ranging from charcoal to acrylic paint on paper or canvas, she recently uses transparent garment fabric such as tulle, chiffon or organza as media to convey her ideas, with yarn as threading lines and coloured planes. The thin structure of the fabric emphasises the duality of the strength and at the same time the vulnerability of the used materials.

[1] Nonviolence is the personal practice of not causing harm to others under any condition. It may come from the belief that hurting people, animals and/or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence. It may be based on moral, religious or spiritual principles, but also the reasons for it may be purely strategic or pragmatic. [source: Wikipedia]

Artist Bio

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Exhibitions

2022
Galerie Lukisan, Bergen op Zoom

2020
Kunst in Monumenten, Bergen op Zoom
De Boshut Annatopia, Baarle Nassau

2019
Galerie Arsis, Bergen op Zoom

2018
Atelier 1888, Schijf
Galerie G-achttien 88, Baarland

2017
Atelier 1888, Schijf
New York Hall of Science, New York (USA)

2016
Bosch Open Expositie het Kruithuis, ’s Hertogenbosch
New York Hall of Science, New York (USA)

2015
Kunstbeurs Rotterdam

2014
Artotheek 18, Roosendaal
Het Noordbrabantsmuseum ‘s Hertogenbosch
Het Breda’s museum

2013
Kunst onder 1 dak, Roosendaal
Galerie G-achttien 88, Baarland
Expositie “War Child”, Roosendaal

2012
Stadsgalerie Breda
P Arts, Zeist
Project Schaduw, Roosendaal

2011
Kunst onder 1 dak, Wenneker/Roosendaal
A sea full of art, Middelburg
Kunst-Vriendelijk, Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal

2010
Galerie Schouwburg de Kring, Roosendaal
Palawija i.s.m. dichter Albert Hagenaars

2009
Galerie G-achttien 88, Baarland
Days of art, Heerle

2008
Project Ten Strijde, Roosendaal
Atelier 1888, Schijf
Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal
Galerie Cemara 6, Jakarta (Indonesia)

2007
Expositie “the sixties” Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal
Bisdomhuis, Bisdom Breda
Atelier 1888, Schijf

2005
Opdracht Cultuurbureau Roosendaal voor cultuur- en aanmoedigingsprijs
Galerie Barendrecht, Barendrecht

2004
Project S&L zorg , Kunstroute Anders bekeken, Roosendaal
Project West Brabant St. Janskerk, Roosendaal
Fort Sabina, Willemstad/Heiningen
Project “Hemelse sferen”, Roosendaal

2002
Museum Nusantara, Delft
World Art Gallery, Delft
Open atelierroute, Roosendaal

2001
Galerie Très Art, Breda
Gemeentehuis Roosendaal

2000
Galerie Très Art, Breda
Tekenmanifestatie, Kunsthuis 13, Velp

1999
Het Markiezenhof, Bergen op Zoom
Open atelierroute, Roosendaal
Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal

1997
Oecumenischcentrum (7 haagse kerken), Den Haag

Social Project

2017-now
Project Moringa Oleifera, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)

2017
New York Hall of Science, New York (USA)
Project Moringa Oleifera with schools in New York
In 2016, I participated in the exhibition “Food” held by SciArt at the New York Hall of Science in New York, USA, where I shared a drawing of the Moringa Oleifera tree, also called ‘the miracle tree’. The tree, very rich in vitamins and minerals, grows in arid areas in large parts of Asia and Africa is a useful tree not only in developing countries against malnutrition, but also in the West where essential nutritional values of food products have decreased, due to, among other matters, monocultures and fast breeding species. The tree is highly purposeful because different parts of the tree can be used including as food and for healing of ailments and purifying of polluted water. (Text by Juni P. Kusumanto)

2015
Kunstkameraden Cultuurkantine, Breda

2014
Kunstkameraden Cultuurkantine, Breda

2006
Auction waterproject Indonesië, Rotterdam

2006
Auction for children with cancer Tilburg, Roosendaal

2003
Graffiti project with youth, Roosendaal

Links

PeaceWomen Across the Globe at the WikiPeaceWomen https://wikipeacewomen.org/wpworg/en/?page_id=4856

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Oct

2022

Ida Bagus Putu Purwa

Ida Bagus Putu Purwa’s (or shortly Purwa) concept of art works is his continuous search of freedom. His paintings speak about human bodies in a true search and longing for freedom, realising that human existence or ones’ due rights was given to them since birth.

Although the subjects in the paintings sometime take different shape or posture, they are in fact an expression of himself. For this reason the figures are embodiments of the artist himself. His works are expression of this quest to freedom and a reflection of the suffering of this urge to realise his dream.

