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A digital catalogue for “Song Of The Rainbow”, a solo exhibition by Arahmaiani at Richard Koh Fine Art, 229, Jalan Maarof, Bukit Contents Bandaraya, Bangsar 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 7 - 23 November 2019.

Cover page: Arahmaiani, Song of Rainbow in Blue (detail), 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 139 x 200 cm 04 “Song Of The Rainbow” Exhibition by Dr. Nasir TAMARA

07 Artist Statement by Arahmaiani 09 Works 26 Artist’s Profile “Song Of The Rainbow” Exhibition Indonesia. Actually Arahmaiani is not new to the by Dr. Nasir TAMARA, MA, M.Sc art world in Malaysia. She has lived 14 October 2019 and exhibited several times in Kuala Lumpur. The exhibitions are loved by both art collectors and art fans in Kuala Indonesian artists are becoming more Lumpur. lively, dynamic and known worldwide Rarely do we get an artist who has as we can see in exhibitions and festivals various talents like Arahmaiani. She is such as Artjog, JakArt, ArtBali and Jogja an author, a poet, a theater artist under Biennale, as well as the participation the legendary director W.S. Rendra who of Indonesian artists at the Indonesian later developed into a performance Pavilion at the Venice Biennale which artist, a dancer who paints and makes began in 2003, and Arahmaiani is one various installation works that are of the participating artists. unique and original. She also teaches The progress is obviously driven by the in various universities and art schools many talented Indonesian artists. One including in Germany. of the talented artists, Arahmaiani - a Her works tend to always touch human continuously developing woman artist conscience because they take themes - we can see her works in the exhibition about the suppression of human ‘Song of the Rainbow’ in a prominent art rights, environmental destruction, gallery in Kuala Lumpur. criticism of authoritarian governance, Arahmaiani studied at the Fine Arts gender inequality and also oppression Department, Bandung Institute of in the name of religion against women Technology, where many of Indonesia’s and minorities. She was concerned leading artists are educated, and also about the continuing trend of clashes in AKI (Akademie Kunst Industrie) in between civilizations. She is sad Holland. Art in its various manifestations because the quality of democracy has is the vocation of the soul that should declined in the Western world. She is be worked with all our heart. It is the concerned about the impact of digital only career she does. Performances communication technology and the and exhibitions of her artworks take collection of big data on human privacy. place in many countries in Asia, Europe, She was angry because the consensus Australia and America. about climate change that could Arahmaiani is a figure who has destroy the world was still rejected by strong Asian roots. She has lived in the super power countries. Malaysia, Thailand and Tibet. But she In this exhibition, Arahmaiani returned is also familiar with Western civilization to its original roots. She creates Arabic because she had lived in Europe. By calligraphy on canvas in striking vibrant her father, an academic scholar, she colors. However the artist previously was raised in the Islamic tradition. But uses more monochromatic colors. she also learned Buddhism deeply Her intention is to explore the power of and was familiar with Hindu culture in colors that can be a variety of colors of 4 5 the rainbow through paintings similar to Arabic calligraphy which is very Pameran “Song Of The Rainbow” familiar to Muslims because the Qur’an oleh Dr. Nasir TAMARA, MA, M.Sc is written in Arabic. And in Indonesia the 14 Oktober 2019 Arabic script was adopted (known as Arabic-Malay or Jawi) and then used to write the local language. Unfortunately, since the last four decades the dominance of Wahhabism and Salafi and religious conservatism in Shi’a Senirupa Indonesia makin semarak, Islam in the Middle East has caused dinamis dan mendunia seperti kita lihat many misunderstandings in the West. dalam pameran dan festival senirupa The climax was 9/11 incident where ArtJog, JakArt, ArtBali dan Biennale terrorists used religion to justify their Jogja, serta keikutsertaan para perupa attacks in New York and several other Indonesia di Pavilion Indonesia di cities in the United States. Venice Biennale yang dimulai sejak Arahmaiani fell victim to her attitude in tahun 2003. Dan Arahmaiani menjadi favor of diversity and rejected a single salah satu seniman yang berpartisipasi interpretation of religious teachings. di dalamnya. As a manifestation of her concern for Indonesia sepertinya telah intolerance, she once exhibited her mengambil alih peran Singapura works in the form of calligraphy on the sebagai pusat dari senirupa di Asia streets of several European cities after Tenggara. the shocking events of the world. The public was shocked. They think this Kemajuan itu tentunya karena artist was spreading fundamentalism Indonesia memiliki perupa-perupa as a source of Islamic terrorism. yang sangat berbakat. Salah seorang perupa berbakat itu Arahmaiani - Perhaps also in this way Arahmaiani perupa perempuan yang semakin wanted to convey that the Islamic berkembang - dapat kita lihat karya- world was not black and white but karyanya dalam pameran ‘Song of the colorful. There are many traditions Rainbow’ di sebuah galeri senirupa and beliefs in Islam. They generally terkemuka di Kuala Lumpur. lived more peacefully side by side for more than 14 centuries. The colors Arahmaiani dididik di Jurusan form a naturally dangling beauty in the Seni Rupa, Institut Teknologi Bandung, charm of the rainbow, like the title of tempat banyak perupa terkemuka this exhibition. With these colors, the Indonesia dididik, dan juga di AKI artist creates melodies in a rainbow of (Akademie Kunst Industrie) di Holland. beautiful shapes which can stimulate Seni dalam berbagai manifestasinya and open new perspectives. adalah panggilan jiwa yang dikerjakannya dengan sepenuh hati. Satu-satunya karir yang dilakoninya. Pementasan dan pameran karya-karya seninya berlangsung di banyak negara

