Wiyu Wahono

Jakarta, Indonesia

Wiyu Wahono is one of Indonesia’s most cutting-edge and experimental collectors. He started collecting art in the late 1990s when he returned to Indonesia after living in Germany for 20 years. Aiming to build a collection that reflects the zeitgeist, Wahono acquires works across all media from bioart to light art, sound art, performance art, scenography and audio visual installations.

"A good work of art is a good reflection of an era."

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What's important in choosing a new work for the collection

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On artworks dealing with the pandemic

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What is installation art so important?

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About the Artists

Deni Ramdani

Artist

Deni Ramdani is an Indonesian artist born in 1992, who won the Bandung Contemporary Art Award in 2017.

His interest in the changing topography of his village in Bandung and its environs led him to carry out serious research into the perils of urbanization, resulting in performances and installations that explore issues of environmental damage and provide an outlet to relieve his frustrations.

Photo by Ester Pandiangan

Ernesto Klar

Artist

Ernesto Klar is an American-Venezuelan artist born in 1976, and is currently based in New York City. He graduated from Parsons The New School for Design with a Masters in Fine Arts in 2006 and is currently a faculty member of the Parsons The New School for Design and The New School for Film and Media Studies.

Klar’s new media artworks often explore the threshold between the perceptible and the imperceptible. His interests lie in installation art, spatial designs and transdisciplinary design.

He has won numerous awards including the Artist Fellowship in Computer Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2007 and the first prize for the File Prix Lux in the Interactive Arts category in 2010. His recent exhibitions include Ernesto Klar: Invisible Disparities (2015) at Postmasters in New York and Queens International (2018) at the Queens Museum of Art in New York.

Image courtesy Lara Alcantara