The Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) is a registered non-profit organization based in Yogyakarta that essentially serves to empower art infrastructure in Indonesia and the development of contemporary culture through the medium of visual art.

Its primary focus is documentation, research, its library, and organizing educational programs and visual art explorations.

IVAA was founded in 1995 and was formerly named the Cemeti Art Foundation (CAF). In April 2007 CAF changed its name to Indonesian Visual Art Archive. This name change aims to solidify its vision and focus as the only center of contemporary visual art data collection, research, and documentation in Indonesia.

Therefore, Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) developed as a think-tank, as well as laboratory for creative thoughts and activities supporting visual arts and contemporary ideas through both practice and discourse.

Mission

• To become an institution that assists the growth of art infrastructure intellectually in all significant aspects.
• To promote growth of contemporary ideas in this era of global information technology through the medium of visual art.
• To empower practice and visual art discourse as creative, universal and democratic expression, which also supports the intellectual development of civil society in Indonesia and Internationally.
• To become a significant learning center for art communities.
• To become a hub or networking center of dynamic visual art, locally and globally.

Vision

• To implement a research and documentation discourse on visual art.
• To stimulate alternative education utilizing approaches from a range of viewpoints.
• To empower dynamic visual art infrastructure.

Implementation  

• Becoming an institution that supports visual art infrastructure through cooperation with government and non-government institutions (schools, art institutions, visual art communities, the art market, etc.)
• Providing information available in IVAA Data Center and Library to the public, both as a physical and virtual learning centers (IVAA home base and ICT-base), and also by developing the data into several community programs such as visual art workshops, film screenings, reading club, etc.
• Utilizing data, archives, and networks in a number of education programs and visual art explorations.
• Organizing artist exchange programs, workshops, seminars, discussions, talks, and other forms of alternative education.
• Publishing numerous visual art documentation materials (print, audio, and audio visual).
• Organizing visual art exhibitions locally and globally.
• Organizing visual art research.
• Advocating supporting infrastructure development and orderliness pertaining to legal issues in art, copyrights, market system, art management, etc.
• Fundraising programs that utilize every stakeholder in the art world, from the market to the artists, which will benefit all sides, and re-using the funding in educational programs and visual art infrastructure.
  

Past Projects
These are some significant projects carried out by IVAA (under the name CAF) since it was founded:

1. ‘Awas: Recent Art from Indonesia’ 1999-2002 - Indonesian traveling art exhibition to Indonesia, Germany and Japan.
2. ‘Outlet: Yogyakarta Within the Contemporary Indonesian Art Scene’ 2000 – A book documenting research and discourse analysis of contemporary art practice in Yogyakarta at the end of the 90’s.
3. ‘Aspects of Visual Art (Politics and Gender, Paradigm and Market, Identity and Discourse), 2002 – A book series documenting research and analysis discourse of contemporary art practice in Indonesia observed from a number of different angles.
4. ‘Tali Ikat: Fiber Connections’, 2002 - International exhibition on fiber art practices between tradition and modernity.
5. Residency and artist exchange programs.
6. ‘Fixing the Bridge’, 2003 – International Independent Art Space Conference.

Long-term Goals:
IVAA is oriented to become an institute of research, education, and visual art exploration that will be able to negotiate official bureaucratic level/policy makers while maintaining its autonomy. IVAA functions this way in two interlinked formats:

1. A center of information and visual art learning in the form of an ‘alternative school’, by continually developing database services physically as well as virtually (library, educative and experimental art projects, art directory portal, interactive online programs, courses, studio workshops and residency programs).
2. A visual art consultant providing services such as research and development, art management, and advocacy to all kinds of visual art programs with matching visions and missions.

BOARDMEMBERS OF IVAA

Raihul Fadjri, journalist & art critic
Agung Kurniawan, visual artist
Yustina W. Nugraheni, art manager
Mella Jaarsma, visual artist
Nindityo Adipurnomo, visual artist
Mahatmanto, architect and lecturer
Anggi Minarni, art manager  

STAFF OF IVAA

Farah Wardani, Executive Director
Agustina Tri Wahyuningsih, Program Manager
Sulistiana, Operational and Household Administrator
Eduardus Bambang Nugroho, Financial Manager

IVAA Research & Documentation Team:

Dwi Rahmanto, Documentation and Publication Coordinator
Pitra Ayu, Research and Documentation Program Developer
Pius Sigit Kuncoro, Data Analyst

IVAA Public Service Department (Data Center & Library)

Tovic Dwi Raharjo, Librarian
Santosa, Public Service & Administration