ISA April Newsletter 2026

 

UNBOUND: Resonating Light

24 April – 24 May 2026

NODE by ISA Art and Design Consultancy

 

UNBOUND: Resonating Light brings together the practices of Diane Tuft and Allyson Jeong in a dialogue that blurs the boundary between image, object, and atmosphere. Both artists treat material as a vessel for light, vibration, and memory, drawing viewers into a space where form feels fluid and perception extends beyond what is immediately visible.

 

Jeong’s works grow from the rhythmic frequencies embedded in her jewelry practice, expanded into sculptural forms that shift across the gallery. Metal takes on a softened, almost liquid presence as light moves across its surface, casting shadows that extend each work into space. Her pieces move between body and architecture, holding an intimate relation to the wearer while unfolding into the surrounding environment.

 

Tuft’s photographs respond through the immaterial presence of the natural world, capturing wavelengths beyond human sight to reveal the energy within glaciers, skies, and deserts. Together, the works create a continuous field where natural and constructed light converge. The exhibition unfolds as a sensorial environment where scale shifts and perception deepen, inviting viewers to locate themselves within a larger field of resonance.

 

Presented at ISA Art and Design’s NODE at Jl. Wijaya Timur Raya No. 12, South Jakarta, the exhibition marks the first public exhibition in the space since its inauguration in December last year.

16 – 19 April 2026

25hours Hotel Jakarta The Oddbird

 

ISA Art Gallery presents ambang bayang as part of the Asosiasi Galeri Seni Rupa Indonesia (AGSI) Art Fair 2026, held alongside twelve other galleries within the AGSI network. Translating to “the threshold of shadow,” ambang bayang proposes a space of transition where forms lose certainty and meaning emerges through suggestion. Drawing from Javanese shadow theatre, where the puppet is never seen directly but through its projection, the presentation reflects on how perception is shaped by what is partial, obscured, and in flux.

 

Featuring works by Dabi Arnasa, Sillyndris, Taufiq HT, and Zikry Rediansyah, the presentation moves between memory, subconscious imagery, and material transformation. Painterly gestures, psychological landscapes, performative narratives, and organic processes converge to explore states of becoming and instability. Across these practices, ambang bayang invites viewers to linger within uncertainty and to encounter the shifting boundaries between the visible and the unseen.

 

9 AM - 8 PM | Thursday - Sunday

Room 1017, 25hours Hotel Jakarta The Oddbird

Jl. Jenderal Sudirman No.28, South Jakarta

 

Where We Remain

 

13 April – 13 July 2026

World Trade Centre 3, Jakarta

 

Space is never a passive container. It shapes us as we move through it, leaving subtle traces on memory and the body. Where We Remain brings together Alexander Sebastianus, Dabi Arnasa, Dewi Fortuna, Rose Cameron, Tara Kasenda, Yuki Nakayama, and Zikry Rediansyah to explore this reciprocal relationship between person and place, tracing the quiet exchanges that unfold across physical and imagined environments.

 

Drawing from Yi-Fu Tuan’s idea that space becomes place through experience, the exhibition considers how these encounters persist not as clear narratives but as fragments. Light, structure, atmosphere, and sensation linger beyond their moment, suggesting that environments continue to hold something of us even after we leave. Memory and imagination merge with the material world, shaping how space is felt and understood.

 

Across the exhibition, landscape, architecture, and everyday settings emerge as sites of accumulation and transformation. Spaces are not fixed but continuously formed through presence, absence, and return. What remains is not only where we have been, but how those places continue to exist within us, as an ongoing dialogue between self and environment.

 

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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

 

 

14 February – 16 April 2026

ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta

 

As Biophilia: Exquisite Corpse enters its final weeks at ISA Art Gallery, this is a timely moment to experience the exhibition before it closes. Now in its second month, the exhibition continues to foreground environmental resistance through practices that engage ecology across activism, spirituality, and material transformation.

 

Biophilia is a biannual exhibition series by ISA Art Gallery dedicated to ecological discourse and resistance. This edition brings together nine artists including Arahmaiani, Dabi Arnasa, Anang Saptoto, Cynthia Delaney Suwito, Fitri DK, Kynan Tegar in collaboration with Studio Birthplace and Novo Amor, Mater Design Lab, Reza Kutjh, and Teguh Ostenrik. Drawing from the Surrealist method of collective image-making, Exquisite Corpse unfolds through layered and unexpected connections, forming a shared field of thought that reflects ecological interdependence. At its core, the exhibition considers how bodies and systems exist within an ecosystem shaped by ongoing violence and extraction. It asks how we continue to inhabit such a world while pointing toward the urgency of collective awareness and response.

