Gintani Swastika (b. 1984)

Born in Yogyakarta, works and lives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Gintani Nur Apresia Swastika, born in Yogyakarta in 1984, completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Yogyakarta in 2010 and continued her studies in Religious and Cultural Studies at Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta, focusing on Indonesian women artists. She mainly works as an artist and has been involved in various group exhibitions, residency programs, and art projects in Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Australia. Her works were also featured in the book “Indonesian Eye: Contemporary Indonesian Art”, published by SKIRA in 2011.

She is the founding member of Ace House Collective, an artist collective founded in 2011 in Yogyakarta, that is active in the field of youth-pop culture and emphasizes the exploratory approach both in theory and practice, conceptually and contextually, as well as finding new possibilities on visual art perspective.

Working collectively where works and responsibilities are shared equally, she developed her artistic, curatorial, and managerial practice through Ace House and various other art projects. Amongst others she was appointed as Program Coordinator for Indonesia Bertutur / INTUR (2022 - 2024), as the Artistic Director for Biennale Jogja XVI Equator #6 2021 (2021), as the Creative Director for Yogyakarta Cultural Festival / FKY (2019-2020), as the Director for Arisan Tenggara: Southeast Asia Art Collective Forum (2018).

She has been actively involved in many forums and courses, locally and internationally, such as TRANScuratorial Academy, Mumbai, India (2017), 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, Gwangju, South Korea (2016), 4A Curators’ Intensive, Emerging Curator Forum, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia (2014), and Gender Under Reflection on South East Asia Women Artist Forum, Yangon, Myanmar (2012).