Wearing mask or face painted to hide agony, jumping high or almost disappear to the side while running, the figures move till the edge of the canvas (or paper) as if they are looking to break out of the frame, looking for freedom outside their confined edges. Inspired by the traditional Balinese dance, the figures appear to dance with vigorous movements, expressing anger and frustration. Sometime those figures stand precariously close to the edge of an imaginary cliff with unknown depth.

The figures somehow seem to realise their own physical limitations and destiny if you like and thus reflects a struggle for self-acceptance, perhaps resignation.

Abounding with heightened emotions and rich cultural traditions, Purwa’s stylised figures draw upon the diversity and vibrancy of his background. Graceful composition showing vulnerable strength and light-footed postures bear the weight of mental burden.

Artist Bio

Exhibition

2019

Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
First Art Fair, Amsterdam

2017
Solo exhibition, “Vague Memories”, Santrian Gallery, Sanur, Bali
Art Sampoerna, The Atrium Sampoerna Strategic Building, Jakarta
“Art-tivities Now”, group exhibition, Breeze Art Space, Tangerang, Jakarta

2014
“Legacy of Power” ARTJOG 14, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta
“Asah Asih Asuh” Sika Contemporary Gallery, Bali
“Locaforce 2014” Bale Pare Hall Exhibition, Kota Baru Parahyangan, Bandung
“Re(ART)ionship” Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta

2013
“Fascination” Avantgarde Berlin, Berlin, Germany in cooperation with Gallery Lukisan
” IMBA TUBUH ” DIA.LO.GUE Art Space, Jakarta

2009
“Rising sons from the archipelago”, Gallery Lukisan, Dublin, Ireland
Solo exhibition, “Sign Session”, Boya Fineart & Tony Raka Gallery, Ubud Bali

2008
Solo exhibition, “Break Out”, Boya Fineart & Elcanna Art Gallery, Jakarta

2007
Joint exhibition “Question of Distance”, Boya Fineart & Elcanna Art Gallery, Jakarta

2006
“Intuitive Reflection”, at Kiridesa Gallery, Kirds Singapore
“Jago”, at Niki Gallery, Ubud, Bali
“Maskulin”, at Danes Art Veranda, Bali
“Bali in Contemplation”, at O House Gallery, Jakarta
“Shape Expression of Bali Cultural Part”, at Art Centre Denpasar, Bali
“Sanur Festival”, at Santrian Gallery, Bali
“Unlimited Ten Fine Art”, at Danes Art Veranda, Bali
“Panorama Ten Fine Art”, Ganesha Gallery, 4 Season, Jimbaran, Bali

2005
“Melbourne Affordable Art Show 2005”, at Royal Exhibition Building , Carlton Melbourne, Australia
“Ten Fine Art”, at Hogart Collect Gallery, Australia
Twinning Exhibition (with Ketut Teja Astawa): “Art As Self Expresion”, at Santrian Art Gallery, Bali
“Brikolase”, at Ten Fine Art, Sanur, Bali
“Black & White Group Hybridism”, at Pilar Batu Gallery, Ubud, Bali

2004
“Sanur Painter Association Mosaic Exhibition”, at Santrian Art Gallery, Sanur, Bali.
“Drawing New Harmony II”, at Rare Angon Gallery, Sanur, Bali
“Triplet OH”, at Sudana Gallery, Ubud, Bali
“Exhibition at Guet Gallery”, at Sanur, Bali
“10 Artist Introduce Themselves”, at 10 Fine Art Sanur, Bali
“Auction”, at Swissotel the Stamford, Singapore
“Red by Black & White Group”, at Tama Gallery, Ubud, Bali
“The Journey by Sanur Painter Association”, at Puri Lukisan Museum, Ubud, Bali

2003
“TAI Black Dies Natalis STSI XXXVI”, at STSI, Denpasar, Bali
“BIG from Fine Artist In 16”, at Art Center Denpasar & Santrian Gallery, Sanur, Bali
“LELAKUT”, at Peguyangan Rice Farm, Denpasar, Bali
“New Harmony”, at Rare Angon Gallery, Sanur, Bali
“Bali Art Festival XXV”, at Art Center, Denpasar, Bali
“Sarasvaty in Imagination”, at Nandya Gallery, Ubud, Bali
“Red & White Reflection”, at Margarana National Monument, Tabanan, Bali

2002
“Trouble”, at Padang Linjong, Krobokan, Bali
Exhibition of Sanur Painters Association: “Soft Opening Santrian Gallery”, at Santrian Gallery, Sanur, Bali
“Exhibition and Demonstration”, at Apache Bar, Kuta, Bali
“Fine Artist in 16”, at Gabrig Art Gallery, Sanur, Bali
“Paradise Youth Activity for Humanity Sangga Bhuana”, at RRI, Denpasar, Bali