6 7 di Asia, Eropa, Australia dan Amerika. komunikasi digital dan pengumpulan bahasa lokal. Sayangnya sejak empat Arahmaiani adalah tokoh yang big data terhadap privacy manusia. dekade terakhir dominasi paham mempunyai akar Asia yang kuat. Dia Dia marah karena konsensus Wahabi dan Salafi dan konservatisme pernah tinggal di Malaysia, Thailand dan tentang perubahan iklim yang dapat agama dalam Islam Shi’ah di Timur Tibet. Namun dia juga akrab dengan menghancurkan dunia masih ditolak Tengah telah menimbulkan banyak peradaban Barat karena pernah tinggal oleh negara-negara super power. salah paham di Barat. Puncaknya ketika di Eropa. Dari ayahnya, seorang ulama Dalam pamerannya kali ini terjadi serangan terorisme atas nama yang akademis, dia dibesarkan dalam Arahmaiani kembali ke akar awalnya. agama 9 September 2001 di New York tradisi Islam. Namun ia juga mendalami Ia merupa kaligrafi Arab pada kanvas dan beberapa kota lain di Amerika Budhisme dan akrab dengan budaya dalam warna-warni yang hidup dan Serikat. Hindu yang kuat di Indonesia. cukup mencolok. Sebelumnya perupa Arahmaiani menjadi korban Sesungguhnya Arahmaianani ini lebih banyak menggunakan warna dalam sikapnya yang mendukung bukan orang baru dalam dunia senirupa hitam - putih dan abu-abu. kebhinekaan dan menolak interpretasi di Malaysia. Dia pernah tinggal dan Dia seakan ingin mengeksplorasi tunggal akan ajaran agama. Sebagai berpameran beberapa kali di Kuala kekuatan warna yang bisa menjadi manifestasi kekhawatirannya pada Lumpur. Pameran-pameran itu disukai aneka warna pelangi melalui lukisan- intoleransi ia pernah memamerkan oleh para kolektor dan penggemar lukisan serupa kaligrafi Arab yang karya-karyanya dalam bentuk karya-karya seni rupa di Kuala Lumpur. sangat akrab bagi umat Islam karena Al kaligrafi di jalan-jalan beberapa kota Eropa setelah peristiwa yang Jarang kita mendapatkan Qur’an ditulis dalam Bahasa Arab. Dan di Indonesia tulisan Arab diadopsi (dikenal menggemparkan dunia itu. Reaksi seorang artis yang memiliki publik sungguh mengejutkan. berbagai bakat dalam dirinya seperti dengan istilah Arab - Melayu atau Jawi) lalu digunakan untuk menuliskan Mereka mengira perupa ini sedang Arahmaiani. Dia seorang penulis menyebarkan fundamentalisme buku, penyair, belajar teater di bawah sebagai sumber dari terorisme Islam. sutradara legendaris W.S.Rendra yang kemudian dikembangkan menjadi seni Mungkin juga dengan caranya performans, penari yang melukis dan ini Arahmaiani ingin menyampaikan membuat berbagai karya instalasi yang bahwa dunia Islam bukanlah hitam unik dan orisinil. Dia juga mengajar di putih namun berwarna-warni. Ada berbagai universitas maupun sekolah banyak tradisi dan aliran dalam Islam. seni termasuk di Jerman. Mereka secara umum lebih banyak hidup damai berdampingan selama Karya-karyanya selalu menyentil lebih dari 14 abad. Warna-warni itu hati nurani karena mengambil tema- membentuk keindahan yang teruntai tema tentang penindasan hak asasi secara alami dalam pesona pelangi, manusia, perusakan lingkungan, kritik judul pameran ini. terhadap pemerintahan yang otoriter, ketidaksetaraan gender dan juga Dengan warna-warni itu sang penindasan atas nama agama terhadap seniman menciptakan melodi dalam kaum perempuan dan minoritas. Dia pelangi berbagai rupa yang indah. prihatin terhadap kecenderungan Arahmaiani telah berhasil mengubah benturan antar peradaban yang terus hitam putih yang monoton dan dapat berlangsung. Dia sedih karena kwalitas menjemukan menjadi karya-karya demokrasi menurun di dunia Barat. yang merangsang dan membuka Dia khawatir atas dampak teknologi perspektif baru.

