30 Years of Gajah: Many Horizons, One Sky

Participating Artists  
Ashley Bickerton 
Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera 

Charlie Co 
Dini Nur Aghnia 
Fika Ria Santika 
Handiwirman Saputra 
Han Sai Por 
I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih 

Jane Lee 
Jemana Murti 
Jigger Cruz 
Kayleigh Goh Ridho Rizki 
Rosit Mulyadi Satya Cipta 
Semsar Siahaan Ugo Untoro 
Wei Ligang 
Yunizar 

In conjunction with ARTJOG, Gajah Gallery marks its 30th anniversary with Many Horizons, One Sky, a group exhibition at Gajah Gallery Yogyakarta from 18 June to 19 July 2026. The exhibition features artists associated with the gallery’s three-decade commitment to promoting Southeast Asian art, highlighting diverse practices across painting, sculpture, and expanded material approaches. Spanning multiple generations and geographies, the presentation reflects the diversity of contemporary artistic production across Southeast Asia and beyond.

Many Horizons, One Sky assembles a multigenerational dialogue between practices that have shaped, and continue to reshape, the region’s contemporary art landscape. The paintings and soft sculptures by I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih are marked radical visual language that emerged through a fearless commitment to self-expression. Similarly, sharp social critique runs through the legacy of Semsar Siahaan, whose work was deeply intertwined with the socio-political upheavals of his time. Reflections on human existence in contemporary life are depicted in the works of Ugo Untoro, while Handiwirman Saputra finds beauty within everyday objects. Presented for the first time, Yunizar's new work draws from everyday experience, distilling figures and objects into evocative forms guided by intuition and rasa.

Further expanding the exhibition are works by a younger generation of artists that extend these explorations through distinct approaches. Rosit Mulyadi employs appropriation as a means of socio-political critique, while Ridho Rizki incorporates elements of pointillism and impressionistic techniques within still-life compositions. Kayleigh Goh explores urban materiality and affect through cement and gesso, and Jemana Murti engages questions of technology and traditions through 3D-printed forms. Alongside Dini Nur Aghnia, Satya Cipta, and Fika Ria Santika, these practices articulate a field of contemporary production shaped by experimentation, material inquiry, and shifting visual conditions across Southeast Asia. 

The exhibition also features a series of works produced by Yogya Art Lab (YAL), the gallery’s foundry arm that serves as a site of experimentation, research, and exchange between artists and local artisans. Through this platform, diverse artistic approaches are translated into three-dimensional form: from the intimate gestures found in the works of Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera and the social sensitivity embedded in Charlie Co’s practice, to Han Sai Por’s poetic visualisations of nature. Equally evident are Jigger Cruz’s engagement with ideas of surface and defacement, Jane Lee’s investigations into the boundaries of materials, Ashley Bickerton’s reflection on humanity's relationship with the natural world, and Wei Ligang’s response to his time in Yogyakarta.