Gintani Nur Apresia Swastika, born in Yogyakarta in 1984, completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Yogyakarta in 2010 and is pursuing her Master degree in Religious and Cultural Studies at Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta, focusing on Indonesian women artists.
She mainly works as an artist and has been involved in various group exhibitions, residency programs, and art projects in Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Australia. Her works were also featured in the book Indonesian Eye: Contemporary Indonesian Art, published by SKIRA in 2011. She is a founding member of Ace House Collective, an artist collective founded in 2011 in Yogyakarta that is active in the field of youth-pop culture and that emphasises the exploratory approach both in theory and practice, conceptually and contextually, as well as finding new possibilities on visual art perspective.
Since then, she has been actively involved in many forums and courses, locally and internationally, such as TRANScuratorial Academy, Mumbai, India (2017), 7th Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course, Gwangju, South Korea (2016), 4A Curators’ Intensive, Emerging Curator Forum, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia (2014), and Gender Under Reflection on South East Asia Women Artist Forum, Yangon, Myanmar (2012).
Working collectively where works and responsibilities are shared equally, she developed her artistic, curatorial, and managerial practice through Ace House and various other art projects. Amongst others Arisan Tenggara: South East Asia Art Collective Forum (2018) where she is in-charge as the Director and Yogyakarta Cultural Festival / FKY (2019-2020), where she is appointed as the Creative Director.