CURRICULUM VITAE

Melati Suryodarmo

Born in Surakarta Indonesia, lives and works in Gross Gleidingen, Germany and Solo, Indonesia

Education:

2001- 2002 Postgraduate Program (Meisterschule) under Prof. Marina Abramovic at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig, Germany

1994- 2001 Study of performance art and sculpture under Prof.Anzu Furukawa, Prof. Mara Mattuschka and Prof. Marina Abramovic. Degree in Fine Art at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig, Germany

1993 Degree in International Relations Studies, Faculty of Politic and Socio Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung, IndonesiaExhibitions & Festivals (selection)

Performances & Exhibitions

2009
	Kunstbanken, Hamar Norway
	European Performance Art Festival, EPAF, Warsaw, Poland
	Asiatopia 11, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
	"Artrend", Taipei, Taidung, Gaoshung, Tainan, Taiwan
	“Farewell Angel”, solo exhibition and performance at Lilith Performance Studio Malmö, Sweden
	“International Performance Art festival Giswill”, Switzerland
	“East West via Belfast”, Platform art, Belfast, Northern Ireland
	“East West Project”, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel
	“Art of the Encountering”, Hildesheim and Gebläserhalle, Ilsede, Germany
	“Asiatopia 15 minutes”, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Chiang Mai, Thailand
	Untuvasade - videoperformansseja, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
	“Incheon Women Artist’ Biennial”, Incheon, South Korea
	“Marina Abramovic Presents…”, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester International Art Festival, Manchester, UK
	CUT 09 Figures. New Photography from Southeast Asia with VWFA, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Manila
	InTransit 09, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
	Momentum, Le Bain Connective, Brussels
	“undisclosed territory#3- performance art event” at Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo, Indonesia
	Performance Art Laboratory Project 2009, Bali, Indonesia
	“Pathological Aesthetic” symposium at HAN, Nijmegen, Holland
2008
	"ZOOM-Festival", IPAH, St.Jakobikirche, Hildesheim, Germany
	“Memorabilia”, performance project, TBS, Solo, Indonesia
	“Between Sky and Sea-II” Herdla Island, Norway
	Tanz im August/sommer.bar, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
	“Sincere Subject”, SIGIARTS Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
	“Emerging discourse- performance mimicry II”, Bodhiart, New York City
	“Manifesta7”, European Biennial, Ex-Alumix, Bolzano, Italy
	“Friktioner”, at City Gallery, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden
	“MADE Festival”, Nordlandsoperan, Umea, Sweden
	“Solitaire”, Solo exhibition, Valentine Willie Fine Arts at Annexe, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
	“undisclosed territory#2”, Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo, Indonesia
2007
	"Perception of Patterns in Timeless Influence", Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden
	eBent07, Performance Festival, Barcelona
	"Superintense - The flying circus 2007 - travelogue", Theatreworks, 72-13 Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
	Performance& Intermedia Festival:" PI 2007 " Szczecin – National Museum. Poland and in Berlin - Actions Bank 19-21.10.2007
	" unvorhergesehenes" Galerie Traubensaft Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin-Wedding
	"kunst hier und jetzt", in collaboration with Yingmei Duan, Mallerkapelle am Elm, Koenigslutter.
	" SLEEPLESS NIGHT (la Nuit Blanche)" "Le Generateur", Paris
	“Indonesian Women Artists: The Curtain Opens” , National Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia
	"Anti Aging", group exhibition, curated by Nindityo Adipurnomo, Cemeti Art House & Gaya Fusion Gallery, Bali, Indonesia
	"erotic body" curated by Marina Abramovic and Ismael Ivo for the Dance Festival, Venice Biennale 2007
	"15th Performance Art Conference", Bali, Indonesia
	"undisclosed territory", padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, Indonesia
	"WIND FROM THE EAST - perspective on Asian contemporary art" 17 Feb - 27 May 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Finnland
2006
	“Exergie-butter dance”, Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
	“Deformed Ethic of a Relationship 3.0 for DormArt” with Oliver Blomeier, Depot, Dortmund
	“Accione 06”, Madrid, Spain
	“Deformed Ethic of a Relationship 1.0”, with Oliver Blomeier, Galerieturm, Helmstedt
	Gipfeltreff, Kaskaden Kondensator, Basel, Switzerland
	“Loneliness in the Boundaries”, Solo Exhibition, Cemeti Art House Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
	“Exegie – Butter Dance”, Goethe Institut, Jakarta, Indonesia
2005
	“Räume und Schatten”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
	“Kunst Forum Berlin”, Art.es, Berlin
	“15th International Electronic Art Festival – Video Brasil”, Sao Paolo, Brasil
	“ 19th Festival Grad Teatar Budva”, Budva, Serbia and Montenegro
	“Navigate – live art”, BALTIC & Stubnitz, Gateshead Newcastle, UK
	“La Galleria dell’Amore”, Galleria Civica Trento, Italy
	“Gifted Generation”, HAU1 Hebbel Theater Berlin, Germany
	“International Performance Festival Salzau”, Schloss Salzau, Germany
	“Retrospective of the work of Egon Schiele – the SHELF” – in collaboration with Marina Abramovic, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Holland.
	“Der Sekundentraum – opening of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart”, Wüttembergischem Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
2004
	“Nude with skeleton”, MARTa Herford, Germany
	“Retrospective” Galerie der HBK Braunschweig, Germany
	“7a*11d”, International Performance Art Festival, Toronto, Canada
	“Leidenschaft Junge Kunst”, Allgemeine Konsum Verein, Braunschweig
	“FAXE KONDI- unzipped time”, Gallery Futura, Prague, Czech Republik
	“Cleaning The House -performance Loop”, NMAC Foundation, Jerez Dela Frontera, Spain
	“RISK”, Landesmuseum Braunschweig, Braunschweig
2003
	“4th International Performance Festival Odense”, Odense
	“Live Art brrr”, Teatro Carlos Alberto/Teatro Nacional de São joão, Porto Portugal
	“Student Body”, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Galicia, Spain
	“Performance in der Kunsthalle”, Fridericianum , Kassel,
	“Performance art NRW 2003”, Healing Theater, Köln
	“Recycling the future”, group event, Venice Biennale 2003, Italy
	“As soon as possible” Performance and Exhibition, PAC Milano, Italy
	“Performance Art Nord Rhein Westfalen”, Maschinenhaus, Essen
2002
	“Body Power Power Play“, Wüttenbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
	“The Promise“, Solo Exhibition, Gallerie Gedok, Stuttgart
	“Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, LOT Theater, Braunschweig
	“Pret â Perform“, Gallery Via Farini, Milano, Italy
	“Body Basic“, Trans art 02, Franzenfestung, Brixen, Italy
	“Common Ground“, Landesvertretungshaus Niedersachsen –Schleswig Holstein, Berlin
2001
	“Festa dell´arte“, Aquario diroma, Rome, Italy
	“Marking the territory“, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
	“Get That Balance”, National Sculpture Factory, Opera House, Cork, Ireland
	“A little bit of History Repeated“, Kunst Werke, Berlin
	“Indonesian Live Art“, Gallerie Mein Blau, Berlin
	“Polysonneries, 2nd International Performance Festival“, Lyon, France
	“von weiß-rosa zu rot“, Luther Turm, Cologne
	“Lullaby for the ancestors“, Solo Performance, LOT Theater, Braunschweig
	“Fingerspitzengefühle“, Group exhibition, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen
2000
	“Performance Passing Through“, Gedok, Stuttgart
	“Anableps“, Group exhibition, Galery Miscetti, Rome, Italy
	“ins“, Maximillian Forum, Munich
	“Visible Differences - an event“, Hebbel Theater, Berlin
	“Spot + Places“, Performance Congress, Healing Theater, Cologne
1999
	“Fresh Air“, Group-exhibition, E-Werk, Weimar
	“Performance Festival Odense“, Odense, Danmark
	“Cardiff Art in Time“, UWIC, Cardiff, Wales, GB
	“Unfinished Business“, Group exhibition, Gallery am Lützow Platz, Berlin
	“Der Sekundentraum“, Solo Performance, Healing Theater, Cologne
	“Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, LOT Theater, Braunschweig
1998
	“Finally“, Group exhibition, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
1997
	“Braunschweiger Kulturnacht“, FBZ, Braunschweig
1996
	Dance Performance “Kashya-kashya Muttiku“ with Yuko Negoro (Japan), FBZ, Braunschweig
1988 - 1995
	various dance and theatre performances in Indonesia and Germany

