ISA June Newsletter 2025

 

Duo Show – Dabi Arnasa & Zikry Rediansyah

 

Omah Budoyo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

18^th June – 16^th August 2025

 

 

 

The Room is Bigger Than It Looks Duo Show of Dabi Arnasa and Zikry Rediansyah, explores the tensions of the Anthropocene—our current geological epoch marked by the unprecedented impact of human activity on the Earth’s systems. Drawing from theorist Donna Haraway’s call to “stay with the trouble,” the exhibition rejects techno-utopian solutions and instead invites us to live within entanglement, uncertainty, and complexity.

I Made Dabi Arnasa—known simply as Dabi—pursues a more introspective and speculative path. His work gently nudges us to notice the often-overlooked entanglements between the human and the more-than-human world. A Balinese artist currently based in Yogyakarta, Dabi completed his fine art studies at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Yogyakarta.

Zikry Rediansyah, affectionately known as Uye,  was born in 1994 in Bandung, where he continues to live and work, Zikry is a graduate of the Visual Art Education program at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI). Since 2011, he has been actively producing paintings and performance works that excavate the absurdities of everyday life and the often awkward business of simply existing.

Omah Budoyo Yogyakarta

10 AM – 6 PM | Tuesdays – Sundays

Jl. Karangkajen No.793, Brontokusuman, Kec. Mergangsan, Kota Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55153

 

 

Group Show

 

Omah Budoyo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

18^th June – 16^th August 2025

 

 

 

The Paper Menagerie Exhibition explores the paradoxical nature of paper—at once fragile and resilient, temporary yet archival. First shown in Jakarta and now brought to Yogyakarta, the exhibition features 19 artists-- A. Sebastianus, Adi Sundoro, Anang Saptoto, Ashley Tay, Dara Lo, David Bakti, Egga Jaya, Ella Wijt, Huuh Collective, Jumaadi, Keenan Tham, Mujahidin Nurrahman, Ng Jia Xi, Rui Kai Ho, Ruth Marbun, Sillyndris, Widi Pangestu, Yosefa Aulia, Yunita Rebekah. These artists range from emerging talents to established names, who expand the possibilities of paper as a medium. Their works transform paper through cutting, folding, layering, and sculpting, revealing its capacity to carry memory, resistance, and personal histories.

 

Inspired by Ken Liu’s short story The Paper Menagerie, the exhibition reflects on identity, cultural memory, and loss. Liu’s tale of a mother breathing life into origami for her son—only for those symbols to be forgotten over time, echoes how paper preserves meaning yet can also be easily destroyed or erased.

 

Omah Budoyo Yogyakarta

10 AM – 6 PM | Tuesdays – Sundays

Jl. Karangkajen No.793, Brontokusuman, Kec. Mergangsan, Kota Yogyakarta, Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta 55153

 

 

 

in collaboration with MONO8 Gallery & Richard Koh Fine Art

Third stop:

Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore

 

28^th June – 19^th July 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 third iteration at Richard Koh Fine Art Singapore, 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.

 

Richard Koh Fine Art

11 AM – 7 PM | Tuesdays - Saturdays

Closed on Sundays, Mondays & Public Holidays

Blk 47 Malan Rd, #01-26 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 109444

 

 

 

Ardi Gunawan – Solo Show

 

Curated by Hendro Wiyanto

 

ISA Art Gallery, Wisma 46

4^th July – 12^th September 2025

 

 

 

 

ISA Art Gallery is proud to present Made Me Dirty, a solo exhibition by Ardi Gunawan. The show reflects Gunawan’s use of painting as both a physical and political act. For the artist, painting is a physically immersive act — one that leaves his body marked with paint, splashes, and dirt. Often working half-naked in worn underwear, he embraces the messiness of the process as a deliberate contrast to the clean, structured routines of institutional life. As an academic navigating the precarity of the systems, Gunawan finds in painting a form of resistance — a refusal to conform to the expectations of order, efficiency, and presentability that define white-collar environments.

