WHAT’S ON ISA ART GALLERY IN AUGUST, 2026
ONGOING
A Blur is a Memory
11 July - 11 September 2026
ISA Art Gallery at Wisma 46, Central Jakarta
Now entering its second month, A Blur is a Memory brings together the practices of Luh’De Gita and Etza Meisyara, who share similar visions of portraying a blur as a form of remembering, capturing what is inherently intangible through the tangible materials of painting and etching. Luh’De and Etza’s works aim to suspend moments, capturing the afterimages of sound, movements, and rhythms of nature. By doing so, Etza and Luh’De challenge the way technology has rendered us increasingly more reliant on it, inviting viewers into a space where memory and possibility converge to reconsider their ways of seeing.
In order to capture these afterimages, Luh’De Gita paints a combination of archival images of Bali with her own photographs to portray the realities of overtourism, gentrification, and environmental transformation, challenging romantic notions of Bali as a tropical paradise. Etza Meisyara etches sound motions on metal plates, using music as a foundation for her works. Through mixed media and installation, she creates multisensory works that capture blurred impressions of performances. Although distinct in method, both artists return to slow, materially intensive processes of making, resisting the ever-accelerating pace of everyday life.
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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
IDA LAWRENCE & JUMAADI
Pasar Malam (Night Market)
15 August – 25 October 2026
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Australia
This month, Ida Lawrence and Jumaadi’s participation in Pasar Malam (Night Market) will be presented at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Australia from 15 August to 25 October 2026. Pasar Malam is an ongoing show that was presented in Indonesia in mid-2025 and is currently touring Australian regional galleries from 12 February 2026 until 2 January 2028.
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery is one of Australia’s leading regional art institutions, renowned for presenting high-calibre exhibitions and fostering community engagement through contemporary art. This exhibition will present a series of large-format screenprints from 15 leading Indonesian and Australian artists, depicting the atmosphere of a night market as a world in reverse, bringing together works that allude to mysticism, mythology, and ritual to show how the inevitable secrets and illicit pleasures buried within every community.
Drawing on her long-standing connections with Indonesia, Australia, and Germany, Pasar Malam extends Lawrence’s ongoing exploration of storytelling, providing a fitting context for her narrative-driven practice. As Jumaadi’s practice is often informed by Javanese storytelling traditions such as wayang kulit, this exhibition’s evocation of mythology and ritual thus resonates with his longstanding exploration of how stories, cultural memory, and identities are carried across places and generations.
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10 AM – 4 PM | Wednesday – Sunday
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery
64 Wittenoom Street, Bunbury
JUMAADI
Archetypes: 30 Years of 4A
11 July – 20 September 2026
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
A few weeks ago, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art launched Archetypes: 30 Years of 4A to celebrate its 30th anniversary. This exhibition brings together Jumaadi and five pioneering artists whose works enter into a dialogue with a new generation of practitioners, revisiting the organisation’s founding vision while examining its evolving position within the cultural landscape of Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Archetypes: 30 Years of 4A positions newly commissioned works alongside historically significant works to examine an intergenerational conversation about legacy, cultural memory, and the responsibilities of the present. This exhibition resonates closely with Jumaadi’s practice, which draws on personal experience and the political and aesthetic traditions of his homeland, including wayang kulit and other Javanese storytelling traditions, through which he investigates themes of love, conflict, and belonging.
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11 AM – 5 PM | Wednesday – Sunday
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
181-187 Hay Street, Haymarket,
Warrane/Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia
INES KATAMSO
The Places We Carry
6 – 29 August 2026
Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore
Ines Katamso will be participating in The Places We Carry at Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore from 6 August to 29 August 2026.
This exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists whose practices are shaped by the places they have lived, remembered, and carried with them. Through the use of earth, clay, textiles, pigment, and reclaimed matter, the works explore how landscapes, histories, and everyday experiences become embedded in memory and embodied in the act of making. Katamso’s participation in this exhibition resonates with her practice as it draws on ecological systems and organic forms to portray the land as a living archive of memory and transformation.
The Places We Carry positions movement as a methodology that is held through gestures, textures, scents, and lived experience. Together, the works propose making being a form of remembering, where materials become vessels for personal and collective histories, revealing how the places we inhabit continue to shape us long after we leave them.
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10 AM – 5 PM | Tuesday – Saturday
10 AM – 3 PM | Sunday
Sullivan + Strumpf
1M Yong Siak St, Singapore 168641
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT
This August, ISA Art Gallery is pleased to highlight Alexander Sebastianus Hartanto. Born in 1995, he was trained in traditional weaving in his grandmother’s hometown in East Java. He uses ethnographic research to decontextualize material cultures and decolonize ontologies of art to reclaim Sani, a way of living grounded in offering, service, and the search for the unknown. His works reimagine textiles, ritual, and sacred spaces as living expressions of cultural memory rather than static artifacts.
A. Sebastianus is currently presenting Tilas Waktu: Lithic Phenomenologies of Belonging as part of Ars Longa: Generatio, ARTJOG, where he creates megalithic stone-like sculptures from bodily residues, ancestral textiles, and inherited garments to explore how the physical world can act as a living archive for human existence. Through his participation, A. Sebastianus expands the idea of ecology beyond natural systems, including cultural, spiritual, and material ecosystems, reflecting the overall theme of Ars Longa: Generatio that considers art as a mode of survival and continuity.
From October to November, A. Sebastianus will be a part of Manang Artist Residency, a high-altitude residency in Nepal located at Annapurna Sanctuary. This residency serves as a platform for artists to create works while engaging with the region’s landscape, community, and cultural traditions, aligning with A. Sebastianus’s practice that examines material culture, sacred spaces, and pilgrimage through the philosophy of Sani.
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