Tromarama (est. 2006,
Bandung
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) is an Indonesian art collective founded by Febie Babyrose (b. 1985,
Jakarta
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), Ruddy Hatumena (b. 1984, Bahrain) and Herbert Hans (b. 1984, Jakarta).
Biography
Graduates of
Institut Teknologi of Bandung, Babyrose, Hatumena and Hans met in a music video workshop where they conceived ‘Serigala Militia’ (2006) for Seringai's track of the same title and established Tromarama, referencing the “traumatic” experience of making hundreds of woodcut plywood boards.
Since then, Tromarama's work has been exhibited at
Open Eye Gallery
Open Eye Gallery is a photography gallery and archive in Liverpool, UK that was established in 1977. It is housed in a purpose-built building on the waterfront at Mann Island, its fourth location.
Open Eye Gallery comprises an exhibition space ...
(Liverpool, 2016), the
Gwangju Biennale
The Gwangju Biennale is a contemporary art biennale founded in September 1995 in Gwangju, South Jeolla province, South Korea. The Gwangju Biennale is hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the city of Gwangju. The Gwangju Biennale Founda ...
(2016),
Frankfurter Kunstverein
The Frankfurt Art Association (german: link=no, Frankfurter Kunstverein) is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizens of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the city, which w ...
(Frankfurt am Main, 2015), the
Stedelijk Museum
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Amsterdam, 2015),
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, 2015) and
Mori Art Museum
The is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori (1934–2012) in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo, Japan.
The exterior architect of the museum's gall ...
(Japan, 2010) amongst other locations.
Work
Engaging with the notion of hyperreality in the digital age, Tromarama specialises in developing inventive responses to contemporary urban culture spanning multiple media – from stop motion animation and video art to installations and lenticular prints. Fleshing out the element of play and humour in everyday life, each work infuses the ordinary with novel means of contemplation in the context of urban Asian cultural environment and political reverberations.
In 2016, Tromarama's installation ‘’Private Riots’ (2014–2016) – a monumental structure composed of flash sequence video and protest banners – was selected for the Encounters section of
Art Basel Hong Kong curated by
Alexie Glass-Kantor. Other notable solo exhibitions in recent years include its debut in the UK (2016) curated by Ying Tan in collaboration with
Edouard Malingue Gallery and Open Eye Gallery as part of the
Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom.
Every two years, the city of Liverpool hosts an extensive range of artworks, projects, and a programme of events. The biennial commissions leading ...
fringe programme and ‘Panoramix’ (2015) at Edouard Malingue Gallery in
Hong Kong
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.
References
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External links
* Tromarama'
website
Collectives
Indonesian artists