An inspiring evening in Venice celebrating Dian Suci as winner of the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women is the first visual arts prize for emerging and mid-career artists who identify as women. Its tenth edition ushers in a new nomadic, international phase of the award, which will move to a new country with each edition, under the guidance and curation of Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York. Alongside Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti, Alemani has singled out Indonesia as the key art scene, and the prestigious Museum MACAN – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, Jakarta as partner for the first chapter in this new stage of the prize. #MaxMaraArtPrize #MaxMara
The project proposal with which Dian Suci won the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is titled “Crafting Spirit: Cultural Dialogues in Heritage and Practice”. It springs from her desire to explore the fallout of the encounter between religious artisan traditions and the capitalist system, through a comparative study of Italy and Indonesia. The handcrafting of votive objects and religious images will become the hub of Suci’s enquiry into the commoditization and exploitation of belief in contemporary culture. Her research is intended to examine whether and how spirituality, even in systems permeated by market dynamics, injustice and oppression, can endure as a form of cultural resilience.
This artistic project will culminate in a solo show at Museum MACAN in Jakarta in the summer of 2027; it will be presented again that autumn in Reggio Emilia, Italy, at Collezione Maramotti, which will acquire the works. #MaxMaraArtPrize #MaxMara
Max Mara, Collezione Maramotti and Museum MACAN are pleased to announce, along with prize curator Cecilia Alemani, that Dian Suci has been named winner of the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
The award, which was established to support and promote emerging or mid-career artists at a crucial stage in their professional paths, will offer Dian Suci a six-month travelling residency in Italy, organized by Collezione Maramotti and specifically tailored to the development of the project Suci proposed to the jury. This experience will culminate in a solo show at Museum MACAN in Jakarta in the summer of 2027; it will be presented again that autumn in Reggio Emilia, Italy, at Collezione Maramotti, which will acquire the works. #MaxMaraArtPrize #MaxMara
Pengen kabur bentar dari berbagai berita buruk dengan nyari portal dungeon yang sesuai sama wetonnya masing-masing. Tapi gagal karena Ki Ageng Marten lagi ga mood klenik dan petapa Suvi gak punya lampu obor punyanya lampu disko. Oleh-olehnya mimpi ketemu macan kalcer.
Jakarta | BAIK ART
Baik Art is pleased to present 'In the Name of Our Mother on Earth', a solo exhibition by Dian Suci, presenting a power that does not demand space through force, but inhabits it through limbic persistence.
'In the Name of Our Mother on Earth' assembles Dian Suci’s latest paintings, installations, wood carvings, textile objects, natural elements, and a video work. It weaves together Suci’s enduring ponderance into domesticity, maternality, and bodily spirituality, while examining the intersections of craft, labour, and the logic of production.
By subverting the currently acknowledged patriarchal prayer, “Our Father in Heaven,” 'In the Name of Our Mother on Earth' reclaims a much older, prehistoric spiritual system—one rooted in cosmic power rather than modern religious hierarchies. This feminine knowledge, informed by the notion of the matrilineal lineage and mythology, subtly guides Suci’s intuitive yet observant practice.
Curated by Ibrahim Soetomo
• Exhibition open from 14 February — 14 February 2026
• Jl. Sekolah Duta V No.35
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