Awang Behartawan

Artist Statement – Awang Behartawan

In this life I’m having processes in everyday life.

I sometimes don’t think or feel what has happened in the process of life. But the fact of life, I experienced a change.

Others can also experience my experience. Only in another time and place. What happens to others, I will experience in another time and place maybe, but essentially the same.

My artworks have much to say about what happens to us. Throughout life we continue to experience new things.

It only ends when death arrives.

Daily life is interesting to me – What I see, what I feel and what I experience. And therefor I was inspired to work with FRACTAL as concept.

We all lived from the beginning until now.

It will never stop at any point, the process of life.

Life will continue through the past, the present and the future. Sustainability and repetition – that’s life.

Whether it’s in the tradition, custom, life or even technological advances. Life will present itself even in a different time and place.

Fractal is everywhere – In humans, animals, plants and in life itself.

Fractal is a form of continuity and repetition. My artwork has been on a journey from the beginning until now, where it visually is very different. Also because of what I saw and felt during the creative process. I created the circles, and repeating it with a different size, because I want to convey the past, which can be seen behind the circles. I combine all my earlier styles, to create the concept, “Fractal”

Fractal itself lives within us and our daily lives.

Concept

I weave the artistic process with elements from other universes, based on the mathematical formula for fractal geometry creates compelling digital and manual works, that illustrate the encounter between art, nature and mathematics. Fractals recognized as an endlessly repeating visual pattern and is found everywhere in nature – in humans, animals and plants.

With its fractal-works I creates continuity and repetition, mimics life process as a continuous line through the past, present and future with an element of change. For changeability is part of fractal code and indicate that nothing is stable. Our world and society is in motion and development, but is also, as fractal, connected in a closed circle: What we do today, the decisions we make will affect tomorrow. Everything that happens on one side of the world, will have consequences on the other side. And back again. We are all part of a world community.

Born in Palembang, Indonesia.

Educated as Graphic Designer from Modern School of Design (MSD), Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Live in Copenhagen, and work between Copenhagen – Yogyakarta Indonesia

Exhibitions

2025

Kotak Art Collective Gallery. Jakarta Indonesia
Art And Terra Nexus. Bali Indonesia
Amanat Hati Nurani Rakyat. Museum Anak Bajang. Omah Petroek. Karangklathak.Yogyakarta
Liman Jawi Art House. Magelang Indonesia
Kotak Art Collective Gallery. Jakarta Indonesia
Art Gardens Jagad Gallery booth. Jakarta Indonesia 2024
#KBH EXIT KBH Kunst Gallery. Copenhagen Denmark
Indonesia Tanah Airku, Tanah Tumpah Darahku. Zen1 Gallery. Jakarta Indonesia
Ways Of Dreaming. Art Subs. Surabaya Indonesia
Art Jakarta Jagad Gallery Booth. Jakarta Indonesia
Warna Suara Negeri Bawah Angin. Bale Black Box Laboralory. Yogyakarta Indonesia
Art Jakarta Jagad Gallery Booth. Jakarta Indonesia
West – East. Pop-Up Copenhagen. Denmark
Spice Nadine Fine Art Gallery. Malaysia
Art Jagad Galery Booth. Jakarta Indonesia
(Solo Exhibition) Jagad Gallery. Jakarta Indonesia
Art Jagad Gallery Booth. Taipe Taiwan 2023
Art Jagad Gallery Booth. Jakarta Indonesia
Jagad Gallery Booth. Jakarta Indonesia
Art Prague Fair (Art Fair). Gallery Orange International Prague, Czech
Sub-Values. J Katamsi Gallery (presented by Srisasanti Gallery) Yogyakarta Indonesia
Endless. Strayfeld Gallery. (Solo Exhibition) Copenhagen Denmark
Ungkap Jagad Gallery. Jakarta Indonesia

2022

Winter Davis Gallery. Copenhagen Denmark
Escaping Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2022. Changwon Seongsan Art Center. South Korea
People To Davis Gallery. Copenhagen Denmark
Art Davis Gallery Booth. Herning Denmark 2021
Round In Circles. (Solo Exhibition) Davis Gallery. Copenhagen Denmark
Between Heaven and Earth. Mississisppi Art and Culture. Thyholm Denmark
Gallery KBH Kunst. Copenhagen Denmark
Indonesia Art Expo 2021. L-Project. Dadi Setiyadi Studio. Yogyakarta Indonesia

