Contemporary Art in Indonesia

News

Rifky Effendy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:55:23 +0000

Cemara 6 Galeri, jakarta Present:

Solo Exhibition by Ariadhitya Pramuhendra

ON LAST SUPPER

11 – 25 March 2008

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Reviews

Rifky Effendy — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:32:05 +0000

Biennale Jogya-IX-2007 shouts loud, lacks depth

Jakarta Post. Features – January 05, 2008

Aminudin TH Siregar , Contributor, Yogyakarta

To be perfectly blunt, the 2007 Yogyakarta Biennale, or Biennale Jogja-IX (BJ-IX), is disorganized. The day after the event had officially opened, no information was provided about the works on display at one of the venues, causing visitors to wonder about the titles and the identities of the artists who created them. At another exhibition space, several artists were still busy completing their works. Worse still, Titarubi’s installation featuring more than a dozen resin statues was a mess as some of the statues had collapsed due to the strong winds that hit Yogyakarta on the opening night…( read more )

Out Now !!

Rifky Effendy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:05:39 +0000

Out Now !!

More Info: http://visualartsindonesia.wordpress.com/

News!

Rifky Effendy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:15:05 +0000

Langgeng Icon Gallery, Kemang Presents

Video – Painting by Filippo Sciscia

10 – 31 January 2008

More info : www.langgeng.net

Poem of Blood online exhibition

Rifky Effendy — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:22:31 +0000

Poem of Blood

Works of Ugo Untoro
Recent Exhibition at The National Gallery, Jakarta

Photos by Adeline Ooi

More here

Exclusive

Rifky Effendy — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:09:07 +0000

An exclusive Interview and Reviews

Yudi Yudoyoko
Indonesian Artist who Lives and works between Uruguay and Argentina.

Yudi Yudoyoko graduated in Fine Arts at Bandung Institute of Technology in 1989. In Indonesia he developed as a painter, installation artist, designer, and fashion editor at several fashion magazines. From 2003 onwards he has lived in Montevideo, and has continued his career in Uruguay and Argentina, staging solo exhibitions, installations, and participating in collective shows. His first solo exhibition of drawings in China ink, and a wall installation, took place at the Estación Alógena, Buenos Aires, in November 2004….( Go to exclusive pages )

DID YOU KNOW ?

Rifky Effendy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:56:00 +0000

How many biennales in the world today ?….

Most visited biennial in the 1990s ..?

the 10 Asian artists who have shown in the most biennials since 1990 (up to 2006)?

( Get the answers : click here )

Introduction

Rifky Effendy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:08:01 +0000

Dear friends !!

I would like to introduce this blog.

This is a weblog forum on Contemporary Art in Indonesia nowadays that I created for everyone who’s interested on art practises, curatorial, exhibitions or discourses in Indonesia. I’ve been collected some essays and articles from websites. But anyone is invited to contribute (in english only): texts, essays or comments and pictures which might be moderated (I will select them). Please feel free to send links from websites or other blogs. Hope this blog help in building deeper understanding regarding Indonesian contemporary art today and to open your mind to see what is going on in Indonesia recently. Keep it posted and enjoy.

Cheers

Rifky Effendy

rifky68@yahoo.com