Alia Swastika

In 2005, with a grant from Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), she joined staff exchange programme in UfaFabrik, Berlin, Germany.

[2] Recent shows include: “The Past The Forgotten Time”[3] (Amsterdam, Jakarta, Semarang, Shanghai, Singapore, 2007–2008); “Manifesto: The New Aesthetic of Seven Indonesian Artists” (Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, 2010); and solo exhibitions for Eko Nugroho, Tintin Wulia, Wimo Ambala Bayang, and Jompet Kuswidananto.

[5] Shadow Lines, the first edition, included forty artists from Indonesia and India collaborating in the exhibition that opened on 26 November 2011.

[6] The Biennale Jogja XI,[7] aimed to open up new perspectives and develop confrontations that engage convention and the establishment by examining similar situations all over the world.

[9] As it has often throughout her career, Swastika's curatorial approach for this project continued an exploration of the transformative realities of mobility, namely on the impact of the simultaneous loosening / tightening of borders and geo-political notions and the increasing flows of goods, people and information as a result of globalization.