8 9 Artist Statement by Arahmaiani, Yogjakarta, 5 Sep 2019

The first time I started my work with accepted and embraced by the local Jawi was in 1993/94 on the work called community members), an indicator of “Lingga-Yoni”. Then in 2005-2006 I the character of Javanese culture or worked on a community-based art the archipelago that is open to foreign project in Thailand; “Stitching the Wound cultures that came from outside. Foreign ” and I made an installation work with culture adopted and adapted to the local the basic idea of Jawi script “The Thread culture. Therefore, it is syncretic: where ”. This work was made in cooperation various elements of different cultures with the Muslim minority community will be united or combined. This kind of and the Buddhist majority. And in this thing has been going on for thousands project, I was addresing the idea of the of years, as a clear cultural strategy identity of Muslims in Indonesia and in that is very open to other cultures in Southeast Asia. The exploration of Jawi the meaning of tolerance and respect script is then developed further when for diversity, also meaning also there I started working with the community definitely is the ability to see similarities of Pesantrren Amumarta lead by Kyai (universal values as the similar basis of Jawis Masruri in Yogyakarta. This Islamic culture and beliefs). Thus, diversity is boarding school is the oldest pesantren seen as a natural thing without having in Yogyakarta (more than 400 years old). been placed in a hierarchical structure. Then I started creating an on-going Similarly, in my paintings of Jawi - I want community based art project called to show respect and as a reminder of Flag Project (2006). The project first the history and cultural traditions in started with 2 flags with the Jawi letters: the archipelago (especially the days Mind and Courage. when Islam as a culture and beliefs Jawi or in Java so-called Arab Gundul or were adhered and received), where Arab Pegon is a product of the process understanding of cultural strategy is of cultural assimilation of Arabic culture based on openness, tolerance and with local culture (both in Java as respect for diversity. I express this now well as in Sumatra and then spread in my paintings, in a format of modern- around areas with Muslim population contemporary expression. in Indonesia, when Islam began to be

