Ade Darmawan
SHORT BIO
Jakarta, 1974
He lives and works in Jakarta as an artist, curator and director of ruangrupa. His works range from installations, objects, digital print, video and public art. As an artists and curator he has been participated in many art projects and exhibitions in several cities in Indonesia and more such as; Amsterdam, Seoul, New York, Buenos Aires, Durban, Tokyo, Bangkok, Mumbai, Mexico City, Istanbul, and Sydney. With ruangrupa as a collaborative platform he also have participated in Gwangju Biennale 2002 in Korea, and Istanbul Biennale 2005 in Turkey, Singapore Biennial 2011, Asia Pacific Trienniale Brisbane 2012.
He studied at Indonesia Art Institute (I.S.I), in Graphic Art Department. A year after His first solo exhibition in 1997 at the Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta (now Cemeti Art House), He stay in Amsterdam, Netherlands for two years residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten. In 2000, with five other artists from Jakarta he founded ruangrupa. An artists' initiative organisation which focuses in visual arts and its relation with the social cultural context especially in urban environment. From 2006-2009 he was a member of Jakarta Arts Council, and in 2009 he became the artistic director of Jakarta Biennale XIII-ARENA, and currently he is the executive director of Jakarta Biennale 2013.
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ADE DARMAWAN
b. 1974 in Jakarta
Lives and works in Jakarta.
Director and co-founder ruangrupa (founded in 2000) - Jakarta, Member of Jakarta Arts Council (Dewan Kesenian Jakarta) 2006 – 2009 Executive Director Jakarta Biennale 2013
Education:
1992-1997 Art Institute of Indonesia (I.S.I), Graphic Art Department, Yogyakarta , Indonesia
1998-2000 Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Institute for Advance Art Studies and Research - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Grants:
1998 UNESCO – Aschberg Bursaries for Artists
1999 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs [BUZA/DCO/CO] Solo exhibition:
1997 ”Deodorant Display of Power”, Cemeti contemporary art gallery, Yogyakarta. 1999 ”TRENDYPROGRESSIVEBRAIN”, Cemeti contemporary art gallery, Yogyakarta. 1999 “PLEASE HELP US PRESERVE THEM”,- De Schone Kunsten gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands
2003 “Supply and Demand”, French Cultural Centre – CCF Jakarta 2004 “Supply and Demand”, Kedai Kebun Forum – Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2012 “Human Resource Development”, ARK Gallery – Jakarta, Indonesia 2013 “ Home Theater”, ArtClub 1563, Seoul, Korea
1995 The 40 years Retrospection of graphic art in Yogyakarta, Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta 1997 “Slot in the Box”, contemporary art gallery ,Yogyakarta
1998 Art Amsterdam’ 1998 (Kunts RAI), - De Schone Kunsten, Amsterdam 1999 “Garis Tepi” Cemeti Gallery, Yogyakarta
“THANKS”, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam “Against Impunity”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000 “Seni Rupa campur” Indonesian Young Artist Exhibition at Centrum Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, Netherlands
2000 Lakeeren Gallery, Bombay, India
“Different spaces”, French Cultural Center, Bandung
Half Century Indonesian Printmaking, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta 2001 “Printmaking in the future”, cemeti art house, Yogyakarta
“BIG SHOW” , NICC [New International Cultural Center], Antwerp, Belgium 2002 “Print 2000+2 project”, ruangrupa, Galeri Cipta II, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta
‘P_A_U_S_E’, Gwangju Biennale Korea, - work with ruangrupa “Asian Comment” Copenhagen, Denmark
“Mata”, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta
2003 “Lekker eten Zonder Betalen” – ruangrupa group exhibition at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta
2004 “Identity Versus Globalisation?”, Chiang Mai Art Museum, Bangkok’s National Gallery-Thailand, Museum of Ethnology Berlin-Dahlem - Germany.
2005 “Taboo and Transgression in contemporary Indonesian Art” - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Central Avenue Ithaca, New York
2005 “Leading From The Edge” Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Australia 2005 “ISTANBUL” Istanbul Biennale, Turkey – work with ruangrupa
2006 “Rethinking Nordic Colonialism” – Faroe Island, work with ruangrupa 2007 “Sisa” – UTS (University of Technology Sydney) Gallery, Australia 2007 “AIAE” Asian International Art Exhibition, Bandung
2008 “Hello Print” Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta
2009 “Magnetic Power” ASEAN-Korea Contemporary Photography & Media Art Exhibition 2010 “Crash Project –Image Factory” SIGIarts Gallery, Jakarta
“Crossing and Blurring the Boundaries: Medium In Indonesian Contemporary Art” – Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta
“Sang Ahli Gambar dan kawan-kawan” Galeri Canna, Jakarta 2011 “OPEN HOUSE” Singapore Biennale, - work with ruangrupa
“Beastly” Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta
“Motion Sensation” Kinetic arts exhibition, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta
2012 “The KUDA: The Untold Story of Indonesian Underground Music in the 70’s”, Asia Pacific Triennale, Brisbane Australia – work with ruangrupa
Selected Project/workshop
1995 “core” comics, comic magazine,Yogyakarta 1999 “Recognition of the place” , Skoki, Poland 1999 “ARE WE HAPPY” Poster project, Amsterdam 2000 “Open Circle” Artists camp, Bombay, India
2000 Public Art project, ruangrupa-TaringPadi-Apotik Komik, Jakarta 2001 “ El Despacho” Mexico City, Mexico
2001 “Jakarta Habitus Publik” , ruangrupa public art project - Jakarta 2001 “SWARM” project, Jakarta - Yogyakarta
2001 ‘Territory and context’ - TRAMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 “After the (f)act”, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung Indonesia 2004 ‘HIV(E)’ – in GOZOLO a centre for Aids orphans, Durban, South Africa 2006 ‘Exociti’ Public Art Project – Istanbul, Turkey
2008 “Musafir” ruangrupa ArtLab Project, Jakarta
2009 “Grand Domestic Revolution”, collaboration with Casco Arts Design and theory, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Selected Curatorial Project
2003 OK.Video, 1st Jakarta International Video Festival.
2004 “Have We Met?” – Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “Move On Asia – Clash and Network”, video art festival, Seoul Korea 2009 Artistic Director, Jakarta Biennale ARENA
“Toko Keperluan” Anggun Priambodo solo Exhibition, RURU Gallery, Jakarta 2011 “City Net Asia” – Seoul Museum of Art
2012 “Riverscape IN FLUX” – Hanoi, Saigon, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Jakarta, Manila
“3rd Manifesto – Order and Conflict” with Rizki A Zaelani – Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta
2013 “Media Art Kitchen” – South East Asia + Japan Media Arts exhibition, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta
Festival
2005 Festival Director OK.Video Sub/Version – 2nd Jakarta International Video Festival
2006 Festival Programmer – Jakarta Slingshortfest, South East Asia short film festival 2007 Festival Director OK.Video MILITIA – 3rd Jakarta International Video Festival
2009 Artistic Director OK.Video Comedy – 4th Jakarta International Video Festival
2013 Visual Arts coordinator / curator ARTE, arts festival, JCC, Jakarta
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More Supply Less Demands
Lenticular print 60 cm x 100 cm
