Bentara Budaya Jakarta

Bentara Budaya Jakarta is a cultural institution located in Jalan Palmerah Selatan 17, Central Jakarta, Indonesia.[1] This cultural institution consist of museum and art gallery, open daily Monday to Friday from 08.00 AM to 05.00 PM,[1] the gallery closed during weekends or holidays,[1] except during special exhibition. The museum and gallery are free of charge and open for visitors.[1] As a cultural institution, Bentara Budaya hosts wide spectrum of Indonesian cultural activities, from traditional to modern Indonesian arts, held exhibitions of fine arts which includes paintings, sculpture and graphic arts, to hosting performing arts, and concerts.[2]

History

The institution was started when the founder of Kompas Gramedia Group, Jakob Oetama, an avid art collector, felt the need to share his art collections, which includes paintings by Indonesian maestros, sculptures, traditional crafts such as wayangs, Chinese and Indonesian antique ceramics, etc.[1] Subsequently it is decided to build a building to store and display these artworks collection.[1] Then the idea went further to build an art gallery and exhibition hall to promote and showcasing the works of Indonesian artists as well as to promote art and culture in Indonesian capital. Later the Bentara Budaya become the cultural institution, as the cultural philanthropic branch as well as the corporate social responsibility of Kompas Gramedia Group.[1] The Bentara Budaya premiere exhibition was the ceramics exhibition of Studio Titik Temu Tembikar, by Liosadang, Purwakarta promoted by the artist Adi Munardi in 1985.[3]

Bentara Budaya Jakarta Museum was established after Bentara Budaya in Yogyakarta.[2] The Bentara Budaya Jakarta building displaying a Javanese Kudus traditional house as its centerpiece. The richly decorated and meticulously crafted teak wood Kudus house displaying Indonesian traditional art mastery. The Kudus house itself demonstrated various art influences, from native Javanese to Hindu and Chinese art.[2] With their vast art collections, also through their patronage and support to Indonesian and foreign artists, Bentara Budaya Jakarta set their mission to nurture, conserve and promote art and culture, as well as to contribute and participate in Indonesian cultural scene.[2]

Collection

Today, Bentara Budaya Jakarta has about 573 paintings the works of Indonesian maestros, among others Affandi, S Sudjojono, Hendra Gunawan, Basoeki Abdullah, Bagong Kussudiardjo, Trubus Sudarsono, Rudolf Bonnet, H Widayat, Otto Jaya and many more.[4] Bentara Budaya also boast Balinese classic paintings, such as the works I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, I Ketut Regig, I Gusti Ketut Kobot, Ida Bagus Made, Anak Agung Gde Sobrat, Dewa Putu Bedil, I Gusti Made Togog, I Ketut Nama, and I Wayan Jujul.[4] The Bentara's art collection includes 625 Chinese antique ceramics with collection spanned from Yuan, Tang, Sung, Ming and Ching dynasties periods.[3] Native Indonesian ceramics also formed their collections, which includes potteries and ceramics from Singkawang, Bali, Plered, Trowulan and Cirebon.[3] The Papuan and Balinese sculpture collection of Bentara Budaya reaching 400 pieces, also the 120 antique wayang golek collections which includes the characters of punakawan, Pandavas and Kauravas.[3] Antique furnirtures, such as wooden tables, chairs and cupboards, also statues of Buddhas in various mudras hand position also collected by Bentara Budaya Jakarta.[4] All of these collection are stored and preserved in Bentara Budaya Jakarta.[4] Not only presenting Indonesian culture, sometimes Bentara Budaya Jakarta also cooperate with other art institution and foreign artist to perform, promote and exhibit Indonesian and international art and culture.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Museum Bentara Budaya Jakarta". InfoTempat.com. 2008-04-19. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Lembaga Bentara Budaya Jakarta". Bentara Budaya. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Tentang Bentara Budaya". Kompas.com. November 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Bentara Budaya". Kompas Gramedia. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Bentara Budaya Jakarta". Jakarta.go.id. Retrieved 12 November 2014.

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