Heri Dono Madman Butterfly

Heri Dono
Madman Butterfly

Heri
Dono
Madman
Butterfly

Madman Butterfly
Sacha Craddock
previous pages:
The Scapegoat Republic
(detail)
2011
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
Heri Dono’s work might come with layers of meaning,
expectation, message and irony, but he wants to
keep things simple. He works in a range of media—
installation, painting, theatre and sculpture—as
well as sculpture on wheels, what he calls ‘vehicle
art’, and exhibits his work for local and international
audiences. At one level, at least, he is among the
first internationally celebrated Indonesian artists
to emphasise, even indulge in or play on ‘the local’:
instead of using what used to be called ‘the international
language of art’, the language of magazine
and market, Dono draws from within the body of his
native Indonesian society to question its structure
and methods. He says that as an artist he has to
be quick and clever. So in simple ways, he fashions
creatures that straddle the line between the serious
and the souvenir, with no interest in the notion of
the avant-garde.
Indonesia is such a mixture of peoples and its society
is constructed in such a way that Dono automatically
functions within a pool of cultural complexity. Born
in Jakarta in 1960, he has maintained a steady and
constant body of work and completed numerous
residencies all over the world, in Australia, Canada,
Germany, the United States and elsewhere. When
he first showed his work abroad in the mid-1990s,
it was perhaps likely to have been appreciated for
being ‘exotic’ as much as anything else. However,
over the past three and a half decades, an increase
in travel during the postcolonial era and the rise of
the Internet have meant that his work can now be
viewed as art in its own right at a global level.
Based in Yogyakarta, the heart of Javanese culture
as well as the centre of Indonesian contemporary art,
Dono studied art at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts,
and then learned the craft of wayang kulit, traditional
shadow puppetry. It is an interesting trajectory, to
go from a more contemporary art education to a
craft of which the first performance was recorded
more than a thousand years ago. However, he has
pointed out that his government invests in the past
and encourages the practice of traditional modes of
artistic expression as means of countering new ones.
This trajectory has therefore allowed him to pursue
a substantial career in opposing, undermining or at
least underlining the methods of the State.
In 1996, Dono’s first solo show in Britain, Blooming
in Arms at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford,
brought a fantastic but disturbing set of apparently
half-man, half-tree figures on fine, false
prosthetic legs parading with guns—incorporating
the false legs as a reference to landmines. The
figures all maintain a built theatricality that is
closely associated with his work. Here he made
the point that while the Indonesian government
was launching a campaign to encourage people to
plant trees in a quasi-Green initiative, it was also
systematically deforesting Sumatra, Kalimantan
and Irian Jaya.
In his ‘theatrical work’, Dono assumes a given
relationship to the protagonist, a fixed expectation that
devolves from the role of the character in the puppet
theatre that itself originated in Java as well as India
and elsewhere. Through his use of ‘folk’ media,
such as puppetry, which is more about tradition
than either high or low art, he makes a sideways
approach to the obvious. This approach is a long
way away from the ‘Cool Britannia’ of the 1990s
when Young British Artists seemed in total accord
with the desires of the New Labour government.
Dono has long played the fool, the pleaser and the
provider of popular experience. Appearing to be
neither complex nor contrary, he uses a robust artistic
stance to bypass formal concern. This well-worn
theatrical device, however, also has a sinister and
tawdry aspect. For Nobody’s Land at Galeri Nasional
Indonesia in Jakarta in 2008, a whole series of angels
with smooth, wood heads and heightened blush
on their cheeks hovered to become perfectly staged
images of freedom. Each—with an open panel at its
chest and beatific smile—appeared to fly. They could
flap their wings yet went nowhere, trapped, as they
were, in their own autonomous world.
All of his three-dimensional works play with
imperfection, insisting that the means for escape
and enchantment is purely theatrical. Flying Golek
(2011) is a veritable chorus line of angels suspended
by wires from the ceiling like puppets. He repeats
figures and images to fill and suit an individual
space, to make a crowd. Each angel, made from a
range of materials, uses the painter’s trick where
the paint not only describes but literally mimics what
it describes. Here, the angels’ heads are actual wayang
golek wooden puppet heads, while the bodies are
made of fibreglass and the wings from papiermâché.
The rounded fibreglass surface protects a
heartlike ‘organ’ crafted from electrical scraps, which
according to Dono allude to our ability to mend
and make do. They also remind us of the childhood
disappointment of discovering the trap door for the
battery under the skirt of a talking or crying doll. This
dismantling, or partial disclosure, allows him to point
out the limitation of romantic faith in the possibility
of art. A toy, sculpture or machine can be close
to us technologically, and yet almost, nearly, not working.
