Fendry Ekel Studio in Yogyakarta is now located in the same building as PartNER studio on Jalan Minggiran in the southern part of the city. Born in Jakarta, artist Fendry Ekel moved to the Netherlands in his teens, and is currently based in Yogyakarta and Berlin. Due to life experiences and his interest in different countries and cultures he values mobility in his artistic practice. For Ekel, the studio is like a traveller’s shelter and as a consequence, he frequently relocates his painting studio. He focusses on the formal character of the artist’s studio with very little interest in romantic associations.
Ekel studied fine art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the esteemed Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. As an outcome of his solo exhibition in HVCCA in New York in 2010, he was invited to participate in the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York in 2011. Ekel has been dubbed a pictor doctus, who critically investigates the power of art, figuration and representation by appropriating images from our collective memory. His multi-layered, monumental paintings created after existing photographic pictures explore the relation between man and memory. This year a comprehensive monograph with contributions by several international art historians will be presented by Black Cat Publishing, Berlin. Fendry Ekel has exhibited his work internationally and has had reoccurring solo shows in Amsterdam, Jakarta, Milan, Valencia, Mexico City, and New York.
Artists with work at this Location
Entang Wiharso (b. 1967, Tegal, Indonesia) graduated from Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta in 1994. As a recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Pollock-Krasner grant, a Copeland Fellowship at Amherst College, and residencies at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, NY as well as at STPI, Singapore, Wiharso has exhibited his work around the world and represented Indonesia in various international biennales, including Prospect 3 (New Orleans); 51st and 55th Venice Biennale; Prague Biennale 6; Asian Art Biennale 2, Taiwan; Jogja Biennale XI, Yogykarta; and Panorama, Singapore Art Museum. Entang lives and works in North Scituate, Rhode Island, United States and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Fendry Ekel (b. 1971, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia) studied fine art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the esteemed Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. As an outcome of his solo exhibition in HVCCA in New York in 2010, he was invited to participate in the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York in 2011. Fendry Ekel has exhibited his work internationally and has had reoccurring solo exhibition in Amsterdam, Jakarta, Milan, Valencia, Mexico City, and New York. Ekel lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Berlin, Germany.