Bellina Erby
Bellina Erby (Jakarta, Indonesia) is a cultural matchmaker and art producer with a Philosophy of Art degree from the University of Indonesia. She connects people for projects on Food Justice, Collective Practice, Locality, and Indigenous Knowledge.
She was part of the OK. Pangan curatorial team in 2017, led a food preservation project for the Dayak Iban tribe in 2018, and ever since has managed a food justice initiative with Global South projects and co-founded Selarasa – Jagakarsa Food Lab in Jakarta.
Now based in Kassel, Germany, she was assistant artistic director at Documenta Fifteen and is involved with Gudskul and the collective AKA. She is also a Grantee in The Gramounce Alternative Master Program for Food and Art Studies.
Over the course of three exhibitions at Garage Rotterdam, the curators Reza Afisina and reinaart vanhoe revisit the term underdeveloped – exploring diverse forms of art-practice and working methods. The term underdeveloped is among others inspired by the film development process – in which images come out over-orunderdeveloped. The word refers as well to overdeveloped notions of education, quality and value.
Reza Afisina and vanhoe’s understanding of an art-practice is one of building together instead of a focus on personal excellence. Through gatherings, re-modeling and collective working methods taking place live at Garage Rotterdam, Afisina and vanhoe aim to create a space where artists can connect their ideas and experiences with the input of visitors.
The first Underdeveloped exhibition addresses social and cultural urgencies in Rotterdam, using the space of Garage Rotterdam and the online platform lumbung.space as a digital living room and publishing tool for visitors to share both processes and outcomes with. Underdeveloped aims to build a connected chain of events, emphasizing community and development over definitions or conclusions.
Artists: Autonomy Lab (WdKA), Bellina Erby & Yen-Ting Kuan, Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, De uitpluizers, Hassan Omar Ahmad, Marishka Soekarna, ook_anders, Patrick Mudekereza, Reading Sideways Press, Spoiler (TBA), Tomi Hilsee, Vincent van Velsen, Zoë Cochia / Niffo Galerie