The artist’s use of low-tech, low-level wiring recalls
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the early days of stumbling, ambling fallibility, rather
than a smoothly remote-controlled creature that walks
across the stage.
A series of long-nosed automatons in Fermentation
of Nose (2011) sits at numbered desks, staring into
space with somewhat inward-looking, dead eyes.
The mechanised creatures nod in unison and seem
to agree, yet at the same time, the following questions
arise: Who is in charge? Who is listening? Where is
the process of learning directed? Is this a schoolroom?
Who is teaching what, to whom? Is there a
militaristic undertone once again? This use of easy,
visible mechanisation is important to Dono; it shows
that the inevitable harnessing of scientific intelligence
by the State can cause trouble.
“I mix animation with animism”, he says. “Both are
based on the belief that everything has a soul. From
this point, I make sociopolitical commentary using
humour”. The mechanisation suggests something
that stumbles, something that can be overpowered,
broken down and usurped. It is perfect. Yet instead
of formal questioning, this artist starts with a projection
into each of his characters, whether painted, sculpted,
mechanised or performed. There is definitely a truth,
a reality, to each character. The faith put into a puppet is
like that of a toy: a child knows that the toy is ‘real’
and, in formal terms, it is.
Rather than expressionism—a bearing of the soul—
for Dono, humour is key. He uses the tactics of
animated film, the familiarity of cartoons, where
legs spin for hours over the side of a cliff before the
character eventually drops. With a deep knowledge
of and love for children’s cartoons, animation and
comics, he incorporates the theatrical structure of
pretence, action, narrative and change into his work.
He is inspired by historical sources—from Romanesque
manuscripts to Javan painted scrolls, and from
the Beano to Dan Dare to Manga comics—in which
artists have drawn narration across the page as a
simple device to show the passage of time; where
the narrative scans through squares in the same
way that film runs through the gate of a projector.
It is always difficult for an artist to compete with
the narrative created by mechanisation and film.
The inanimate object can be distressing for an art
student: “This thing just does not do enough”. Yet
Dono successfully harnesses the history of theatre
through repetitive movement and the circularity of
narrative tale-telling, and manages, in his painting,
sculpture, installation and performance, to thwart
the emptiness that can surround the contemporary
art object.
Dono not only indulges in ‘the local’, but also creates in
a very localised context; the desire to appeal internationally
has never really entered his work. It is
important, though, to consider the aforementioned
changes that have taken place over the time he has
been working, and their impact on the emergence
of an ‘international’ language and the role of artists
to represent exactly the opposite. This is not to say
that there is such an extreme polarisation between
the local and the international. But for this artist, the
use of traditional methods means a deliberate desire
to immerse himself in exactly the most obvious
place—in tradition—in order to undermine or look
properly at the State in which he lives. Indonesia has
a Muslim population of more than two hundred
million, larger than any other country in the world,
yet Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism are also
Salto Mortale (Terjun Bebas)
2011
acrylic on canvas
200 x 300 cm (79 x 118 in)
not included in the exhibition
represented there. Indonesia is so large, its population so
culturally varied, that a recent news report suggested
a ban on noisy children who parade the streets at
3:00 a.m. to wake Muslims to eat during Ramadan in
order to respect the rights of non-Muslims to a good
night’s sleep.
It could be said that Dono not only quotes from and
uses the traditional art form of wayang, with its use
of outline, extreme distortion and comic storytelling, but
that he is reviving it, making it actual, real and active
today. Puppetry is encouraged as part of a so-called
‘Javanisation’ of Indonesia. There is also the tendency
to use more popular art forms to reinvestigate
practice. In Indonesia, art is a very powerful medium
that has, especially through decades of theatre, carried
the tradition not only of criticism of the State but
also of subversion (through underground news and
notices). Puppetry, a distinct ‘world within a world’,
has the contained confines of the State that are ideal
for make-believe, just as the European characters
Punch and Judy carried the news of the day; insights
into the relationship between a husband, wife and
baby; a string of sausages and sometimes even
the obligatory crocodile. But such fixed images and
rules, used over and over, can become formulaic, and
therefore invisible.