10 11 Works

12 13 Song of Rainbow in Purple

2019 Acrylic on canvas 119 x 139 cm

14 15 Song of Rainbow in Yellow

2019 Acrylic on canvas 119 x 139 cm

16 17 Song of Rainbow in Light-green

2019 Acrylic on canvas 139 x 99 cm

18 19 Song of Rainbow in Blue

2019 Acrylic on canvas 139 x 119 cm

20 21 Song of Rainbow in Blue II

2019 Acrylic on canvas 139 x 119 cm

22 23 Song of Rainbow in Blue

2019 Acrylic on canvas 139 x 200 cm

24 25 Song of Rainbow in Light-yellow

2019 Acrylic on canvas 139 x 119 cm each, diptych

26 27 Song of Rainbow in Pink

2019 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 100 cm each, triptych

28 29 Educations Artist 1991-1992 Academie voor Beeldende Kunst, Enschede, The Netherlands. 1985-1986 Paddington Art School, Sydney, Australia. Profile 1983 Bachelor of Fine Art, Bandung Institute of Technology, Department of Art, Bandung, Indonesia

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Song Of The Rainbow, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur

2018 The Past Has Not Passed, MACAN Modern & Contemporary Art Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia

Arahmaiani (b. 1961, Bandung, Indonesia) 2016 Shadow of The Past, Tyler Rollins Gallery, New York is an Indonesian artist and based in 2015 Violence No More, Haus am Dom, Frankfurt Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. Arahmaiani is considered by many to be 2014 Fertility of The Mind, Tyler Rollin Gallery, New York one of the most respected and iconic 2013 The Grey Paintings, Equator Art Project, Singapore contemporary artists, specifically in 2008 Slow Down Bro, Jogya Nasional Museum, Indonesia pioneering performance art in Southeast Asia. Arahmaiani frequently uses art as a 2006 Stitching the Wound, Jim Thompson Art Center, means of critical commentary on social, Bangkok religion, and cultural issues. 2005 Lecture on Painting I, Valentine Willie Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2000 Solo drawing show, Lontar Gallery, Jakarta

1999 Dayang Sumbi: Refuses Status Quo, France Cultural Centre (CCF), Bandung

Rape & Rob, Millenium Gallery, Jakarta

Newspaper Man II, Semanggi Café, Jakarta

1994 Sex, Religion and Coca Cola, Oncor Studio, Jakarta, Indonesia

Gallery Café Cemara 6, Jakarta, Indonesia

1992 From Pieces to Become One-Homage to Joseph Beuys, Enschede, The Netherlands

1987 My Dog is Dead and then He Flew, Centre Culturelle Française, Bandung, Indonesia

1983 Independent Feast, Bandung, Indonesia

1980 Accident I, Bandung, Indonesia

Selected Exhibitions

2019 Bruised: Art Action & Ecology in Asia, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne

Sacred Coke, Black Box, Democracy Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sacred Coke, The Secretariat, Goethe Institute, Yangon, Myanmar

