RUCI Art Space

21/04/2026

Join us for plas(TI)k(ARA) — Keychain Workshop with &

This workshop is inspired by Plastik Tiara, a work currently presented in the group exhibition “It Takes a Village” by RUCI Art Space. In this work, the “tiara” is not understood merely as a decorative headpiece, but as a gesture of luxury attached to recycled materials. Using discarded plastic bottles, the work explores the relationship between beauty, power, and the remnants of consumption.

Through the Keychain Workshop (Sayang ❤ Saja), participants are invited to explore the spirit of Reuse, Recycle & Upcycle by creating their own keychains using waste materials such as plastic bottles, fabric scraps, crochet threads, beads, and other leftover materials collected over the past several years.

Materials provided.

📅 Sunday, 26 April 2026
⏰ 3 PM – 6 PM
💰 Fee: 320K

Secure your spot — RSVP via the link in our highlights.

06/04/2026

01/04/2026

03/03/2026

Now Open to the Public
It Takes A Village.

A vibrant celebration of shared taste, collective vision, and the power of many voices coming together. When the public becomes part of the curatorial process, the exhibition transforms into something alive: a portrait shaped by dialogue, instinct, and community.

This is more than an exhibition — it’s a gathering. A meeting point of perspectives. A space where individual sensibilities spark, overlap, and create something bigger than any one point of view.

Come be part of it.

With Guest Selectors
Agatha Carolina, Brata Santoso, Detty Wulandari, Diaz Parzada, Jagad Marcelleno, Jati Andito, Jessy Kusno, Rahmani Nitiyudo, and Rajnikania Sarwono

Featuring Works by
Abyuamanda Aldi, Ajeng Pratiwi, Andre Yoga, Dolorosa Sinaga, Gabrielle Maria, Johno Surodji Sembor, Mandy CJ, Pecut Sumantri, Satrio Yudho Pratomo

Open Tuesday – Sunday
12 PM – 7 PM

Free entry
No reservation required

📍 Jl. Senayan 63–65, 2nd Floor
Jakarta 12180

23/02/2026

Ruci Art Space presents

It Takes A Village

When the public becomes part of the curatorial process, selected works transform into a portrait of shared taste. This exhibition is a meeting of perspectives — where individual sensibilities converge within a collective space.

With Guest Selectors
Agatha Carolina, Brata Santoso, Detty Wulandari, Diaz Parzada, Jagad Marcelleno, Jati Andito, Jessy Kusno, Rahmani Nitiyudo, Rajnikania Sarwono

And featuring works from
Abyuamanda Aldi, Ajeng Pratiwi, Andre Yoga, Dolorosa Sinaga, Gabrielle Maria, Johno Surodji Sembor, Mandy CJ, Pecut Sumantri, & Satrio Yudho Pratomo

Saturday, 28 February 2026 — 5 PM onwards
Iftar refreshments provided

📍 Jl. Senayan 63–65, 2nd Floor

15/12/2025

Together with Galerie BAO (Paris, France) and RUCI Arts Space (Jakarta, Indonesia), we introduce (based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia), a self-taught artist whose paintings inhabit a fog-like psychological space, where figures appear blurred, exposed, and emotionally raw. Draped in dense atmospheres that fracture light into soft blotches of colour, his works depict everyday people in their most intimate and vulnerable states. Faces and bodies hover between clarity and disappearance, creating a tension between closeness and concealment. Drawing on painterly traditions such as sfumato as well as cinematic notions of blur, Sumantri uses obscurity not as absence, but as a way of holding emotional truth at a distance—allowing viewers to come close, yet never fully possess the image.

Formally trained in philosophy, Sumantri approaches painting as a process of slowing inner turbulence and resisting the rigid realism that shaped his early visual environment. His practice unfolds in stages—sketching, realistic rendering, and deliberate blurring—mirroring phases of life itself: innocence, idealism, and maturity. As form dissolves into ambiguity, his paintings arrive at a space where inner peace outweighs external validation. Rooted in the quotidian yet deeply introspective, Sumantri’s works invite reflection on belief, vulnerability, and what it means to remain human amid uncertainty.

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INTERSTICE: A Space Between Two Worlds
Duo exhibition by Huỳnh Công Nhớ (Đà Nẵng, Vietnam) & Pecut Sumantri (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Exhibition writings by Linh Lê (Vietnam)

Exhibition Runs
7 December 2025 — 24 January 2026

10/12/2025

We’re thrilled to share that “True Love” by Huỳnh Công Nhớ has just received the Jury’s Special Mention at the Southeast Asian Short Film Competition — a beautiful recognition for a film that moves with honesty, wit, and imagination. 🎉

The jury highlighted how the film embraces its limitations with creativity, weaving past and present through evocative sound and image, and shaping something both intimate and quietly political. A work that resonates long after it ends — and a moment worth celebrating.

And the even better news?
You’ll be able to watch this award-winning short at RUCI CINEMA’s curated screening night.
We’re truly excited to bring this film to our audience, especially at a moment when it’s gaining well-deserved recognition.

Join us this Wednesday for an evening of films from Indonesia and Vietnam, with True Love as one of the highlights of the program.

09/12/2025

RUCI CINEMA presents an evening of short film screenings, bringing together filmmakers from Indonesia and Vietnam.

