RALLY: Contemporary Indonesian Art

Overview

Yogyakarta, Indonesia produces all sorts of interesting art. The price of entry is usually a plane ticket across the Timor Sea, but over summer the NGV is home-delivering some of Yogyakarta’s burgeoning creative scene. RALLY: Contemporary Indonesian Art highlights two Yogyakarta artists: Eko Nugroho, whose figures lurk, menace and observe with a not unfriendly eye, and Jompet Kuswidananto whose exploration of his own “gray nation” tends to express itself in installations often featuring highly articulate, invisible figures in uniform.

A mural by Nugroho will sit also behind the NGV waterwall and Kuswidananto’s the Commoners will be suspended at back of the Gallery in the stain-glass-ceilinged Federation Court. The artists themselves will talk about art and politics this Saturday for the opening event Rally at the NGV.

Image: Eko Nugroho Threat As A Flavour installation view, ARNDT, Berlin, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and ARNDT, Berlin. © Eko Nugroho. Photo: Bernd Borchardt