Jakarta’s Top 10 Contemporary Art Galleries and Museums — theculturetrip.com

Canna Gallery is a leading contemporary art gallery that opened in 2001, in a small shop house, before expanding to encompass three whole floors in order to house large contemporary works. Similarly, its reputation has grown in over the years, especially becoming a significant presence on the international arts fair scene, regularly showing at Art Basel Hong Kong and ArtStage Singapore. Canna Gallery showcases cutting edge, innovative art, with recent solo shows by notable Indonesian artists such as Suraji and FX Harsono. The latter’s exhibition, what we have here perceived as truth we shall encounter some day as beauty staged at Jogja National Museum, is a powerful response to the fraught sociopolitical history of the Chinese-Indonesians in his native East Java, and the forgotten victims of the massacres in the 1940s.

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