.my name is Eko Saputra
Cross-cultural background of Indonesian origin and living in Venice, Italy. Currently, I am dividing my time between conducting research in cultural heritage and developing artistic practice in the realm of heritage practice, combining technology and digital tools.

Selected Exhibition:

2024

• Arts of the Working Class x Postcard for Palestine .South West Bank: Landworks, Collective Action and Sound .Magazzino Gallery Palazzo Polignac 878 .Venice_Italy

2023

• MUSE at Fabbrica del Vapore .Philips by PPDS .Milan_Italy
• Biennale Larnaca .Home Away From Home .Larnaca_Cyprus
• Claire de Rouen Books .London_UK
• Berlinskej Model .Prague_Czech
• Ars Electronica .Who Owns the Truth .Linz_Austria
• Venice Biennale ‘Architecture’- Padiglione 29 .Venice_Italy
• Arte Laguna XVI Edition .Venice_Italy

2022

• CICA Museum of Contemporary Art .Contemporary Landscape .Gimpo_South Korea
• Museo Civico “Giovanni Fattori” .Premio Combat XIII .Livorno_Italy

ArtPrize:

• MUSE Digital Art Award 2023 (MUSEbyPPDS) : Milan (Italy)
• Artefici del Nostro Tempo 2023, Municipality of Venice (Italy)
• Arte Laguna XVI Edition 2021/2022 Prize: Venice (Italy)
• Premio Combat XIII Edition 2022 Prize: Livorno (Italy)

Curatorial project assistant:

• ‘LOST VERSES’ by Handiwirman Saputra and Syagini Ratna Wulan for the National Pavilion of Indonesia at the Venice Biennale ‘Art’ 2019, Italy.
• ‘Sunyata: Poetics of Emptiness’ by the AIA for the National Pavilion of Indonesia at the Venice Biennale ‘Architecture’ 2018, Italy.
• ‘We Are Not Alone’ by Tintin Wulia for the National Pavilion of Indonesia at the Venice Biennale ‘Art’ 2017, Italy.

Education:

• PhD. (Cand) in Historical Studies
  University of Teramo, (Italy)
• MA. in Fashion Studies
  University of Bologna, (Italy)
• BComp. in Informatic
  University of Paramadina, (Indonesia)

Residencies & Training:

• Palacio das Belas Artes: Digital Spatiality’s 2024
• IT:U x Ars Electronica Founding Lab 2023.
• XR & Heritages: EIT-Jagiellonian University 2023.
• Digital Humanities Lab: University of Ca’Foscari 2022.
• Peggy Guggenheim Fellowship Program 2019.
• Maxim Gorki Theater: History Festival 2018.

Performances:

• .2012 .Dancers for Dubai Shopping Festival, Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
• .2012 .Jury for International Folk Festival for Children, Mecklenburg-Pommeraner Folkloreensemble Ribnitz-Damgarten (Germany)
• .2011 .Dancers and Musicians at Festival Mondial De Folklore Montrejeau, Festival Rite: Les Bethmalais Saint Girons, XVIII Festival Folklore Et Partage (France)
• .2010 .Dancers and Musicians at World Folk Review Integration Poznan and the International Folklore Festival Warsaw (Poland)