2001
“Exhibition of Sanur Painters Association”, at Balairung Dewi Sri, Garuda Wisnu Kencana Exhibition Hall, Jimbaran, Bali
“Indonesia-Japan Cultural Exhibition with Balinese Flowers”, at Kuta Centre, Bali

1997
“Creativity Exhibition for Welcoming Guest of PERTAMINA”, at STSI, Denpasar, Bali
3rd Anniversary of Kamasra at STSI Sanur, Denpasar, Bali

1996
“Gebyar SMK” Indonesia, SMSRN Denpasar, Bali (“All Indonesian Senior High School Creativity Show)

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Oct

2022

Arwin Hidayat

Arwin Hidayat combines primitive and contemporary motifs for his works on paper and in his paintings, and also by folk art inspired refined unique batik pieces. Although many of his works are inspired by his personal experiences and thoughts, his works of art can be seen as a subtle manner to pose questions about socio-economic and moral situation in Indonesia.

Arwin Hidayat loves the medium batik. It is traditionally a method to decorate cloth with motifs, pattern or designs using colour dyes and wax. It requires quite an elaborate manner of painting (writing) by hand, unlike the modern printed textile production for the mass. Although the method can be found in many places in (South-East) Asia, in Java especially this method of cloth decorating has found its high refinement, where every motive has its own meanings, and whom are allowed to use depending on the gender and even ranks of social and heritage. The traces of these batik paintings can be found in his works on paper.

Arwin Hidayat’s artworks have been selected several times for ArtJog, the annual & prestigious contemporary art exhibition in Yogyakarta.

Artist Bio

Exhibition

2020

Group Exhibition DSMHHPP – Gallery Lukisan
Keep The Fire On #6, Survive Garage, Yogyakarta
Pameran virtual bersama, alumni UOB Painting of The Year, “Indahnya berbagi dalam berkarya, dari Seniman untuk seniman”
Pameran bersama, “Art in Isolation”, UTTARA The Icon, Yogyakarta
Pameran bersama, “Manusia Manusia”, Galeri Katamsi, Yogyakarta
Pameran virtual, “Art Jakarta”

2019

First Art Fair, Passagiers Terminal, Amsterdam
“TERMASUK”, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Indonesian Cultural Late, London Book Fair, London
“Kontraksi pasca tradisionalisme”, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta
Letter callus post-war, Lorong Galeri, Yogyakarta
KunsRAI 2019, Amstelhal, Amsterdam
Full HD, Survive Garage, Yogyakarta
Letter, callus,post-War, Taipei Kuandu museum, Taiwan
FKY Mulanira, ” Wirama”, Museum Sonobudoyo, Yogyakarta
Keep The Fire On #5, Survive Garage, Yogyakarta
Celebration of Compassion, Tirtodipuran Link, Yogyakarta
Asmara day, Tebar Pesona, Asmara Art and Coffee Shop, Yogyakarta
Pameran Sagilik Saguluk, Rumah Sanur, Bali
Pameran bersama “Between Ngoyo and Nrimo”, Studio Kalahan, Yogyakarta
Pameran Stockroom, “In What We Believe” (100 tahun Widayat), Galeri Lorong, Yogyakarta

2018

ArtJog, Annual Contemporary Art Event, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
KunstRAI, Gallery Lukisan, Amsterdam
Keep on Fire 4, Survive Garage, Yogyakarta
Art Jakarta in Ace Houce Collective, Pasific Place Jakarta
Art on Paper Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Contemporary Art Ruhr, Zollverein – Essen, Germany

2017

Pameran Friends of TPS, Miracle Print, Yogyakarta
Solo Exhibition, “Gombal”, Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta
Slow Fashion, ARK Gallery, Yogyakarta
Keep on Fire 3, Survive Garage, Yogyakarta
ArtJog 10 “Changing Perspective”, Jogja Nasional Museum, Yogyakarta
Bazaart Jakarta, Pacific place Jakarta
Volkswagen Exhibition, JEC, Yogyakarta

2016

Red Base Young Artist Award, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta
The MASKS, Diesel Art Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
Jogja Calling, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Print Parade, Grafis Minggiran, Yogyakarta
Survive Day, Survive Garage, Yogyakarta

