WHAT’S ON AT ISA ART GALLERY IN APRIL, 2025
UPCOMING
a fold in time
in collaboration with MONO8 Gallery & Richard Koh Fine Art
Curated by James Luigi Tana
Second stop:
ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta Indonesia
15th April – 20th June 2025
ISA Art Gallery (Jakarta) is delighted to present its 2025 annual exhibition celebrating women artists from Southeast Asia and beyond. Curated by James Luigi Tana, this collaborative effort with MONO8 Gallery (Manila) and Richard Koh Fine Art (Singapore) showcases the power, creativity, and diversity of women in contemporary art, offering them a platform to share their perspectives. The exhibition features diverse artists from each gallery, including Sinta Tantra, Ines Katamso, Luh'De Gita, and Rose Cameron from ISA Art Gallery; Eunice Sanchez, Goldie Poblador, Issay Rodriguez, Jill Paz, and Kelli Maeshiro from MONO8 Gallery; Ami Kaiya, Liu Hsin-Ying, and Wah Nu from Richard Koh Fine Art.
In its second iteration at ISA Art Gallery Jakarta, diverse artistic practices are set to dialogue with one another and along the intersection of concerns (and contradictions) that the participating artists confront in their works. The idiomatic expression "a fold in time" may be understood as an essential moment that operates within the premise of locating different and significant junctures that meet and manifest.
ISA Art Gallery
11 AM - 6 PM | Tuesdays - Saturdays
Closed on Mondays & Public Holidays
Wisma 46 – Ground Floor
Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.Kav 1, Jakarta
ISA Art Gallery at
ART JAKARTA GARDENS
Tent B, Booth B1
The Apartments
Hutan Kota by Plataran, Jakarta, Indonesia
22nd April – 27th April 2025
ISA Art Gallery is pleased to announce its participation at Art Jakarta Gardens 2025. The exhibition features thirteen artists, including a special duet presentation by Tara Kasenda and Yuki Nakayama.
Conceived as a conceptual framework, "The Apartments" exhibition transforms the show into a multi-unit dwelling, where each artist occupies a symbolic ‘residence’—a private interior that offers glimpses into their practice. Here, the apartment functions as both metaphor and mechanism, evoking the liminal spaces between solitude and collectivity, intimacy and exposure. Each artist’s practice is a window—at once an aperture for observation and a point for engagement. Viewers, like passing spectators on a city street, are invited to peer inside, while the artists themselves embody the role of the flâneur/flâneuse, wandering observers and embedded anthropologists attuned to the textures of contemporary life.
Day 1 & 2: Ida Lawrence, Sillyndris, Luh’De Gita, Dabi Aransa, Zikry Rediansyah
Day 3 & 4: Special Duet Show - Tara Kasenda & Yuki Nakayama
Day 5 & 6: Sinta Tantra, Jumaadi, A. Sebastianus, Arahmaiani, Hadassah Emmerich, Ines Katamso
Outdoor sculpture by Budi Santoso
22nd April | VIP Preview 1 PM - 9 PM
23rd April - 25th April | Open for public 1 PM - 9 PM
26th April - 27th April | Open for public 11 AM - 9 PM
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Hutan Kota by Plataran
Jl. Jenderal Sudirman No.54-55, RT.1/RW.3, Gelora, Kecamatan Tanah Abang, Kota Jakarta Pusat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 10270
Art at WTC
MULA PALA-PALA MULA
In collaboration with Yayasan Sekolah Seni Tulang Bawang Barat
World Trade Centre 3, Jakarta
3rd March – 30th May 2025
To tend with patience, to shape with care, to bring forth without force but with quiet persistence. It is the faith of the gardener watering unseen roots, the reverence of the craftsman refining a single line. This philosophy guides Art at WTC, Jakarta Land, where exhibitions serve as spaces of connection, bridging art and community in an era of growing individualism. In this iteration, ISA Art Gallery and Art at WTC, Jakarta Land extends this commitment to Yayasan Sekolah Seni Tubaba, an institution located in Tulang Bawang Barat Regency in Lampung since 2016. The school is dedicated to integrating artistic education with local traditions, framing faith not as ritual alone but as a continuous process of learning, exchange, and creative growth.
