A market is taking shape around the island with good friends, curious finds, and a few of familiar faces bringing along their creations, treats, and small discoveries worth exploring.
The kind of Sunday where you arrive with no real plan and somehow leave with a good story, a few new finds, and a smile that stays a little longer.
Artifacts hold traces of life. They carry memory, belief, and gesture across time. In archaeology, artifacts help us understand how people once lived. In digital culture, artifacts appear as glitches, compression marks, and visual noise. Yudho reflects on how faith, doubt, silence, and longing move through a culture where images travel as data and value.
A one-day handmade paper activation exploring process, texture, and sound. This edition is a joint program of PAPER BREAKER by Leaf Roof and Studio Api — a full hands on process transforming waste into paper, and paper into print.
Setia Cap Cili and Bumi Kinar Ubud present an exploratory limited-edition handwoven exhibition: 'CACANGKAJA
The Soul under the Oath', under the creative direction of Idon Pande.
Anchored in the Dalem Balingkang narrative, the exhibition reinterprets the figure of Kang Cing Wei, the consort of Sri Aji Jaya Pangus, as a figure shaped collectively by social structures, gender relations, power, and cultural encounter. The presentation brings together seven limited-edition handwoven art pieces alongside collaborative photography by William Giasi, installations, and interdisciplinary pieces.
Pengrupukan is a vibrant, loud, and dramatic Balinese ritual held on the eve of Nyepi, the Balinese Day of Silence. It occurs on the afternoon and evening before the new moon of the spring equinox, marking the end of the old year and the transition into a new spiritual year.
It is most famous for the Ogoh-Ogoh parade, where giant, terrifying statues representing evil spirits and negative energy are paraded through the streets to the sound of, often, raucous music before being burned.
he core purpose is to chase away Bhuta Kala (malevolent spirits/forces) and Adharma (evil) that exist in the universe and within humans.
Nyepi is the Balinese 'Day of Silence' marking the Saka New Year. It is a 24-hour period of total stillness—no working, traveling, lighting fires, or noise—dedicated for self-reflection, spiritual purification, and cleansing negative energy to start the new year with a pure heart. It also allows the island to rest and restore environmental balance.
The works of Nisa Rizkya, Shindy Lestari, Gevi Noviyanti, and Matra Durga explore the body, the home, and collective portraits as spaces of resistance. Rather than passive objects, they are present as creative actors who seize narratives.
In a world proliferating with information and accelerating changes faster than our capacity to absorb them, Kadek’s artworks offer a “counter-tempo”: a reflective pause cultivated through laborious physical and mental means. Through a hybrid visual language of lino-cut prints, he neither rejects the past nor fetishises the present, but negotiates form discoveries mediated through the self.
Curated by Army, the exhibition insists that meaning-making and transformation are possible only when we stand with awareness, imagination, and integrity. It is an encouragement to recognise that meaning is fragile, yet renewable.
Nonfrasa is delighted to present 'Nothing remained unchanged but the clouds', a solo exhibition by Sastra Wibawa. Exploring repetition, restraint, and the subtle tension between structure and disintegration, Wibawa’s latest paintings appear initially as measured grids and restrained forms.
Inspired by the ancient Balinese creation myth of Bedawang Nala—the colossal turtle entwined with three dragons representing the earth, sea, and wind—Sasmita’s works reinterpret these sacred elements that represent the world’s equilibrium through a contemporary feminist lens. Their harmony ensures the earth’s stability, while their disturbance brings forth earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