2015

Drawing Durhaka, DGTMB Shop, Yogyakarta
Nandur Srawung, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta
“Revitalisasi Hj.Widayat”, Museum Haji Widayat, Magelang
Check Your Connection, DGTMB Shop, Yogyakarta
Keep Fire On, Survive Garage, Yogyakarta
“Pameran Berdua AMONG” , JOGJA CONTEMPORARY
FKY XXVII Laras Sinawang, Sasono Hinggil, Yogyakarta
UOB Finalist Exhibition, UOB Plaza, Jakarta
“Main Grafis”, Nalarrupa Gallery, Yogyakarta
Batik Archipelago, Daya Juang, Solo
Keep on Fire 2, Survive Garage, Yogyakarta
Relation in Print, Tirana House, Yogyakarta
Print Parade, Grafis Minggiran, Yogyakarta

2014

“Neo Folk” , IKKAN Gallery, Singapore
Asia Print (Krack Project), Sydney. Australia
“Fenomena Perjaka Lembab”, DGTMB Shop, Yogyakarta
“Merayakan Agar-Agar”, DGTMB Shop, Yogyakarta
“Silk Screen Attack”, Ascos, Yogyakarta
“Golden Age”, Lokananta Art Space, Solo
“Solid”, Krack Gallery, Yogyakarta
Neo Iconoclast, Langgeng Gallery, Magelang
ArtJog14 Legacies of Power, Yogyakarta
“Yang Maha Benda”, Studio Grafis Minggiran, Yogyakarta
Cut and Remix, Jogja Gallery. Yogyakarta
Agropop (Equator Project), Singapore

2013

Solo Exhibition “BLUES BAU KENCUR”, Via Via Café, Yogyakarta
Via Via Sweet Seventeen, Via Via Café, Yogyakarta
ArtJog Maritime Culture, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta
Postcard DGTMB Exhibition, Dialogue, Jakarta
3D KRACK Exhibition, Yogyakarta
“Pameran Persembahan Survive Garage”, Yogyakarta

2012

Postcard Exhibition “Just Because I Love You”, Via Via Café, Yogyakarta
Postcard Exhibition “MUBAL GENERATION”, LIR Café, Yogyakarta
Postkad “Postcard Exhibition”, Singapore
(s)mallseries #1, IAM (Independent Art Space & Management), Yogyakarta
Solo Exhibition “Flash Show Drawing”, West Brunwich, Melbourne, Australia

2011

Mail Art Movement, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Semarang
Drawing Revolution I, DGTMB Shop, Yogyakarta

2009

Turun dalam Rupa Cahaya, LIP, Yogyakarta
Expo Sign, Jogja Expo Center, Yogyakarta
Oemar Bakrie, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta
Rolling Draw, IVAA Gallery, Yogyakarta
ISIOTHERAPY, Benteng Vredenburg, Yogyakarta

2007

SURPRISE II, Benteng Vredenburg, Yogyakarta

2006

Pameran Bersama Kobe, Jepang
SURPRISE I, Galeri Biasa, Yogyakarta

2001

FKY XI, Benteng Vredenburg, Yogyakarta
“Pameran Berdua ASA”, SMSR, Yogyakarta

2000

“Pameran Lukisan Kaca”, Purnabudaya, Yogyakarta
FKY X, Benteng Vredenburg, Yogyakarta
“Anjing Kampung”, SMSR, Yogyakarta

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2022

Agung Kurniawan

Agung Kurniawan is one of the most important contemporary artists of Indonesia. He is an artist who works with a variety of media. Agung Kurniawan has developed his artistic work within the field of concrete socio-cultural activism; he believes an artist has more and larger social responsibilities than simply producing artistic work. His traditional medium is drawing, but lately he works actively with performance art and videography. Although he works with performance art, he refuses to be called as a performer, and preferred to call himself as the director of the crowds in stead. Both as a studio artist and an art activist, he takes up clear positions and his approach often leads him either down to street level or to intervening in bureaucratic structures.

Agung Kurniawan’s work is reputed to be fairly “coarse” due to themes of violence, controversial politics and taboo subjects. The artist started out with book illustrations, drawings and comics, which offered a harsh, often satirical critique of Indonesian society at that time. With his drawing Happy Victim (1996), depicting people hanging upside down while laughing cheerfully, he won a 1996 Philip Morris Art Award and gained international recognition.

His famous trellis works series started in 2006. The series was inspired by an old family photo album from 1974, consisting of a photo diary of the artist’s mother during the last days of her dying father. Agung tried to recreate the personal as well collective memories by working the panels as a kind of comic book where the trellises are the contours of the figures and the shadows cast the blurred memory.

Agung Kurniawan co-founded “Indonesian Visual Art Archive” (IVAA) and co-owner of Kedai Kebun Forum (KKF) in Yogyakarta. His works are to be found worldwide mostly in museums e.g. Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Singapore Art Museum, as well as in private collection. His recent works include his performance in The Netherlands “Remember Day Parade and after”, during the so-called transHISTORY (Arnhem June 2016) and his video art during the Europalia Festival 2017 (Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / BOZAR / Centre for Fine Art Brussels, Belgium).

