Exhibition

Profile

• Born 1984 in Bandung, Indonesia. Based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Mulyana (Mangmoel) is a visual artist using yarn and cloth. Graduating from the Department of Fine Arts and Crafts, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI), Bandung in 2012, he moved to Yogyakarta the same year after his exhibition “Mogus World.” Mogus is an alter ego octopus monster character, created with an ecosystem resembling an underwater world. Mangmoel’s practice includes explorations, using yarn as his main material, and incorporating other materials and massive forms using iron structures and other supports. One characteristic of each work is a modular system, chosen to save the main material. Aware that his work practices have an indirect impact on the environment, he began using leftover yarn from home-based factories in Bandung City instead of newly manufactured thread. In addition to being cheaper, Mangmoel discovered the idea of repurposing as a means of managing creative materials, and this became a big idea in the concepts behind his work.

Selected exhibitions

2023

Imagery of Eastern Nusantara Sea, KIN Space (Jakarta, Indonesia)

2023–24

BLUTOPIA, Airside HK (Hong Kong)

2023

Solo exhibition, Modular Utopia, USC Fisher Museum (Los Angeles, USA)

2023

Waters in Asian Art, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan)

2018

“Sea Remembers,” ARTJOG 2018: Enlightenment, Jogja National Museum (Indonesia)

• “Sea Remember” 2018
• Collection of Paulus Ong.