ISA May Newsletter 2026

ISA Art Gallery at Wisma 46, Central Jakarta

ISA Art Gallery proudly presents, Present Presence, a trio presentation bringing together the practices of A. Sebastianus, Chiara Hardy, and Chintia Kirana in a shared inquiry into how presence is never fixed, but continuously produced through material, perception, and time. Across the exhibition, what appears is never fully stable: it is formed through processes of translation, fragmentation, and return. Rather than presenting completed objects, the works stage conditions in which meaning is always emerging, always in negotiation with its own instability.

A. Sebastianus works through archival fragmentation and reweaving, transforming images, memory, and inherited material into textile and layered composition. Chiara Hardy constructs environments of perception through light, form, and transmission, where objects operate as systems that respond to movement and attention. Chintia Kirana inscribes time directly into material through ash, carbon, and reflective surfaces, producing works where memory accumulates as residue, rupture, and repetition. While distinct in method, each practice treats material not as passive substrate but as an active participant in the formation of meaning.

Installed together, the works form a space where looking is never singular or stable. The viewer moves between partial views, reflections, and obstructions, experiencing each work as something that unfolds differently depending on position and duration. Rather than offering resolution, Present Presence holds attention within processes of becoming, where presence is continuously produced through change, and never fully completed.

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2 May 2026 | Opening ceremony, 4 – 7 PM

11 AM – 6 PM | Tuesdays - Saturdays

Closed on Sundays, Mondays & Public Holidays

Wisma 46 – Ground Floor

Jl. Jend. Sudirman No.Kav 1, Jakarta

ISA Art Gallery at Art Jakarta Gardens 2026

5 – 10 May 2026

Hutan Kota Plataran, Central Jakarta

ISA Art Gallery is proud to present eighteen artists from the region and beyond at Art Jakarta Gardens 2026. The presentation brings together A. Sebastianus, Allyson Jeong, Arahmaiani, Ardi Gunawan, Audya Amalia, Chintia Kirana, Dabi Arnasa, Dewi Fortuna Maharani, Galih Adika, Ida Lawrence, Ines Katamso, Jumaadi, Luh’De Gita, Marten Bayuaji, Sillyndris, Sinta Tantra, Yuki Nakayama, and Zikry Rediansyah.

For this edition, ISA Art Gallery presents Methods of in/Tending. The title holds a double movement. To tend is to care for, to cultivate, to remain attentive to what grows over time, as one would in a garden. Within the context of Art Jakarta Gardens 2026, this suggests a mode of practice grounded in maintenance, patience, and responsiveness to environment and change.

At the same time, in/tending gestures toward intending. It reflects the multiplicity of artistic practices, each shaped by its own decisions, directions, and conceptual commitments. Intention here is not fixed but unfolds through process, material, and encounter. Held together, in/tending moves between care and conception, framing artistic practice as both an act of sustaining and an act of forming, where meaning emerges through the ongoing negotiation between attention and intention.

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5 May 2026 | VIP Preview, 1 – 9 PM

6 – 8 May 2026 | General entry, 1 – 9 PM

9 – 10 May 2026 | General entry, 11 AM - 9 PM

Booth B1, Hutan Kota by Plataran
Jl. Pintu Gelora V, Central Jakarta 10270

UNBOUND: Resonating Light

24 April – 24 May 2026

NODE by ISA Art and Design Consultancy

Following its opening last week, NODE by ISA Art and Design Consultancy’s first public exhibition since the space’s inauguration in December last year continues to evolve in the gallery. 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.

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11 AM - 6 PM | Mondays - Fridays

Closed on Saturdays, Sundays & Public Holidays

NODE by ISA Art and Design Consultancy

Jl. Wijaya Timur Raya No. 12, South Jakarta

Where We Remain

Join us for the second month of Where We Remain, a contemporary art exhibition, held in collaboration with Jakarta Land, that brings together Alexander Sebastianus, Dabi Arnasa, Dewi Fortuna, Rose Cameron, Tara Kasenda, Yuki Nakayama, and Zikry Rediansyah to explore this reciprocal relationship between a person and a 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

ISA ARTIST ON THE MOVE

Arahmaiani

The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026

9 May – 2 August 2026

Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù, Venice, Italy

ISA Art Gallery is proud to announce Arahmaiani’s participation in The Spirits of Maritime Crossing 2026, where she will present her globally recognized Flag Projects (2006–present) as part of the Venice Biennale programme. Her long-term, community-based collaborations span Asia, Europe, and the Americas, activating collective creativity as a form of open, democratic art-making grounded in resistance, wisdom, and joy.

