Melati Suryodarmo

Melati Suryodarmo

Born in 1969 in Solo, lives and works in Gross Gleidingen, Germany.

Melati Suryodarmo is graduated in International Relations and Political Sciences in Bandung, Indonesia before started her study at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig with Anzu Furukawa (Butoh and choreography), Mara Mattuschka (time based) and Marina Abramovic (performance art and Raum Konzept). She is graduated in Fine Art, and finished her MFA in 2002 in Performance Art. Melati Suryodarmo has participated in various international performance festivals and exhibitions including Marking the Territory, IMMA Dublin, “Recycling the Future” at the Venice Biennial (2003), “Retrospective of the work of Egon Schiele”, at the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (2005), 15th Videobrasil Sao Paolo (2005), “Shadow and Spaces”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (2005), Performance Space Sydney (2006), and Wind from the East – Perspectives on Asian Contemporary Art, KIASMA, Finland (2007).