POLLINATION ed. 3

Curators 

LIR – Mira Asriningtyas and Dito Yuwono (Yogyakarta)
LIR is a curator collective consisted of Mira Asriningtyas and Dito Yuwono. Currently they are the co-directors of ‘Cemeti – Institute for Art and Society’ in Yogyakarta. LIR emerges from LIR Space, an art initiative they established in Yogyakarta in 2011 to cultivate a supportive environment for artistic and discursive experimentation. Their practice centers on research-driven, multi-disciplinary collaborations that sustain transgenerational memory and shared histories.

Key projects include the long-running “Curated by LIR” (2018–2023), presenting solo exhibitions by artists such as Mella Jaarsma, Jompet Kuswidananto, and Heri Dono among others; “Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations” (ISCP New York, 2020; OUR Museum Taipei, 2023; Cité Internationale des Arts, 2025); and 900mdpl (2017, 2019, 2022), a site-specific institution in their hometown Kaliurang—a village under Mt. Merapi—dedicated to preserving collective memory through socially engaged archiving, international residencies, publications, and exhibitions. They also co-curated Pollination 3: “Of Hunters & Gatherers” (2020–2021), a multi-sited exhibition, symposium, and journal across Southeast Asia.

Kittima Chareeprasit (Chiang Mai)
Kittima Chareeprasit is a curator at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai and MAIELIE in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Since 2016, she has co-founded Waiting You Curator Lab, an experimental curatorial workshop and artists’ book publishing house. Her interests lie in contemporary art and culture, focusing on critical history, social, and political issues. She collaborates on several projects with emerging and established artists within the realm of Southeast Asian art and its cultural context. She received her MA in Curating and Collections from Chelsea College of Arts, London.

Artists

Maryanto (Yogyakarta)

Ruangsak Anuwatwimon (Bangkok)
Ruangsak Anuwatwimon is a Bangkok-based Thai contemporary artist. He is passionate about art and nature, and is interested in the future evolution of the human species, which often becomes the topic of his research. Across all of his ashes-based projects Anuwatwimon reflects upon the relationship humans have with nature. He employs diverse mediums to express his ideas and challenges the perimeters of what constitutes an artwork. His conceptual projects explore social, cultural, and moral grounds of human societies.

Based on the “Regenerate Sculpture” concept, he considers how human beings can resolve problems of extinction and evolution. One of his works, the Ash Heart Project (2010), encompasses a total of 270 heart-shaped artworks made from the ashes of 270 different flora and fauna species. Another remarkable work is the GOLEM project exhibited at BKK Art House, Bangkok (2011) and at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015).

Curatorial Advisors 

Zoe Butt (Chiang Mai)
Zoe Butt is a curator, writer and educator focusing on critically thinking and historically conscious artistic communities, fostering dialogue among cultures of the globalizing souths. In 2022, she founded ‘in-tangible institute’, a curatorial platform nurturing locally responsive infrastructure for the arts across Southeast Asia. In 2025, she was appointed Artistic Director of ‘deCentral’, a forthcoming social enterprise for the arts, opening in Thailand in 2027. You can read more about her here.

Agung Hujatnikajennong (Bandung)
Agung Hujatnikajennong, is a member of the Curatorial Board of Galeri Nasional Indonesia and a lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung. His research focuses on curatorial practice, new media, and contemporary Indonesian art.

He has curated Fluid Zone (2009) for Jakarta Biennale ARENA, Exquisite Corpse (2012) at Shanghai Biennale, Not a Dead End (2013-2014) for Jogja Biennale Equator #2, 1001 Martian Homes (2017) for the Indonesian Pavilion at Venice Biennale, and Art Turns. World Turns. (2017-2018) at Museum MACAN.

He founded and directed INSTRUMENTA International Media Art Festival (2018–2019), curated triplet editions of ARTJOG | arts-in-common (2019-2022) and since 2022 has led Open Arms, promoting disability inclusion in Indonesian visual arts. His book Kurasi dan Kuasa was published by Marjin Kiri and Jakarta Art Council in 2015.

Vipash Purichanont (Bangkok)
Vipash Purichanont is a lecturer at the department of Art History at the faculty of Archeology, Silpakorn University. He holds a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge, department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. His research lies at the intersection of curatorial practice, objects, archive, economics and Southeast Asia. Purichanont was an assistant curator for the first Thailand Biennale (Krabi, 2018), a curator of Singapore Biennale 2019 (Singapore, 2019), and a co-curator of the second Thailand Biennale (Korat, 2021). He is also a co-founder of Waiting You Curator Lab, a curatorial workshop that aims at initiating alternative infrastructures in Thailand and beyond.

Sponsors and Institutional Partners

POLLINATION ed. 3 was initiated, co-organized by Zoe Butt, Artistic Director, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre and co-organized and co-sponsored by the Sidharta Aboejono Martoredjo (SAM) Fund for Arts and Ecology (Indonesia), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai), Selesar Sunrayo Art Space (Bandung), and Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry (Chicago).