Wednesday, 10 December 2025 · 7 PM onwards
Free entry · Limited seats · Open for public
Popcorn included 🍿

Screening Program:
TRUE LOVE (CHÂN TÌNH) · 2025
A film by Huỳnh Công Nhớ
Producer: Truong Quang Tri

EUDAIMONIA · 2025
by Reza Rahadian
With collaborators: Davy Linggar, Andra Matin, Garin Nugroho, Siko Setyanto & Kasimyn

KOTAK · 2024
A film by Dian Sastrowardoyo
Producer: Beacon Film

Mushi Hime · 2023
A film by Adine Halim
Producer: Eschaton

Presented in conjunction with RUCI Art Space & Galerie BAO’s exhibition:
INTERSTICE: A Space Between Two Worlds, featuring Huỳnh Công Nhớ and Pecut Sumantri.

Join us for a cinematic evening that meets at the intersection of film and contemporary art.

06/12/2025

Together with Galerie BAO, we introduce Huỳnh Công Nhớ - (b. 1991, Đà Nẵng, Vietnam), a self-taught artist whose practice bridges cinema and painting. Trained in the Autumn Meeting film program under filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng, he transitioned to painting in 2022, where his art-brut sensibility and intuitive approach fully emerged. His works transform cinematic memories into still, contemplative scenes, often depicting faceless figures in prayer, rest, or quiet ritual. Halos appear as subtle markers of self-awareness—brief moments when a person realises they exist—creating “round areas” of suspended time that isolate yet connect his figures within their landscapes.

Influenced by a filmmaker’s eye, Huỳnh composes each canvas like a frame from an unseen film: a close-up of cacti, a hat mid-conversation, or a wide, god’s-eye view of a street. Rendered with deliberate naïveté and raw, tactile brushstrokes, these scenes draw from memory, observation, and ideas for future films. As the light across his paintings grows increasingly clear and bright, his subjects appear lifted out of obscurity, revealing human presence within Vietnam’s shifting socio-political context and the quiet power of stories told through humble materials.

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INTERSTICE: A Space Between Two Worlds
Duo exhibition by Huỳnh Công Nhớ (Đà Nẵng, Vietnam) & Pecut Sumantri (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Exhibition writings by Linh Lê (Vietnam)

Opening Reception
6 December 2025 · 5PM onwards

Exhibition Runs
7 December 2025 — 24 January 2026

04/12/2025

RUCI Art Space & Galerie BAO present

INTERSTICE: A Space Between Two Worlds

Opening Reception
6 December 2025 · 5PM onwards

Exhibition runs 7 Dec 2025 — 24 Jan 2026

Realised through a joint effort between Galerie BAO (Paris, France) and RUCI Art Space (Jakarta, Indonesia), Interstice opens a threshold between realms—between the distant past and the imagined future, between the clarity of waking life and the haze of the inner world.

In this first duo exhibition, Đà Nẵng-based artist and filmmaker Huỳnh Công Nhớ with Yogyakarta-based artist Pecut Sumantri turn to the everyday: people praying, thinking, sleeping; figures caught in moments of vulnerability; gestures repeated like quiet rituals.
Huỳnh’s paintings, lit with a stark, lucid glow, reveal faceless bodies haloed not by sanctity, but by fleeting self-realisation—small, suspended moments where existence feels briefly illuminated.
Pecut’s works, draped in dreamlike fog, hold bodies in states of closeness and distance, their forms dissolving into tenderness, emotion, and secrecy.

Two distinct visual languages—one sharp, one blurred—meet in a shared contemplation of faith, memory, and the fragile rituals that hold us together.
Together, their paintings invite viewers into the space in-between:
a place where the ordinary becomes profound,
where uncertainty and belief overlap,
and where worlds that once felt far apart begin to quietly collide.

Step with us into this interstice—
a space between two worlds,
and the many truths that live there.

Exhibition writings: Linh Lê (Vietnam)
Co-organizer: .contemporary
Artists:
With the support of: .medium

📍 RUCI Art Space
Jl. Senayan 63-65, 2nd Fl
Jakarta 12180

24/10/2025

An exhibition…
that unfolds across two countries,
four venues,
and one vision.

RUCI Art Space × RUBANAH Underground Hub × Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso × Hyphen— presents

✨ Tokoh-tokoh, pengabdian, dan peradaban ✨
[Figures, Dedications, and Civilisations]

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🗓 Jakarta Opening Reception
Saturday, 25 October 2025
⏰ 5 PM – onwards
📍 RUCI Art Space

Featuring works by:
Anusapati; Emiria Sunassa; Julia Sarisetiati & Ary “Jimged” Sendy; Julian Abraham “Togar”; & Oni Imelva; Kinez Riza; Nasikin; Presiden Tidore; Riksa Afiaty; Sriyani; Titarubi; Tom Nicholson; Uji Handoko Eko Saputro; and Griya Seni Hj. Kustiyah Edhi Sunarso, Hyphen—, Tom Nicholson with Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Aufa Ariaputra, Nasikin, & Omar Aryarindra

With selected works from the collections of:
Annie Hendrotomo, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, Srisasanti Gallery, Studio Nasirun, and OHD Museum

At once noun and verb, “figure” refers both to a person and a process—an image and an act of thinking. “Tokoh-tokoh, pengabdian, dan peradaban” unfolds across four interconnected sites, each forming part of a single body of work. Together, these sites trace an ongoing conversation around Sesudah banjir itu (When the Flood Is Over)—a citizen-led venture to conserve and contest the diorama cycle at the Museum Sejarah Nasional beneath Monas.

These four presentations are not separate exhibitions but chapters in a shared process. Each takes a different position toward the question of how figures—historical, political, or artistic—are made, remade, or erased. Across them, making becomes a way of thinking; conservation, a way of questioning; and collaboration, a way of remembering. Works, discussions, and gestures circulate among sites—refusing the isolation of objects and authorship, and sustaining instead a practice of ongoing relation.

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Supported by: .play & shuttle bus from

See you at the opening!