Artist’s Statement 2015 (in Bahasa Indonesia, freely translated)

– Tidak ada yang lebih berharga dari seni, kalau ada itupun pasti palsu (Nothing is more truthful than art, if there is any, then it is false)
– Cinta itu sementara, kesepian itu abadi (Love is temporary, Loneliness is forever)
– Kemiskinan adalah ibu tiri seni kontemporer (Poverty is the stepmother of contemporary art)

Born:
14 March, 1968 in Jember, Jawa Timur (East Java), Indonesia

Education:
Archeology, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (not graduated)
Graphic Art Faculty, Indonesian Fine Arts Institute (ISI), Yogyakarta, Indonesia (not graduated)

Artist Bio

Solo Exhibition

2015
Hanya Kematian Yang Setia Menunggu, performance at Indonesian French Institute (IFI), Yogyakarta

2013
Milik Nggendong Lali (Owning Cradling Forgetting), Richard Koh Gallery, Singapore

2012
Actus Contritionis, Umah Seni @Mentengartspace, Jakarta, Indonesia

2011
The Lines that Remind Me of You, Kendra Gallery, Bali, Indonesia

2006
Budiman Project, ArtiIpol Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mural Project: Could I entertain you sir, Esplanade, Singapore

2003
Sex, Lies, and Drawing, Goethe Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia

2001
Lick me, please!, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Lapendos, Centre Culturel Français (CCF) Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Lapendos, Barak Gallery, Bandung, Indonesia

1998
Ironi dan Parodi, Galeri Lontar, Jakarta, Indonesia

1995
Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1994
Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Group Exhibitions

2018
Art on Paper, Gallery Lukisan, Zuiveringshal Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
KunstRAI, Gallery Lukisan, RAI, Amsterdam
Pressing Matters, Framer Framed, Amsterdam

2017
Europalia’s Power and other things, BOZAR Fine Arts Centre, Brussels, Belgium

2016
The Remember Day parade, Sonsbeek 2016, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Public Spirit, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujasdowsky, Poland
Home Project, North Dakota, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mahabharata project, Dance Performance, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta
Seven Scenes, Indonesian Contemporary art and Design (ICAD), Grand Kemang, Jakarta

2015
Masya Allah Transgenik part 2, performance at Bazaar Art Jakarta 2015, Jakarta
Monuman, Ten Second Monument, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta

2014
Ten Million Years of Yearning, Sex in Hongkong, Para Site gallery, Hongkong
Passion / Possession, Hongkong Art Center, Hongkong

2013
SIP, Contemporary Indonesian Art, Mathias Ardnt gallery, Singapore
Once Upon a Time, The Collection Now, Van Abbe Museum, The Netherlands
Masya Allah Transgenik, Performance at Jogja Biennale XII, Yogyakata, Indonesia

2012
Penumbrae, at Art Stage Singapore 2012, presented by Umahseni Art Space, Marina Bay Sands,Exhibition and Convention Center, Singapore
Legacy: The Trace of Civilization, Esa Sampoerna Art Museum, Surabaya, Indonesia
Michael Jansen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Domestic Stuff, Cemeti art house Yogyakarta, Salihara Jakarta
Looking East, Art Jog 2012, Yogyakarta
Gwangju Biennale, Roundtable, Gwangju South Korea, 2012
SIP, Contemporary Indonesian Art, Mathias Arndt Gallery, Berlin

2011
Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
New Mythology, Louis Vuitton Gallery, Paris, France
Global Art from 1989 till Now, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Beastly, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2010
Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Space & Image, Ciputra World Marketing Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Crossing and Blurring the Boundaries: Medium in Indonesian Contemporary Art, Andi’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Manifesto In the New Aesthetic, ICA, Singapore

2009
Beyond the Dutch, Central Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jogja Art Fair II, Jogjakarta Art Centre, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
The Living Legends, National Gallery Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Jogja Biennale X, One Minute Mute; Performance Project, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2008
Be(com)ing Dutch “The dutch day Dreaming”, Van Abbe Museum, The Netherlands
The Scale of Black Drawing Exhibition, Valentine Willie Gallery, Singapore
Grafis Hari Ini, Bentara Budaya Jakarta, Indonesia

Art Projects

2015
Proyek Peristiwa Teater: Hanya Kematian yang Setia Menunggu, 15 May 2015 7:30 pm at Auditorium IFI Yogyakarta

2011
Pause: Automatic Drawing Simple and Dangerous, Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Work Experiences

2003 – now

Artistic Director of Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2004 – now
The Chairperson of Cemeti Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2007
Artistic Director, Festival Kesenian Yogyakarta