 

In parallel to his artistic pursuits, Ardi contributes to the field of Visual Communication Design as an Assistant Professor at Pradita University. Notably, he served as a teaching associate at Monash University (Drawing) and RMIT University (Landscape Architecture) in Melbourne, Australia, from 2010 to 2011. His works have been hosted at prestigious venues such as the Gertrude Contemporary Australia (2008, 2009) ,National Gallery of Indonesia (2013), and Objectifs in Singapore (2017). His artistic endeavors have been prominently featured and acknowledged in various publications, ranging from the Jakarta Post to Art Monthly Australia.

 

ISA Art Gallery

11 AM - 6 PM | Tuesdays - Saturdays

Closed on Sundays, Mondays & Public Holidays

Wisma 46 – Ground Floor

Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.Kav 1, Jakarta

 

 

 

 

Group Show

 

Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung

 

11^th May – 27^th July 2025

 

 

 

ISA Art Gallery artists Tara Kasenda and Zikry Rediansyah are featured in Senang Bersamamu (Happy to Be with You), a large-scale group exhibition at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung. The show serves as an open platform to rediscover art as a vital part of everyday life, rooted in the belief that creative potential exists in everyone. 241 artists were chosen by a distinguished panel: Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo, Ay Tjoe Christine, Heru Hikayat, Sunaryo, and Syagini Ratna Wulan. An additional 77 artists were invited to participate.

 

Zikry presents Kecelakaan, featuring his recurring character Alex in a scene that plays with notions of disruption and absurdity. Tara’s works, Dei Gratia I and Carpe Noctem, reflect on impermanence through the poetic imagery of candlelight, capturing moments of quiet introspection and fading presence.

 

Selasar Sunaryo Art Space

10 AM – 5 PM | Tuesdays – Sundays

Closed on Mondays & Public Holidays

Jl. Bukit Pakar Timur No. 100

Bandung, Jawa Barat 40198

Indonesia

 

 

 

A Project by Lisa Radford

 

Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia

 

21^st June – 10^th August 2025

 

 

 

Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent) at Gertrude Contemporary reflects on the socio-political shifts from 2005 to 2015, a decade that shaped both the cultural landscape and the institution itself. The exhibition revisits this period through re-staged shows by artists who formed critical vocabularies in response to these changes, including Ardi Gunawan’s luckily there’s no inside (2011), alongside works by Pat Foster & Jen Berean and Another Yummy Fantasy II.

 

Spanning writing, performance, sculpture, and installation, the project reconstructs local discourses specific to Naarm/Melbourne, exploring the entanglement of art, politics, and public space as a resistance to the neoliberalisation of art. As Australia’s leading incubator of contemporary art, Gertrude Contemporary continues to support experimental and risk-taking practices, offering artists a unique space to develop and present bold ideas.

 

Gertrude Contemporary Art Space

11 AM – 5 PM | Tuesdays – Sundays

Closed on Mondays

Wurundjeri Country

21-31 High Street

Preston South VIC

Naarm Melbourne, Australia

 

 

Artist Residency

 

Artspace, Sydney, Australia

 

 

 

 

ISA Art Gallery is proud to announce that Jumaadi is selected from 178 applications to do an artist residency studio program at ArtSpace Sydney along with other 10 artists. These artists represent the breadth of artistic practice across generations, career stages and art forms. This next cohort of artists, which gathers a diverse array of emerging, mid-career and established practitioners, will move into Artspace’s dedicated, studio spaces at The Gunnery to begin their residencies in early June.

 

The Studio Program is generously supported by ArtSpace’s visionary community of benefactors: David Cleary, FDC Construction & Fitout, Amanda & Andrew Love, Susan Manford Studio, Ursula Sullivan & Joanna Strumpf, Alenka Tindale and the Turnbull Foundation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISA Art Gallery is delighted to share that Alexander Sebastianus has been named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025 list under the Arts category. Known for his thoughtful fusion of traditional Indonesian art forms such as batik with contemporary mediums like photography and sculpture, Sebastianus' work is grounded in ethnographic research that explores the relationship between people and their environments. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

 

In addition to his current exhibition at the Kranj Textile Biennale in Slovenia (31 May – 14 August 2025), Sebastianus is also undertaking artist residencies in Portugal and Nepal, further deepening his cross-cultural exploration of craft, materiality, and place.