ISA September Newsletter 2025

ISA Art Gallery is proud to present Conjunction of Drones, featuring the works of A. Sebastianus, Ari Bayuaji, Audya Amalia, Dian Mayang, Jumaadi, Kristoffer Ardeña, Sarita Ibnoe, Widi Pangestu, and Samuel Xun.

The collective explores rhythm, repetition, and materiality, using the drone as a metaphor for persistence, memory, and the tension between control and surrender. Often seen as intrusive, drones here reveal vulnerability and a liminal space between action and observation. The exhibition highlights artists working with fibers and organic materials, where traditional techniques meet contemporary urgencies like ecological precarity and identity. In this convergence, materials themselves become carriers of memory, linking past, present, and future.

11 AM - 6 PM | Tuesdays - Saturdays

Closed on Sundays, Mondays & Public Holidays

Wisma 46 – Ground Floor

Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.Kav 1, Jakarta

WTC 3: ISA Art Gallery x Sekar Kawung

WTC 3: ISA Art Gallery x Sekar Kawung
ISA Art Gallery is pleased to announce its collaboration with Sekar Kawung, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering women weavers and sustaining indigenous craft traditions. Based in Tuban and other regions of Indonesia, Sekar Kawung works closely with local artisans to create products for contemporary audiences, rooted in cultural knowledge of natural resource use and ecological care.

Through this partnership, the exhibition at WTC this upcoming September highlights not only the aesthetic and material richness of weaving traditions but also the broader social and ecological impact of supporting artisanal communities. Sekar Kawung’s model of creative socio-economic development enables artisans to build sustainable livelihoods while preserving biodiversity and safeguarding cultural heritage.

This collaboration underscores ISA Art Gallery’s commitment to engaging with living cultural practices and creating platform swhere traditional knowledge and contemporary art discourse can intersect

SAVE THE DATE - Art Jakarta 2025

ISA Art Gallery will be participating in Art Jakarta 2025, Southeast Asia’s leading international art fair. Join us at our booth to discover new works by represented artists alongside a vibrant program of galleries and institutions from across the region.

3 – 5 October 2025

ISA Art Gallery Booth B8

JIEXPO Kemayoran

ON GOING 

Made Me Dirty

Ardi Gunawan – Solo Show

Curated by Hendro Wiyanto

ISA Art Gallery, Wisma 46

4th July - 12th September 2025

ISA Art Gallery is currently presenting 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. 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.

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11 AM - 6 PM | Tuesdays - Saturdays

Closed on Sundays, Mondays & Public Holidays

Wisma 46 – Ground Floor

Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.Kav 1, Jakarta

ISA ARTIST ON THE MOVE

DABI ARNASA

EDSU House 

September 12, 2025 - November 9, 2025

Dabi Arnasa, represented by ISA Art Gallery, will be participating in EDSU House’s upcoming exhibition.

Featured in the exhibition, Dabi’s latest work Serupa Pulau Sungguhan takes the form of a floating island. Scattered with artificial flowers and punctuated by a chair, a ladder, and a pool occupied by humans and other living beings, the work imagines a space for dialogue, for movement between levels, and for coexistence with other forms of life. While evoking the possibility of utopia, the work simultaneously points to its distance from present realities.

HADASSAH EMMERICH

Nizza Berlin

mechanisms of seduction, economies of exposure

Curated by Cristina Vasilescu

September 5, 2025 - October 4, 2025 

This exhibition rejects the habitual casting of feminized bodies as objects of seduction, turning instead toward the economies of exposure—what is revealed, what is withheld, and the power dynamics ingrained in the act of looking.

Hadassah Emmerich’s oil paintings anchor this inquiry. Her compositions render fragmented anatomies as multiplying celestial presences. Through her use of color and form, the body emerges not as an object to be consumed but as an autonomous presence.

Around her, other artists extend this dialogue through structures that resist concealment, exposing their own making, while projecting affects conventionally exerted onto flesh. Together, the works transform seduction into a reciprocal rehearsal of approach and withdrawal, destabilizing the boundaries between the viewer and the viewed.

JUMAADI

Mosman Art Gallery

2025 Mosman Art Prize

Judged by Justin Paton

22nd August - 2nd November 2025

Jumaadi’s Dalam Gerimis wins Mosman Council’s Inaugural Installers’ Choice Award.

The judge of this year’s Mosman Art Prize is Justin Paton, Head Curator of International Art at AGNSW and acclaimed art writer

ARTIST HIGHLIGHT

Luh'De Gita at Mandy Zhang Art

Luh’De Gita recently marked two significant milestones in her practice. She completed her studies at the Royal College of Art, London, presenting her graduate exhibition at the Dyson Building. She has also undertaken a residency at Mandy Zhang Art, which culminated in the exhibition Myth Motion, opened on 28 August 2025. Luh’De’s practice engages with the digital world, hyperreality, and popular culture, often merging the real and the unreal through extreme compositions that juxtapose fragments of images to create new realities. Reflecting on her journey, she shares:

“Spending time at Mandy Zhang Art Gallery really made me feel freer and more relaxed with painting. I’ve started to let go and paint in a looser way, which feels refreshing. Also, seeing the archives at the Horniman Museum has been so inspiring, I can’t wait to bring some of those images and stories into my own work!”