2018 Memory of Nature, Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan,

31 China Flag Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, performance) Bangkok, Thailand Shanghai Concept Trap, Gajah Gallery, Yogyakarta The Rest of The World, Pirmasens, Germany Plastic & Other Waste, (First Asia-Pacific Artist Home, Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia Solidarity Project) Kedem-Kodem-Kadima, Tel-Aviv Museum of 2002 Upstream Project, Amsterdam & Hoorn Contemporary Art 2010 Tough Love, Gallery Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Traditions/Tensions, Western Australia Museum of Site + Sight, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore Portugal Contemporary Art 2017 Memory of Nature, SMAK Ghent Museum of Gwangju Biennale, Korea Contemporary Art, Belgium My Grandmother’s House, Museum Bochum, Germany Instalasi Gawat Darurat Pembangunan, 4+4 Begegnung, Sao Paulo Biennal, Brazil Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Flag Project, SMAK Ghent Museum of I Love You, Ana Tzarev Gallery, New York Contemporary Art, Belgium Text & Subtext, Sternersen Musset, Oslo 1997 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Hiroshima Installation I, Sydney Festival, Campbelltown Art City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Art Turns, World Turns, Museum of Modern & Center AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia, Asian Finearts Contemporary Art Macan, Jakarta Gallery, Berlin White Cases, Glimpses into the Future, Art from 2009 No More Bad Girls, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna Southeast Asia Asian Diva: The Muse & The Monster, Sema Buk Seoul 2001 His-story On My Body, Edvisk, Sweden I Love You, (After Joseph Beuys Social Sculpture), Museum of Art Traditions/Tensions, Contemporary Art in Asia, Esplanade, Singapore AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia, Ludwig Forum, Vancouver Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Monument To Revolution, Collective oral work, Athena Aachen. Germany 2008 Strategies Towards the Real, NUS, Singapore Sacred Coke - Cosmology of Destruction, Inside Project: 2016 Shadow of The Past, South East Asia Triennale, His-story on My Body, Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo Die Wahren Orte, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin Kassel, Germany National Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia 2000 The Dog’s Dream, ISP Open Studio, Tribeca, New York 3rd International Calligraphy Biennale, Sharjah, Sacred Coke - Cosmology of Mutilation, VI Biennale de Human - Love, Kunming Biennale, China Emirrates FRESH CREAM la Habana, Havana, Cuba Sacred Coke, Concept, Context, Contestation: Art & the 2007 Premonition, J&Z Gallery, Shenzhen,China Le Petit du Chaperon Rooge, Le Ferme Du Biusson, Womanifesto: Don’t Prevent the Fertility of Mind, Collective in South East Asia, Cemeti Art House, Paris Concrete House, Bangkok, Thailand Yogyakarta 6th Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition Werklietz Biennale, Germany 1996 Traditions/Tensions, Asia Society Gallery, New York, I Love You, St. Michael Church, Berlin Make-up or Break-up, Artspace, Sydney Corporeal Apology, Biennale de-Lyon, France USA SAW Gallery, Ontario, Canada Balance, Bad Doberan, Germany His-story on My Body, Text & Sub-text, Earl Lu Gallery, Nation for Sale, Asia-Pacific Triennale, Brisbane, Art Goes Heilligendamm, Rostock, Germany AXENE07, Quebec, Canada Singapore; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Australia Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, NY In & Out, Asia Society Museum, New York AWAS! Recent Art From Indonesia, Australian Centre Offerings from A to Z, Chiang Mai, Thailand Do Not Prevent the Fertility of the Mind, Trapholt 2005 Magnetism – Suspension, Zendai Museum of Modern For Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Contemporary 1995 Coke Circle, Claremont Art School, Perth, Australia Museum Art, Shanghai Art Space, Canbera; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Australia, Sacred Coke, Contemporary Art from Non-aligned 2015 Violence No More, Jakarta Biennale INTOENNE Festival, Austria Hokaido Asakawa Museum of Contemporary Art Countries, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia 2014 New Frontier, Chain of Fire, Prologue Exhibition of 2004 Don’t Call It Performance Art, Centro Andaluz de Arte 1999 AWAS! Recent Art From Indonesia, Museum Benteng A Piece of Land for Sale, Artists Regional Exchange Honolulu Biennial, Hawaii Contemporaneo, Domus Atrium 2002, Museo Del Fredeburg, Yogyakarta (ARX), Perth, Australia Barrio Concept, Context, Contestation, BACC, Bangkok Copenhagen; Hayward Gallery London 1994 Indonesia in Emergency Aid, Yogyakarta Biennial, SENI, Singapore Art Museum 2013 Suspended History, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Cities On