Indeks, Jalan Pangampaan no. 37, Bandung (2026)

12/05/2026

From Practice to Perspective is a masterclass series within Methods & Matters that explores the relationship between curatorial practice and the perspectives that emerge through it. Through conversations and hands-on activities, the series invites participants to reflect on how perspectives are shaped through practice, experience, and critical engagement.

In the first session, Alia Sw****ka reflects on her curatorial practice over the past decade through the frameworks of decolonization, feminism, and local activism, spanning projects from local communities to international biennales. Day 1 will focus on feminism and local activism, while Day 2 will explore decolonization and the Global South.

Open for curators, writers, theorists, and art managers with a minimum of two years of experience and committed to attending the full session.

Register through the link in bio or via:
https://tinyurl.com/indeks-fptp-1

03/05/2026

Waypoints and Crossings: Mapping Art and Contexts Across Indonesia and the Philippines is a collaborative timeline-mapping workshop developed by Bea Belen-Ferrer, Indeks, and Universitas Katolik Parahyangan. Bringing participants together to trace key movements and artistic formations, the session explores how visual cultures in both countries have evolved from modernism to the present, reflecting on parallels, differences, and moments of encounter.

Monday, 4 May 2026 | 14:00 WIB - end
Studio Integrated Arts, Gedung 11 UNPAR - Jl. Aceh No. 53, Bandung

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Bea Belen-Ferrer is a Philippine-based visual artist and cultural worker whose practice merges text and image as an archival exploration of memory, everyday life, and local narratives in Southeast Asia. Her residency is supported through a partnership between Ateneo Art Gallery and Indeks, as part of the Ateneo Art Awards 2025.

Methods & Matters is a long-term initiative dedicated to capacity building within the arts ecosystem through workshops, masterclasses, internships, and other knowledge-sharing formats.

30/04/2026

“Soft Structures: The Artist-Parent Condition” considers how artistic practice is shaped by the conditions of care, attending to parenting as a form of labor that reorganizes time, attention, and modes of production. Rather than positioning parenthood in opposition to artistic work, the session approaches it as a generative framework through which new rhythms, constraints, and forms of knowledge emerge. Accompanied by a screening of Kidlat Tahimik’s Orbit 50: Letters to My Three Sons (1992), the discussion situates artist-parenthood within broader questions of visibility, support, and the infrastructures that sustain both life and practice. This session will be facilitated by Bea Belen-Ferrer.

Friday, 1 May 2026 - 10:30am onwards
Indeks Project Space, Jl. Pangampaan No. 37 Bandung

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Bea Belen-Ferrer is a Philippine-based visual artist and cultural worker whose practice merges text and image as an archival exploration of memory, everyday life, and local narratives within Southeast Asia. Belen-Ferrer’s residency was made possible through a partnership between Ateneo Art Gallery and Indeks, as part of the Ateneo Art Awards 2025: Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism.

03/03/2026

𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕟
Solo Exhibition by Alrezky Caesaria
Curated by: Maradita Sutantio

Opening: 6 Mar 2026, at 17:00 WIB | Iftar will be provided
Indeks Project Space, Jl. Pangampaan No. 37, Bandung

Open to the public and no RSVP needed

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Beginning with the pixel as the smallest unit of digital language, Alrezky Caesaria expands her long-standing exploration of the boundary between digital and physical space into a lived experience. Through this exhibition, she introduces 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰—a fictional studio operating as a “real” business within an imagined world—where pixels are produced for actual clients, yet the structure that generates them exists only in narrative.

Positioning digital labor as artistic medium, the exhibition reflects on value, fiction, and production within contemporary economies. Can an imagined system generate real meaning? Morning Moon unfolds as both inquiry and invitation: a space where play, code, and material presence converge.

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Exhibition runs until 12 Apr 2026, opens Wed—Sun, 13:00–20:00 WIB

27/02/2026

Bandung Kyodo Karuta
Workshop by Kona Eguchi

Sunday, 1 March 2026 — 16:00 WIB
at Indeks Project Space, Jl. Pangampaan no. 37, Bandung

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(Karuta is a traditional Japanese card game that relies on memory, speed, and responsiveness to spoken text. One voice reads a fragment, while players search for the corresponding card. The text becomes something active—mobile, contested, and never final.

In this workshop, karuta is used as a device to play with parikan / sisindiran, traditional Indonesian poetic forms structured in two layers: the first two lines evoke a landscape or situation, while the last two lines reveal the core meaning. These verses are translated into cards, then shuffled, reread, and rearranged. The approach resonates with the oral narrative tradition of Wayang Beber, where text is animated through voice, rhythm, and performative delivery. Narrative moves across visual form, sound, and play.

The workshop invites participants to recompose their urban experiences into poetry, and to reconstruct them as “playable narratives.” The city is not positioned as an object of observation, but as something that can be sung again. Personal fragments become part of a living archive—constantly shifting through collective reading and gameplay.

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Kona Eguchi (1998) is a Japan-based artist working across text, drawing, game structures, and performance. She begins from spontaneous gestures and impulses, then excavates their context through reflection and dialogue. Her works do not propose fixed messages; instead, they open interpretive space that grows through the body, material encounters, and shared experience.

18/02/2026

𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 06 - 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅: 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂, 𝑫𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒕 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎 explores how media practices, public communication, and documentation operate within the art ecosystem today. The discussion will touch on the transformation of media platforms from print to digital, working structures within art media practices, documenting and recording as part of journalism, as well as how audience engagement and platform algorithms shape the circulation and understanding of artistic practices.

