Information about the exhibition of Natasha Tontey, a world-renowned contemporary artist from Indonesia.
From Minahasa, she explores contemporary society with bold imagination, spanning film, installation art, and performance.
Meet her works, as she is active on a global stage, from the Singapore Biennial to Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof to Seoul's Leum Museum of Art!"
Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre
Natasha Tontey's most immersive and large-scale installation work, commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
November 16, 2024 – April 6, 2025
Natasha Tontey is an artist from Minahasa based in Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Her recent exhibitions include a solo show at Auto Italia, London (2022), and selected group screenings and performances include:
- 34th Singapore International Film Festival, 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2023)
- Singapore Biennial (2022)
- De Stroom Den Haag (2022)
- GHOST: 2565, Bangkok (2022)
- Protozone8 Queer Trust, Zurich (2022)
- Arko Art Council, Seoul (2022)
- Leum Museum of Art, Seoul (2022)
- Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2021)
- Transmediale, Berlin (2021)
- Performance Space 2021, Sydney
- Other Futures, Amsterdam (2021)
- Singapore International Film Festival (2021)
- Kyoto Experiment (2021)
- Asian Film Archive, Singapore (2021)
In 2020, Natasha Tontey received the HASH Award from ZKM (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe) and Akademie Schloss-Solitude, and was selected as a recipient of the Junge Akademie program (2021–2023) 'Human Machine' section of the Berlin Academy of Arts (AdK).
Natasha Tontey is an artist and designer from Indonesia who creates work primarily based on futuristic imagination and social narratives. She explores themes such as colonialism, gender, technology, and mythology using animation, installation art, and video work.
In particular, her work is known for reinterpreting children, non-human life forms, traditional folklore, and mythology from a contemporary perspective. One of her representative projects, the "Pest to Power" series, addresses the relationship between insects and humans, exploring the concept that insects can play an important role in future society beyond being mere pests.
She is active not only in Indonesia but also abroad, participating in various international exhibitions and residency programs.
