Students Exhibitions
Kebun Seni organizes art showcases for its students on a regular basis, occurring at least three times annually, both in digital and physical formats. These exhibitions follow thematic concepts, curated by the founder of Kebun Seni and exclusively presented by the Kebun Seni team. The exhibitors solely consist of chosen Kebun Seni students and their works. This exhibition serves as a gesture of recognition from Kebun Seni, honoring the progression of its students' talents.
Virtual Exhibition - Bebas Merdeka!
This online exhibition for Kebun Seni students showcases the work of students and teachers who have worked hard to produce artworks. Kebun Seni hopes through this exhibition with the theme of “Bebas Merdeka”, students and teachers can be excited to work and be creative in the independence celebration.
“Bebas Merdeka” is the theme for this year's online exhibition, so that students and Kebun Seni teachers can learn independently according to their respective characters, be enthusiastic in creating, and improve or optimize their talents that shown to the public that they have developed into a better version of themselves than before.
The artworks convey ideas for the future. We will be excited, not giving up on working and creating for today, tomorrow, and even in the future.
-Vonny Ratna Indah-
Virtual Exhibition - Reborn : Our Future, Earth, and Hope
Pandemic changes many things indeed. This is the era of uncertainty but a glimpse of light also emerges from the bottom of pit darkness showing a path to the new version of this world and all of its kinds. This exhibition with the theme "Reborn: Our Future, Earth, and Hope" is not just talk about the negativity about this year and past but we speak as if we just got the "death" card from tarot deck means "rebirth" so they can show to the viewers how much they grow already to the better version of ourselves. This exhibition will showcases the new version of Kebun Seni's students in their way of acting, seeing, and thinking while dealing in this difficult situation.
These exhibited artworks convey prayers and letters to the future saying that these artists will be alright for today, tomorrow, and even tens to hundreds years onward because every time they stumbled, they will rise again because they believe in our future, we also believe that art has the power to hold the misery and uncertainty and change them into a beautiful harmony of hope and prayers.
-Cliff Moller-
Opening Kebun Seni Online Art Exhibitions
Between Plants, Me, and Love is a very personal theme for each individual involved in this exhibition. Each student can interpret it differently according to their own interpretation.
Growing up is a word with a strong character. Plants undergo a process of growth, from the process of sowing seeds, sprouting, rooting, growing branches, growing mature and sturdy, and finally flowering and fruiting into a beautiful process in the life of a plant. Growing takes time. Growing is not something instant, it is strongly influenced by the environment, be it weather, soil content, pest disturbances, hot sun, rainfall can be a beneficial factor, but can be deadly. It depends on how we deal with it.
Same with me. I represent man himself. Humans experience the complexity of growth that is unique to each individual, according to the environment, family background, region, position, position, responsibility that humans face during their lifetime. Humans with backgrounds born in the same family, the same customs, the same school, the same country, but can form different characters and mindsets from each other.
Love also needs growth, it takes effort to be nurtured and nurtured. Love requires acceptance, openness, tolerance, character building, with established communication, all of which require time and effort. Everything is not created instantly.
Kebun Seni invites students to respond to these words in a work of art that frees them to fantasize, form dreams, ideals, efforts to grow creatively.
Thank you to friends who are involved in this First Kebun Seni Online Exhibition in February 2021 full of love during the pandemic period that is not over yet. May difficulties and obstacles not make us give up on the situation, but make us grow more mature.
Hopefully our creativity and imagination will continue to be created.
Spirit !!!
Vonny Ratna Indah, M.Sn
(Founder of Kebun Seni)
True Colors Exhibitions
Living in the world equipped with such prosperous colors, artists have vastly freedom to explore colors into any kind of media. In daily life, we are bombarded with colors from the nature landscape such as sea, lake, forest, mountain, cloud, flower, and all of them provide big wide canvas for each artist to explore. Not only using canvas and oil, artists also able to enrich their work with colorful goods that lies around them.
Commemorating World Mental Health Day 2018, Kebun Seni is working with Komunitas Organik Indonesia, to exhibit Kebun Seni’s students’ art works of “TRUE COLORS”. The exhibition shows how the students are truly and sincerely free to explore colors that the nature has gave them into art works, or simply combining the colors into harmonization pieces. These art works implied as objects, colorful landscapes, humans, or abstract color compositions.
We have believed painting is a big help for us to express emotions for so able human to manage stable mental health, and this exhibition shows how that human emotions not only can be expressed by words, but also expressed personally by colorful objects of art. From each art works exhibited, we can see how students have pour out personal life emotion using their favorite objects and colors into paintings. Each of them also free to explain their art concepts enriched by personal imagination.
Let us see what Nadian Almatsier has express into her art. As a working woman, she express her feminine yet strong character using pastel colors melt into strong figures of ballerinas. Her paintings remind us on unique gesture of beauty, while delighting us with anatomy details of classic ballet costumes at the same time. Different things we can pick up from Ryoga Adityo Dipowikoro’s. As an architect graduated from Newcastle University, he loves to explore using straight lines and bright colors harmonized with beautiful cubistic composition. The paintings channels Dipowikoro’s opinions on social issues that happens surrounds him and speaks loud about human emotions.
While Tri Hersanti Budiman, choose to explore feminine colors to describe her feelings on nature landscape beauty. This housewife who used to work in IT business indeed has unique way to express her emotions into paintings productively for these last two years.
Least but not last, keep on expressing your emotions into art works, young artists! Let us creatively enrich the color of Indonesian art works.
With the love of art,