This ethos is also embodied in the exhibition title MULA PALA-PALA MULA, drawn from Old Sanskrit, Mūla Pāla (The Roots as Guardians) suggests that strengthened foundations become enduring guides, while Pāla Mūla (Guardian of the Roots) speaks to the act of nurturing, ensuring wisdom’s vitality across generations. Yayasan Sekolah Seni Tubaba (Tubaba Art School) was established—not just as an institution, but as a philosophy. Art became a medium of empathy, a tool to in still the fundamental belief that all human beings stand equal.
World Trade Centre 3
9 AM - 6 PM | Daily
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 29-31, Jakarta Selatan 12920
MATA IRLANDIA; IRELAND’S EYE
With The Embassy of Ireland
Curated by Mark Joyce
World Trade Centre 2, Jakarta
17th March – 11th April 2025
Orasis Art Space, Surabaya
18th April – 1st May 2025
ISA Art and Design and The Embassy of Ireland in Jakarta presents six Irish artists, Isobel McCarthy, Olivia Normile, Mary Sullivan, Aaron Sunderland Carey, and Electronic Sheep (Brenda Aherne/Helen Delany) in the 2025 iteration of Mata Irlandia—Ireland’s Eye. The works explore life in Ireland today. Reflecting the diversity of experience in Irish society, from rugged remote islands to marginalised Dublin communities and the Irish diaspora abroad. It showcases the work of contemporary Irish artists who engage with the landscape, culture, individual experience and diverse communities that shape the nation in contemporary times. The works cast a critical eye on the impacts of societal and the environment changes on individuals and communities and making creative responses to the key issues of our increasingly connected, yet polarised world.
World Trade Centre 2
9 AM - 6 PM | Daily
Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 29-31, Jakarta Selatan 12920
Orasis Art Space Surabaya
Jl. Bukit Golf No.B2-25, Sambikerep, Kec. Sambikerep, Surabaya, Jawa Timur 60219
Visit by reservation here
ISA ARTIST ON THE MOVE
HADASSAH EMMERICH
S.M.A.K. Painting after Painting
Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent, Belgium
4th April – 2nd November 2025
Hadassah Emmerich is showcasing her works at the S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent, Belgium. This group exhibition featuring work by 74 artists outlines the medium's recent evolutions and trends in Belgium. Painting After Painting showcases the work of over seventy contemporary painters. Without striving for completeness, S.M.A.K. attempts to outline the recent developments and trends in the medium. Artists today draw on the motifs and techniques of the past, but equally explore and push the boundaries of the discipline. Some create narrative works addressing their daily lives, political and social issues, or questions of identity, gender and representation. Others adopt a more abstract or formalist language and explore the relationship with other contemporary image-making forms.
The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent
Jan Hoetplein 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Tuesdays – Fridays | 9.30 AM – 5.30 PM
Saturdays – Sundays | 10 AM – 6 PM
Closed on Mondays
SINTA TANTRA
Light is Therefore Colour
Turner’s House, Twickenham, United Kingdom,
23rd April 2025
Turner’s House in Twickenham is delighted to announce Light is Therefore Colour, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Sinta Tantra and Eileen Cooper, opening in April 2025. The artists share a connection to the Royal Academy: Turner as a distinguished member during his lifetime, Tantra as an alumna of the Royal Academy Schools, and Cooper as a current Royal Academician. Titled after Turner’s iconic quote, the show marks the launch of the museum’s first-ever contemporary art programme, with Tantra and Cooper creating new works in response to the historic setting of the painter’s former home.
Turner’s House, Twickenham, United Kingdom
40 Sandycoombe Rd, St Margarets, Twickenham TW1 2LR, United Kingdom
Wednesdays – Sundays | 12 PM – 4 PM
Closed on Mondays & Tuesdays
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
TARA KASENDA & YUKI NAKAYAMA
On their upcoming special duo show at ISA Art Gallery’s booth at Art Jakarta Gardens 2025—Tara Kasenda, an Indonesian artist based in Partis graduated from her Master’s program at Paris College of Art. Yuki Nayakama, Japanese artist based in New York, educated at Parsons The New School for Design and The Cooper Union, both deal with observations in their paintings.
This duo exhibition featuring the artists explores the fluid interplay between space, movement, and perception. Drawing from their distinct artistic practices, Nakayama and Kasenda examine how we navigate our surroundings—whether through the structured, geometric compositions of urban design or the ephemeral, atmospheric shifts of the sky. Through abstraction and observation, their works engage with ideas of spatial theory, architectural influence, and the metaphysical experience of the natural world.