When it comes to painting, Dono has a consistent yet
questioning relationship. At one point, he even said
that he was not very interested in making paintings
because they had become so much of a commodity. He
did, however, train as a painter, and admires painting
as a traditional art form. So he uses the medium, he
says, as a ‘diary of life’, as a way of bringing together
layers of historical understanding. The characters in
his Salto Mortale (Terjun Bebas) (2011), for instance,
contain these layers, and at the same time, use
action: little creatures leap from two typical Dono
vehicles, painted representations of his ‘vehicle art’,
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flying like suicidal swifts to jump up and down
and then out into a perilously full toilet bowl. He
achieves a real rush with this work. His subjects,
part historical, part cartoon, do what they would in
character, acting out, over and over again. Although
it is generally accepted than an artist is free to paint
whatever he or she wants, for this artist the continual
reinvestment in a repertoire of characters is
key. Instead of reinventing the alphabet, he looks
to comedic TV cartoons in works such as Going
Away from the Television Life (2008), which also has
an affinity with Liberty Leading the People (1830) by
Delacroix. A true artist of the world, Dono studied
the work of Klee, Miró, Picasso and Kandinsky at
art school. While he expertly uses the characters of
puppetry, the Javanese wayang scroll stories and
lukisan kaca (the anonymous art of reverse-painting
on glass from northwest Java), he is fascinated
by merging himself and his work with Western
concepts as well as with ideas of the retention and
denial of authorship.
The perhaps oversimplified distinction between
colonial and postcolonial painting in Indonesia, the
‘East versus West’ dichotomy, is represented by more
traditional painting styles, such as work by mainly
Dutch artists visiting the colonies. But it is also seen
in work by Indonesian artists, which similarly makes
for lovely landscape painting with little reference to
a real, live context. Just after Indonesia’s four-year
war of independence from the Dutch, and the handover
of sovereignty in 1949, a group of artists called
for a ‘new and nationalistic art form’, and decided
they would reject the old colonial view, exemplified
by the Mooi Indie, or ‘beautiful Indies’, representation
of landscape.
From Mexico to Indonesia, mountains have always
provided special sources of power and inspiration
for artists. The mountain is symbolic in Indonesian
culture; it designates a ‘spiritually charged’ site
where discussion between gods and mortals can
take place, and from which gods can descend to the
Earth. In Indonesia, artists are traditionally seen as
mediators between the mystical and the real. Dono’s
painting, The Sadness Spirit of Mount Merapi (2010),
shows a sickness within the mountain: the figure of
the spirit in the mountain lies ill within the outline
of the projecting landmass. It has long been said
that when Merapi erupts, great political change will
touch the world. Since Merapi erupted in November
2010—an eruption so powerful that a nearby
river dried up and steam rose from the ground for
months afterwards—it is believed that there really
has been a seismic shift in the world.
His recent paintings are lavish with imagery and
incorporate rich colours. In The Escape King of
Thief (2011), for instance, each character carries
the same telltale tongues, along with wheels and
mechanised potholes inside his or her chest. Other
works show us the range of Dono’s invention: wine
falls out of holes in various bodies and fills the
surface of the canvas; there are nails, many eyes,
bicycle people, automatons, bad greedy animals and
animated creatures celebrating the bounty. Pinocchio
is lying; he has a very long nose and eyes like little
snouts; there are extended antennae, two eyes, three
eyes, two nostrils and high colour. In The King of
Peace ‘Jaja Perdamaian’ (2011), a hybrid character—
a conglomerate of a current politician and a mythological
figure—is automated, multidirectional, with
holes or stigmata on his hands, crumpled arched
arms and tongues of fire with wine falling out of
the bottom of his mechanical bodywork into a very
small glass. Berebut Pepesan Kosang (2009) depicts
snapping, pushy Ninja-type characters with split,
serpent-like tongues and small sexual organs facing
each other over a running stream. Each wears red
boots and sports a miner’s lamp on his head. There is
a strong sense of pace and movement as they push
forward across the water, which works its way back
to the far corner, creating an illusionary space.
Dono treats the subjects of his paintings in very
much the same way as he treats the three-dimensional
‘pupils’ at their desks. Yet with these almost perfunctory
paintings, he really clowns around. After all, as Dono
so brilliantly shows, the painting is the ‘trying-out’
place where relationships can be invented, and
characters can jump and spin and stand on each
other without repercussion.
Sacha Craddock lives and works in London. She is the
Chair of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Chair of
Braziers International Artists Workshop, Co-founder of
ArtSchool Palestine, Public Art Advisor for the Royal
Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and, currently, Director
of Programme at Max Wigram Gallery. From 2003 to
2011, she was Curator at Bloomberg SPACE and Postgraduate
Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Royal
Academy Schools.
