Ruangrupa

Ruangrupa, stylised as ruangrupa and abbreviated as ruru, is a contemporary art collective based in Jakarta, Indonesia.[1][2][3] Founded in 2000 by a group of seven artists, ruangrupa provided a platform in South Jakarta for organising exhibitions, events, and festivals, also conducting publishing services, workshops, and research.[4][5]

ruangrupa functions as a non-profit organisation that supports contemporary art within the urban and cultural contexts of Indonesia and beyond, often involving artists and practitioners from other disciplines such as the social sciences, politics, and technology. The collective also supports the development of video art through research, documentation, and their biennial video art festival, OK Video, first held in July 2003.[5][6]

As a collective, they are co-directing documenta fifteen, taking place 2022 in Kassel, Germany; notably the first Asian group and the first art collective to curate the large-scale international exhibition.[4][7][8][9] While the collective has no fixed number of members, ten of the group's core members will engage in the directorship role,[10] including director Ade Darmawan, Ajeng Nurul Aini, Daniella Fitria Praptono, Farid Rakun, Indra Ameng, Iswanto Hartono, Julia Sarisetiati, Mirwan Andan, Narpati Awangga, and Reza Afisina.[11]

History

Origins

Loosely translated from Bahasa Indonesia to mean "a space for art" or "a space form", ruangrupa was founded in 2000 by artists seeking to create much-needed space where artists could work intensively with an emphasis on critical analysis, rather than production.[12] Established two years after the fall of the authoritarian Suharto regime, the collective notably emerged at a moment of newfound freedom for Indonesia.[4] ruangrupa is also a part of the Ford Foundation and Arts Collaboratory organisation network, receiving financial support from these networks.[13][14]

Since its founding, ruangrupa has changed its format and organisational structure twice. In 2015, ruangrupa developed the cultural platform Gudang Sarinah Ekosistem (GSE) together with a number of art collectives in Jakarta, an interdisciplinary space seeking to support creatives, communities, and institutions. The platform takes its name from Gudang Sarinah, their new headquarters located in Pancoran, South Jakarta. In 2018, together with two other Jakarta-based art collectives, Serrum and Grafis Huru Hara, ruangrupa initiated GUDSKUL: Contemporary Art Collective and Ecosystem Studies, a public learning space.[15][16]

documenta fifteen

In 2019, it was announced that ruangrupa would serve as artistic director for Documenta fifteen collectively, the first time an Asian group or an art collective would curate the large-scale, international exhibition.[4][7][8][9][17] The curatorial concept ruangrupa prepared for documenta fifteen centres upon the notion of lumbung, a rice barn that stores the communally-produced common resource of rice for future use.[18] Documenta fifteen is thus conceived as a collective resource pot, operating under the logics of the commons to mend today's injuries that are allegedly rooted in colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy; echoing the original intent of Documenta, an event launched to heal European war wounds.[19] The curatorial approach is based on an international network of localised, community-based art organisations.[20] A mural at the exhibition by the group Taring Padi came under intense controversy over what the German and Israeli governments condemned as antisemitic imagery, and the mural was subsequently covered up and taken down.[21][22] Due to the complications about the artwork, Sabine Schormann announced her resignation as general director at documenta fifteen, which met almost unanimous positive response in Germany.[23]

Publications

  • The Collective Eye/ Emma Nilsson, Dominique Lucien Garaudel, Heinz-Norbert Jocks (Edit): The Collective Eye in conversation with ruangrupa—Thoughts on Collective Practice, ISBN 978-3-95476-466-2

Major exhibitions and projects

Year Title Type Location
2001 ruangrupa joins the Rain Artists' Initiatives Network (RAIN)[24] - -
July 2003 OK Video Biennial video art festival National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta
2008 Oberhausen – International Short Film Festival Special screening program Oberhausen, Germany
2010 Singapore Night Festival Exhibition Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
DECOMPRESSION#10 – Expanding The Space and Public Public art project exhibition, workshop, film screening, seminar, bazaar, music festival, and publication launches to commemorate ruangrupa's 10th birthday Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2011 The Singapore Fiction Exhibition Singapore Biennale, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
2012 THE KUDA: The Untold Story of Indonesian Underground Music in the 70s Exhibition (commissioned) The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia
The Sweet and Sour Story of Sugar Exhibition and collaboration project with Noorderlicht, Netherlands Galeri Kuntskring,[Jakarta, Indonesia
2016 SONSBEEK '16: transACTION Curator Park Sonsbeek dan Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands
OK: Food, OK. Video 2017 in "Food Today: Indonesian Food, Society and Media Art" Archive exhibition Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
2019 Speculative Collective Exhibition as Gudskul 14th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2022 documenta fifteen Artistic director Kassel, Germany

References

  1. Gardner, Anthony; Green, Charles (April 2016). "1972: The Rise of the Star‐Curator". Biennials, Triennials, and documenta. pp. 17–47. doi:10.1002/9781119212638.ch1. ISBN 9781444336641.
  2. Ludel, Wallace (2019-02-22). "Documenta Taps Indonesian Art Collective Ruangrupa to Curate 15th Edition". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  3. "Solid contribution to art scene lands ruangrupa in documenta 15". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  4. Amirio, Dylan (14 March 2019). "Ruangrupa's 19-year journey to Documenta". The Jakarta Post. Archived from the original on 24 June 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  5. "Ruangrupa (Indonesia)". Rain Artists' Initiatives Network (RAIN). Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  6. Teh, David (2012). "Who Cares a Lot? Ruangrupa as Curatorship". Afterall. Summer 2012 (30). Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  7. "Documenta 15 | Frieze". frieze.com. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  8. "Artist Collective Ruangrupa to Curate Documenta 15". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  9. "ruangrupa documenta 15 / ArtReview". artreview.com. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  10. Perlson, Hili (25 February 2019). "Who Are ruangrupa? A Closer Look at Documenta 15's Artistic Directors". Frieze. Archived from the original on 25 February 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  11. "About ruangrupa, biographies: Artist collective, artistic direction of documenta 15". Universes in Universe. 22 February 2019. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  12. Hendro Wiyanto, (Oktober 2005), "ruangrupa: Alternative Space & Culture Analysis". Retrieved 26-04-2019
  13. "ruangrupa". Arts Collaboratory. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  14. Ford Foundation's BUILD Program in Indonesia, retrieved 2020-04-01
  15. "Studi Kolektif dan Ekosistem | GUDSKUL". GUDSKUL Ekosistem. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  16. "Ketika Seniman Menyulap Gudang Mangkrak". SWA.co.id. 2017-09-03. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  17. "'Community-Based' Indonesian Collective ruangrupa Will Be the Artistic Director of documenta 15". artnet News. 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  18. Ahmad, Nurzakiah (2019-03-06). "Dari Jakarta ke Kassel: Memboyong Lumbung ke documenta15". DW.COM (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  19. Taken from the documenta press release (22 February 2019).
  20. "Kami Menawarkan Risiko Bagi Documenta". Tempo. 2019-03-02. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  21. "Antisemitism debate rages at Documenta art fair". DW.COM. 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  22. "Antisemitic mural removed from Documenta art show". DW.COM. 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  23. K.d.ö.R, Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland (2022-07-16). ""Ein längst überfälliger Schritt"". Jüdische Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  24. www.mediamogul.nl, Design by www.sinds1416.nl | development by. "RAIN | Kunstenaars | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten". Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
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