Kelvin Atmadibrata (b.1988, Jakarta, Indonesia) recruits superpowers awakened by puberty and adolescent fantasy. Equipped by shōnen characters, kōhai hierarchy and macho ero-kawaii, he often personifies power and strength into partially canon and fan fiction antiheroes to contest the masculine meta and erotica.

He works primarily with performances, often accompanied by and translated into drawings, mixed media collages and objects compiled as installations. Approached as bricolages, Kelvin translates narratives and recreates personifications based on RPGs (Role-playing video games) theories and pop mythologies.     

His recent works converse in the language of minimalist erotica, illustrating his survey of the mecha and transhumanist fantasy. Also motivated by the craft of contemporary tattoo, he experiments on the process of image markings on skin as a continuation of his attraction to living sculptures, breathing mannequins and bodies as pedestals. 


He is the first recipient of Ivan Ladislav Galeta Prize, awarded by Academy of Arts in Osijek for his touring performance, Forcing Hyacinth in Međunarodno studentsko bijenale, Zagreb, Croatia. The awarded work has also been presented in performance and fringe festivals in thirteen cities around United Kingdom and Europe since its London premier in October 2018. He is also the finalist of the national Indonesian Art Award in 2015 followed by Bandung Contemporary Art Award in 2017.   

Kelvin completed his Bachelor of Fine Art majoring in Interactive Media from School of Art, Design and Media in Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and has been practicing, exhibiting and participating in exhibitions and festivals since 2010. In 2017 he established Sepersepuluh, a performance-focused gallery in Jakarta, Indonesia which currently focuses as nomadic curatorial, collaborative and investigational project since he moved to London in 2018.   

He is a recent Master of Art graduate in Contemporary Art Practice (Performance) from Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom and currently lives and works between London and Jakarta.  

Kelvin also has a registry with Visual AIDS



108

As a fan of Konami's 幻想水滸伝 Genso Suikoden, a Japanese RPG based on a late 14th century Chinese historical fiction, 水滸傳 Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn, Kelvin assembles 108 personifications of strength, following the 'divine formula' of the 108 stars. The narrative is also known as the Water Margin or All Men Are Brothers, it tells a story of 108 pariah forming an ominous army.    

Kelvin is assembling his own editions of 108 rejects as a fanon of 幻想水滸伝 Genso Suikoden. Partially canon and fan fictions, the characters are often visualized through hyper-masculine perspectives as the artist manipulates folklores, myths and historical narratives, creating versions with all-male populations of characters and demi-humans. He is completing the first 108 while simultaneously recruiting the second.     



studio

Deptford Triangle

34 Watson's Street

London SW8 4AU



 

SOLO EXHIBITION

2018 BEAST, Sepersepuluh, Jakarta, Indonesia

2015 Carbuncle, SPACE Galeri Pasar, Jakarta, Indonesia

2014 たけくらべ, Japan Foundation Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

2013 GHB, Asbestos Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia

2013 GHB, Pasar Pagi Mangga Dua, Jakarta, Indonesia

2012 Tangkuban Perahu, The Pigeonhole, Singapore

2009 Dipped In Red, PLU Hangout Cafe, Singapore



COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2023 hello, who's there? what's your name?, with Putri Wartawati, Destian A. Kurniawan and Puri Puti Raie, Feelioum Galler & Studios, London, United Kingdom

2023 Intersect, with selina bonelli, Live Art Development Agency, London, United Kingdom

2021 WARNING! The final boss is coming!!, with Chunlin Men and Nick Wong, VSSL, London, United Kingdom

2020 Platform Project, with Luca Bosani, online, Athens, Greece

2019 Solitude, with Zoncy, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2019 Neuron, with Aziz Amri, Woo Gateway Project Space, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

2017 Om, Telolet Om!, with Dwinanda Agung Kristianto, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium

2017 Membangun Tanpa Paku, with Aziz Amri, Ivan Tan, Rummana Yamanie and Yuzuru Maeda, Galeri Cipta, Tamain Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia

