Art Jakarta 2025

 

Nan Ke Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in ART JAKARTA from October 3 to October 5. At Booth C2, the gallery will present works by artists Olaf Hajek, Holden Willard, Martine Poppe, Helena Minginowicz, Vũ Thùy Mai, Mengfan Bai, Wenjie Yu, Xiaochi Dong, Mustafa Boga, Yanmeng Zhang, and Yunchun Wang.

 

 Acrylic on canvas

100h x 70w cm

© Courtesy of the artist

  

Olaf Hajek was born in Rendsburg, Germany. After he finished his degree in graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, he moved to Amsterdam and began to work as a freelance artist. Olaf primarily lives and works in Berlin, but travels frequently and is represented by an agency on nearly every continent. He has had solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Atlanta and Cape Town.

 

Oil on polyester restoration fabric

148h x 120w cm

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Martine Poppe's works have been exhibited at major international art institutions and art museums, and are held in numerous public and private collections, including the UK Government Art Collection, Norway's KODE Art Museums, the art collections of the University of Oxford and University College London, and London's Saatchi Collection. At the Saatchi Gallery, she has not only participated in landmark group exhibitions such as "New Order II," but will also return for its significant 25th anniversary retrospective “The Long Now 1985-2025” in 2025. Additionally, her works are included in the collections of Kistefos Museum, Benetton Art Foundation, and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, among other international institutions. These exhibitions and acquisitions not only affirm Poppe's unique position within contemporary expressive painting, but also reflect her profound investigation into the relationship between image translation, climatic perception, and visual sensibility.

 

Cotton cloth, linen, elastic fabric, cotton sewing thread, sand, soft pastel, resin and wood paint

97h x 93w cm

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Wenjie Yu (b.1997, Shanghai) lives and works in London and Shanghai. He holds MA degree at Royal College of Art and a BFA degree at China Academy of Art. He is an artist who experiences the world with insecurities. He regards absolute honesty and courage in art as his priority. His artworks originate from the expression of inner experiences generated by the body and spirit in the process of experiencing and exploring the world. These inner experiences give rise to illusions, memories, associations, fantasies and feelings, while these elements are constantly broken and reorganized into visual fragments. Therefore, grand and micro narratives that are both delicate and sensitive always coexist in his works.

 

Donny & John with a Jersey Red, 2025

61h x 46w cm

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Holden Willard grew up and continues to live in Portland, Maine, USA. In recent years, his work has been exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art and featured in the 2023 CMCA Biennial and Auctions. He is scheduled to hold a solo exhibition titled Pictures of Home at Notch8 Gallery in 2025. Through his practice, Willard consistently expands his observation and representation of his immediate surroundings, allowing localized experiences and universal emotions to reflect each other on the canvas.

 

Ink and volcanic clay and gauze on wood panel

61h x 92w cm

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Xiaochi Dong (born 1993), who earned his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2023 and received both his MA and BA in Chinese Painting from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in 2018 and 2015 respectively, is now based in London and Shanghai. His artistic practice, inspired by classical Chinese ink painting, modern gardens, and miniature terrariums, creates micro-landscapes that convey his fascination with nature, his dedication to its care, and a persistent pursuit of symbiosis. Focusing on a painting process akin to cultivation, his works present human-made landscapes of varying scales that grow from natural structures, reflecting contemporary explorations of Gaianism with subtle, weather-like atmospheric transitions. Through paintings and mixed-media works on paper rich with implications of light, humidity, and atmosphere, Dong aims to give form to a contemporary vision of nature.

 

 Acrylic on canvas

80h x 120w cm

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Helena Minginowicz constructs "character portraits" filled with visual suspense, situated between reality and perception, through a highly hallucinatory and psychologically charged visual language. Born in Poznań in 1984, she graduated from the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts with a degree in Architecture and Design, and currently lives and works in Poznań, Poland. In recent years, Minginowicz's work has been presented internationally at galleries and institutions including Hesse Flatow in New York, Shoreditch Modern in London, AA29 in Madrid, Art Brussels in Brussels, and Prima Galerie in Paris. Her practice has also been featured in major international art publications such as HI-FRUCTOSE, Numero, GLAMCULT, METAL, and WE PRESENT by WeTransfer.

 

133h x 102w cm

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Mengfan Bai’s art practice unfolds around the subtleties of urban landscapes, presenting the delicate psychological interactions between the man-made cityscapes and the individuals who inhabit them. Her works reveal the ambiguous and elusive characteristics of global cityscapes and further inquire into where "the real" lies in the age of simulacra. Through her calm and tension-filled compositions of points, lines and planes, she discusses the dialectical relationship between abstract aesthetics and man-made landscapes in an oblique manner. Her works also imply an exploration and discovery of invisible orders. Her works have been shown widely in the world, including SPACE776 (New York & Seoul), Boers-Li Gallery (New York), carriage trade (New York), Volta Art Fair(Switzerland), OCAT Institute(Beijing),CGK Kunming(Kunming, China)etc. She lives and works in New York City and Shanghai.

 

120h x 190w cm

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Born in 1991 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, Zhang Yanmeng graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and earned a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practice from the Geneva University of Art and Design. She currently teaches at the Shanghai campus of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In recent years, her work has been featured in significant exhibitions and art platforms both domestically and internationally, including the CAFA Art Museum, Nanke Gallery, 798 Art Zone, Sense Gallery, ERG Gallery (Belgium), and Paris Art Center. She was also shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize (China). Her practice has garnered sustained attention in the international art scene, and she is regarded as one of the representative young Chinese artists exploring the intersection of digital media and painting.

 

53h x 44w cm

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Yunchun Wang (b. 1999, Hangzhou, Zhejiang) graduated in 2024 from the School of Fine Arts, East China Normal University, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Wang’s works are imbued with personal philosophical reflections and emotional expression, attempting to balance the fluid boundary between abstraction and figuration, while exploring the visual world constructed by memory, imagination, and intuition. Through soft color harmonies and mysterious imagery, she creates a comfortable space for dialogue with the viewer, one that provides a distance from the material world while still engaging with it.

 

68h x 83w cm

© Courtesy of the artist and VAC

 

Vu Thuy Mai (b. 1990) graduated from the University of Fine Arts and Education of Vietnam in 2012 and obtained her Master's in Cultural Studies from Vietnam National University in 2014. In recent years, her work has been presented in significant international exhibitions such as the Vietnam National Fine Arts Exhibition, Hanoi Fine Arts Exhibition, "Art Fashion D'Nation" International Art Show (across Cambodia, Vietnam, and Taiwan), and the "Floral Shadows and Ao Dai" exhibition in Nanshan, Shenzhen, with a forthcoming participation in a major 2025 art project organized by the Temple of Literature - Imperial Academy. Her paintings are highly esteemed by Vietnamese collectors for their contemporary expression through traditional media and are increasingly attracting international collection interest.

 

Textile, free hand machine embroidery

78h x 74w cm

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With thread and needle, Mustafa Boga stitches into being the fleeting moments of ordinary lives and the enduring contours of his own family memory. His upbringing in southern Turkey continues to nourish his practice, offering both a geographic and emotional ground from which his works grow. Through embroidery and the tactility of everyday archival matter, Mustafa charts a dense cartography of personal and collective history—intertwined and in constant negotiation. His art, centered on rituals and narratives that define his cultural identity, interrogates the very processes by which subjective memory is preserved, distorted, and reimagined over time.