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Prihatmoko Moki

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.

Born:
1982

Education:
Printmaking at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta (Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta, ISI Yogyakarta)

Artworks by Prihatmoko Moki

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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Agung Kurniawan

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)

Artworks by Agung Kurniawan

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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