Taring Padi are a leading Indonesian art collective with a mission to understand the cultural and social history of Indonesia through a contemporary lens. Based in Yogyakarta, Taring Padi was established in 1998 by a group of progressive art students, in response to socio-political upheavals during the reformation era and fall of the Suharto regime. The collective use art as a tool to explore issues of sovereignty to overcome environmental destruction, violence, food shortages and unemployment.
Taring Padi’s interdisciplinary practice spans art, music, and theatre and has seen them included in exhibitions internationally, including Tanah Tumpah Darah at Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2024, awarded ‘Best Project – Organisation with Paid Staff at the 2024 Queensland Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards; Tanah Merdeka at Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2023, and documenta fifteen, Kassel, 2022.