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Two Clown Heads with Angels
(detail)
2011
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
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Flying to the Angels’ Freedom
2011
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150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)

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Merdeka atau Belum
2011
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
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Garuda Extraterrestrial
2007
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
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Olympia Released the Bad Spirit
2011
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)

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Mati Ketawa ala USA
2011
acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 cm (79 x 59 in)
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The King Frog
2011
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
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The Big Brother
2011
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
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The Scapegoat Republic
2011
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
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Three Presidential Candidates
2009
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)

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Two Presidential Candidates
2008
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150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)

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Two Clown Heads with Angels
2011
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War Culture
2008
acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 cm (79 x 59 in)

Biography

Born in Jakarta, 12 June 1960
Currently resides in Yogyakarta
Heri Dono is unquestionably one of Indonesia’s foremost
contemporary artists. Best known for his installations that are
inspired by experiments with wayang, the popular Javanese folk
theatre, he has participated in exhibitions and workshops in
Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States.
In wayang, a number of elements—visual arts, singing, music,
storytelling, mythology, promotion of a philosophy of life, social
criticism and humour—merge to create a coherent performance.
These elements are coupled with wayang’s unique
setting, which provides space for social interaction with the
audience. Through his complex multimedia installations and
performances, Dono creatively revitalises this traditional art
practice and harnesses the power of performance and interactivity.
As a result, his works engage in intense dialogues with
their audiences.
Dono’s paintings depict wild deformations and free fantasies,
out of which emerge characters of wayang stories. His profound
knowledge of children’s cartoons, animated films and comics is
also reflected in his canvases, which are filled with the highly
astonishing characters of intertwined fantastic and absurd
stories. Into many of these works, Dono inserts his own critical
remarks on sociopolitical issues in Indonesia and abroad.
Education:
1987–88
Studied Wayang KuIit with Sukasman in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1980–87
Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
RESIDENCIes:
2008
Workshop, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University, Adelaide,
Australia
2007
Artist in Residence, Ernst Busch University, Berlin, Germany
Artist in Residence, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2006
Artist in Residence, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
2005
Artist in Residence, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne,
Australia
The International Jury of the Xl Triennial India, New Delhi, India
Artist in Residence, United Sardine Factory, Bergen, Norway
Artist in Residence, Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance, Byron Bay,
Australia
2004
Workshop with DIDA Escola de Música, São Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
Sound Art Seminar, Kunstakademiet Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Fellowship for Curatorial Work, IFA Institute, Stuttgart, Germany,
in Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
2003
Artist in Residence, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Contemporary Asian Art Forum, Links, Platforms, Networks, Asian
Art Archive, Hong Kong
2002
Artist in Residence, Western Front Society, Vancouver, Canada
Artist in Residence, Queensland College of Art, South Bank, Australia,
and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Artist in Residence, National Institute of Education, Singapore
2000
Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA
1999
Cyfuniad International Artists’ Workshop, Wales, UK
Artist in Residence, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
Artist in Residence, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
1996
Artist in Residence, Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
1995
Artist in Residence, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, with
Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
1990–91
International Artists Exchange Program, Christoph Merian Stiftung,
Basel, Switzerland
Selected Solo Exhibitions/Projects:
2011
Pinocchio Syndrome, Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong
Kong, organised by Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Hommage an Raden Saleh, Schloss Maxen, Dresden, Germany
The Lost Magician, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany,
and Beijing, China
2009
Comedy of Error, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Dono Code, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heridonology, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Shadow of Trojan Horse, Galeri Tondi, Medan, North Sumatera,
Indonesia
2008
Post-Ethnology Museum, Gaya Art Space, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Nobody’s Land, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, organised by Edwin’s
Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Ose Tara Lia—I see nothing, Oz Asia Festival, Artspace, Adelaide
