Bentara Budaya Jakarta

Bentara Budaya Jakarta is a cultural institution located at Jalan Palmerah Selatan 17, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. This cultural institution consist of museum and art gallery, open daily Monday to Friday from 08.00 AM to 05.00 PM, the gallery closed during weekends or holidays, except during special exhibition. The museum and gallery are free of charge and open for visitors.

As a cultural institution, Bentara Budaya hosts wide spectrum of Indonesian cultural activities, from traditional to modern Indonesian arts, held exhibitions of fine arts which includes paintings, sculpture and graphic arts, to hosting performing arts, and concerts.

The institution was started when the founder of Kompas Gramedia Group, Jakob Oetama, an avid art collector, felt the need to share his art collections, which includes paintings by Indonesian maestros, sculptures, traditional crafts such as wayangs, Chinese and Indonesian antique ceramics, etc. Subsequently it is decided to build a building to store and display these artworks collection. Then the idea went further to build an art gallery and exhibition hall to promote and showcasing the works of Indonesian artists as well as to promote art and culture in Indonesian capital. Later the Bentara Budaya become the cultural institution, as the cultural philanthropic branch as well as the corporate social responsibility of Kompas Gramedia Group. The Bentara Budaya premiere exhibition was the ceramics exhibition of Studio Titik Temu Tembikar, by Liosadang, Purwakarta promoted by the artist Adi Munardi in 1985.

Bentara Budaya Jakarta Museum was established after Bentara Budaya in Yogyakarta. The Bentara Budaya Jakarta building displaying a Javanese Kudus traditional house as its centerpiece. The richly decorated and meticulously crafted teak wood Kudus house displaying Indonesian traditional art mastery. The Kudus house itself demonstrated various art influences, from native Javanese to Hindu and Chinese art. With their vast art collections, also through their patronage and support to Indonesian and foreign artists, Bentara Budaya Jakarta set their mission to nurture, conserve and promote art and culture, as well as to contribute and participate in Indonesian cultural scene.

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