About us
AJBS Gallery first established on November 2009 in the second largest city in Indonesia, Surabaya. Founded by Andrianto Suhartono, who is also the chairman of AJBS Group which operate in the retail-chain. His love to art has taken part on the opening of this gallery. Along with him is Soebagio Widjaja, SH, one of well-known art collector in Indonesia.
AJBS Gallery stands for “AREA JUJUKAN BARANG SENI ” Gallery which shown the seriousness and its devotion to Indonesian art and cultural world. The gallery is focusing not only on commercial matters but it also how to have Indonesian art be recognized nationally and internationally.
All the exhibitions held by and at the Gallery are designed in cooperation with guest curators. Exhibitions are scheduled to take place at least six times a year. Those exhibitions are intended to present works by Indonesian artists as well as artists from other parts of the world with highly qualified, unique and innovative achievements.
AJBS Gallery’s collections and exhibitions present the whole wide range of art from paintings, sculpture, photography and later will be expanded to installation, video art and also performing art. Although AJBS Gallery is relatively new, it has successfully held few exhibition with the qualified curators and it has mission to educate the arts to general public.