Festival Centre, Adelaide, Australia
Heri Dono: Pleasures of Chaos, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Dying King & I, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007
Angels: Bang! Bang!, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
The Dream Republic, South Australian School of Art Gallery, University
of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2006
Heri WAR Dono, Soemardja Gallery, Bandung, Indonesia
Civilization Oddness, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2005
Free-D.O.M., Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway
2004
Who’s Afraid of Donosaurus?, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta,
Indonesia, organised by Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2003
Upside Down Mind, Circle Point Art Space, Washington, D.C., USA
Heri Dono, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Heri Dono: A Spiritual Journey, Semarang Gallery, Semarang,
Indonesia
2002
Interrogation, Center A, Vancouver, Canada
Heri Provokes Heri, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Free-D.O.M., Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia
Reworking Tradition I & II, Singapore Art Museum, Glass Hall,
Nanyang Playhouse, National Institute of Education, Singapore
2001
The Trap’s Outer Rim, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Fortress of the Heart by Heri Dono, Gajah Gallery, Singapore
2000
Heri Dono: Dancing Demons and Drunken Deities, Japan Foundation
Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Humor and Rumor in Republic of Cartoon, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta,
Indonesia
1999
Mythical Monsters in Contemporary Society by Heri Dono, Gajah
Gallery, Singapore
Virtual Reality, Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, Indonesia
Tirtara, French Cultural Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1997
Tanah dari Merapi, French Cultural Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1996
Blooming in Arms, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1993
The Chair, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra, Australia
1991
Unknown Dimensions, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland
1988
Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mitra Budaya Indonesia Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Bentara Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Selected Group Exhibitions/Projects:
2011
Negotiating Home, History and Nation: Two Decades of
Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011, Singapore Art
Museum, Singapore
Art I Jog I 11, Taman Budaya Jogjakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Pameran Besar Patung Kontemporer Indonesia: Ekspansi, Galeri
Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, organised by SIGIarts, Jakarta, Indonesia
Jakarta Berlin Arts Festival, foyer art performance, Admiralspalast,
Berlin, Germany
Trans-Figurations: Mythologies Indonésiennes, Espace Culturel
Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Indonesian Eye: Fantasies & Realities, Ciputra World Marketing
Gallery, Jakarta, organised by Parallel Contemporary Art, London, UK
Opera Jawa, collaboration performance with Garin Nugroho,
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, organised by
Vanessa Art Link, Jakarta, Indonesia
Do It, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
1001 Doors: Reinterpreting Traditions, Ciputra World Marketing
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Gallery, Jakarta, organised by ArtSociates Lawangwangi, Bandung,
Indonesia
Castlemaine Visual Arts Biennial, Castlemaine State Festival,
Victoria, Australia
Public project, IRISAN, Grand Indonesia, Jakarta, organised by
Andi’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
E(art)H Project: Green Sustainable, Galeri Nasional Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia
Art Motoring I: ‘Motion & Reflection’, Galeri Nasional Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia
2010
Made in Indonesia, Galerie Christian Hosp, Berlin, Germany
Utopia, Dystopia, Disturbia, Woodford Folk Festival, Queensland,
Australia
Art Paris + Guests, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Ciptura Artpreneurship, Ciputra World Marketing Gallery, Jakarta,
Indonesia
Pameran Besar Seni Rupa Indonesia 2010 Manifesto, Galeri
Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, organised by Vanessa Art
Link, Jakarta, Indonesia
Green Festival: Sustainable Artainability, The Ritz-Carlton, Jakarta,
Pacific Place, Indonesia
Jogjakarta Art Festival, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
Crossing & Blurring the Boundaries: Medium in Indonesian Contemporary
Art, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Opera Jawa, collaboration performance with Garin Nugroho,
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Reinterpreting S. Soedjojono, Galeri Canna, Jakarta, Indonesia
Ethnicity Now, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
2009
Utopia, Dystopia, Disturbia, Woodford Folk Festival, Queensland,
Australia
The Simple Art Parodi, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art,
Taipei, Taiwan
Expo sign, 25th Anniversary of Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta,
Jogja Expo Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Tsunami, shadow play, Lustgarten, Berlin, Germany
T-shirt, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
Kado, Anniversary of Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008
Refleksi Ruang dan Waktu, V-Art Gallery, Bentara Budaya, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
Self-Portrait, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
A Decade of Dedication: Ten Years Revisited, Selasar Sunaryo Art
Space, Bandung, Indonesia
Christmas, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Manila, The Philippines
Salon Jogja, CG Art Space, Jakarta, Indonesia
Dari Penjara ke Pigura, Galeri Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia
After Forty, Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Expose #1: A Presentation of Indonesian Contemporary Art by
Deutsche Bank & Nadi Gallery, Four Seasons Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
