The exhibition 'Para Sekutu yang Tidak Bisa Berkata Tidak' (The Acquiescent Allies) features works, archives, photographs and books from various institutional and private collections. What connects them?
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The exhibition 'Para Sekutu yang Tidak Bisa Berkata Tidak' (The Acquiescent Allies) started with the works of international artists in the collection of Galeri Nasional Indonesia from two exhibitions:
Paris Jakarta 1959–1960 (1992) and
Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries (1995). They pose certain questions that frame the selected works. Do these international artists have a special relationship with artists in (or from) Indonesia or with the artistic practices that take place here? Do these artists know each other? Or are they simply classified because of their age, gender, nationality, style of work, or artistic taste?
The next stage is to explore several works that contain the artists’ practice, thoughts, and attitudes that are intertwined and complement the core intention. At this stage, a keyword and a series of questions derived from the works and practice of several selected artists serve as a guide. Is solidarity (among people, groups, and nations) traceable in what artists do? Can it be manifested in their work? If so, what? If not, why? Can we recognize these various forms of solidarity? Should they be distinguished from each other? Has time (age) changed the form of this solidarity?
Speakers
NUNUS SUPARDI KARSODIMEDJO
completed his undergraduate education at IKIP Malang in 1970. He has served as Secretary of the Directorate General of Culture (1993-1999), Director of the Antiquities Directorate (1999-2001), and Expert Staff to the Minister of Culture and Tourism (2001). After retiring from his last post as Main Secretary of the Cultural and Tourism Development Agency in 2003, he has been involved in several arts and cultural organizations as a member and on the board, including the Indonesian Arts Cooperation Agency (BKKI), the Indonesian Museum Association (AMI) Komda DKI Jakarta/Paramitajaya, and the National Film Censorship Agency. His published books include
Moh. Amir Sutaarga, Bapak Permuseuman Indonesia (
Father of Indonesian Museums) in 2020.
SITI ADIYATI SUBANGUN
is an artist, writer, and one of the founders of Indonesian Fine Arts Movement. In the 1980s, she regularly wrote for newspapers, magazines and art journals in Indonesia. After returning from Japan and France, she rediscovered the collection resulting from the exchange “Jakarta-Paris 1959” and then began the work of collecting, archiving, conserving, and exhibiting data of this collection for the public in 1992. Together with Gendut Riyanto, FX Harsono, and Hendro Wiyanto, she published the journal
DIALOG Seni Rupa (1990-1994). In 1993, she received an honorary award from the French Government, the Legion d'Honore Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. Siti Adiyati was an art teacher from 1976-1982 before moving to Paris and publishing books and compilations of essays such as
From Kandinsky to Wianta. She continues to be actively involved in initiating and participating in solo and group exhibitions in Indonesia, Europe, and Asia.
WATIE MOERANY
completed her undergraduate education at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta and earned a postgraduate degree in History at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of Indonesia. She received a scholarship to study Cultural Conservation and Preservation at Oeno University in Tokyo, Japan, as well as a scholarship from the Japan Foundation to study arts management at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She participated in several curatorial workshops at the National Gallery of Indonesia in 1998 and has been involved as curator of the NAM Fine Arts Exhibition. She also served as Director of Art Development at the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy in 2013. Her recent curatorial projects include
Geo-Ethnics, Biennale of Indonesian Design and Crafts (2013);
Horizon of Strength at Kunstkring Art Paleis in Jakarta (2013); Biennale of Indonesian Design and Crafts in Jakarta (2014);
Wood & Good, a contemporary woodworking exhibition in Jakarta (2015); and a photo exhibition of the Indonesian President's Cup in Jakarta.
Moderators
BAYU GENIA KRISHBIE
earned a bachelor of Design in Textile Crafts degree from the Bandung Institute of Technology FSRD in 2008. He has worked at the National Gallery of Indonesia since 2010 as part of the collection and documentation staff and was assigned as an in-house curator in 2014. Bayu was involved in a series of
Condition Report curatorial development workshops organized by the Japan Foundation Asia Center 2015-2017 in Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, and a number of cities in Japan. Exhibitions he has handled include
Mode of Liaisons at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (2017); Resipro(vo)cation:
Engaging Fine Art Practices in Indonesia Post-reformation at the National Gallery of Indonesia (2017) as part of the
Condition Report program, Japan Foundation Asia Center;
Manifesto 6.0:
Multipolar at the National Gallery of Indonesia (2018);
National Collection of Fine Arts Exhibition #2: Transition Lines at the National Gallery of Indonesia (2019); and the International Media Arts Festival
Instrumenta 2: Machine/Magic at the National Gallery Indonesia (2019).
GRACE SAMBOH
is a researcher and curator. She is a co-founding member of the research group Hyphen (since 2011), the Project Director for RUBANAH Underground Hub, Jakarta (since 2019), a member of the curatorial team for “Jakarta Biennale 2021: ESOK”, and she is undertaking a doctorate in Arts and Society Studies at Sanata Dharma University.
Just like your all-time favorite songs, this exhibition presents a selection of works from the collections of Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, and Singapore Art Museum in a fresh perspective. The exhibition is curated by Grace Samboh, with Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Gridthiya Gaweewong and June Yap as part of the long-term project Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories. The exhibition runs
from 28 January to 27 February 2022 at Galeri Nasional Indonesia. Book your free visitation slot at least a day prior to your intended visit via:
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