Incorporating an unusual variety of influences the work of Eko Nugroho (b. Yogyakarta
Indonesia 1977 lives and works in Yogyakarta) envisions art as a participative process.
Meandering between street art traditional crafts theater comic strips painting and
sculpture the artist articulates a gentle yet insistent political critique. To convey his
ideas he marshals pink composite beings lizard-like creatures and infantile monsters that
suggest the neoliberal alienation of our globalized society. Inventively mixing a range of
media Nugroho scrutinizes the structures of Indonesian society visions of urban life or
forms of intergenerational community. Nugroho's presentation in the Indonesian pavilion at the
55th Venice Biennale first brought him to the attention of European audiences
