Pasar Malam at Semarang Gallery, Indonesia 2025
16albermarle Project Space in partnership with Krack! Print Studio presents Pasar Malam | Night Market, an exhibition presenting large format screenprints by 15 Indonesian and Australian artists exploring the transgressive allure of the Indonesian night market.
At the night market, you can buy fake Rolex watches, fried grasshoppers and amulets with "magical" powers. Skinny guys with tattoos operate carnival rides that definitely aren't safe. There's a haunted house and a giant python. Gangsters, pickpockets and revolutionaries lurk in the shadows.
The morning market is for groceries and gossip, but the night market is the world reversed; where our repressed fears and desires are set loose. Many of the works in this exhibition reference mysticism, mythology and ritual; conjuring the dark glamor of "otherness". The point is not simply to exoticise; but to remind us that every community has its shadow places, buried secrets and illicit desires.
Each artwork has been created by Krack! Print Studio in collaboration with leading Indonesian and Australian artists. Pushing the boundaries of screenprinting, the scale of each print (200 x 150 cm) required Krack Print Studio to build a custom print table and develop new printing techniques.
Pasar Malam will be exhibited in Indonesia in mid-2025, before touring regional galleries across Australia from 2026 to 2027.
Pasar Malam touring regional galleries across Australia has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.
AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS
Amina McConville | Ida Lawrence | Jumaadi | Leyla Stevens | Malcolm Le Smith | Tobias Richardson
INDONESIAN ARTISTS
Alfin Agnuba | Enka Komariah | Ipeh Nur | Prihatmoko Moki | Restu Ratnaningtyas | Rizqi Maulana | Rudi Hermawan | Tamarra | Timoteus Anggawan Kusno
TOURING DATES
Regional Australia: 2026-2028
12 Feb - 11 Apr 2026 | Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin (NT)
08 May - 02 Aug 2026 | Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle (WA)
08 Aug - 25 Oct 2026 | Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury (WA)
05 Feb - 13 Apr 2027 | Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland (QLD)
15 May - 24 Jul 2027 | NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns (QLD)
31 Oct - 02 Jan 2028 | Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Gymea (NSW)
media contact
John Cruthers | john@16albermarle.com | +61 (0)433 020 237
Sukma Smita | sukmasmita@gmail.com | + 62 819 7718 4678 (WhatsApp)