2017 Qahwah, with Rummana Yamanie, Kopikalyan, Jakarta, Indonesia

2016 Liar vol.3: RIPE, directed by Agnes Christina, Kedai Kebun Forum, Jogjakarta, Indonesia

2015 Magpalitan Tayo ng mga Alingawngaw, with Magpies, Electrical Engineering Building, University of Los Baños, Laguna, the Philippines

2014 Vois sur ton chemin, with Ivan Tan Eng Hong, Post Museum Pop-Up, Gillman Barracks, Singapore

2013 Coming Back to the Underwater Kingdom, with Ezzam Rahman, Supermarket: Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

2012 Darshan, with Mariona Vilaseca, The Substation, Singapore

2011 Black Light District, with Dey Irfan Adianto, DYMK bar, Singapore

2011 Romantic Fluid, with Desiree Lau, tocaMe bar, Singapore

2010 Ignudo, with Vincent Chow, DYMK bar, Singapore

2008 Mobile Garden: an origami project, with Rin Ioka, Forth Gallery, Singapore



PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVALS

2023 Emergency, Contact, Manchester, United Kingdom

2023 International Multimedia Art Festival, SULUV Gallery, Odžaci and Novi Sad, Serbia

2023 And Here We Test Our Powers, Avalon Cafe, London, United Kingdom

2023 Molasses Vases, hARTSlane Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2023 SUPERMARKET Performance Program, Stadsgårdsterminalen, Stockholm, Sweden

2023 Sofia Underground, Krasno Selo Cultural Center, Sofia, Bulgaria

2022 One Hundred Evenings of Loneliness, The Island, Bristol, United Kingdom

2022 Ending the Void, Hundred Years Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2022 Convergence, Milford House, Tipperary, Ireland

2022 Tiding, Parish Church of St Mary & St Eanswythe, Folkstone, United Kingdom

2021 @Disturbance, Ugly Duck, London, United Kingdom

2021 Emergency, Contact Theatre, Manchester, United Kingdom

2021 Spill Yer Tea, online

2021 Kaum Festival, Oyoun Hall, Berlin, Germany

2020 Stockholm Fringe Festival, online

2020 Online Performance Art Festival, online

2019 Spill Yer Tea, Constellations, Liverpool, United Kingdom

2019 DISKURS34, taT-studiobühne, Gießen, Germany

2019 Athens Festival of Queer Performance, fac_research, Athens, Greece

2019 Performance Art Bergen, Grand Hotel Terminus, Bergen, Norway

2019 F U T U R E R I T U A L, Kunstraum, London, United Kingdom

2019 Emergency, NIAMOS, Manchester, United Kingom

2019 A Performance Affair, Vanderborght Building, Brussels, Belgium

2019 Starptelpa: Riga Performance Festival, RISEBA H2O 6, Riga, Latvia

2019 UnShut, Local Theatre, Sheffield, United Kingdom

2019 LEAD, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

2019 SEA Currents, Raven Row, London, United Kingdom

2019 LAPSody, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

2018 Interested?, GROW Tottenham, London, United Kingdom

2018 Performance Art Resource Orchestrator, Mox, Singapore

2017 Melaka Art and Performance Festival, St. Paul's Hill, Melaka, Malaysia

2017 Performance Art Resource Orchestrator, Zach Collaboratives, Singapore

2017 Tobong Arts Performance, Festival Kelud, Kediri, Indonesia

2017 Bandung International Arts Festival, Batu Curug Templek, Bandung, Indonesia

2017 Dhaka Live Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2017 Kolkata International Art Festival, Kolkata, India

