RUANG// is a platform for curating, cultural production, and critical exchange rooted in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. We work with contemporary artists who make a vital contribution to the world we live in by engaging with the urgent questions of our time.
Our practice moves between exhibition-making, artist management, and advisory work — connecting artists, collections, and institutions with ideas that matter. Whether in collaboration with real estate and hospitality projects or in educational and research contexts, we bring curatorial depth and cultural intelligence to spaces
At the core of RUANG// is a focus on the entanglements of technology and ecology. Technology, for us, is not only digital tools or emerging media but infrastructures, networks, and systems — from extractive industries and surveillance apparatuses to vernacular knowledge and speculative futures. Ecology extends beyond the natural environment to encompass contested landscapes, indigenous cosmologies, resource politics, and the shifting relations between human and more-than-human worlds.
RUANG// is a platform for curating, cultural production, and critical exchange rooted in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. We work with contemporary artists who make a vital contribution to the world we live in by engaging with the urgent questions of our time.
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To curate is a form of listening. Exhibition is a compostable — growing, decomposing, seeding again. Moving with the textures of a place. Ideas arrive sideways, like weather. Knowledge is a rhythm, a relation, a remainder.
Nathaniel Amaris works from a small home studio in Bogor, which he refers to as Studio 23. His paintings centre on the human figure, most times nude, in motion or suspended in stillness.
Judith Ansems is a Dutch painter, former chart-topping musician, and a licensed child psychologist. Her paintings of domestic interiors — rooms, stairwells, corridors — are rooted in a profound understanding of one’s inner world.
Ustina Yakovleva’s practice unfolds through long, durational processes — embroidery, beading and drawn line. She works without preparatory sketches, allowing each line or thread to gradually construct its own internal structure.
Sofya Skidan’s work resists the binary legacies of modernism: the separation of body and mind, of nature and culture, of science and spirit.
RUANG// publishes writing on Southeast Asian contemporary art with a focus on critical perspectives. We are especially interested in work that engages with technology, ecology, colonial histories, and the shifting cultural and political contexts of the region — but we also welcome other approaches that push conversations forward.
Call For Papers: Technology and Ecology in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art. Submission Guidelines
If you’d like to contribute, fill in this form with a short introduction, a sample of your writing, and the themes you’d like to explore.
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The work is done through conversation. To hold space for the uncertain, the unfinished, the hypothetical. To make new maps — between artists, materials, times.
To speak in English, but to think from everywhere.
RUANG// presents its pavilion at Art & Bali 2025, showcasing works by Southeast Asian and international artists supported through our curatorial and advisory practice.
Private opening of NUDE: Sex, Gender & Eroticism in Indonesian Art — a major group exhibition curated by RUANG// exploring the evolving role of the unclothed body in Indonesian visual culture.
The work is done through conversation. To hold space for the uncertain, the unfinished, the hypothetical. To make new maps — between artists, materials, times.
To speak in English, but to think from everywhere.
Also join Art Circle Asia to be a part of an invitation-only global community.
RUANG// is a platform for curatorial research, critical connoisseurship, and context-rooted art production across Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
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