ISA Art Gallery is proud to present Untranslatable Cartographies, featuring the works of A. Sebastianus, Aiman, Arahmaiani, Ari Bayuaji, Ardi Gunawan, Dabi Arnasa, Dewi Fortuna Maharani, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Luh'De Gita, Marisa R Ng, Melissa Tan, Sillyndris, Sinta Tantra, Tara Kasenda, Taufiq HT, Yuki Nakayama, Yosefa Aulia, and Zikry Rediansyah.
The exhibition approaches memory as a shifting landscape. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media, the exhibition charts how images, gestures, and materials migrate across time and place, carrying with them cultural histories and personal narratives. Rather than offering a single route, Untranslatable Cartographies opens into a constellation of voices. Each artwork functions like a coordinate or a legend—mapping recurrence, displacement, and the traces of what resists being fully contained. In invoking Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, this exhibition reflects on how memory can be archived as a living, unfolding terrain. To enter this space is to move through fragments of remembrance made tangible through art. An atlas in motion, always incomplete.
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1 - 9 PM | Friday
11 AM - 8 PM | Saturday & Sunday
Booth B8, JIExpo Kemayoran
Jalan Benyamin Sueb No. 1, North Jakarta
Ardi Gunawan at Art Jakarta SPOT
Ardi Gunawan, represented by ISA Art Gallery, will present his work luckily there’s no inside (with friendly ghost) (2025) at Art Jakarta SPOT. Conceived as a curated platform, SPOT brings together a selection of solo projects that are placed in dialogue with one another within the Gallery section.
Ardi’s presentation revisits his first iteration of luckily there’s no inside at Gertrude Contemporary, Australia. This was first performed for two hours as part of the opening event of Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent). Extending this trajectory, the work completes Gunawan’s 2011 re-enactment of Sculptural Relations (2009), collapsing fact and speculative fiction into a post-pandemic arena of parody, bad taste, and psychological projection. The presentation will be further animated by a live performance featuring Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ) Fine Art Education students: Alghifari Loli Hasan, Revalia Eka Saputri, Kiara Raffaela, and Narpati Yudha.
ISA Art Gallery presents 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.
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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
Sekar Kawung is a social enterprise dedicated to reviving Nusantara’s textile traditions. It is a system of knowledge shaped by ecology, farming cycles, and collective labor. In Tuban, weaving and batik are inseparable from agricultural philosophy, marking identity, ritual, and solidarity while embodying balance between humans and nature.
Believing that textile culture is a form of agroecology, which sustains harmony between people and nature while opening pathways for regenerative economies, Sekar Kawung draws on long-term research and archives, including Rens Heringa’s notes on Tuban’s farming and textile practices, to revive these traditions through contemporary works. Through exhibitions on Tenun Gedog and Batik Tuban, it invites reflection on clothing as a holistic value system. In Tuban, weaving always precedes batik-making. This is a metaphor for interlacing past virtues with the present and future, reminding us that clothing can guide us toward more grounded, sustainable, and resilient ways of living.
Curated by Chandra Kirana & Karina Roosvita
7 AM - 4 PM | Mondays - Fridays
Closed on Weekends & Public Holidays
Main Lobby, World Trade Center 3
Jl. Jenderal Sudirman No.Kav. 29-31, Jakarta
ISA ARTIST ON THE MOVE
The work of Ines Katamso is currently on view at A.SINGLE.PIECE Gallery in Sydney, Australia. Known for presenting one artwork at a time, the gallery redefines the way viewers encounter art.
On display in its window is Phytogenetic Cycle 3 (2025), a painting inspired by Dewi Sri, the Javanese and Balinese goddess of fertility. Through this work, Ines traces the goddess’s cycle of life and death—her presence nourishing the soil and sustaining life.
24/7 | On display and visible
Gallery open by appointment
403 Bourke St Surry Hills, Sydney
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
Sillyndris will debut a new series at Art Jakarta 2025, while also continuing his much-loved Biscuit series. This marks an exciting milestone where the presentation will bring together fresh directions in his practice alongside the playful works that first captured audiences’ attention.
His work reflects on how humans interact with the material world and how everyday objects influence our identity and culture. Through his artistic lens, Sillyndris explores the deep connections between materiality and human experience.