2016 Undisclosed Territory 10, Studio Plesungan, Solo, Indonesia

2016 Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

2016 ArtStage 2016 After Party, CHIJMES, Singapore

2015 Melaka Art and Performance Festival, St. Paul's Hill, Melaka, Malaysia

2015 Zentai Performance Day, Japan Creative Centre, Singapore

2015 Fringe Manila, National Commission for Culture and the Arts Gallery, Intramuros, Metro Manila, the Philippines

2014 Melaka Art and Performance Festival, St. Paul's Hill, Melaka, Malaysia

2014 Cross-Cultural Live Art Project, the Proud Archivist, London, United Kingdom

2014 Sydney Fringe Festival, Camperdown Memorial Park Newtown and 5 Eliza, Sydney, Australia

2014 PADJAK #3-6, Jakarta, Indonesia

2013 PADJAK #1-2, Jakarta, Indonesia

2013 Senam Sore, Jakarta, Indonesia

2013 Surabaya Move On #2, Surabaya, Indonesia

2013 NIPAF Asian Tour; Bandung, Asbestos Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia

2012 Me and Dedication, Taman Makam Pahlawan, Solo, Indonesia

2012 Undisclosed Territory 6, Padepokan Lemah Putih, Solo, Indonesia

2012 Future of Imagination 8, Goodman Arts Center, Singapore

2012 Performance Art Touring, Asbestos Art Space and ruangrupa, Bandung and Jakarta, Indonesia

2012 S.P.A.M, The Substation, Singapore

2012 Fetterfield, Crawford Park, Singapore

2011 S.P.A.M, The Substation, Singapore

2011 Corpologia, Els Jardins de la Mercè, Pujada la Mercè, Girona, Spain

2011 Future of Imagination 7, Goodman Arts Center, Singapore

2011 NOW! for the second time, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2011 Stockholm Fringe Festival, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

2011 Open Space Performance Art Festival, Asbestos Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia

2011 NOW! The Artist Is Present, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2010 existence: a festival of performance art, Judith Wring Center, Brisbane, Australia

2010 Roving Artist, Night Festival, The Substation, Singapore

2010 Festival Kata dalam Performa, Jakarta Cultural Center, Jakarta, Indonesia

2010 RITES [Rooted in Ephimeral Speak], Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Who's been sleeping in my bed?, 44AD Artspace, Bath, United Kingdom

2023 Dream of the Day, Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2022 28. slavonski biennale, Muzej likovnih umjetnosti, Osijek, Croatia

2022 Art on a Poscard, Bomb Factory South, London, United Kingdom

2022 The Coming of Age, Milsom Place, Bath, United Kingdom

2021 PSX: a decade of performance art in the UK, VSSL, London, United Kingdom

2021 Residency Competition Group Show, The Muse, London, United Kingdom

2020 Out the Window, Centerstage Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom

2020 Međunarodnog Studentskog Bijenala (Award Exhibition), Knifer Gallery, Osijek, Croatia

2019 Međunarodnog Studentskog BijenalaLauba, Zagreb, Croatia

2019 Stages of Life, Harrow Arts Center, Harrow, United Kingdom

2018 Paradox, Lawangwangi Creative Centre, Bandung, Indonesia

2017 I too am untranslatable, RUCI Art Space, Jakarta, Indonesia

2016 Pameran Besar Seni Rupa Indonesia, Cultural Park of North Sulawesi, Manado, Indonesia

2016 Two-way Mirror, Objectifs, Singapore

2016 Imaginary Synonym, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan

2015 Radiant Presence, VisualAIDS, various sites

2015 Shibuya Eggs, Shibuya City Hall, Tokyo, Japan

2015 Nir Absolut, Japan Foundation Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

2014 The Pleasure of Improbable Placement, Casa de Cultura de Salt, Bernades, Spain 

2014 Manifesto #4, Keseharian, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

2014 It Is Not A Trap, Asbestos Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia

2014 ARTE Indonesian Art Festival, Gelora Bung Karno, Jakarta, Indonesia

2013 Young Curator Workshop, ruangrupa and Jakarta Arts Council, Jakarta, Indonesia

2013 Dirty, Poorly Dressed, and Filled with Love, Erehwon Art Center, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines

2013 New Nationalism, Light and Space Gallery, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines 

2012 tranSport: Madrid/Singapore, Factoria de la Arte y desalloro, Madrid, Spain and Goodman Arts Center, Singapore

2012 Pulau, Stockholm Pride, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

2012 Plasticity, Viridian Arts House, Singapore

2012 Life.Body.Existence, MICA Building, Singapore

2012 Handsome:IVSG, The Substation, Singapore

2012 A Reflective Dialogue; ADM Graduation Show, Old School, Singapore

2012 Portraits of Defacement, Your Mother Gallery, Singapore

2012 Queer Creatures, Supermarket: Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

2011 Image, Materiality and Space, Goodman Arts Center, Singapore 

2011 RetreAttack!, Dahlia Gallery, Singapore

2011 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Fremont Studios, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

