Made Me Dirty - Solo Show Ardi Gunawan

Exhibition Manager
Curated by Hendro Wiyanto

Made Me Dirty, a solo exhibition by Ardi Gunawan - The show reflects Gunawan’s use of painting as both a physical and political act. For the artist, painting is a physically immersive act — one that leaves his body marked with paint, splashes, and dirt. Often working half-naked in worn underwear, he embraces the messiness of the process as a deliberate contrast to the clean, structured routines of institutional life. As an academic navigating the precarity of the systems, Gunawan finds in painting a form of resistance — a refusal to conform to the expectations of order, efficiency, and presentability that define white-collar environments.