Melati Suryodarmo’s performances have been dealing with the relationship between a human body, a culture in which it belongs to and a constellation where it lives.
Through the presence, she compiles, extracts, conceptualized and translates some phenomenon or subjects into movement, actions, and gestures that are specified to her performance. Melati Suryodarmo studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany under Marina Abramovic.
Suryodarmo has presented her works in various international festivals and exhibitions, including the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), KIASMA Helsinki (2007), Manifesta7, in Bolzano, Italy (2008), Transit festival, HKW Berlin (2009), Luminato festival of the arts, Toronto, (2012), Asia Pacific Triennale, Qgoma Brisbane (2015), Guangzhou Triennale (2015), Singapore Biennale (2016). For the Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo Indonesia, she has been organizing an annual Performance Art Laboratory Project and “undisclosed territory” performance art event in Solo Indonesia since 2007. In 2012, she founded “Studio Plesungan” an art space for performance art laboratory.
She is now working as the Artistic Director of the Jakarta Biennale 2017.
Today
Ongoing
HYGIENE CONCEPT
Information, 9 May – 30 September 2022
Asad Raza "Diversion" at Portikus
Exhibition, 25 June – 25 September 2022
Summer Term Break 2022
Information, 18 July – 7 October 2022
Winter semester 2022/23
Information, 10 October 2022 – 10 February 2023
GASTHOF 2022 "OPEN HOUSE"
Event, 9 July 2022
Hassan Khan: The Infinite Hip-Hop Song Live!
Konzert, 9 July 2022, 21:30–22:45
Gasthof at Robert Johnson
Party, 7 July 2022, 22:00
Curatorial Studies class 2021: Three course Menu
Exhibition, 5 – 10 July 2022
MEDIUM RARE — Absolventenausstellung 2022
Exhibition, 2 – 17 July 2022
ALMOST ALIVE—Graduate Party
Event, 1 July 2022, 23:00
‘Absolventen’ prizes
Information, 1 – 10 July 2022
Kabelo Malatsie: Sonic Formations —Third Note (a Sketch)
Lecture, 28 June 2022, 19:00
Asad Raza: Metabolisms
Lecture, 21 June 2022, 19:00
New Mineral Collective: On Earth, Pleasure and Desire
Lecture, 14 June 2022, 19:00
Anthony Huberman: Bang on a Can
Lecture, 13 June 2022, 19:00
Sung Tieu: Ghosts In The Machine
Lecture, 7 June 2022, 19:00
"Jochen Lempert: "Paare/ Pairs" with a poetry reading by Marion Poschmann
Book Launch, 2 June 2022, 18:00
Lecture: ruangrupa
Lecture, 31 May 2022, 19:00
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius: The Pilikia with Cohabitation
Lecture, 24 May 2022, 19:00
Lecture: Neïl Beloufa
Lecture, 10 May 2022, 19:00
Ursula Biemann: Forest as a Field of Mind
Lecture, 3 May 2022, 19:00
Application period for Curatorial Studies winter semester 2022/2023
Information, 1 – 31 May 2022
Application period for exchange students in winter semester 2022/23
Information, 27 April – 31 May 2022
Lectures Summer Semester 2022
Lecture, 26 April – 28 June 2022, 19:00
Laura Huertas Millán: Ethnographic fictions
Lecture, 26 April 2022, 19:00
Summer semester 2022
Information, 11 April – 15 July 2022
Daniel Birnbaum: Notes on the frames of art
Event, 10 April 2022, 15:00–17:00
Application period for full-time students in winter semester 2022/23
Information, 1 – 30 April 2022
Application period for guest students in winter semester 2022/23
Information, 1 – 30 April 2022
Jochen Lempert at Portikus
Exhibition, 12 March – 5 June 2022
Term break 2022
Information, 21 February – 10 April 2022
Rundgang Award Winners
Information, 18 – 20 February 2022
Judith Hopf Class: Grand Nizza Show
Class Project, 18 February – 11 March 2022
Rundgang 2022
Exhibition, 18 – 20 February 2022, 10:00–20:00
Pan Daijing
Online Lecture, 10 February 2022
Alessandro Petti and Sani Hilal: Stateless Heritage?
Online Lecture, 8 February 2022
Jordy Rosenberg: Lift Rift
Online Lecture, 2 February 2022
Ulrike Müller: Moving More Parts
Online Lecture, 25 January 2022
Park McArthur
Online Lecture, 18 January 2022
Sam Durant: Public Discourse?
Online Lecture, 11 January 2022

Melati Suryodarmo
Lecture 6 June 2018, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main