2011 Manicured Nature, Dairy Farm Nature Reserve, Singapore

2011 Gnothi Seauton, the Substation, Singapore

2010 HIV- show me the love, ChanHampe Galleries (Tanjong Pagar), Singapore

2010 Rooftop Access, the attic@my art space, Singapore

2010 IMPRINTS, red dot museum, Singapore

2010 Eat With Family, the Arts House, Singapore

2010 12x, Evil Empire, Singapore

2009 Green, UE Square, Singapore

2008 Apple, fill your walls Gallery, Singapore



COMMISSION PROJECTS

2019 workshop, Across RCA, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

2011 installation, Shine Youth Festival, *scape, Singapore

2010 drawings, Action For AIDS, Singapore

2008 installation, Yellow Ribbon Project, Botanical Garden, Singapore



AWARD

2020 Awardee, Ivan Ladislav Galeta Award, Akademija za umjetnost i znanost u Osijeku, Osijek, Croatia

2017 Finalist, Bandung Contemporary Art Awards, Lawawangi Creative Center, Bandung, Indonesia

2016 Finalist, Chimera Art Award, Chimera Project, Hungary

2015 Finalist, Gudang Garam Indonesian Art Award, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia



RESIDENCY

2023 Present to Presence, with Melati Suryodarmo, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

2021 Seeding Space, London Performance Studios, London, United Kingdom

2020 VSSL, London, United Kingdom

2019 In Between Time, with Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Arts Mansion, Bristol, United Kingdom

2019 STALKER with Franko B, The Foundry, Maubourguet, France

2019 DIS-SENSUS with VestandPage and Andrigo&Aliprandi, c32 Performing Arts Workspace, Forte Marghera, Venice, Italy

2018 Asia Discovers Asia Meeting (ADAM#2), Taipei Performing Arts Centre, Taipei

2017 Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia

2015 Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan

2013 Light & Space Contemporary, Quezon City, The Philippines

2011 Nau Coclea (collaboration with SinCat), Camallera, Camallera, Spain

2011 Wallace Environmental Learning Laboratory, Singapore



EDUCATION

2018-2020 Master of Arts (Contemporary Art Practice: Performance), Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

2008-2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Interactive Media), School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore



PRESS

2020 FAKfulness Art Magazine 3rd issue, Piotr Kuszyński, The Masculine Mystique, EN

2019 HIV Ambivalence and Game-Playing Influence, conversation with Benji de la Piedra, WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT AIDS COULD FILL A MUSEUM, ed. Theodore Kerr, On Curating, EN

2018 Art Radar, Chelsea Coon, 3 Emerging Indonesian Performance Artists To Watch, EN

2015 Detik, Tia Agnes Astuti, Tren Batu Akik Menginspirasi Seniman Kelvin Atmadibrata, ID

2015 Akikpedia, Tafsir Estetika Batu Mulia Ala Kelvin Atmadibrata, ID

2015 Manila Times, International artists ‘exposed’ in ‘Fringe’ exhibit, EN

2014 CNN Indonesia, Yohannie Linggasari, Pria, Seni, dan Seksualitas, ID

2014 CNN Indonesia, Yohannie Linggasari, Pameran Takekurabe Hadirkan Isu Gender dan Kekuasaan, ID

2014 Republika, Dewi Mardiani, Tepis Kekakuan Seni, ID

2014 Detik, Tia Agnes Astuti, Terinspirasi Budaya Jepang, Kelvin Atmadibrata Gelar Pameran 'Takekurabe', ID

2010 Rooted in the Ephimeral Speak, Lee Wen, Grow Some Funk Of Our Own…, EN

2009 I-S SG, Zaki Jufri, Red Letter Day: Kelvin Atmadibrata’s Dipped In Red, EN

2008 The Urban Wire, Nisha, Paper Christmas, EN