Grants

2008 Jahresstipendium des Niedersächsischen Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft(Grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science Niedersachsen Germany)

2008 Art Grant for innovatif performing arts, Kelola Foundation, Indonesia

2006 Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunsfonds, Bonn, Germany

2003 Arbeitsstipendium des Niedersächsischen Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Braunschweig (Grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science Niedersachsen Germany)

2002 - 2003 Graduierten Stipendium, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig

Others (selected)

2010	Giving a Performance art Workshop and lecture for School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, USA
2009	Giving a Performance art Workshop for School of Arts Umea, Sweden
2008	Giving a Performance art Workshop for ZOOM Festival, Hildesheim, Germany
	“Is everything performance, is performance everything?”, panel member for Dans Biennal, Umea, Sweden
since 2007 - now	PALA (Performance Art Laboratory) Project, and “undisclosed territory #1 - #3, performance art event”as Project manager, Padepokan Lemah Putih, in Tejakula, Bali, and Solo, Java,Indonesia. In collaboration with Boris Nieslony, Germany.
2007	Lecture at the Malmö School of Arts.
	Artist in Studio, December 2007 at Lilith Performance Studio Malmö, Sweden
	“Flying Circus Project” – Travelogue – Superintense- Singapore- Ho Chi Minh City, curated by Ong Ken Seng, Theatreworks, Singapore
	Giving a Performance art Workshop Rimbun Dahan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, organized by Valentine Willie Fine Arts KL
	“15 International Performance Art Conference”, as project manager, in Bali, Indonesia collaboration with Boris Nieslony
since 2006 - now	Director for arts and culture Program at Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo Indonesia, a non profit organization founded by Suprapto Suryodarmo since 1985
2006	Faciilitator for the “Time_Place_Space 5”, at the QUT Brisbane, curated and organized by the Performance Space Sydney Australia
	Residency at Grace exhibition Space, New York
2005	“Focusing the day”, Project with youths in Berlin, HKW Berlin.