Arahmaiani

EDUCATION

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

EXHIBITIONS
1980

• “Accident I”, Bandung, Indonesia.

1983

• “Independent Feast”, Bandung, Indonesia.

1984

• “Fibre Art and Design”, Sydney Textile Museum, Australia.

1987

• “My Dog is Dead and then He Flew”, Centre Culturelle Française, Bandung, Indonesia (solo).

1992

• “From Pieces to Become One-Homage to Joseph Beuys”, Enschede, The Netherlands

1993

• “Four Faces”, Biennal IX, Jakarta, Indonesia.

1994

• Gallery Café Cemara 6, Jakarta, Indonesia.
• “5+5 Indonesian & Dutch artists”, Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta and Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, Indonesia.
• “Sex, Religion and Coca Cola”, Oncor Studio, Jakarta, Indonesia (solo).
• “Indonesia in Emergency Aid”, Yogyakarta Biennial, Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

1995

• “ A Piece of Land for Sale”, Artists Regional Exchange (ARX), Perth, Australia.
• “Sacred Coke”, Contemporary Art from Non-aligned Countries, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.
• “Coke Circle”, Claremont Art School, Perth, Australia.

1996

• “Offerings from A to Z”, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• “Nation for Sale”, Asia-Pacific Triennale, Brisbane, Australia.
• “Traditions/Tensions ”, Asia Society Gallery, New York, USA.

1997

• “Womanifesto: Don't Prevent the Fertility of Mind”, Concrete House, Bangkok, Thailand.
• “Sacred Coke - Cosmology of Mutilation”, VI Biennale de la Habana, Havana, Cuba.
• Inside Project: “Sacred Coke - Cosmology of Destruction”, Kassel, Germany.
• “Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions”, Vancouver Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
• “White Cases”, Glimpses into the Future, Art from Southeast Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan.

1998

• “Instalasi Gawat Darurat Pembangunan”, 4+4 Begegnung, Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
• “Traditions/Tensions”, Western Australia Museum of Contemporary Art.
• “Plastic & Other Waste” (First Asia-Pacific Artist Solidarity Project), Center for the Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• “Cities on The Move”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna Secession, Austria; Musée for the Art Contemporaine de Bordeaux, France; P.S.I, New York, USA.
• “Traditions/Tensions”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
• “Burning Bodies, Burning Country”, Musée de Castieva, Almaty, Kazakstan

1999

• “Burning Bodies, Burning Countries II” Cultural Centre Phillipines (CCP)
• “Made In Indonesia No. I” – Un Ab Die Post, Postfuhramt Berlin
• “Newspaper Man II” Semanggi Café, Jakarta
• “Rape & Rob” Millenium Gallery, Jakarta
• “Cities On The Move” Loisiana Museum Of Contemporary Art Copenhagen; Hayward Gallery London
• “Dayang Sumbi: Refuses Status Quo” France Cultural Centre (CCF) Bandung
• AWAS! Recent Art From Indonesia, Museum Benteng Vredeburg, Yogyakarta

2000

• AWAS! Recent Art From Indonesia, Australian Centre For Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Contemporary Art Space, Canbera; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Australia, Hokaido Asakawa Museum of Contemporary Art
• Solo drawing show at Lontar Gallery, Jakarta
• “His-story on My Body” Text & Sub-text, Earl Lu Gallery – Singapore; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
• “Corporeal Apology” Biennale de-Lyon, France
• Werklietz Biennale, Germany
• “Le Petit du Chaperon Rooge” Le Ferme Du Biusson, Paris
• “FRESH CREAM”
• “The Dog’s Dream” ISP Open Studio, Tribeca, New York

2001

• “His-story on My Body” Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo
• AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia, Ludwig Forum, Aachen. Germany
• “His-story On My Body” Edvisk, Sweden

2002

• AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia, Asian Finearts Gallery, Berlin
• Text & Subtext, Sternersen Musset, Oslo
• Sao Paulo Biennal, Brazil
• Gwangju Biennale, Korea
• “Site + Sight” Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
• “Upstream Project” Amsterdam & Hoorn

2003

• “The Rest of The World” Pirmasens, Germany
• Venice Biennale
• CP Open Biennale, Jakarta
• “Don’t Call it Performance Art” Reina Sophia Museum, Spain
• “Transit” Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia
• National Gallery KL, Malaysia
• 10th Biennale of Moving Image, Jeneva

2004

• World Social Forum, Mumbai, India
• IMPAKT, Utrecht
• “Twillight Tomorrow” Video Exhibition Singapore Art Museum
• “Reformasi” Sculpture Square, Singapore
• “Asian Traffic” Gallery 4A, Sydney
• “Art Summit” National Gallery, Jakarta
• “SENI” Singapore Art Museum
• “Don’t Call It Performance Art” Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Domus Artium 2002, Museo Del Barrio, NY

2005

• “Lecture on Painting I” Vallentine Willy Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
• INTOENNE Festival, Austria
• “Magnetism – Suspension” Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

2006

• “Stitching the Wound” Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok

PERFORMANCES 1981

• “Newspaper Man”, Bandung, Indonesia.

