Gajah Gallery Jakarta Gallery in Jakarta

Karet Tengsin · Contemporary programme

Editorial Profile

Founded in Singapore in 1996, Gajah Gallery is one of Southeast Asia's longest-running commercial galleries, with spaces in Singapore, Yogyakarta, Manila, and a Jakarta venue in the Karet Tengsin area of Jakarta Pusat, housed within the Casa Domaine complex. The Jakarta gallery operates as a dedicated exhibition space within this wider regional network, presenting solo and group shows drawn from a roster that pairs established names with emerging artists from across the region. Its program centres on painting, sculpture, and installation, with a sustained investment in Indonesian artistic practice — figures such as Ibrahim and Uji "Hahan" Handoko Eko Saputro reflect the gallery's dual attention to mid-career artists and younger voices working within contemporary art in Jakarta.

This commitment to production is reinforced by the gallery's Yogya Art Lab, a foundry and experimental studio established in Yogyakarta in 2012, where artists work alongside local artisans on sculptural pieces in alternative materials that often circulate through the Jakarta space. Internationally, Gajah Gallery shows regularly at major fairs including Art Basel Hong Kong, Art SG, Art Jakarta, and Art Basel Miami Beach, situating its Jakarta venue within a transnational circuit rather than treating it as a standalone outpost. Within Jakarta's expanding gallery landscape, the space adds to the growing number of galleries in Jakarta operating to international standards, while anchoring Gajah's long-term engagement with Indonesia as a central site for the production and presentation of contemporary art in the region.

Selected Artists

Now let me look up more Jakarta-specific exhibitions and key artist pages.Now let me fetch individual artist pages for key figures.@(NAM)Uji "Hahan" Handoko Eko Saputro@(NAT)Indonesian@(MED)Painting, Sculpture, Mixed Media@(DES)A founding member of Ace House Collective, Hahan works across painting, sculpture, and printmaking to interrogate the structures of the art market, the tensions between urban and agrarian life, and the social dynamics of production and consumption through satirical, layered visual language.@(NAM)Ibrahim@(NAT)Indonesian@(MED)Painting@(DES)An abstract painter based in Yogyakarta whose intuitive, expressionist practice explores colour, emotion, and the materiality of the painted surface. Influenced by de Kooning and Pollock, his canvases resist fixed meaning and invite subjective engagement from viewers.@(NAM)I Nyoman Masriadi@(NAT)Indonesian@(MED)Painting@(DES)A figurative painter of the post-Suharto generation whose signature black-skinned characters engage with social behaviour, power dynamics, and the ironies of the contemporary art market through meticulous execution and sharp pictorial wit.@(NAM)Putu Sutawijaya@(NAT)Indonesian@(MED)Painting, Sculpture, Performance@(DES)A multidisciplinary artist whose gestural painting practice draws on Balinese spiritual traditions and the vital energy of classical Chinese calligraphy, producing bold, kinetic compositions that navigate the tensions between ritual heritage and contemporary expression.@(NAM)Jemana Murti@(NAT)Indonesian@(MED)Sculpture, Installation, New Media@(DES)A Bali-based artist who works with 3D printing, bronze, and mixed materials to explore the intersection of Balinese sacred symbolism and digital technology, producing wall-based works and sculptures that question tradition and its transformation in the age of artificial intelligence.@(NAM)Rosit Mulyadi@(NAT)Indonesian@(MED)Painting@(DES)A painter whose oil and acrylic works engage with Western art historical legacies—particularly Romanticism—through irony and appropriation, examining how inherited images and ideals intersect with personal history, desire, and the ambiguities of contemporary Indonesian life.@(NAM)Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo@(NAT)Indonesian@(MED)Painting, Mixed Media@(DES)A Bandung-based artist who works with resin, pigments, volcanic ash, and everyday materials to explore painting as an expanded medium, producing layered surfaces that function as both material investigation and narrative commentary on ecological and social conditions.

Selected Exhibitions

Days That Slip Away Untouched

Solo show2026

Uji "Hahan" Handoko Eko Saputro

About

A solo exhibition examining digital culture, algorithmic authority, and the erosion of lived experience, presented through paintings and sculptural works that blend popular culture references with a collaborative, process-driven approach rooted in material and social relationships.

PaintingSculptureMixed Media

Critically Bali

Group show2026

I Nyoman Masriadi, I Nyoman Sukari, Satya Cipta, Putu Sutawijaya, Made Wianta, I Gusti Nyoman Tjokot, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, Tantin Udiantara, Dewa Putu Mokoh, Jemana Murti, Mangu Putra, I Made Djirna, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, Ashley Bickerton

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A cross-generational survey of Balinese art spanning the early twentieth century to the present, bringing together fourteen artists to examine how Balinese visual traditions have been challenged, reinvented, and negotiated in response to colonial legacies, postcolonial frameworks, and contemporary global pressures.

PaintingSculptureCurated Group Show

Humans, After Centuries

Solo show2025

Rosit Mulyadi

About

A solo presentation in which the artist engages Western Romantic painting through strategies of irony and appropriation, probing the tensions between inherited images and ideals, personal history shaped by Islamic boarding school life, and the restless conditions of contemporary desire.

Painting

Digital Echoes of the Past

Solo show2024

Jemana Murti

About

A solo debut at the Jakarta space in which the artist fused Balinese sacred iconography with 3D-printed forms and glitch aesthetics, producing wall-based and sculptural works that interrogate the shifting boundaries between cultural preservation and technological transformation.

SculptureInstallationDigital Art

IBRAHIM: Ruang dan Kesunyian

Solo show2023

Ibrahim

About

A solo exhibition of abstract-expressionist canvases exploring space, silence, and emotional interiority through intuitive brushwork. The artist's first solo show in Jakarta presented large-scale paintings accompanied by critical essays situating his practice within contemporary Southeast Asian abstraction.

Painting

Navigating Entropy 2022

Group show2022

Jane Lee, Yunizar, Wei Ligang, Uji "Hahan" Handoko Eko Saputro, Suzann Victor, Handiwirman Saputra, Ashley Bickerton

About

A group exhibition spotlighting sculptural works produced through Yogya Art Lab, Gajah Gallery's Yogyakarta foundry, bringing together artists from across Asia who worked with bronze and aluminium to expand their practices beyond painting into three-dimensional form.

SculptureMixed MediaCurated Group Show

New Beginnings: Grand Opening of Gajah Gallery Jakarta

Group show2022

Uji "Hahan" Handoko Eko Saputro, Rosit Mulyadi, Yunizar, Handiwirman Saputra, Ahmad Zakii Anwar

About

The inaugural exhibition marking the opening of the Jakarta space, presenting a broad selection of works by artists from the gallery's roster across painting and sculpture, positioning the new venue within the wider context of the gallery's Southeast Asian program.

PaintingSculptureCurated Group Show

Gallery Overview

Gajah Gallery Jakarta
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Jakarta
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Karet Tengsin
Address
Casa Domaine, Jl. K.H. Mas Mansyur No.1 GF, RT.6/RW.Retail, Karet Tengsin, Kecamatan Tanah Abang, Jakarta, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 10250, Indonesia
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