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18/09/2026

Tahnia Ahista’s practice explores the body through intimate objects, inherited materials, and the traces they leave behind. Working with photolithography and blind printing, she considers how experiences of the female body can be inscribed through pressure, touch, memory, and the everyday.

Tahnia Ahista is a printmaker based in Surakarta whose works explore the intimate details of life and shifting perceptions of the female body. Her creative process is rooted in a reflection on puberty, including physical changes and the introduction to feminine clothing, in order to reflect the complex identity of women.

17/09/2026

Kae Oktorina’s practice explores the shifting relationship between nature, perception, and technology. Through light, electronic remnants, and constructed organic forms, her works create moments where the artificial begins to resemble the living, inviting us to reconsider how nature is encountered through technological mediation.

Kae Oktorina is a Jakarta based new media artist. Through various mediums, she explores how color can fill space, transform over time, and alter perception. By utilizing optical principles, imaging technology, and material experiments, her works create sensory experiences that reveal phenomena beyond the reach of ordinary vision.

16/09/2026

Kexin Hong’s practice traces the relationship between place, memory, and displacement through fragments of lived experience. In Between Silences and Home22, Surabaya becomes both a site of remembrance and a point of departure, where traces of a life can be approached through images, ruins, and the spaces left behind.

Kexin Hong residency in Surabaya was hosted by Rentang Art Lab ( Rentang Art Lab )

Kexin Hong (born China) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice spans various media—from moving images, installations, and essay films—as she explores the psychosocial and political forces that shape human perceptions of reality.

14/09/2026

A glimpse into the workshop inspired by Kae Oktorina’s Petals From the Past.

Working with discarded cables, electronic components, plastic fragments, light, and other technological remnants, participants explored how organic forms might emerge from materials that were once considered waste.Thank you to everyone who joined us and to Kae Oktorina for sharing her practice with us.

Traces

Kae Oktorina
Kexin Hong
Tahnia Ahista

10 September – 25 October 2026

Jalan Jambi No. 35, Darmo
Surabaya

12/09/2026

We had the pleasure of welcoming everyone for the opening of Traces, featuring Kae Oktorina, Kexin Hong, and Tahnia Ahista, followed by a performance by Aika Takeuchi, Yukari Ono, and Toyol Dolanan Nuklir.

The evening brought together the exhibition, sound, movement, and encounters between artists, audiences, and the space.

Thank you to Aika Takeuchi, Yukari , Ono, and Toyol Dolanan Nuklir for the performance, and to everyone who joined us for the opening.

Also, thank you to everyone who supported and be part of our collaborator.

Traces

Kae Oktorina
Kexin Hong
Tahnia Ahista

10 September – 25 October 2026

Jalan Jambi No. 35, Darmo
Surabaya

11/09/2026

Traces is now showing at Project 101 - n0lkecil, bringing together new and recent works by Kae Oktorina, Kexin Hong, and Tahnia Ahista.

The exhibition brings together video, graphic works, found materials, light, and modified technological objects across the gallery space. Moving between intimate bodily experiences, fragments of memory, and encounters with nature through technological mediation, the works take different forms while sharing an attention to what remains from an experience.

Kexin Hong presents Between Silences, a video work developed through her research into the memories of a Chinese-Indonesian diaspora who left Surabaya for the Netherlands in 1965. Tahnia Ahista presents graphic works made through photolithography and blind printing, drawing from an inherited bra and the marks it leaves upon the body. Kae Oktorina works with a modified monitor, polarizing filters, light, and organic forms to construct an artificial encounter with nature from technological remnants.

Together, the works occupy the gallery as fragments of different encounters—held in images, surfaces, objects, bodies, and light.

Kae Oktorina
Kexin Hong
Tahnia Ahista

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴

10 September – 25 October 2026

Jalan Jambi No. 35, Darmo
Surabaya

08/09/2026

As part of Traces, n0lkecil presents a workshop led by Kae Oktorina

This workshop invites participants to explore the possibility of creating plant-like forms from discarded technological materials. Cables, plastic fragments, electronic components, and other remnants of technology will be transformed into sculptural plants. Through an experimental process of cutting, assembling, and arranging materials, participants will explore how leaves, flowers, light, and shadows can be reimagined through something artificial. Rather than reproducing nature, the workshop asks how our perception of the organic might be reconstructed through the remains of technology. Participants will create their own sculptural plants and encounter the strange space between the living and the artificial.

*Kae Oktorina* is Indonesian media artist whose practice investigates color as a material rather than merely a visual property. Working across installation, moving image, sculpture, and experimental technologies, she explores how color can occupy space, transform over time, and alter perception. Drawing from optics, imaging technologies, and material experimentation, her work creates sensory experiences that reveal phenomena beyond ordinary vision.

_Traces_
Kae Oktorina, Kexin Hong, Tahnia Ahista
10 September – 11 October 2026

03/09/2026

Project 101 – n0lkecil is delighted to announce Traces, featuring Kae Oktorina, Kexin Hong, and Tahnia Ahista.

Bringing together three practices that depart from different territories—history and memory, the embodied experience of womanhood, and the relationship between humans, nature, and technology.

Traces considers how human experiences are transmitted across bodies, objects, places, images, memories, and technological media. Yet transmission is never seamless. As something moves from one place, body, time, or medium to another, it may be transformed, interrupted, distorted, or lost. What remains is often a trace. A memory that persists, a mark left on the body, an image mediated through technology, or a story detached from its place of origin.

Traces
Kae Oktorina
Kexin Hong
Tahnia Ahista

10 September – 25 October 2026

n0lkecil
Jalan Jambi No. 35, Darmo, Surabaya

23/08/2026

The archive waited.
Now, a new room opens.

n0lkecil returns,
Project 101 is coming

22/08/2026

What came before,
becomes part of the archive.

What comes next is about to begin.

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