{"id":14457,"date":"2019-08-06T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T05:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?page_id=14457"},"modified":"2025-03-04T13:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:40:40","slug":"dadang-christanto-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/dadang-christanto-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Dadang Christanto &#8211; Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3bsu861-92ecfc4e197aa78f7bcf539662171d5a\">\n.avia-section.av-3bsu861-92ecfc4e197aa78f7bcf539662171d5a{\nbackground-color:#f2f2f2;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-3bsu861-92ecfc4e197aa78f7bcf539662171d5a main_color avia-section-small avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14457'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 30px; font-family: Open sans;\">Dadang Christanto<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-2pvulax-6f22394bd09566c5d57594944da8cfb8 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-14457'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-250hjvd-bb406db2c9603ce5a13e87bec05cc550 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Dadang Christanto \u2013 Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/dadang-christanto-overview\/\">overview<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dadang-Christanto-Revised-2025.pdf\">biography (CV)<\/a> |&nbsp;<a title=\"Dadang Christanto \u2013 Exhibitions\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/dadang-christanto-exhibitions\/\">exhibitions<\/a>&nbsp;| <a title=\"Dadang Christanto \u2013 Press and News\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/dadang-christanto-press-and-news\/\">Publications<\/a>&nbsp;| <a title=\"Dadang Christanto \u2013 Press and News\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/artists\/dadang-christanto-press-and-news\/\">press and news<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-16hl1eh-5c90b1078dffc79ffe59fbd30e7c3369\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-16hl1eh-5c90b1078dffc79ffe59fbd30e7c3369{\nheight:30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-16hl1eh-5c90b1078dffc79ffe59fbd30e7c3369 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_textblock  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dadang Christanto (B.1957)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dadang Christanto was born in Tegal, a small village in Central Java, Indonesia, into an Indonesian family of Chinese descent. He studied painting in Yogyakarta, and was an active member of the arts community. With a diverse body of work that encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and performance, Christanto has won critical acclaim for his ability to portray and sensitively evoke reflections on universal human suffering and communal grief. He was amongst the first Indonesian artists to enter the international art world in the early 1990s, notably featuring in the first and third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane in 1993 and 1999, as well as the Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1998. He was curated into many other major art events worldwide including Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2000), and was featured in the Venice Biennale in 2003 and at his home country the Yogyakarta Biennial, Indonesia (2003) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, (2010). His works are held by the National Gallery of Australia, as well as major collections in Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, and in Europe is at Magdeburg Museum Germany. The National Portrait Gallery of Australia recently honoured him with an exhibition for his role in the development of art in Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Throughout his career, Dadang Christanto has produced a body of works that honours the countless victims of political violence and crimes against humanity. The sincerity and rawness of emotion portrayed in his works stem from his personal narrative, which he has subtly woven into every aspect of his art. References to the year 1965 appear again and again. As an eight year-old boy, Christanto was heavily affected by his father\u2019s disappearance, thus his art has become inseparable from this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His latest solo exhibition, \u2018<em>M I S S I N G<\/em>\u2019 was held at Wei-Ling Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur, in 2018. The monumental installation comprises 110 acrylic and charcoal imagined portraits of the 1965 victims. Dadang Christanto\u2019s oeuvre engages with collective history and personal trauma. His painting and sculpture are imbued with an aura of silence, precisely referencing the political silence that enveloped the injustices that has shaped his childhood. His unbounded practice transcends its specific historical and political roots and leads to a wider meditation on the nature of violence and unjust death and suffering.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dadang Christanto overview&nbsp;|&nbsp;biography (CV) |&nbsp;exhibitions&nbsp;| Publications&nbsp;| press and news Dadang Christanto (B.1957) Dadang Christanto was born in Tegal, a small village in Central Java, Indonesia, into an Indonesian family of Chinese descent. He studied painting in Yogyakarta, and was an active member of the arts community. 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