Manifesto, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
A New Force of South East Asia: Group Exhibitions of Indonesian
Contemporary Artists, Asia Art Centre, Beijing, China, collaboration
with Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
China International Gallery Exposition 2008, Beijing, China, Nadi
Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007
Wind from the East, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art,
Helsinki, Finland
Indonesian Contemporary Art Now, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Conscience Celebrate—September Art Events, fine art exhibition,
organised by Edwin’s Gallery, Gandaria City, Jakarta, Indonesia
Imagined Affandi, Gedung Arsip Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
IVAA BOOKAID vol. 01/07, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Soft Power: Asian Attitude, Zendai Museum of Modern Art,
Shanghai, China
Re-Kreasi 80, Class of 1980 ASRI, STSRI ASRI, ISI Reunion, Jogja
National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2006
The Inoyama Donation: A Tale of Two Artists, Singapore Art Museum,
Singapore
2005
Exhibition of Indoor Collections, Kirishima Open-Air Museum,
Kagoshima, Japan
About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Eksodus Barang, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
BETA. 20, Post-Electronic Art Performances, Theatre Garasijn,
Bergen, Norway
Festival Inspirasi, Dewaruci, performance, Byron Bay, Australia
Floating Legacies, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia
21st and Beyond: Reception, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Licking the Ozone, performance, Melbourne Fringe Festival,
Lithuanian Club, Melbourne, Australia
Equatorial Heat, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia, supported by
Coutts Bank
2004
The 2nd Enku Grand Award Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts,
Gifu, Japan
Land Under the Rainbow, Cultural Olympiad, Benaki Contemporary
Art Museum, Athens, Greece
4th Art Summit Indonesia 2004, Performing and Visual Arts,
Galeri Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
Transindonesia: Scooping Culture in Contemporary Indonesian Art,
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
On the Edge: Indonesia and China Avant-garde, The Pakubuwono
Residence, Jakarta, Indonesia
Reformasi, Sculpture Square, Singapore
Olympics, The Pakubuwono Residence, Jakarta, Indonesia, organised
by Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Artists Are Making a House, Nijo-machi Prefecture, Museum City
Project, Fukuoka, Japan
The Angel Garden, Esplanade—Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
Equatorial Heat, Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, China,
organised by Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Z.O.U., Zone of Urgency, Reggio Calabria (Villa Zerbi), Italy
Frankenstein versus Gatotkaca, performance, Stiftung Preussischer
Kulturbesitz, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Nature Machine: Contemporary Art, Nature and Technology,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2003
Summer Spectacular Kids’ APT, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane,
Australia
Budaya Bumi Berbudaya, Museum Benteng Vredeburg, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
Epic, Gajah Gallery, Singapore
Imagining Prometheus, Palazzo della Ragione Loggia dei Mercanti,
Milan, Italy
Crossing Boundaries, Bali: A Window to Twentieth-Century
Indonesian Art, travelling exhibition, Asia Society AustralAsia
Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum,
Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Public art project, Muza Concert Hall, Kawasaki, Japan
Running Puppet, performance, The Survival and Innovation of
Crafts, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Zaman Edan, Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Kado, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2002
Eye, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Interrogation, shadow play, Western Front Society, Vancouver, Canada
The Wild of Imagination, Langgeng Gallery, Magelang, Indonesia
Zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Junge Künstler aus Indonesien,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museen Dahlem, Ethnologisches
Museum, Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde der Stadt Köln,
Cologne, Germany
AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia, Prüss & Ochs Gallery, Asian
Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Asian Vibe, EAAC, Valencia, Spain
EV+A 2002: Heroes + Holies, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
2001
Floating Chimeras, Edsvik von Culture, Sollentuna, Sweden
Between Sound and Vision, Gallery 400, University of Illinois,
Chicago, USA
Artists Commission, Asia Society, New York, USA
Membaca Frida Kahlo, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Opening of New Art Center Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
travelled to Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
and Cologne, Germany
Pink Project, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2000
Sonic Boom, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
12 Asian Artists, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Humanism in Art, Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, Delft,
The Netherlands
Fuori Uso, Pescara, Italy
AWAS! Recent Work from Indonesia, Museums in Hokkaido, Osaka
and Fukuoka, Japan
1999
Media dalam Media, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Cities on the Move: Urban Chaos and Change, Louisiana Museum
of Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark; travelled to Hayward
Gallery, London, UK; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki,
Finland and Siam Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Knalpot, fine art exhibition, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sound Culture, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Makassar Arts Forum ’99, Ujung Pandang, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
AWAS! Recent Work from Indonesia, Museum Benteng Vredeburg,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia; travelled to CCA, Melbourne and
Canberra, Australia
