Crossing Signs

​Crossing Signs, 14 artists from Germany and Indonesia experiencing the ‘liminal zone’
Curated by Sujud Dartanto and Noor Veiga

Taman Budaya Yogyakarta
20th - 29th March 2011
Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta 
4 – 11 April 2011

Crossing signs is the second part of an international project between Germany and Indonesia, that aims to serve as a platform with a potential of bringing together minds, genders and differences that can help evaluate our world. Both countries share a complex history marked by episodes of division in their societies, national issues and the struggles of its people, which now punctuates the contemporary culture and its practices. In the current international geopolitical context, the perception of ‘My World’ and ‘My Images’ resonate in multiple ways, depending on who is presenting, and who is receiving them. By using real or fictional narratives, artists question the value of the images of the world – especially their world –, which we all receive daily and passively swallow.

Crossing Signs facilitate the creation of a ‘third space’ of localness and  belonging, through the interactions and crossovers in the works of the artists. Their ideas will instigate the foundation of a body of knowledge, that works to deconstruct the idea of the ‘self’, based on local legacies, stereotypes and histories of prejudice that subvert the notion of belonging. The Exhibition intends to be a ‘neutral’ space – one that we normally don’t consider –, the coming together of two different geo-cultural contexts, and realities where mutual coincidences take place. Crossing Signs believes that contemporary art brings a kind of journey, a trajectory, or a never-ending destination. Therefore the works can be seen as a ‘text’, which constitutes a method of departure towards new experience; the ‘crossing’ and the coming together of two ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ indicators, in the spaces often explored for their differences, but seldom in their similarities.

I Made Aswino Aji                   Indonesia
Yasmin Alt                               Germany
Sigit Bapak                              Indonesia
Indra Dodi                               Indonesia
Franziska Fennert                 Germany
Tilman Hornig                        Germany
Paul Pretzer                           Germany
Deni Rahman                           Indonesia
Lenny Ratnasari Weichert    Indonesia
Lashita Situmorang                Indonesia
Ulrike Stolte                            Germany
Rifqi Sukma                             Indonesia
Cosima Tribukeit                    Germany
Fee Vogler                              Germany

This program support by:
Ifa – Asian Leadership Center - Sang Consulting –forster * kraft – arqueonautas