 

Artist Highlight

 

A collaboration between Kynan Tegar, Studio Birthplace, and Novo Amor, Earth Defender unfolds as an art film centered on loss, resistance, and continuity. It follows a son who takes up his father’s struggle after he is killed defending his land from corporate extraction. Set against Novo Amor’s haunting score, the work reflects the Iban community’s ongoing commitment to protecting their ancestral lands. At its core, the film is a call to awareness and action, underscoring the urgent need for global support and policy change as environmental defenders continue to face violence, with one life lost every 48 hours in the protection of the world’s remaining wilderness. The film has received international recognition, including Best Music Video at HollyShorts Film Festival 2025, Gold for VFX at the Gong Awards 2025, and Silver for Best Ad of the Year at the Shots Asia Pacific Awards. It was also awarded a Bronze Pencil for Cinematography and a Merit Award for Visual Effects at The One Show Awards 2025, where it was additionally nominated for Cinematography. Further recognitions include nominations at the Berlin Commercial Awards and UK Music Video Awards, as well as a shortlist at Spikes Asia 2025.

 

Anang Saptoto’s Jimat Anti Tuyul turns toward everyday ecological relations embedded within domestic labour. Drawing from his long-term project Panen Apa Hari Ini (PARI), the work traces the history of his grandmother’s food stall and its cooking practices, revealing how knowledge is sustained through routine acts of exchange. The talisman, assembled from agricultural materials such as chili, garlic, pepper, and glass, links food production, belief, and economic survival. In this gesture, ecology is understood not as abstraction, but as a lived and relational system that extends beyond human-centred needs.

 

Cynthia Delaney Suwito’s work continues her Pottered Pots series through a large-scale installation shaped by repeated attempts to care for plants. Formed from an archive of pots once used to grow plants that did not survive, the work takes the shape of a vertical tower, replacing living matter with photographic traces. Referencing her background as an artist based in Singapore and the spatial logic of local high-density urban housing, the installation reflects on mediated forms of care and disconnection from the ground. What emerges is a quiet persistence, where growth is no longer organic, but reconstructed through repetition, memory, and substitution.

 

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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

 

 

Ireland’s Eye 2026: The Imprint of the Irish Landscape

1 – 24 April 2026

World Trade Centre 2, Jakarta

 

Curated by renowned artist and curator, Mark Joyce, and presented in collaboration with ISA Art and Design, Jakarta Land, and the Embassy of Ireland in Indonesia, Ireland’s Eye 2026 marks the fifth edition of the exhibition, bringing together six Irish artists whose practices engage deeply with the Irish landscape and its layered histories. Spanning generations from Tony O’Malley to Charlie Dineen, the exhibition reflects on how land, memory, and cultural identity remain intertwined. Rooted in a shared sensitivity to the “spirit of place,” the works trace how Ireland’s terrain continues to shape artistic expression today.

Tony O’Malley’s lyrical abstractions evoke the essence of place through gesture and texture, drawing from sites such as Jerpoint Abbey. This sensibility resonates across the exhibition in diverse forms. Cora Cummins explores grief and change through large-scale etchings grounded in pastoral landscapes. Charlie Dineen’s film reactivates mythic histories within the Paps of Anú, interweaving ritual, memory, and terrain. Cliona Doyle’s botanical prints observe the quiet resilience of native flora, while Gwen O’Dowd translates elemental forces of sea and land into expressive abstraction. Robert Russell captures the atmospheric depth of Ireland’s urban landscapes through precise and contemplative printmaking.

 

All works are produced at Graphic Studio Dublin, which celebrates its 65th anniversary this year as Ireland’s leading fine art printmaking studio. The act of printmaking becomes a metaphor for imprint, echoing how history, environment, and lived experience are pressed into the land itself. Together, the exhibition invites viewers to consider Ireland’s physical and psychological landscape as a space where past and present continuously converge.