Tachikawa International Arts Festival, Tokyo Prefecture, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Resurrection of Topos 3, collaboration between artists and
architects, Toyama Shimin Plaza, Toyama, Japan
Images of Power: Expressions of Cultural and Social Awareness in
Southeast Asia, Jakarta International School, Jakarta, Indonesia
Tradition/Tension, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Cultural
Center, Perth, Australia; travelled to Taipei Museum of Contemporary
Art, Taipei, Taiwan
50th Anniversary of Human Rights, Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1997
Sounding Sphere, Harima Science Garden City Opening, Hyogo
Prefecture, Japan
Innenseite, Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Kassel, Germany
Biennial Yogyakarta V, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Wayang Gepuk Wayang Alternatif, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Exploring the Future of the Imagination, The Intercommunication
Center, Tokyo, Japan
Asian Contemporary Art, Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna, Austria
A Gift for India, New Delhi, India
1996
Modernity and Beyond, National Museum of Modern Art,
Singapore
Orientation, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
The Huid van De Witte Dame, Arctic Foundation, Eindhoven,
The Netherlands
Drawing, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
Traditions/Tensions, Contemporary Art in Asia, Asia Society, New
York, USA
The Spiritual and The Social: Nine Artists from Thailand, Indonesia
and The Philippines, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1995
Vision of Happiness, The Japan Foundation Art Forum, ASEAN
Culture Center, Akasaka and Tokyo, Japan
Unity in Diversity: Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries,
Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kurbis, Museum für Völkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland
Unity in Diversity: Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries,
Galeri Utama, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia
1994
‘Adelaide Installations’, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art,
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Kuda Binal, performance, 24HR Art Gallery, Northern Territory
Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
The Jakarta International Art Exhibition 1994, The Indonesian
Fine Arts Foundation (catalogue), Indonesia
9th Asian International Art Exhibition, National Museum of History,
Taipei, Taiwan
‘Realism as an Attitude’, 4th Asian Art Show Fukuoka, Fukuoka
Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Super Suburb, Museum City Tenjin ’94, Fukuoka, Japan
1993
Indonesian Modern Art: Indonesian Painting Since 1945, Gate
Foundation, De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
International Festival of Puppetry in the World, Taman Budaya,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1992
Sanggar Dewata: Indonesian Art Exhibition, Museum Nyoman
Gunarsa, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
7th Asian International Art Exhibition, Gedung Merdeka,
Bandung, Indonesia
Kuda Binal, performance, Alun-Alun Utara, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
New Art from Southeast Asia 1992, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space;
travelled to Fukuoka, Hiroshima and Osaka, Japan
1991
Sama-Sama, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Oosterpoort, Groningen,
The Netherlands; travelled to Tilburg, The Netherlands, and
Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia
Wayang: From Gods to Bart Simpson, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Man and Human Expression, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Wayang Top, performance, International Culture Camp Desa
Apuan, Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia
Destructive Images, performance, Seni Sono Gallery and Malioboro,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1990
Modern Indonesian Art: Three Generations of Tradition and
Change, 1945–1990, Festival of Indonesia 1990, Sewall Gallery,
Rice University, Houston, USA; travelled to San Diego, Oakland,
Seattle and Honolulu, USA
1989
Wayang Imaginative, performance, Mendut Temple, Indonesia
Competitive Exhibition of Young Indonesian Artists, Institute of
Technology Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia
1988
Wayang Legenda, shadow play, Seni Sono Gallery, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
Hedendaagse Indonesische Kunst, Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara,
DeIft, The Netherlands
1987
Sandiwa, Kulay-Diwa Art Galleries/Cultural Center of the Philippines,
Manila, The Philippines
Three Indonesian Artists, De Schone Kunsten, Heemstede,
The Netherlands
1986
Experimental Music and Visual Art, Seni Sono Gallery, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
1985
3rd ASEAN Youth Artists Exhibition, Indonesia Institute of the Arts,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1982
Art on the Environment, Parangtritis Beach, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Biennials/Triennials:
2007
‘Neo-Nation’, 9th Biennial Jogja, Jogja National Museum,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2006
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2005
‘Belonging’, Sharjah International Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
‘Urban/Culture’, CP Biennale, Museum of Bank Indonesia, Jakarta,
Indonesia
Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Fortezza da
Basso, Florence, Italy
2004
‘Do You Believe in Reality?’, 2004 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts
Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
‘Free Territory’, 26th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
2003
‘Zone of Urgency’, Venice Biennale, Italy
2nd Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
‘Country-bution’, Yogyakarta Biennale, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
‘Interpellation’, CP Open Biennale, Galeri Nasional Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia
2002
4th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2001
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
2000
Havana Biennial, Cuba Pavilion, Havana, Cuba
