Hyphen—
Hyphen—(since 2011) is a sustainable conversational space regarding aesthetic practices. Aiming at putting forward curiosity and people’s common wellbeing as the estuary of artistic practices, they engage their current research trajectories around the practices of Indonesia New Art Movement (1975–1989), Kustiyah (1935–2012), and Danarto (1940–2018); exhibition histories surrounding ‘Kesenian Indonesia’ (Indonesian Art, 1955), ‘BINAL Experimental Arts’ (1992), ‘Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Non-Aligned Countries’ (1995); while attempting to unravel Indonesia’s so-called national history through its visual representations.
Grace Samboh
Grace Samboh believes that everyone needs at least three copies of themselves. Through research, writing, and curatorial work, she jigs within the existing elements of the arts scene around her for she considers the claim that Indonesia is lacking art infrastructure, especially the state-owned or state-run as something outdated. She believes that curating is about understanding and making at the same time. She is attached to Hyphen— and affiliated to RUBANAH Underground Hub.
Merve Bedir
Merve Bedir is an architect who works with infrastructures of hospitality and mobility about/towards the collective intelligences and imaginaries of the landscape. She holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology, and a BArch from Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Currently a visiting professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne-EPFL Architecture, she also co-founded Aformal Academy in Pearl River Delta region, Kitchen Workshop in Gaziantep, and Center for Spatial Justice in Istanbul. Her recent publications include ‘Kitchen Workshop: Cityzenship as Infrastructure’ in Feminist Infrastructural Critique (2024), and ‘New Silk Roads’ in e-flux architecture (2019, 2024). Her fellowships include Pogon (Zagreb, 2024), BAK (Utrecht, 2022), Alserkal Foundation (Dubai, 2021), and Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, 2019).
Vivian Ting
Vivian Ting is now an independent curator and researcher. Her research interest focuses on the cultural imaginations of diverse audience groups and their cultural consumption patterns in considering how public life can be shaped in Hong Kong. She has been partnering with universities and art organisations to develop curatorial projects that encourage multiple narratives of local history articulated through creative means. Vivian has participated in various art projects, such as ‘20/20 Hong Kong Print Art Exhibition’ (2020), ‘Via North Point, Public Art Programme: Social Generic Outcomes Assessment’ (2020–2022), and ‘Here and There: Re-imagining Hong Kong Landscapes’ (2022).
Mark Chung
Mark Chung, nicknamed Muckie, was born in Auckland in 1990 and grew up in Hong Kong. His paternal ancestry is from Dongguan, and his grandmother was from Tyrol. His childhood was enveloped by air pollution, hence his other alias ‘sick man sans frontiers’. His looks are rough, but his actual physique is weak; a complicated mind with the occasional bad temper and mood swings. A recent returnee from Amsterdam, he is determined to devote his whole self to art, yet he sometimes wanders and worries too much.
Nasikin Ahmad
Nasikin Ahmad is a sculptor shaped by tumpangsari (intercropping) farming culture. His work explores the impact of agricultural industrialisation, particularly how modern systems redefine certain lifeforms as ‘pests’. A graduate of ISI Yogyakarta’s Sculpture Department, he engages with natural and industrial materials through intermedia experiments. Deeply drawn to clay since childhood, Nasikin navigates the shifting relationships between humans, nature, and modernisation, from the everyday to the industrial.
Hidayatul Azmi
Hidayatul Azmi, commonly known as Ami, co-founded Forum Ladang Rupa in 2015 with her friends, an alternative learning space focused on developing modes of art appreciation in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra. Her illustrations have been included in books published by BukuMojok, Gramedia, and several self-published titles. Ami completed her master’s degree in Cultural and Media Studies, at Gadjah Mada University. She is currently interested in exploring intercultural dialogues across localities within collective art practices.
Özge Ersoy
Özge Ersoy is Senior Curator at Asia Art Archive. Her research explores expanded approaches to archiving, collecting, exhibition-making, and publishing in contemporary art. Her writings have appeared in How to Pin Down Smoke: ruangrupa since 2000 (Afterall, 2025, forthcoming), Curating Under Pressure: International Perspectives on Negotiating Conflict and Upholding Integrity (Routledge, 2020), and The Constituent Museum (Valiz and L’Internationale, 2018), among other publications. She was Research and Programming Associate for the 13th Gwangju Biennale (2021) and Assistant Curator for ‘Sarkis: Respiro’ at the Pavilion of Turkey in the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).
Marianus Nuwa
Marianus Nuwa completed his philosophy studies at STFK Ledalero. He is one of the initiators and currently works as the program manager of Komunitas KAHE in Maumere. Since 2016, he has been involved in various discussion programs, research, and theater performances initiated by Komunitas KAHE Maumere. Other than writing poetry and short stories, he is also delving into the discipline of acting. He is the curator for theater performances in Maumerelogia 5 (2025).
Ruhaeni Intan
Ruhaeni Intan made her debut as a novelist when her first novel, Arapaima, published by BukuMojok in 2019. She also works as a freelance writer in various media such as Tirto.id. Her enthusiasm in literature got her involved in Perkawanan Perempuan Menulis, a feminist-based literature collective. Now, she is preparing her third novel while continuing to juggle fiction and non-fiction text that already owns her soul. In 2023, she became a part of Hyphen—
Sidhi Vhisatya
Sidhi Vhisatya is an Indonesian queer art practitioner, currently living and working in Sydney. He is a member of the Queer Indonesia Archive (QIA) since 2020 and developed Bali Archive and Repository (BaliAAR), focusing on curating exhibitions and collecting materials through field trips. In 2024–2025, he organised the Southeast Asia Queer Cultural Festival (SEAQCF), creating space for queer artists, cultural practitioners, and community organisers to navigate the intersections of art, culture, and activism.
Michelle Wun Ting Wong
Michelle Wun Ting Wong completed her PhD studies in Art History at The University of Hong Kong in 2025, exploring the modernity emerging from Post WWII Hong Kong. From 2012–20 she was a researcher at Asia Art Archive (AAA), focusing on Hong Kong art history and histories of exchange and circulation through exhibitions and periodicals. Her curatorial projects include ‘Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys’ at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2021); ‘Afterglow’, Yokohama Triennale 2020; and 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016). Her writing has been published in Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, 1945–1990 (2018), the journal Southeast of Now (2019) amongst others. Since 2022, she’s co-run the independent art space New Park with artists South Ho Siu Nam and Billy HC Kwok. Wong’s PhD dissertation is an in-depth study of the work and life of Ha Bik Chuen and his relationship to the cultural modernity and artistic modernism emerging from mid-twentieth century Hong Kong. Before returning to graduate school at HKU, Wong was AAA’s lead researcher and part of an archivist team organising and digitising Ha’s archive.
