Alexander Supartono
Alexander Supartono is an art historian and curator specialising in modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia. He obtained a PhD in History of Photography from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He lectures on photographic theories and histories at Edinburgh Napier University (UK).
Presently he is one of principal investigators at the Getty Research Institute’s Photography Unbound project that explores computational methods to analyse large collections of digital images and the application of computer vision to art historical questions (2021-ongoing).
Alexander Supartono is one of the founding member of Taring Padi, a collective of artists from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The group was formed in 1998 during the general upheaval following the fall of Suharto. His recent curatorial activities include Flame of Solidarity (2022), the presentation of Taring Padi collective at documenta fifteen (2022) in Kassel, Germany and Tanah Merdeka (2023), a Taring Padi exhibition at Framer Framed, Amsterdam.
Latest publications include The silent waiting: Javanese Antiquity and 19th century photography in the Dutch East Indies (2022), National Gallery Singapore.
- Art and Australia - The Work of Justice Taring Padi
- NRC - Taring Padi: 'Muslim fundamentalists see us as threat because we are punk'
- Metropolis M - Reflecting on documenta fifteen, by Jack Segbars
- Taring Padi
Links
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Tanah Merdeka
An exhibition with the Indonesian art & activist collective, Taring Padi, reflecting on the concept of land as the object and site of decolonial struggles.
Agenda
Roundtable Conversation: Tanah Merdeka
Roundtable conversation with researchers and curators from different art museums and institutions within the context of Taring Padi's exhibition, Tanah Merdeka.
Opening: Tanah Merdeka
Opening of the exhibition Tanah Merdeka with works by the Indonesian art collective Taring Padi and collaborators.
Symposium: (un)Common Grounds - Reflecting on documenta fifteen
A two-day hybrid symposium co-organised by Framer Framed, Akademie van Kunsten & Van Abbemuseum
Workshop: Wayang Kardus - Struggle and Solidarity with Taring Padi
A two-day workshop by Taring Padi with food, conversations, jamming sessions and the production of cardboard puppets
Magazine
Collectives / Indonesia / Podcast / Social Practice /
Collectives / Indonesia / Colonial history / Art and Activism /
An introduction to the exhibition Tanah Merdeka - by Alexander Supartono
Indonesia / Collectives / Art and Activism / Southeast Asia /