Ade Darmawan
Artist, Jakarta
Ade Darmawan lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia, as an artist and curator. He studied at the Indonesia Art Institute (I.S.I) in the Graphic Art Department. In 1998, he resided in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, during a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten. In 2000, with five other local artists, he founded ruangrupa, an artists’ collective platform, in Jakarta.
As a member of ruangrupa, he has participated in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2002), the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2005), the Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia (2012), the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2014), and the Sonsbeek International, the Netherlands (2016). His solo exhibitions include: Magic Centre at Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (2015), and at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands (2016). In 2016, he participated in the Gwangju Biennale once again, and also in the Singapore Biennale.
In 2009, he became Artistic Director of the Jakarta Biennale, and since 2013, he has been Executive Director of the Jakarta Biennale.