Boedi Widjaja

Black—Hut (2017)

Art is only a continuation of war by other means (2013)

New & RECENT PROJECTS

ENTANGLED UNCERTAINTIES MODERATED bY ONG KIAN PENG, NTU CCA, SINGAPORE, 12 FEB 2025
EVERYTHING IN ITS TIME, S.E.A. FOCUS FRINGE FILM FESTIVAL CURATED BY JOHN TUNG, THE PROJECTOR CINELEISURE, 25 JAN 2025
PATH. 15, COSMIC STRANGERS, ORCHARD STATION EXIT 10, SINGAPORE ART WEEK, 14 JAN - 16 FEB 2025
OUT OF SILENCE: A YUZ FOUNDATION COLLECTION CURATED BY WEN SHI, YUZ MUSEUM, SHANGHAI, 2 DEC 2024 - 5 JAN 2025
FLOWING TRACES CURATED BY WEN SHI, PRESENTED BY YUZ MUSEUM, SILKWORM HOUSE, ART FIELD NANHAI, 16 NOV 2024 - 12 FEB 2025
ALL THE IMAGES WILL DISAPPEAR CURATED BY PHILIPPE PIROTTE, SHANGHART WB CENTRAL, SHANGHAI, 11 NOV 2024 - 5 JAN 2025
BLACK—HUT, ENCODED MOTHERLAND, INDONESIA BERTUTUR CURATED BY MELATI SURYODARMO, UBUD, 7 - 18 AUG 2024
CIFRA & SLEEPLESS ART NIGHT IN VENICE, CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE, 23 JUNE 2024
LASTING IMPRESSIONS, SHANGHART SINGAPORE, 24 MAR - 10 APR 2024
SUPERIMPOSED CULTURES, SHANGHART SINGAPORE, 24 FEB - 9 MAR 2024
A LEXICON OF CURATED BY KAMILIAH BAHDAR, DE SUANTIO GALLERY, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY, 1 - 25 FEB 2024
IMMORTAL WORDS, PLATFORM PROJECT BY SHANGHART, ARTSG, SINGAPORE, 19 - 21 JAN 2024
IMMORTAL WORDS, CURATORIAL ESSAY BY LOREDANA pAZZINI-pARACCIANI, 42 WATERLOO STREET, SINGAPORE ART WEEK, JAN 19 - 20 FEB 2024
INAUGURAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AT tHE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL MOLECULAR ANALYTICS & SCIENCE, SINGAPORE, JAN - DEC 2024
PATH. 14, THE RIVER FLOWS TWO WAYS, THAILAND BIENNALE: THE OPEN WORLD, CHIANG RAI, DEC 9 2023 - 30 APR 2024
TROPICAL: STORIES FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA, NATIONAL GALLERY SINGAPORE, NOV 18 2023 - 24 MAR 2024

house home homeland

Kang Ouw《侠客行》

muographix - International Muography Research Organisation

Artist interview

Displaced Trees: A conversation with Boedi Widjaja

Artist interview

Presented by the Global (De)Centre and moderated by Dr. Peggy Levitt, Widjaja speaks on house home homeland through the lens of his practice.

Read curator Lynda Tay's essay and her interview with the artist in the relaunched Esplanade Visual Arts Exhibitions guide.

Physicist Sara Steigerwald from the University of Tokyo explores the "conversations" that Boedi holds with muons and muography. 

Chief Editor Christina J. Chua of so-far speaks to the artist on dislocation, memory, and the persistence of history.

To Mark. To Ground. The Shadows of Place

Podcast

Gaining Ground: Yarli Allison & Boedi Widjaja

Podcast

DNA and Ancestral Memories 记因・基亿

Online presentation

Place Imaginaries, Orbiting around a Clear Opening and Approaching DNA as a System of Language

Artist interview

Architect-academic-artist Nina Freedman hosts WHEREING, a channel that explores the psychological impact of space and place. In S2 Ep.4, Freedman speaks with the artist on his practice that explores themes of diaspora, memory, cultural hybridity, identity and space. 

Curator-in-residence Annie J. Kwan chats with Yarli Allison and Boedi, "What does the concept of memory mean when making artwork? What are the challenges artists face when systems and technology are used to tell personal stories? And if reconstructing history is important, why?"

Moderated by BIO:ART SEA:T (Southeast Asia Taiwan) curator Tang Fu Kuen, the artist and geneticist Assoc Prof Eric Yap speak on their art-science collaboration. 

In ObjectLessonsSpace Psychogeographies issue, Joella Kiu began with a question on the artist's four-line, bilingual poem: Rivers and lakes/ Tanah dan air/ Land and water/ Sungai sejarah.

Inspector, Inspector

Book cover

Cladogram: 2ND KMA International Juried Biennial

First Prize

Lighting Candles for a Local Osiris

Online journal

Walking with Ghosts: Six Conversations about Painting

Artist interview

Singapore Unbound founder Jee Leong Koh's latest poetry publication with Carcanet Press features a still from Boedi's DNA generative video  A tree rings, a tree sings 树龄°述铃. Inspector Inspector struggles with the legacies of fathers, personal, poetic and political. 

Juried by independent curator-academic-writer Yasmeen Siddiqui, the artist was awarded First Prize for A tree rings, a tree sings 树龄°述铃 . A cladogram is a branching diagram that shows relationships among different species and their history of evolution.

A tree rings, a tree sings 树龄°述铃 video stills accompany Darryl Lim Weijie's meditation on the work of the late Wong Phui Nam, n Singapore Unbound's journal SUSPECT.

In ObjectLessonsSpace Psychogeographies issue, Joella Kiu began with a question on the artist's four-line, bilingual poem: Rivers and lakes/ Tanah dan air/ Land and water/ Sungai sejarah.