Art Exhibition

Asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) are people who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country. In Indonesia, around 13,174 refugees are currently ‘transiting’ and living in the country. However, the awareness of global forced displacement is low among Indonesians. In the Let’s Walk My Journey Art Exhibition, we aim to increase the awareness and interaction between ASRs and the general public including local communities especially in Indonesia as a refugee-hosting country, albeit temporarily. Art is chosen to be the media of expression because ASRs can express and voice their stories in arts that function as a ‘safe space’ towards meaningful participation. Creative art can reach individuals in different ways, and therefore, many ASRs use art to imagine a better world.

Vincent Rumahloine is a contemporary artist, who playfully interrogates the social fabric and the mundane in society. His work mainly revolves around people; from social issues, human rights, traditional values, human relations, and collective memories to redesigning historic narratives. Vincent graduated in Ceramics from Bandung Institute of Technology in 2009. He worked as an art teacher and as a social worker with HIV/AIDS victims, before becoming a full-time artist.

Vincent is the winner of the sixth Bandung Contemporary Art Award 2019. His winning project “Don’t Call Me A Hero” was exhibited in the Latiwangi Art Gallery in Bandung and tells the story of an Indonesian exile in Prague, who lost his citizenship after the 1965 tragedy. His project “Moving Museum“, about the untold stories and objects of local communities, has been presented at Pulosari Public Space in Bandung, Contemporary Ujazdowksi Castle in Warsaw (Poland), and The National Gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta.

Let’s Walk My Journey will feature a total of 35 artists of refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds from Afghanistan, Iran, Angola, Somalia, the Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria. All artists are living in Greater Jakarta, Pekanbaru, and Medan, Indonesia, with the exception of 1 artist in Rwanda and 1 artist in Germany.

For more details on individual artists and artworks, check our online exhibition website. Download the LWMJ Exhibition Catalog here.

Date                              : 6 – 20 August 2022

Online Exhibition       : https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/node/10511059  (accessible from 6 August)

Offline Exhibition       : Work Coffee Jakarta. Jl. H. Ipin No. 81A, Lebak Bulus, Jakarta Selatan. https://goo.gl/maps/7aAGKpJXiwcWWKw39

Let’s Walk My Journey Art Exhibition also includes a series of events accessible for public.

• Opening and Closing Events
• Opening Talk Show
• Movie Screening and Directors Talk
• Artist Talks
• Book Launch
• Artist Meet-Up

The series of events will be live-streamed on RDI Indonesia YouTube channel.

All artworks in the Let’s Walk My Journey Art Exhibition are available for sale. To purchase, go to our Online Exhibition site and follow the link in each artwork to send us a message.

Public donations are invited, with all proceeds to go to artists. Please write donation amount and artist name if you want to direct/divide donations to specific artists. Otherwise, we will distribute it evenly to all artists.