The Move, Louisiana Museum Of Art Summit, National Gallery, Jakarta 5+5 Indonesian & Dutch artists Fragile State, Brian Morris Gallery, NYC Contemporary Art , Purna Budaya, Asian Traffic, Gallery 4A, Sydney Yogyakarta and Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, Indonesia Welcome To The Jungle: South East Asia Contemporary Made In Indonesia No. I, Un Ab Die Post, Postfuhramt Four Faces Art From The Collection of Singapore Art Museum, Reformasi, Sculpture Square, Singapore Berlin 1993 , Biennal IX, Jakarta, Indonesia Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan Twillight Tomorrow, Video Exhibition Singapore Burning Bodies, Burning Countries II, Cultural 1984 Fibre Art and Design, Sydney Textile Museum, Woman in Between, Okinawa Prefecture Museum, Art Museum Centre Phillipines (CCP) Australia Tochigi Prefecture Art Museum of Fine Arts, Mie IMPAKT, Utrecht 1998 Burning Bodies, Burning Country, Musée de Castieva, Prefectural Art Museum, Japan World Social Forum, Mumbai, India Almaty, Kazakstan 2012 Woman in Between, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan Traditions/Tensions 2003 10th Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva , Museum of Contemporary Art, Duchamp in South East Asia, Equator Art Project, Taipei, Taiwan Singapore National Gallery Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia New York, USA Lost in China, Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia Transit, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia Austria; Musée for the Art Contemporaine de 2011 Thread – Stitching the Wounds, Jogya Biennale, Bordeaux, France; P.S. I Yogyakarta Don’t Call it Performance Art, Reina Sophia Museum, Cities on The Move Spain , Museum of Contemporary Art, I Love You, Richmond Center for the Arts, Michigan Vienna Secession CP Open Biennale, Jakarta Crossing Point, Singapore Art Museum Center for the Arts, Chulalongkorn University, 11 June 2002, Venice Biennale(installation & 32 33 Performances Violence No More, Rapid Pulse Int’l Performance Art York; Shiga Museum, Osaka Do Not Prevent the Fertility of Mind, Concrete House, Fes. Chicago Bangkok, Thailand Violence No More, Odense Performance Festival, 2019 Flag Project, Rumah Topeng, Ubud - Bali Violence No More, Equator Art Project Denmark 1996 Handle without Care III, Maga City, Bangkok, Thailand Breaking Words, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Memory of Nature, Art Stage, Singapore Violence No More, Edsvik, Solentuna, Sweden Handle without Care II - You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Z Handle Without Care, Democracy Festival, Kuala 2011 Breaking Words, Gallery of West Michigan Violence No More, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany Gallery, Soho,New York Lumpur, Malaysia University Violence No More, Indonesia – Japan Exchange 2001, Bdg- Handle without Care I, Brisbane, Australia Breaking Words, Open Space, Victoria, Canada Crossing Point, Singapore Art Museum Yogya-Jkt Offering from A to Z, Chiang Mai, Thailand Breaking Words, Asia Contemporary Art Week, Dubai 2010 Violence No More, On Edge, Cairns, Australia Violence – Hate No More, 3rd Performance Biennale, Israel 1995 A performance with Suprapto Suryodarmo, Handle Without Care, The Secretariat, Goethe 2009 Breaking Words, Woodford Folk Festival, Brisbane, Mojosongo, Surakarta Institute Yangon, Myanmar Australia His-story (III), Hillside Terrace, Tokyo Friday Sermon, Claremont Art School, Australia 2018 Handle Without Care, Toronto, Canada I Love You, (After Joseph Beuys Social Sculpture), His-story (III), Ist Woman Performance Art Festival, Esplanade, Singapore Osaka It’s Late Night - Tomorrow the Sun Will Shine, The Seeds, 13th Live Action, Gothenburg, Sweden collaborative work with Aboriginal and Phillippines 2008 Breaking Words, Siliman University, Dumaguette, 2000 NIPAF Asian Series, Hongkong, Macau Handle Without Care, 2nd version. 13th Live Action, artists Phillipines Gothenburg, Sweden His-story (II), Werklietz Biennale, Germany 1994 Frangipani on Water, with musician Wayan Sadra, 2007 Make-up or Break-up, After Joseph Beuys Social Shinta Protes, Collaboration work with young artist His-story (II), Funkhouse, Dresden Mojosongo, Solo, Indonesia Sculpture, Shenzhen, China and young puppet player from Yogyakarta His-story, NIPAF 2000, Taipei, Nagano, Nagoya, Breaking Words, Davis Museum, Boston Memory of Nature Part 2, Bumi Langit Institute, Tokyo Yogyakarta Make-up or Break-up, Sydney, Australia His-story, Jakarta International Performance Art 2017 Memory of Nature Part 2, Biasa Art Space, Jakarta Toyota Era, Matsushiro Samurai School, Nagano, Festival (JIPAF 2000), Jakarta Japan Handle Without Care, 2nd version Macan Museum of 1999 Dayang Sumbi Refuses Status Quo, France Cultural Modern & Contemporary Art, Jakarta Flag Performance 1, Rostock, Germany Center (CCF) Bandung

