Step into a unique world of light, colour, and perception at Museum MACAN, where Olafur Eliasson’s first major Southeast Asian solo exhibition is now open.
“Your Curious Journey” runs from 29 November 2025 to 12 April 2026 and features 17 works spanning three decades of his practice.
The show includes a variety of media immersive installations, paintings, sculptures, photography, and video, each designed to engage your senses and challenge how you experience everyday materials and environments.
Eliasson’s mission here is clear: art should connect us to the world rather than distance us from it. By playing with light and space, he asks viewers to reconsider their relationship with nature and reflect on ecological issues facing our planet.
Olafur Eliasson said, “The artworks are only ever complete when you, the viewer, engage with them, with your curiosity. Being curious means being open to listening, to seeing the unexpected, to change. It requires us to take on different perspectives, as in the artwork Multiverses and futures (2017), on view here in Jakarta, where the kaleidoscopes offer you a range of unfamiliar, fragmentary views of your surroundings. These works, as with the entire exhibition, invite you to engage with all your senses, to re-examine your perceptions of yourself, the museum, and the world.”
Venus Lau, Director, Museum MACAN, said, “we are honored to present Olafur Eliasson’s transformative exhibition Your curious journey to Jakarta, inviting visitors to engage deeply with nature, colors, lights, and elements that invite us to rethink our roles as humans within the ongoing process of worlding, perception, and environmental connection through his groundbreaking works. This exhibition exemplifies the powerful bon between art and ecological thinking that resonates across cultures, encouraging us to embrace our responsibilities, acknowledge our limits, and deepen our relationship with the nature world.”
Among the exhibition’s treasures is “Beauty” (1993), an ethereal installation where mist and spotlight combine to create shifting rainbows. Every movement changes what you see, a fleeting rainbow unique to each viewer.
Meanwhile, “Shadow House” invites visitors, including children, to become part of the art. Through movement, people project coloured silhouettes onto large screens, an interactive, playful piece that emphasises participation and presence.
As the Jakarta leg of the exhibition’s Asia-Pacific tour (which previously visited Singapore, Auckland, and Taipei), this is a rare opportunity to experience Eliasson’s art in Indonesia. Don’t miss it.
