Museum MACAN—Indonesia's first major museum for modern and contemporary art—has announced that it will open to the public in November with an inaugural exhibition featuring works by Robert Rauschenberg, Yayoi Kusama and Jean-Michel Basquiat alongside a number of Indonesian artists.
Museum MACAN will be housed in a 4,000 sqm space, including 2,000 sqm of gallery space, a 500 sqm indoor sculpture garden and public areas. MACAN aims to exhibit a large and growing collection of modern and contemporary art from Indonesia and from around the world, as well as to commission new works that broaden perspectives on contemporary art.
Opening November 7, "Art Turns. World Turns. Exploring the Collection of Museum MACAN" will include 90 artworks selected from more than 800 owned by the museum's founder, Haryanto Adikoesoemo. The show will mark the first public viewing of the museum's collection, revealed as it opens its new building in West Jakarta.
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