Julius Baer VIP Lounge
As Julius Baer celebrates 20 years in Asia, it reaffirms its commitment to Indonesia’s vibrant artist community as Lead Partner of Art Jakarta for the fifth year. This year, the Julius Baer VIP lounge presents a special collaboration with Handiwirman Saputra (b. 1975), one of Indonesia's most internationally recognised contemporary artists.
Handiwirman is renowned for transforming everyday materials into compelling works of art. Alongside a showcase of his recent series and new paintings, guests are invited to participate in "Kuasa Alam" ("The Might of Nature"), an interactive activation where they can customise their own art print. The experience fosters creative expression, inspired by individual connections with nature.
Lost at Sea
Bibit, the award-winning digital investment application, collaborates with Yogyakarta-based artist Endry Pragusta to present "Lost at Sea", a raft installation inspired by Théodore Géricault’s "The Raft of the Medusa". Reflecting on an education system that leaves people to navigate an uncertain future with incomplete tools, the work resonates with Bibit and Stockbit’s belief in the importance of financial literacy. Investing is not about predicting every wave, but learning to read the conditions, choose a direction, and stay steady through change. Just as we cannot control the wind and waves, we can adjust our sails. Together, Bibit and Stockbit help investors learn, adapt, and keep moving forward.
Bibit will also present "Interactive Corner", an interactive activation where visitors can then create their own origami symbol and add it to a shared wall, gradually transforming the once-empty space into a collective landscape of journeys, hopes, and future aspirations.
Gravity of the Unheld
Treasury, a leading digital gold investment platform, collaborates with this year’s Treasury Art Prize winner, Etza Meisyara, whose work "Gravity of the Unheld" explores the transformation of gold from a noble material into the concept of nobility as a transcendent value. The intermedia artist examines how a material or element can interact with other forces, both visible and invisible, creating a layered experience. The space invites audiences to slow down and attune their senses, to encounter something sacred yet grounded.
The artist does not prescribe a singular interpretation of the artwork. Drawing on the theory of intersubjectivity, the work acknowledges how each individual’s background and experiences shape their encounter with it, allowing different perspectives to enrich its meaning.
Through sight, smell, and sound, the installation evokes a sense of nobility and the trust associated with it, allowing audiences to experience these impressions and carry them with them beyond the work itself.
ART MEETS MUSIC
In this exhibition, artists express music through artworks by translating invisible sounds into visible texture, colors, and imaginations. Each artwork captures a different interpretation of music, transforming the emotions into something visible.
Where sound finds its shape.
Where color finds its rhythm.
Where emotion finds its expression.
Where Art Meets Music.
Hutan Kabel (Wood Wide Web)
Inspired by a visit to her hometown in Central Borneo, Agnes Hansella observed the growth patterns of Ficus trees and their mycorrhizal counterparts. "Hutan Kabel (Wood Wide Web)" draws on both: transforming thousands of meters of discarded cable and telecommunications waste, provided by iForte, into an immersive canopy of knotted forms and optical fibres. As visitors move through the room, interactive sensors activate the fibres in real time — the invisible flow of data made momentarily visible.
The Curiosity Engine
"The Curiosity Engine" depicts how curiosity opens a path towards a new horizon. The installation features a single circular form representing the sun, serving as the axis of the piece’s movement, surrounded by familiar yet uncanny elements suggesting drawers, buttons, and other tactile mechanisms.
The artwork reveals itself through interaction, Aji Fajar/Palette Studio invites audiences to experience how familiar mechanisms can break free from their usual functions and awaken an innate sense of curiosity.
MINI PAUL SMITH EDITION: The Perfect Match
Every day is a new beginning. "The new MINI Paul Smith Edition" brings together MINI’s iconic design and Paul Smith’s vibrant creativity, celebrating individuality and optimism through distinctive colours, signature stripes, and handwritten details.
At the fair, this spirit comes to life through a playful experience that invites everyone to imagine their next adventure. With MINI and Paul Smith, every journey can be uniquely your own.
ALCHEMIST
ALCHEMIST, the fragrance brand that offers curated collections of unique and distinctive perfumes and scents, will collaborate with contemporary Japanese painter Mai Yokoyama. For this collaboration, the artist brings "the Sphinx"—a figure that embodies both human intellect and the power of the imagined—into dialogue with ALCHEMIST. The collaboration extends across the booth and product packaging, translating this dialogue into a visual experience and extending the sensory journey through the element of vision.
DJOURNAL × Darbotz
DJOURNAL × Darbotz presents a collaborative space where the signature of one of Indonesia influential street artists converges with the pride of Indonesia’s modern coffee culture.
The project creates an immersive 360° coffee experience, bringing together specially crafted coffee creations, wearable art, and engaging activities designed to awaken our “Monster of Excitement” from within. Where raw urban expression meets the everyday coffee ritual, DJOURNAL & Darbotz invite visitors to pause, explore, and experience coffee through a bold new lens.
Aesop Women's Library
With a reverence for the written word, "Aesop Women’s Library" arrives in Jakarta for the first time. Discover 7 book titles by female authors in English and Indonesian, selected to celebrate women’s voices and experiences, at Art Jakarta. Take a moment to pause, explore the collection and choose a complimentary book to take home as a gratitude from Aesop.
The Transformation Lounge
"The Transformation Lounge" offers a first glimpse into "The Art of Transformation" at The Solitaire, an aesthetic surgery and longevity centre in the Sanur Special Economic Zone, Bali.
As a House of Expertise, The Solitaire brings together world-class
plastic surgeons and carefully curated clinic partners. Here, medical precision meets artistry. Transformation is about refining your individuality through exceptional expertise and personalized care.
Every transformation is a masterpiece.
MR.D.I.Y. Regional Art Competition 2026
In its special presentation, MR.D.I.Y. will present the winners of the MR.D.I.Y. Regional Art Competition 2026, a platform for emerging artists to express their ideas through visual art. The presentation will feature a total of 19 awardees from the competition series in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Under the theme “Strength & Resilience,” this year’s competition invites participants to reflect on the qualities that shape both individuals and communities.
EDISII
EDISII, the first fine art print publisher based in Indonesia, collaborates with artists to produce high-quality, museum-grade art prints, based on existing works or created exclusively as limited editions.
For Art Jakarta 2026, EDISII returns with a selection of fine art prints by Andy Dewantoro, Arin Sunaryo, Cecil Mariani & Paul Kadarisman, Indra Leonardi, Iwan Effendi, Naufal Abshar, Sunaryo, Ugo Untoro, and Yusra Martunus, with the works further responded to by each artists.
The Living Legacy
AIA, in collaboration with IWAN TIRTA, presents "The Living Legacy". This idea is expressed through IWAN TIRTA batik motif that speaks of memory and traces, the things we inherit from those who came before us, how they shape the present and what we may one day pass on.
At the centre of the collection is the elephant motif. For "The Living Legacy", the motif moves beyond traditional batik on cloth, reinterpreted as a hand-tufted textile installation.