2008
Artistic Director, Festival Kesenian Yogyakarta

Works in Collection

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
Heden, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
National Art Council, Singapore
Queensland Arts Gallery, Australia
Graphic Atelier Utrecht, The Netherlands
KLM, The Netherlands
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, Indonesia
Deutsche Bank, Jakarta, Indonesia
Artpoli Gallery,The Netherlands
Nadi Galeri, Jakarta, Indonesia
Oei Hong Djien’s private museum, Indonesia
Loft gallery, Hongkong, Barcelona
Cemeti Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Publication/Book

2015
Lubricant, Agung Kurniawan, Brigitta Isabella, Farah Wardani, Umah Seni, Jakarta

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Oct

2022

Prihatmoko Moki

Prihatmoko Moki is a print & silk-screen artist and one of the founders of the Krack! Studio (2012), a studio and gallery focusing on printmaking in Yogyakarta. Other founders are Rudi Hermawan, Sukma Smitha and Australian artist Malcolm Smith. In the same year he was also one of the organisers of LELAGU, an annual art event combining acoustic music and responses with live drawing in Kedai Kebun Gallery, Yogyakarta.

Although he does make solitary prints, drawings, theatre performance and murals, most of his works are series of comic strip silk-screen prints of certain situations. A satirical story telling not always necessarily as criticism but to shine light to the complexity of the matters.

In his works, Moki refers to historical events and myths to approach the issues. He depicts distinctive figures identified from footmen, soldiers to courtiers of the Jogja Kraton (the sultan’s palace) and people wearing everyday’s clothes looking like peasants, placed in a contemporary scene mixed with traditional or symbolic attributes from the glorious past. The whole scene is a metaphor of the hierarchical and sometimes strained relationship between the ruler(s) or people in power and the regular people.

Moki has participated in numerous group national and international exhibitions. He has also been an long and active member of multidisciplinary PUNKASILA art project, initiated by Danius Kesminas, which has performed in Indonesia, Australia, Lithuania and Cuba.

Artist Bio

Artist Residency

2017
Europalia Art Festival, Brussels, Belgium

2016
ZeroStation, Saigon, Vietnam

2014
Megalo Print Studio, Canberra, Australia

Collection

ID Politics Series (1-10 editions) by The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia See the works here

Solo Exhibition

2021
Complex Terrors, Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta

2017
Prajurit Kalah Tanpa Raja, Kebun Bibi, Yogyakarta

2015
Forget Me Not, solo exhibition, Krack! studio & Gallery, Yogyakarta

2012
Mukamalas silkscreen, solo exhibition, LIR space, Yogyakarta

2011
KW2, solo exhibition, Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta

2010
Melancholic Ego In The Colorfull Song Of Agony, solo exhibition, Srisasanti, Jakarta

2008
Mukamalas Hobby Studio, IVAA, Yogyakarta

2007
Ufo In My Room, Via Via café, Yogyakarta

Award

2020
Winner (Silver) of Painting of the Year UOB (Established Artist Category)

2018
Finalist Indonesia Art Award, (memadukan gambar clear line, teknik tuturan wayang beber, penyajian yang efektif)

2016
Finalist Redbase Young Artist Award

Other

2019
curating an exhibition WIRAMA, Sonobudoyo, Festival Kebudayaan Yogyakarta
2017
PUNKASILA Rough machine soft power, perform at Monazona, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
PUNKASILA Rough machine soft power, perform at IDF, Jakarta, Indonesia.

2016
PUNKASILA the lepidopters, perform at WTF Power House, Brisbane, Australia

2015
PUNKASILA the lepidopters, perform at Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
PUNKASILA Rough machine soft power, exhibition and perform at Biennale Jogja, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2011
PUNKASILA exhibition and perform at Monash university, Melbourne, Australia

2009
PUNKASILA Decima biennale Havana, Cuba

2007
PUNKASILA closing exhibition Asia Pasific Triennial, Gallery Of Modern Art, Australia
PUNKASILA exhibition and cd launch at Darren Knight Gallery, Sidney, Australia

Documentation (YouTube)

Kyai Samudana (Dongeng Prajurit) theater performances, 2018

Mural ‘Prajurit Kalah Tanpa Raja’ – Redbase Foundation Yogyakarta Indonesia

Mural ‘Prajurit Kalah Tanpa Raja’ Kebun Bibi Yogyakarta Indonesia

Group Exhibition

2021
Primbon Betaljemur Adammakna, within ArtJog MMXXI: Arts in Common – Time (to) wonder, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Gapura Buwana, with GEGERBOYO, Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Jagad Rusak, with GEGERBOYO, Elisabeth Jones Art Center, Portland, USA

