Bandung, Indonesia, 9 – 23 May 2013

Kristoffer Ardeña

Roma Arts artist-in-residency

In collaboration with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Irfan Hendrian Studio, Oma Anna

Handwork, and Visual Arts Study Program at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design,

ITB

Roma Arts artist-in-resident Kristoffer Ardeña (1976, Dumaguete) lives and works in

Madrid/Spain and Manila/Philippines. He has created individual projects in Museo

Carrillo Gil and Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo del UNAM, both in

Mexico, Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila

(Philippines), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro

de Arte Contemporáneo in Murcia, Spain. He has also participated in various

collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou

Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona

and La Casa Encendida in Madrid (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain

(Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico)

and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia).

Public Talk

Visual Arts Study Program at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, ITB

15 May, 2pm

For this talk at the Intermedia Studio, Kristoffer Ardeña focused on what he makes,

how he makes his artworks and how he presents his work (the subsequent discussion

was moderated by Roy Voragen). We didn’t discuss the meaning of his work,

students can decide that for themselves, but during the discussion it became clear that

there is strong correlation between his mobility and the lightness of his work.

Dear Curator Curate Me: Chabib Duta Hapsoro and Rizki Lazuardi

In collaboration with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space

19 May – 8 June 2013

The opening was officiated by senior video artist Krisna Murti.

For the project Dear Curator Curate Me, Kristoffer Ardeña selected 15 videos and

this selection travels around the world, each place where this selection makes a stop a

curator is invited to develop a discourse on these videos. Dear Curator Curate Me at

Selasar Sunaryo Art Space is this project’s debut, which will continue in the

Philippines, Spain, Peru, etc. This project reverses the roles of the artist and the

curator in a witty manner by emphasizing the curatorial essay. This traveling project

aims to show how in different contexts around the globe curators can respond to the

same collection of videos and slowly this project will turn into an archive of a

curatorial discourse with its many contrasting voices. For Selasar Sunaryo Art Space,

Chabib Duta Hapsoro and Rizki Lazuardi were invited to respond to the selection of

videos by writing each an essay. They also decided to exhibit the videos (the making

of an exhibition is not a requirement of this project). The opening was well attended

and the subsequent discussion with the two curators and artist (and moderated by Roy

Voragen) was lively, focusing on the artist-curator relationships.

Rizki Lazuardi decided to create an exhibition within an exhibition titled Ghost (he

designed the poster; see the essays by the curators for their arguments for this).

The essays by the two curators were collected in a limited edition hand-made booklet.

The booklet was designed by Irfan Hendrian (he also designed the poster for the talk

at ITB) and hand-made by Oma Anna. The booklet can be downloaded here:

http://bit.ly/11JCHPi

For more information:

Kristoffer Ardeña: http://www.ardena.info/

Dear Curator Curate Me: http://www.dearcuratorcurateme.info/

ITB: http://www.itb.ac.id/

Selasar Sunaryo Art Space: http://www.selasarsunaryo.com

Irfan Hendrian: http://regmart.net/

Oma Anna: http://www.omaanna.com

Roma Arts: http://fatumbrutum.blogspot.com

Photos of the discussion at ITB: http://bit.ly/ZbkOFo

Short video of the printing of the booklet cover: http://on.fb.me/111bktM

Photos of the making of the booklet at Oma Anna: http://bit.ly/11g4jse

Photos of the opening at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space: http://on.fb.me/13ThhNr

Photos of the discussion at Selasar Sunaryo Art Space: http://on.fb.me/11nukHF

On twitter: #dearcuratorcurateme

Press coverage

http://www.pikiran-rakyat.com/node/235681

http://koran.tempo.co/konten/2013/05/23/310830/Menggugat-Kuasa-Kurator-Seni

Roma Arts, founded in 2011, promotes passionate, ambitious and focused ways of

producing, presenting, experiencing, and writing about the diverse forms of arts.

Roma Arts gives keen attention to art practices, forms of presentation, experiencing

the arts, and discourses on art. In 2012, Roma Arts iniated a residency program to

foster creative person-to-person contacts. And in 2013, Roma Arts started the website

Contemporary Arts Bandung (www.contemporaryartsbandung.com).

– Roy Voragen (founder Roma Arts and coordinator Dear Curator Curate Me in

Indonesia)