Art Basel Hong Kong 2025

ROH is pleased to share our participation at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025.

Our booth includes works by artists with past and upcoming solo exhibitions at the gallery, including Kei Imazu and Maria Taniguchi, whose major solo institutional exhibitions recently concluded at Tokyo Opera City Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Manila, respectively. Works by Syaiful Aulia Garibaldi, Aditya Novali, and Trevor Shimizu showcase their unique painterly approaches, with multimedia works by Ittah Yoda further drawing olfactory explorations into the presentation.

=/= was a collaborative installation by Davy Linggar and andramatin at the Encounters sector of Art Basel Hong Kong, curated by Alexie-Glass Kantor.

=/= is a dynamic exchange between the Indonesian painter and architect, where image and structure press against each other in an iteration of balance and tension. Linggar and Matin’s shared interest in materiality, space, and the built environment informs an installation that embraces interdependence, where each element carries and is carried by the other.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘮 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘓𝘈𝘉, a solo presentation by Ade Darmawan for Art Basel Hong Kong Kabinett sector.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘮 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘓𝘈𝘉 marks a new stage within the artist’s long-term research into the relationship between production and consumption throughout Indonesian political-historical narratives. The installation resembles a room where ideas and an imagination of extraction and exploitation are developed, distilling images and spices that trace connections between the Dutch colonial cultuurstelsel (cultivation system) or Tanam Paksa (enforcement planting), and Soeharto’s New Order regime (1966–1998) in Indonesia.

B. 1974, Jakarta, Indonesia

Lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia

Ade Darmawan lives and works in Jakarta as an artist, curator and director of artist collective ruangrupa. Darmawan’s work deals with Indonesia, its history and its people, with a particular focus on minor histories that may seem irrelevant but are intrinsic to the DNA of the communities addressed. His presentation of these narratives assumes multiple forms, ranging from installation, objects, drawing, digital print, and video.

Darmawan studied at Indonesia Art Institute (ISI) in the Graphic Arts Department. In 1998, a year after his first solo exhibition at the Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta (now Cemeti - Institute for Art and Society), he stayed in Amsterdam to attend a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten.

Darmawan has shown widely as an artist in various notable institutions around the globe. Recent solo exhibitions include Doing Business with the Dutch at Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018) and Magic Centre, held both at Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (2015) and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2016). Selected group exhibitions include Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale: After Rain, Saudi Arabia (2024), Indonesia Bertutur at Borobudur, Indonesia (2022), On the Nature of Botanical Gardens at Framer Framed, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2020), Singapore Biennale: An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore (2016), Gwangju Biennale: The Eight Climate (What Does Art Do?), Gwangju, South Korea (2016), and The KUDA: The Untold Story of Indonesian Underground Music in the 70’s with ruangrupa at Asia Pacific Triennale, Brisbane, Australia (2012).

As a curator, he has contributed to Riverscapes IN FLUX at Goethe Institute Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam (2012), Media Art Kitchen (2013), Condition Report (2016), and 6th Asian Art Biennale: Negotiating the Future in Taiwan (2017-18). From 2006-09, he was a member of the Jakarta Arts Council, which led to his appointment as artistic director of Jakarta Biennale in 2009. He was the executive director of Jakarta Biennale during its 2013, 2015 and 2017 iterations. From early 2019-2022, with ruangrupa, he was part of the artistic team of documenta fifteen that took place in Kassel, Germany, 2022.

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