1982

• “Black Bamboo and White Cloth”, Bandung, Indonesia.

1987

• “My Dog is Dead and then He Flew” with musician Harry Roesli, Centre Culturelle Française, Bandung, Indonesia (solo).

1990

• “Knocking the Door”, Malioboro street, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

1992

• “Uwek-uwek”, with musician Slamet Abdul Syukur, Ismail Marzuki Art Center, Jakarta, Indonesia.

1993

• “Four Faces”, Biennale IX, Jakarta, Indonesia.

1994

• “Frangipani on Water”, with musician Wayan Sadra, Mojosongo, Solo, Indonesia.

1995

• “It's Late Night - Tomorrow the Sun Will Shine”, collaborative work with Aboriginal and Phillippines artists.
• “Friday Sermon”, Claremont Art School, Australia.
• A performance with Suprapto Suryodarmo, Mojosongo, Surakarta

1996

• “Offering from A to Z”, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• “Handle without Care I”, Brisbane, Australia.
• “Handle without Care II - You Love Me, You Love Me Not”, Z Gallery,Soho,New York
• “Handle without Care III”, Maga City, Bangkok, Thailand.

1997

• “Do Not Prevent the Fertility of Mind”, Concrete House, Bangkok, Thailand.
• “Handle without Care IV”, Havana, Cuba.
• “Handle without Care, Who Cares?” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo & Hiroshima, Japan.
• “Point Zero - My Mind Gets Stuck”, Marsi Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.

1998

• “Point Zero - My Mind Gets Stuck”, Nippon International Performance Art Festival '98, Nagano, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Japan.
• Festival de Winternachten, The Hague, The Netherlands.
• “Show Me Your Heart”, Nippon International Performance Art Festival, AsianSeries, Nagano, Nagoya, Tokyo, Japan.
• “Burning Bodies, Burning Country”, Musée de Castieva, Almaty, Kazakstan
• “Show Me Your Heart”, JAXPA 98: Festival of Asian Performance Art I, Bangkok, Thailand.
• “Show Me Your Heart”, Cemara 6 Gallery, Jakarta; Jamzz, Jakarta

1999

• “Burning Bodies, Burning Countries II” Cultural Centre Phillipines
• (CCP) Manila
• “Show Me Your Heart” – Und Ab Die Post, Postfuhramt Berlin
• “Newspaper Man” Semanggi Café, Jakarta
• “Dayang Sumbi Refuses Status Quo” France Cultural Center (CCF)
• Bandung

2000

• “His-story” Jakarta International Performance Art Festival (JIPAF 2000) Jakarta
• “His-story” NIPAF 2000, Taipei, Nagano, Nagoya, Tokyo
• “His-story (II)” Funkhouse, Dresden
• “His-story (II)” Werklietz Biennale, Germany
• NIPAF Asian Series – Hongkong, Macau

2001

• “His-story (III)” Ist Woman Performance Art Festival, Osaka
• “His-story (III)” Hillside Terrace, Tokyo
• “Violence – Hate No More” 3rd Performance Biennale, Israel
• “Violence No More“ Indonesia – Japan Exchange 2001, Bdg-Yogya-Jkt
• “Violence No More” Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
• “Violence No More” Edsvik, Solentuna, Sweden
• “Violence No More” Odense Performance Festival, Denmark
• “Tell Me the Story” Za Hall, Tokyo; Japan Society, New York; Shiga Museum, Osaka

2002

• “Visit to My World” Asian Finearts Gallery, Berlin

2003

• “Fusion & Strength” Gallery Benda, Yogyakarta
• MIP (International Performance Manifestation) – Belo Horizonte, Brasil
• “Don’t Call it Performance Art” Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid;
• Andalusia Center for Contemporary Art

2004

• “Wedding Party (LAPEN Wedding)” Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta
• “Un-tittled” PSI Confrence #10, Singapore
• “Soho Baby” 2nd Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing
• “Breaking Words” Nagano Art Expo, Japan
• “Breaking Words” FIX 04, Belfast

2005

• “INTOENNE” Festival, Austria
• “Learning to Swing” Vallentine Willy Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
• “We Are Not Hungry” Ambulance Int’l Performance Festival, Jakarta

2006

• “Breaking Words” Satu Kali, Kuala Lumpur
• “Breaking Words” FOI, Singapore
• “Breaking Words” Tokyo & Toyama City, Japan
• “Dancing Stitches” Jim Thompson Art center, Bangkok