Breaking Words, Multiversity: 2017 Artrend His-story on My Body, Brooklyn Museum, NY Newspaper Man, Semanggi Café, Jakarta International Performance Art Festival, Tainan, 2006 Dancing Stitches, JT House Bangkok Show Me Your Heart, – Und Ab Die Post, Taiwan Postfuhramt Berlin Breaking Words, Tokyo, Toyama Collaborative Performance, Cologne University, Burning Bodies, Burning Countries II, Cultural Germany Breaking Words, FOI, Singapore Centre Phillipines (CCP) Manila Memory of Nature, SMAK Ghent Museum of Breaking Words, Satu Kali, Kuala Lumpur 1998 Show Me Your Heart, Cemara 6 Gallery, Jakarta; Jamzz, Contemporary Art, Belgium 2005 We Are Not Hungry, Ambulance Int’l Performance Art Jakarta Flag Project, SMAK Ghent Museum of Festival, Jakarta Show Me Your Heart, JAXPA 98: Festival of Asian Contemporary Art and the city, Belgium INTONNE Festival, Austria Performance Art I, Bangkok, Thailand Flag Project, Inn Promenade, Passau, Germany Learning to Swing, Valentine Willie Gallery, Kuala Burning Bodies, Burning Country, Musée de Castieva, Memory of Nature Part 2, Herbert F Johnson Museum, Lumpur Almaty, Kazakstan Ithaca, New York 2004 Breaking Words, FIX04 Belfast Show Me Your Heart, Nippon International 2016 Shadow of the Past, Lasem, Java Breaking Words, Nagano Expo, Japan Performance Art Festival, AsianSeries, Nagano, Nagoya, Tokyo, Japan Descending Rainbow, Tyler Rollins Gallery, New York Soho Baby, 2nd Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing Festival de Winternachten, The Hague, The Memory of Nature Part 2, Grace Exhibition Space Un-tittled, PSI Confrence #10, Singapore Netherlands Me & The Others, Queens Museum, New York Wedding Party (LAPEN Wedding), Kedai Kebun Forum, Art Festival ‘98, Nagano, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Flag Project, St. Marien church, The Dom, Berlin Yogyakarta Japan

Warm Zone, Grace Exhibition Space, New York 2003 Don’t Call it Performance Art, Reina Sophia Museum, Point Zero - My Mind Gets Stuck, Nippon International Madrid; Andalusia Center for Contemporary Art 2015 Violence No More, Jakarta Biennale, Indonesia Performance MIP (International Performance Manifestation), Belo Point Zero - My Mind Gets Stuck Shadow of the Past, Gothenberg, Sweden 1997 , Marsi Gallery, Horizonte, Brasil Bangkok, Thailand Flag Project, Haus am Dom Fusion & Strength, Gallery Benda, Yogyakarta Handle without Care, Who Cares?, Museum of 2014 Warm Zone, Project Reach, New York 2002 Visit to My World, Asian Finearts Gallery, Berlin Contemporary Art Tokyo & Hiroshima, Japan 2013 Making Space, Body as Woman” Performance Art 2001 Tell Me the Story, Za Hall, Tokyo; Japan Society, New Handle without Care IV, Havana, Cuba Festival, Singapore 34 35 www.rkfineart.com @: [email protected]

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