 

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7 AM - 4 PM | Mondays - Fridays

Closed on Weekends & Public Holidays

Main Lobby, World Trade Center 2

Jl. Jenderal Sudirman No.Kav. 29-31, Jakarta

ISA ARTIST ON THE MOVE

INES KATAMSO

Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

20 March – 8 May 2026

 

ISA Art Gallery is proud to present a new body of work by Ines Katamso, After the Flourishing, a large-scale installation currently on view at the 2nd Pan-Southeast Asia Triennial at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Curated by Hu Chao and Lin Zengru, Bali – Art and the World Beyond the Rainforest, brings together artists across generations and geographies to reconsider Southeast Asia beyond its historical imaginaries and constructed visual symbols.

 

Positioned within the exhibition’s focus on contemporary reconstruction, Katamso’s installation reflects on cycles of growth, excess, and aftermath. After the Flourishing considers what remains after moments of abundance, tracing the fragile threshold between vitality and decline. Through material and spatial intervention, the work engages with broader ecological and cultural questions, echoing the exhibition’s aim to move beyond surface representations of the “rainforest” and toward deeper reflections on environment, history, and interconnected global narratives.

 

9 AM – 5 PM | Tuesdays – Sundays

Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays

3rd Floor Exhibition Hall

Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts University Town Art Museum

 

 

 

INDONESIAN WOMEN ARTISTS #4: ON THE MAP

Galeri Nasional Indonesia

10 April – 30 June 2026

 

Ines Katamso anchors INDONESIAN WOMEN ARTISTS #4: ON THE MAP at the National Gallery of Indonesia through a practice that is attentive to the relationship between body, material, and earth. Her works move through registers where form becomes a site to trace identity and connection to environment, offering a grounded point of entry into the exhibition’s wider concerns.

 

Curated by Carla Bianpoen, Vidhyasuri Utami, and Bagus Purwoadi, the exhibition brings together 12 women artists across generations who explore body, nature, and cultural inheritance as sources of knowledge. Moving from personal experience toward collective reflection, the presentation considers how knowledge is shaped, felt, and transmitted across time and context.

 

On view from 10 April to 30 June 2026 at Gedung A, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, the exhibition invites audiences to reconsider how women artists position themselves within and beyond established narratives, mapping new ways of seeing and understanding their place in the world.

10 AM – 6 PM | Tuesdays – Thursdays

10 AM – 8 PM | Fridays – Sundays

Closed on Mondays & Public Holidays

Gedung A Galeri Nasional Indonesia

Jl. Medan Merdeka Timur No. 14, Central Jakarta

 

DABI ARNASA

 

 

LANSKAP

Galeri RJ Katamsi, ISI Yogyakarta

1 – 8 April 2026

 

Curated by A. Anzieb, the exhibition revisits the relevance of landscape painting through the historical lens of Mooi Indie, a late nineteenth-century colonial genre that framed the Dutch East Indies as a site of natural beauty. It depicted mountains, rice fields, forests, rivers, and rural life through a romanticized visual language shaped largely by European painters, alongside figures such as Raden Saleh Sjarif Bustaman and later artists including Abdullah Surio Subroto, Mas Pirngadi, Wakidi, and Basuki Abdullah. Today, this legacy invites renewed scrutiny, particularly around questions of cultural appropriation and the extraction of indigenous symbols and aesthetics without acknowledgment of their origins.

 

Within this context, LANSKAP reopens landscape as a space of interpretation shaped by history, power, and representation. The exhibition positions landscape not as a neutral image of nature, but as a constructed field where colonial memory and contemporary perspectives intersect. Artists are invited to engage, question, and reframe inherited visual traditions in relation to present conditions.

 

Dabi Arnasa’s newest body of work ‘Bergerak di Dalam Bayangan’ presents a psychological landscape shaped by contemporary uncertainty, where distant conflicts remain present in everyday life. Pink human figures move without clear direction, suggesting motion as a condition of survival. Calm green rice fields evoke hope, yet are disrupted by a distant mushroom cloud that signals unseen global threat. Familiar objects such as chairs, ladders, and plants appear both intimate and ambiguous, bridging personal experience and collective memory. The work reflects on human existence within shifting conditions marked by fear, hope, and instability.

 

10 AM – 8 PM | Open every day

Galeri RJ Katamsi

Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta