Ipeh Nur
Sonsbeek 2026
Omstand, Arnhem
Inleiding
Seperti Laut yang Gelap dan Misterius (Like a Dark and Mysterious Sea), 2023
At Omstand, visitors can step inside Ipeh Nur's world: a cave where she sheds the shadow of prohibition and carves out a space of her own. The cave is covered in naturally dyed canvases evoking the Yoni, a Hindu-Buddhist female symbol, paying tribute to the traditional belief in the coastal communities of Mandar and Java that the sea is a woman. Her work is also on show through September 20th in the exhibition Bakudengar, at Museum Arnhem.
About the artist
Ipeh Nur (b. 1993, Yogyakarta) is an artist who lives and works in Yogyakarta. Her works based on personal experiences, daily problems, memories, resilience, and histories as background events, are mostly conveyed through drawing and painting. She also uses other mediums and techniques, such as batik, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, and murals, where mediums are not merely symbols or metaphors, but connect personally. Since 2019, her work is connected to her maritime culture, looking at how knowledge has been passed down by older generations and confronting it with today’s issues. Her stories are often based on her open interpretation of ancient mythology. Nur graduated from the Department of Printmaking, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta. Her solo exhibitions have been held at venues including Soboman 219 Art Space, Yogyakarta in 2022 and Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta in 2019. Her work appears in recent group exhibitions at venues including ArtSpace House, Gwangju, 2025; ArtJakarta, JIExpo Kemayoran, Jakarta, 2025; Ace House, Yogyakarta, 2025; Sharjah Art Biennial 16, 2025; Zone2Source, Amsterdam, 2025; PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 2024; and SculptureCenter, New York, 2024. In 2024, she was awarded the Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize.
Ipeh Nur would like to thank ara contemporary in Jakarta, Natasha Sidharta, director and founder of the SAM Fund for Art and Ecology (Jakarta), artist Nadiah Bamadhaj, graphic designer Enka Komariah, and family and friends who helped.
Presented by Sonsbeek 2026 in collaboration with Omstand
Made possible by the SAM Fund for Art and Ecology and ara contemporary, Jakarta