2020
Indonesia Calling, 16 Albermarle Project Space, Australia
There’s no place like, at Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
Artcare, within ArtJog, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2019
Exhibition #1 Three artists from Indonesia, 16 Albermarle project space, Australia
Gapura Buwana, with GEGERBOYO, Biennale Jogja, Yogyakarta Indonesia
Kartu Liar, duo exhibition with Rudi Hermawan , artotel, Semarang, Indonesia
Krackatorium, Chongqing, China
Sangkan Paraning Dumadi, with GEGERBOYO, Exposure event, Yogyakarta Indonesia
100% IN, with GEGERBOYO, Mandala Krida, Yogyakarta Indonesia
Graffiti & Mural Jamming, with GEGERBOYO, Umbul Brintik, Klaten Indonesia

2018
Tan Hana Dharma Mangrwa, with GEGERBOYO Red Base Foundation, Yogyakarta Indonesia
Mural Watugilang, mural art project in Ngayogjazz, Yogyakarta
Manifesto 6.0, Multipolar, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta Indonesia
Dunia Komik, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta Indonesia
Framer Framed, lJpromenade 2, Amsterdam
Keep The Fire On, Survive garage, Yogyakarta
Mural Karmawibhangga, mural art project with GEGERBOYO, Kebun Bibi, Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta Indonesa Art Award, Galeri Nasional Indonesia

2017
Thinking through craft, Galeri Lorong, Indonesia.
Prajurit Kalah Tanpa Raja, comic and mural presentation, Brussels, Belgium.
Pekan Seni Grafis Yogyakarta, printmaking exhibition, JNM, Yogyakarta
Mural Pancasila, mural art project with GEGERBOYO, Kridosono, Yogyakarta
Jogja Editions, printmaking exhibition, runs by Miracle prints Art shop & Studio, Sangkring, Yogyakarta
Resistance is Futile, Krack studio, Yogyakarta
Back To The Future #4, a visual exhibition, Ace House, Yogyakarta
Keep The Fire On, Survive garage, Yogyakarta
Acemart, Ace House, Yogyakarta
Terra Incognita, a visual exhibition, Arcolabs, Jakarta
Sejeblog Neighborhood streetart, mural art project, Jeblog, Yogyakarta
maFest, mural art project, Mantrijeron, Yogyakarta
Unfolded Vietnam – Indonesia, mural art project, Prawirotaman, Yogyakarta
Beyond Prawirotaman, visual exhibition, Via via café, Yogyakarta
Friends of TPS, printmaking exhibition, Miracle prints Art shop & Studio, Yogyakarta

2016
Prajurit Kalah tanpa Raja, mural art project, Prawirotaman, Yogyakarta
Redbase Young Artist Award, a visual exhibition, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta
Prajurit Kalah tanpa Raja, visual exhibition, Red Base Foundation, Sewon, Yogyakarta
Prajurit Kalah tanpa Raja, mural art project, Minggiran, Yogyakarta
Print Parade #2, studio Grafis Minggiran”, Grafis Minggiran, Yogyakarta
Jogjakarta International Miniprint Biennale, a printmaking exhibition, Sangkring, Yogyakarta
Keep The Fire On, Survive garage, Yogyakarta
Obat Kuat, a video exhibition with GEMATI, Krack! Studio, Yogyakarta

2015
Out Of Joint, a printmaking exhibition curated by Roy Voragen, dia.lo.gue artspace, Jakarta
Rough Machine Soft Power with PUNKASILA & Slave Pianos, Biennale Jogja XIII, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
IN RESIDENCE 14 Group exhibition with artist in residency during 2014 in Megalo, Megalo print studio, Canberra, Australia
Salon Krack Krack-an, Krack studio, Yogyakarta
The Krackatorium, Krack studio, Yogyakarta
FSTVLST, launch FSTVLST album, PKKH, Yogyakarta

2014
Art Print Asia, news agency gallery, Sidney, Australia
4A, Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sidney, Australia
Neo Iconoclast, Langgeng, Magelang
Merayakan agar agar, DGTMB shop, Yogyakarta
Tanah Impian, Liberia Bodoni, Torino, Italy
Tanah Impian, FCAC, Footscray, Melbourne, Australia
Tanah Impian, Krack studio, Yogyakarta
Exquisite Corpatallation, ace house , Yogyakarta

2013
Print Parade #1, studio Grafis Minggiran”, Grafis Minggiran, Yogyakarta
Krack 3D, Krack studio, Yogyakarta
Pameran Perdana, Krack! Studio, Yogyakarta

2012
Jogja Agro Pop, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, LAF, Yogyakarta
Serangan Nyamuk, A Collaboration Drama Comical, Mulyakarya with local people, Desa Minggiran Yogyakarta 2011