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Art & Asia Pacific “Torque” (supplement) Vol. 1,2 No. 4 page 9
2. Art Link “Talk, Torque, and The Garden Knot?” Vol. 15 No 2,3 page 9-10
3. Free Broadsheet, “ARX Shocks- What Criteria For Succes?” Vol. 24 No.2 Winter 95 page 18
4. Asian Art News, Indonesia Supplement (Artist’s Voice) Vol.4 No.2, March
5. Tempo “The Restless One On The Crossroad” 7 Feb.1987
6. The Jakarta Post (Art & Culture) 30 Nov. 1988
7. Tempo (Art) 1 Jan.1994, page 58-60
8. Tempo (Art) 22 Jan.1994, page 70
9. Tempo (Art) 5 March 1994, page 50
10. Tempo (Art) 26 March 1994, page 94
11. Tempo (Art) 25 June 1994, page 110
12.  Indonesia Business Weekly “Not A Black And White Process” Vol.II No.11, 25 Feb.1994, page 21
13. The Jakarta Post “Indonesia Artist Pushed Beyond The Modern” 13 Jan.1994, page 7
14. Kompas “On The Shadow Of Advertisment” 11 Sept.1994
15. Kompas “Asia Pacific Art Forum: Dialog And Exploration” April 1995
16. Media Budaya “Arahmaiani: I Persuit Dialog” No.1 Nof.1994
17. Khazanah “Arahmaiani: I Have Found Liberation” 3 Feb.1995
18. Asia Week “Art’s Hard Edge” 18 Oct.1996, page 46-47
19. Asian Art News “Center For Art” Jan/Feb 1997, page 35
20. Art In America “VI Havana Biennale” 1998
21. The Jakarta Post “Arahmaiani Recreates Unjust Treatment Against The Weak” 10 Dec.1998, page 7
22. Art & Asia Pacific (Article on NIPAF 98 by Lee Wen), April 1999
23. Asahi Shimbun (An article by Mr Tanaka) 8-9 April 1999, page 8
24. Kompas  “There Is Not Enough Room For Woman” 3 May 1999
25. The Indonesian Observer “Arahmaiani’s Homecoming” 25 April 1999, page 12
26. Tempo “The Challenge From Arahmaiani” 24 May 1999
27. The Jakarta Post “Newsy Art Work” 2 May 1999
28. Kompas “ The Art Of Drawing From Era 90” 13 June 1999
29. Kompas “Isn’t She A woman…” 12 June 1999
30. Ana Labrador “Exchange,Reciprocity and the Gift : The Golden Triangel of Culture, Art and ARX 4” Art and Asia Pacific – Torque (supplement), 7 April 1995
31. Apinan Poshyananda “Roaring Tigers, Desperate Dragons in Transition – Contemporary Art in Asia : Traditions/Tensions” Asia Society, New York 1996
32. Dwi Marianto : “Artistic Praxis of an Indonesian Nomadic Artist” 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 1996
33. Kumagai Isako : “On The White Cases” Art in South East Asia 1997 : Glimpses into the Future, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
34. Art Asia Pacific, Issue no.26, 2000; page 61-71
35. Apinan Poshyananda “Fresh Cream” page 82 – 87, 2000, Phaidon Press, London
36. Barbara Pollack “The New Look of Feminism” page 132 – 136, September 2001, Art News, New York
37. James Putnam “Art and Artifact, The Museum as Medium” page 59,2001,Thames & Hudson
38. “Prophet of the Margins : Arahmaiani”Arts International, Spring 2002
39. Astri Wright, “Iconografias Metropolitanas” 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo
40. Iola Lenzi, “The Pioneering Spirit” Asian Art News Vol 13 No 5 page 51-53, 2003
41. Iola Lenzi,”Singapore,Thailand & Indonesia at the 50th Venice Biennale” Eyeline no 52, page 40-41, 2003
42. Edward Lucie-Smith,”Art Tomorrow”, 2003
43. Whitney Chadwick, “Woman, Art & Society” 3rd Edition,2002, Thames & Hudson

ESSAY

1. “From Ivory Tower To Control Tower” Pikiran Rakyat, 7 April 1987
2. “In Need Of Cultural Strategy” Pikiran Rakyat, 21 April 1987
3. “The Green Book” Horizon No.8, August 1992, page 276-285
4. “Balance, Change & Continuity” Surat Gorong-Gorong Budaya Vol.III No.4 1994,page 18-19
5. “Technology Of Love And The Science Of Plastic Invasion” 2nd APT 1996
6. “Art And Life Are Inseparable” NIPAF catalog 1998
7. “To The Mother Of The Future Artist” Kompas, 9 May 1999
8. “The Tabboo Of Naked Body And Orgy Of Violence” Kompas, 8 August 1999