Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History is inspired by the conviction of so many of Indonesia's Independence-era artists that there is continuing interaction between art and everyday life. In the 1970s, Sanento Yuliman, Indonesia’s foremost art historian of the late twentieth century, further developed that concept, stating: 'New Indonesian Art cannot wholly be und…
In pre-pandemic 2019, when it was possible to organise international art exhibitions, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) curated and presented an exhibition of contemporary Indonesian art to show the diversity and richness of art in new millennium Indonesia. Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia was the first major survey of post-1998 Indonesian art seen in Austral…