Aaron Seeto, the director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum Macan) talks to Art Worlds about this ambitious private initiative. Masterminded by businessman and major art collector Haryanto Adikoesoemo, Museum Macan opened in 2017 in Jakarta. It’s Adikoesoemo's collection of around 800 works, built over two decades, that forms the museum’s holdings. As the first institution of its kind in Indonesia, there's been a lot of planning around cultivating a local audience and developing the museum's educational values. Aaron spoke from Jakarta about how their exhibitions strive to make cross-cultural connections and nurture Indonesia's arts.

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Tromarama—a collective composed of Febie Babyrose, Herbert Hans and Ruddy Hatumena—speak to Art Worlds from their studios in Bandung and Jakarta, Indonesia. They first came together to produce a music video for a local rock band that ended up as a stop motion animation film comprising hundreds of woodcut boards and was simultaneously displayed as an installation. They’ve gone on to continue working with video, sculptural forms and digital technologies in inventive and humorous ways, showing ambitious work at galleries including the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Tromarama talk about their process, working in the digital age and the power of being three.

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Yves Zlotowski, co-founder of Batia Sarem, one of Cambodia’s leading contemporary art galleries, takes us through how a conversation one day in Paris with gallerist Lyvann Loeuk that lead them both to Siem Reap. It's a tranquil place famed for the Ankor Wat temple complex and where a cluster of galleries are taking shape. Yves talks through what its like to work in this context and explains how the country’s abundance of NGOs have shaped artistic practices. 

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Vuth Lyno, a Cambodian artist, curator and educator, speaks about one of the country's significant project spaces: SA SA art projects that he co-founded in 2010 with the collective Stiev Selapak. SA SA oversee extravagant performances, city-wide festivals, innovative art history workshops and an artist residency programme. As they prepare to be a part of documenta 15, Vuth talks about the work the group do and reflects on the legacy bequeathed by the Khmer Rouge, which left a deep void in art historical knowledge. 

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Sopheap Pich, one of Cambodia's most innovative artists, speaks from his studio about his ‘non-wastage' approach. Working from his farm in Cambodia’s mountains he makes use of the materials around him. This might mean he creates pigment from soil, weaves with rice sacks or softens bamboo and rattan to create his monumental woven sculptures. We discuss in detail the trajectory of his practice—including his studies in America to returning to Cambodia—as well as hosting vast ‘Art on the Farm’ evening for the country’s artists. 

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Feroze Gujral, one of India's leading art philanthropists, speaks to us about steering the Gujral Foundation and striking a balance between supporting artists at home and working on projects internationally. In a country with limited government art funding and nothing that comes close to the UK’s Arts Council, private initiatives take up the slack. Feroze talks candidly about fitting the arts into India’s wider political agenda and establishing their value when humanitarian disasters are, rightly, at the forefront of the country’s concerns. 

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The brilliant and bold performance artist Nikhil Chopra speaks from his studio in Goa. Nikhil's practice is world-renowned, and he's been supporting performance artists in India with the residency space, Heritage Hotel Art Spaces, which he co-founded. But it might be his alias, Yog Raj Chitrakar, you're better acquainted with. The artist transforms into this starchy, upright gentleman—a Victorian throwback who would seem better placed in the Charles Dickens Museum than the contemporary art galleries, biennales, and museums he haunts. We talk about Nikhil's characters, their appearance, and extended stay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as the very personal origin of this character's excessively colonial pursuits. 

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Curator and Director Pooja Sood talks about Khoj, India's unique artist led workshop and studio complex in New Delhi. The place has nurtured experimentation for more than a quarter of a century, and numbers many of India's leading artists and curators among its alumni. Pooja talks us through it all - from sourcing warm goat lungs for a performance to navigating geopolitical frictions- in this episode.

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