Yang Bersayap Rangka Daun

18 June 2026 - 10 January 2027

Overview

This exhibition marks Jumaadi’s return to Indonesia with a major solo presentation after nearly three decades. The occasion is significant not only as an introduction to recent works, but as a re-reading of a practice shaped between Java and Australia. Across his oeuvre, past, present, and future converges and forms a visual language grounded in tradition yet articulated through a distinctly contemporary sensibility.

Through monumental textile paintings, carved buffalo-hide works, and narrative structures informed by wayang and Javanese cosmology, Jumaadi constructs poetic reflections on love, migration, spirituality, and continuity. His simplified figures, characterised by flattened faces and multiplied eyes, operate as metaphors for fluid identity which embodies experiences that are at once deeply personal and universally resonant. Within his practice, tradition is not treated as nostalgia, but as a living force that is adaptive, generative, and in constant transformation.

Presented at the Tumurun Private Museum in Surakarta, the exhibition seeks to bring Jumaadi’s practice into closer dialogue with Indonesian audiences while opening a space of exchange between cultural inheritance and contemporary art. Situated within a city fundamentally shaped by Javanese tradition, the exhibition becomes a site of encounter between the artist, local histories, and future possibility.