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
1996
‘Jurassic Technologies Revenant’, 10th Biennial of Sydney, Art Gallery
of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
‘Universalis’, 23rd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
1995
‘Beyond the Borders’, 1st Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
1994
Yogyakarta Biennale, Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1993
1st Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
9th Jakarta Art Biennial, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia
1986
5th Biennial of Indonesian Young Artists, Taman Ismail Marzuki,
Jakarta, Indonesia
1984
4th Biennial of Indonesian Young Artists, Taman Ismail Marzuki,
Jakarta, Indonesia
Honours and Awards:
2011
Visual Art Award 2011, for Dedication, Contribution and
Achievement in Visual Art Fields from 2000 to 2010
Indonesia Art Motoring Award, Indonesia Classic Car Owners
Club, Jakarta, Indonesia
2009
AMICA Art Award, Male Favorite Artist, Jakarta, Indonesia
2006
Academic Art Award, Professional Artist, Program A-2, FSR ISI,
Yogyakarta & Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2003
2nd Annual Enku Grand Award, Gifu Prefectural Government,
Japan
Yogyakarta Art Prize, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
2000
UNESCO Prize for the International Art Biennial, Shanghai, China
1998
Prince Claus Award, in Recognition of Exceptional Initiatives and
Activities in the Field of Art and Development, Prince Claus Fund
for Culture and Development, The Netherlands
1992
I. Gusti Nyoman Lempad Prize, Sanggar Dewata Indonesia,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1989
Young Indonesian Artists, Alliance Française and Bandung
Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia
1981/1985
The Best Painting Awards, Indonesia Institute of the Arts,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Public Collections:
OHD Museum of Modern & Contemporary Indonesian Art,
Magelang, Indonesia
Deutsche Guggenheim (Deutsche Bank), Frankfurt, Germany
Artoteek Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland
Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
CP Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
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Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
The Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Aminudin TH Siregar, ‘Belajarlah ke Negeri Heri Dono’, Kompas,
10 August
Pamela Zeplin, ‘The Artist-in-Residence: A New Paradigm for
Teaching and Learning in University Art Education’, Journal of the
World Universities Forum, Vol. 1, Common Ground Publishing
2007
Judith Collins, Sculpture Today, Phaidon Press
Pamela Zeplin, ‘Collaboration on the Wing’, Broadsheet: Contemporary
Visual Arts+Culture, Vol. 36, No. 3, September
2003
Prince Claus Fund Journal # 10a, Prince Claus Fund, The Hague,
December
2002
Efix Mulyadi, ‘Renungan Merdeka Heri Dono’, Kompas, 16 August
Arif, ‘Saya Lebih Suka Kaya Waktu’, Koran Tempo, 7 July
Julie Ewington, The Multiple Matters of Modern Life, in Asia
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2001
Martinus Dwi Marianto, Surealisme Yogyakarta, Rumah Penerbitan
Merapi, Yogyakarta
Salah Hassan and Iftikhar Dadi (eds.), Unpacking Europe: Towards
a Critical Reading, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and NAi
Publishers, Rotterdam
Jim Supangkat, ‘Breaking Through Twisted Logic: Heri Dono’s
Critical Eye’, ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 32
Sindhunata, ‘Rire d’homme entre deux Toiles’, Courrier International,
4–10 January
2000
Efix Mulyadi and Bre Redana, ‘Lebih Jauh dengan Heri Dono’,
Kompas, 8 October
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist, ‘Heri Dono: The Ever-increasing Colonialization
of Time’, Flash Art, Vol. XXXlll, No. 213
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Art, Research, Theory, Oxford University Press, Victoria
Hendro Wiyanto, ‘Keedanan dan Kelucuan Heri Dono’, Kompas, 25 June
1997
Carol Lutfy, ‘Low-Tech Magician’, ARTNews, October
Heri Dono, Wayang Legenda: Si Tungkot Tunggal Panaluan, Wayang
Gepuk Wayang Alternatif, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta
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in Arms (ex. cat.), Iniva, London
Julie Ewington, ‘Between the Cracks: Art and Method in Southeast
Asia’, ArtAsiaPacific, Vol.3, No. 4
Orientation, Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, and Cemeti Art
Foundation, Yogyakarta
Apinan Poshyananda, ‘Roaring Tigers, Desperate Dragons in Transition’,
in Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions, Tensions
1995
Toshio Shimizu, Visions of Happiness: Ten Asian Contemporary
Artists, Japan Foundation, Tokyo
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Masahiro Ushiroshoji, 4th Asian Art Show Fukuoka: Realism as an
Attitude (ex. cat.), Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
Astri Wright, Soul, Spirit, and Mountain: Preoccupations of Contemporary
Indonesian Painters, Oxford University Press, New York
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Jim Supangkat, ‘The Framing of Indonesian Contemporary Art’,
Artlink, Vol. 13, November–March
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Jenny McFarlene, ‘Heri Dono’s The Chair’, Muse, November
Jim Supangkat, ‘Wajah Seni Rupa Asia Pasifik’, Tempo, 16 October
Jim Supangkat, ‘Seni Rupa Bawah’, Tempo, 16 October
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Linda Geh, ‘The Last of the Asian Shamans’, Sunday Star, 10 October
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Ann Virgo, Heri Dono: The Chair, in Canberra Contemporary Art
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First published as part of the exhibition:
Heri Dono
Madman Butterfly
14 October–24 November 2011
previous pages:
Flying to the Angels’ Freedom
(detail)
2011
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
following pages:
Three Presidential Candidates
(detail)
2009
acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm (59 x 79 in)
Coordination: Martin Clist
Editor: Eti Bonn-Muller
Assistance: Mauro Ribero, Xiaohan Li and Katherine Tong
Design: Ruth Höflich
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