2011
Mengintip Laut (Brest festival), Lembaga Indonesia Perancis, Yogyakarta

2009
ASYAFF (Asian Student and Young Artist Art Fair), with Art Seasons Gallery, Seoul (old) Train Station, Korea
Decima bienal Havana, comic exhibition, Cuba

2008
Havana Affair, One Gallery, Jakarta
Happening Kota Komik!, Kedai Kebun, Yogyakarta
Rumor of Tatang S, IVAA hobby studio, Yogyakarta
Hello Print, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta
Grafis Indonesia Sekarang, Tembi Contemporary, Yogyakarta
Jawa Baru, Srisasanti, Yogyakarta

2007
Shadows of Prambanan, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta
Punkasila, comic exhibition, Darren Knight Gallery, Sidney, Australia
Punkasila, comic exhibition, Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta

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2022

Jan Wessendorp

Johannes George (Jan) Wessendorp, born in 1940 in Surabaya (Indonesia), started at the MTS voor de Fotografie en Fototechniek, The Hague before pursuing his artistic desire and education at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Haque, specialising in painting, drawing and design technique. He became lecturer in Drawing, Colour and Form Technique at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten St. Joost, Breda and was one of the apprentices of Paul Citroen, Rein Draijer, and Hugo Liebe.

Primarily a painter, Jan Wessendorp is a versatile artist whose works range from drawing and graphic to plastic arts (sculpture). Wessendorp creates figures and characters that show openness, even vulnerability, yet they are never defenceless let alone aggressive. They manifest themselves by their unusual look and posture. Despite their subdued emotions, one can sense the fear, compassion, happiness, loneliness and even some love there.

Wessendorp appears from time to time to have the need to break through his silent contemplation. The frame around the canvas no longer restrains his ideas, thoughts and creativity within and upon its fabric, it rather now becomes part of the artwork. In some, it has resulted in an autonomous entity with its own shape, materials and meaning.

His works have been collected by a number of museums and national organisations across The Netherlands and Belgium. His graphic piece paired with poetry by Albert Hagenaars is now in the collection of Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven. In collaboration with Auke van der Heide, he created the striking sculptural landscape object, titled “De Emmer van Toen is de Buis van Nu”, a concrete tower adorned with zinc buckets, in the vicinity of the utilitarian waste water treatment plant.

Artist’s Statement (freely translated)

“Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.” (Albrecht Dürer)

This quote by Albrecht Dürer is the guideline in my work and life. It not only relates to nature, which becomes visible around us as an object world, but also, as far as we are nature ourselves, to our physical and intelligent existence. Nature makes herself known in us as our own special nature and specific talent. This quality determines the kind of attention for that object world, through which a world of ideas and feelings opens up. The artist’s struggle is to arrive at a distinct form of experience that is then expressed in a specific painterly ability. The development of vision, originality and expression is determined by an uninterrupted self-education and training, in all aspects of the artist’s life. In doing so, all lower impulses become subservient to the higher and are absorbed!

“Art is hidden in nature”

Artistic image is not so much supported by external characteristics, but even more by substantive implications, which are the result of that growing consciousness. The possibility to move and communicate in art: to set the viewer inwardly in motion and thus to encourage a self-experience, does not lie in the passionate desire of the maker to communicate himself, to influence others, or in the lust of design. This possibility lies in the artist’s ability to create from the source of life that he has been able to tap into and to which he has been able to give an authentic visual form!

“Whoever can extract it, have it!”

Jan Wessendorp

Born:
1940, Surabaya, Indonesia

Education:
MTS voor de Fotografie en Fototechniek, The Hague
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Haque, specialising in painting, drawing and design technique

Artist Bio

Collected Works

Collection of the State of The Netherlands
Rijksdienst Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen (currently: Collectie Nederland)
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library), Brussels, Belgium
Museum Plantyn-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
Museum De Beyerd, Breda
Kunstcollectie Rabobank Nederland (Art Collection Rabobank Nederland)
Museum Het Markiezenhof, Bergen op Zoom
Municipality Bergen op Zoom
Municipality Roosendaal
Municipality Woensdrecht
Art Borrow Artotheek 18, Bergen op Zoom/Roosendaal
Art Borrow Artotheek Breda

Selected Exhibitions

2021
Teder Indringend, Gallery Lukisan, Bergen op Zoom

2018
HOMM’AGE À TROIS – SynapsZ Kunstcollectief eert Fons Gieles, Joop Mijsbergen en Jan Wessendorp at the Markiezenhof, Bergen op Zoom

2015
Double exhibition in the former sugar plant De Zeeland, Markiezaatsweg 17, Bergen op Zoom

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