2020

In My Own Gallery Bredgadekunsthandel. Copenhagen Denmark
Summer Gallery Bredgadekunsthandel. Copenhagen Denmark
Gallery Srisansanti. Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Art With Gallery Bredgadekunsthandel. Herning, Denmark 2019
A Hope of Karmelietenklooster, Gent. Belgium
Art Gallery Nadine Fine Art. Kualalumpur Malaysia
Infnity City. Gallery Nadine Fine Ar Kualalumpur Malaysia
Summer Gallery Bredgadekunsthandel. Copenhagen Denmark
Winter Gallery Bredgadekunsthandel. Copenhagen Denmark 2018
Winter Gallery BredgadeKunsthandel. Copenhagen Denmark
Dot On The Lorien Gallery. Copenhagen Denmark
Daemyung International Artist Daemyung Gallery. Soul, South Korea.
LovesMe-LovesMeNot. Lorien Copenhagen Denmark
Heritage Me Heritage (Solo Exhibition) Lorien Gallery Copenhagen Denmark

2017

Gallery Lorien. Copenhagen Denmark
Gallery BredgadeKunsthandel. Copenhagen Denmark
Parallel Yogyakarta Biennale. Gallery Fajdar Sidik. Yogyakarta Indonesia.
HERITAGE Pancasila Building. Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia. Hellerup. Copenhagen – Denmark
Gallery OckenLund. Frederiksberg. Copenhagen Denmark
RESOLUTION #3

Poject collaboration. Exhibition – Culture meet/talk – Workshops – Culture night. Gammelgaard Kunst- og Kulturcenter. Herlev Denmark

2016

END OF Lorien Gallery. Copenhagen Denmark
(Solo Exhibition) Helleruplund. Hellerup. Copenhagen Denmark
Amaris Hotel. Solo Indonesia
ARTIVAL Globalal Art Gallery. Vanløse. Copenhagen Denmark
RESOLUTION #2. Volvo Art Loft Singapore.

2015

Studio KALAHAN. Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Writers: Cynthia Webb (Australia) and Syed Muhd Hafz (Singapore)

THE WEBBING Museum Osaka University. Curated by M. Dwi Marianto. Osaka, Japan
YOS (Yogyakarta Open Studio). Kersan Art Studio. Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2014

YOS (Yogyakarta Open Studio). Kersan Art Studio. Yogyakarta Indonesia
Studio RikkeDarling. Copenhagen Denmark 2013
Journey of The Indonesia Diaspora`s Work of Art. Paradehuset. Frederiksberg Denmark

2011

New Artist Karin Weber Gallery. Hongkong 2010
HILLERØD ART Hillerød Censored Exhibition. Frederiksborg Centre. Hillerød Denmark
Kunsthuset Annaborg. Hillerød Denmark
Hvidovre Censored Hvidovre Denmark 2009
Remembering Things Gallery Bastillen. Copenhagen, Denmark
BYART GALLERY. Odense, Denmark
HILLERØD ART DAY. The Cencored Exhibition.Hillerød, Denmark 2008
BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Bastillen Gallery. Copenhagen, Denmark
YOUNG Strand Gallery. Vejers Strand and Copenhagen, Denmark
HILLERØD KUNSTDAGE. Hillerød, Denmark 2007
BIENNALE Participating in the workshop INVISIBLE CITIES LAB by Enrique Vargas and teatro De Los Sentidos. Copenhagen Denmark
PAINTs POETRY or WRITES PAINTINGs.

Gallery Maling Beck. Hillerød, Denmark.

AWANG Painting-Graphic Helleruplund. Hellerup, Denmark. 2006
RED IS NOT ONLY FOR CHRISTMAS

Gallery Nord Sjællandske Ambassade. Copenhagen, Denmark

Summer exhibition. Gallery Tinghus. Tinghusvej Fredensborg Denmark
VICTIMS OF THE Participating in exhibition of children drawings from Aceh, Indonesia. Center Danish Red Cross. Copenhagen, Denmark
CHARITY EXHIBITION of paintings by

In cooperation with the Indonesian embassy in Copenhagen

Proceeds go to the victims of the earthquake in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. Gallery Den Nordsjællandske Ambassade. Copenhagen, Denmark

– POETRY ON CANVAS. Galleri Paul Kleefeld. Copenhagen, Denmark

2005