Speakers:
Anwar Siswadi, ArtCase, Gabrielle Stephany Tamburian, Seni Hari Ini, Tri Joko Her Riadi

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𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 06 - 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅: 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂, 𝑫𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒕 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎
Friday, 20 February 2026, 15:30–17:30 WIB
Indeks Project Space, Jl. Pangampaan No. 37, Bandung

Iftar will be provided.

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Indistinct Chatter is a case-study-based discussion series initiated by Indeks in response to ongoing shifts within the art ecosystem. The program opens space for critical conversations around contemporary artistic practices through reflection, exchange, and shared experiences among artists, writers, curators, and wider audiences.

06/02/2026

On 29 January, Indeks had the pleasure of hosting an intimate dinner with the guests of Primer SEA in collaboration with . The evening served as an opportunity to introduce the practices of artists and curators working within our context to a wider, international audience, with guests joining us from across different regions and backgrounds.

Through shared time and conversation, the gathering created a space for meaningful encounters—where practices and ways of working could be introduced and shared beyond formal presentations.

Our sincere thanks to Lucas Huang (), Ashley Yuen, and Annisa Rahadi () for organizing the visit; to our guest artists and curators—Immartyas Ghinaa (), Aliansyah Caniago (), M. Akbar (), Egga Jaya (), Maharani Mancanagara (), Nurrahmat Widyasena (), Chiara Ghiardi (.chiara), Jeong-ok Jeon (), Karina Roosvita (), Clarissa Tifanny (), Raisa Kamila (), and Riyadhus Shalihin (); and to the Primer SEA guests—Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander (), Carol Yinghua Lu (), Daria de Beauvais, Hit Man Gurung (), Inga Lāce (.inga), Lucas Morin (), Mario D’Souza (), Nikita Yingqian Cai, Sharmini Pereira, Sheelasha Rajbhandari (), Tessa Giblin (.giblin), and Xue Tan ()—for taking the time to visit and engage with our space.

This gathering wouldn’t be possible without the greatest support and care from Salsa Devi Anggraini, Clarissa Tifanny, Anggita Rizqi, Hasna Nurul Fajri, Maharani Mancanagara, Grace Anata, and Ibu Warsini
Documentation by Grace Anata ()

04/02/2026

A (not-so) small adjustment in how our spaces work.
The library now sits closer to what’s happening in the Project Space, allowing reading and exhibitions to exist side by side.

Meanwhile, our Pangarang space continues its role through the Learning Atlas program, supporting learning and community-based activities.

Drop by when you have the time! Our ongoing show, Langgam, is running until 22 February. We are open Wed-Sun, 13:00-20:00.

31/01/2026

Our current exhibition, 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒎, presents a selection of artists’ explorations and sustained expansions within their work. Rather than emphasizing singular works or outcomes, the exhibition traces how artistic practices evolve through continuous inquiry, repetition, and transformation—how ideas are returned to, stretched, resisted, and expanded over time. By presenting works shaped through extended processes, 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒎 highlights the dedication, consistencies, and shifts that define each artist’s approach, positioning their artworks as a living and evolving system of thought and expression.

𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒎 features works by: Aliansyah Caniago, Egga Jaya, Immartyas Ghinaa, M. Akbar, Maharani Mancanagara, Nurrachmat Widyasena

On view until 22 February 2026
at Indeks Project Space, Jl. Pangampaan No. 37, Bandung
Opens Wed-Sun 13:00-20:00

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Acknowledgements:
Exhibition Preparation Support — Salsa Devi Anggraeni, Clarissa Tifanny, Kang Andi, Kang Ade, Maharani Mancanagara, Anggita Rizqi, Hasna Nurul Fajri, Karina Roosvita
Documentation — Grace Ananta

26/11/2025

“Ecologies of Practice” traces the art spaces that emerged and evolved in Bandung. The word ecologies reflects the belief that artistic practice is interlinked with the many contexts and conditions surrounding it. Meanwhile, practice expands the idea of art spaces beyond management and operations, acknowledging their role in shaping discourse, methods, and artistic explorations across Bandung.

More than a mapping of artistic developments, this exhibition offers a point of reference for emerging practitioners stepping into the field. The exhibition also features works by Alrezky Caesaria, Budi Adi Nugroho, Rega Rahman, Radhinal Indra, and Wildan Indra Sugara.

As Ecologies of Practice is intended to continue grow over the span of the exhibition duration, we invite visitors to share their memories, experiences, and stories connected to these art spaces. We are also open if you have books, documents, or archival materials you wish to lend or contribute to enrich our growing references.

11/10/2025

Cultural Products as Hegemonic Force: How Art under the New Order Legitimizes Violence in Aceh
📚 Research Presentation by Putra Hidayatullah (Writer, Curator)
🗓️ Saturday, 11 October 2025 | 19:00–21:00
📍 Indeks Library, Jl. Pangarang Dalam II no. 3a, Bandung

How can art and culture become instruments of power? This presentation revisits Indonesia’s New Order era (1967–1998), when cultural productions—from state-led festivals to artistic narratives of Pembangunan (development)—were mobilized to justify state violence in Aceh, a region long struggling for independence.

Putra’s research examines how intellectuals, cultural workers, and the military were entangled in this system of power, and how its legacies continue to shape Aceh’s cultural landscape today.

Based on his MA dissertation submitted to the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2017, this presentation offers a reflection on how cultural narratives can sustain control, silence resistance, and legitimize violence.

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