Curated by Prof. Dr. Apinan Poshyananda, and organized by the Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation, the exhibition brings together twenty artists from Southeast Asia, Serbia, and Ireland to consider maritime crossing as a lived condition shaped by migration, diaspora, displacement, and belonging. Through performance, film, music, ceramics, installation, painting, and sculpture, each artist reimagines the sea as both threshold and memory. Within this context, Arahmaiani’s practice operates as a living system of exchange, where the flag becomes both symbol and site, carrying histories of movement while opening space for shared futures.

10 AM – 6 PM | Tuesdays to Sundays
Closed on Mondays

Palazzo Rocca Contarini Corfù

Dorsoduro 1057/D, Venice 30123

Sinta Tantra

We are delighted to share that Sinta Tantra will be presenting a solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida. The exhibition opens with a private view on Friday, 29 May 2026, and runs through 12 September 2026, a wonderful opportunity to experience her work in the vibrant cultural landscape of South Florida.

Alongside the exhibition, Sinta has been commissioned to create a new public artwork in the heart of West Palm Beach. Entitled Petals of the Moon, the sculptural installation stands at an impressive 11.5 feet tall and will be permanently sited at the corner of Gregory Road and South Dixie Highway. The work is set to be unveiled by the end of July 2026, bringing Sinta's signature visual language into the city's public realm. Watch this space as more details unfold.

Closer to home, Sinta's work can also be seen in Hong Kong as part of the 2026 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, for which she has been shortlisted alongside 29 artists from 12 countries and territories. Selected from over 250 entries, her inclusion is a significant recognition of her continued engagement with global audiences. Finalists' works will be on public view at H Queen's from 24 April to 3 May, and at Phillips' Asia headquarters in the West Kowloon Cultural District from 12 to 15 May. Visitors are invited to cast their vote for the Public Vote Prize, both in person and online, with winners to be announced on 19 May 2026.

Stay tuned here for more details to come

Ida Lawrence

A Bigger Misha

9 May – 2 August 2026

Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia

We are delighted to share that Sinta Tantra will be presenting a solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida. The exhibition opens with a private view on Friday, 29 May 2026, and runs through 12 September 2026, a wonderful opportunity to experience her work in the vibrant cultural landscape of South Florida.

Alongside the exhibition, Sinta has been commissioned to create a new public artwork in the heart of West Palm Beach. Entitled Petals of the Moon, the sculptural installation stands at an impressive 11.5 feet tall and will be permanently sited at the corner of Gregory Road and South Dixie Highway. The work is set to be unveiled by the end of July 2026, bringing Sinta's signature visual language into the city's public realm. Watch this space as more details unfold.

Closer to home, Sinta's work can also be seen in Hong Kong as part of the 2026 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, for which she has been shortlisted alongside 29 artists from 12 countries and territories. Selected from over 250 entries, her inclusion is a significant recognition of her continued engagement with global audiences. Finalists' works will be on public view at H Queen's from 24 April to 3 May, and at Phillips' Asia headquarters in the West Kowloon Cultural District from 12 to 15 May. Visitors are invited to cast their vote for the Public Vote Prize, both in person and online, with winners to be announced on 19 May 2026.

8 May 2026 | Private view, 6 – 9 PM

10 AM – 5 PM | Everyday

Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre

1 Finnerty St, Fremantle WA 6160 AU

ARTIST HIGHLIGHT

Sillyndris

This May, ISA Art Gallery is pleased to highlight Sillyndris (Ilham Hidayat). Born in Bandung in 1993, Sillyndris is a visual artist and creative director based in Indonesia. He graduated from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, majoring in Resort & Leisure Management, and later pursued a short course at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 2019.

Sillyndris has held two solo exhibitions, Sterna Paradisea (2019) and Life After Midnight: with Tortorot (2020). His work reflects on how humans interact with the material world and how everyday objects shape identity and culture. He has recently concluded a presentation at D Gallerie Jakarta, continuing his ongoing exploration of food and materiality through his artistic practice.

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