Artist Exchange 2019
Indonesia-Sri Lanka Artist Exchange programme is a concept of renowned Indonesian Artist Antonious Kho and Sri Lankan Artist Chathuranga Biyagama as a project to develop the Contemporary Art opportunities between the two countries.
The idea of this project is for five leading Indonesian artists headed by renowned Indonesian international artist Antonious Kho to collaborate with five Sri Lankan upcoming artists lead by Sri Lankan International Artist Chathuranga Biyagama.
At the first stage of this programme, five Indonesian artists headed by Antonious Kho will visit Sri Lanka with their art works and perform a group art exhibition with the participation of the five Sri Lankan artists lead by Chathuranga Biyagama at Lionel Wendt Gallery, Colombo 7, from 28th January 2019 to 2nd February 2019.In the Second stage of this programme, the relevant five Sri Lankan Artists will visit Indonesia with their Art works and perform a group art exhibition with the participation of the five Indonesian artists who have exhibited in Sri Lanka. The Indonesian exhibition is scheduled from 28th February 2019 to 2nd March 2019 at Arma Museum, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
Antonious Kho was born in Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia. He first studied Arts under the guidance of artist Barli, Bandung, Indonesia, Academy of Fine Art, Bandung, Indonesia and completed his Masters from the Academy of Fine Art – FH Cologne, Cologne, Germany, under Prof. Schaffmeister and M. Brinkhaus.
He is a Master Artist who works hard to develop Contemporary Arts in the Asian region steadily. For the last ten years, Antonius Kho has been steadfastly devoted to organising and participating in an astounding number of art exchange programmes with artists from 16 different countries (and counting) throughout South East Asia. Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, Cambodia, Bangladesh, China, Madagascar, Reunion Islands, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Bhutan, India and Mauritius are some of the countries which successfully participated with the Artist exchange programmes organised by Antonious Kho.
As a leading International artist and an artist who has organised and participated in more than Seventy five (75) International Art Events it is an opportunity to Sri Lankan artists to participate in an inter country Artist Exchange programme lead by Antonious Kho . The programme Indonesia and Sri Lanka Artist Exchange Programme 2019 launches in Sri Lanka as a result of inviting Antonious Kho for a joint venture by Sri Lankan Artist Chathuranga Biyagama with the vision of taking Asian Art talents to the International Forums.
Chathuranga Biyagama had his Primary education at St. Joseph’s College, Colombo and completed his Bachelor of Business Management at University of Bangalore, India.He is a holder of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from The Open University of Sri Lanka.This programme is organised as a joint project between Indonesia and Sri Lanka to develop the Contemporary art activities between the two countries. Antonious Kho and Chathuranga Biyagama from Sri Lanka organized this programme as a project to develop Artistic and cultural collaborations between Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Gallery Four Life (Pvt) Ltd, The Lionel Wendt Art Gallery, Sri Lanka and The Arma Museum, Bali, Indonesia collaborates together in this wonderful Art project.
Ambassador of Indonesia, High Commissioner of Bangladesh and the Chairman of Sarvodaya Development Finance, Channa De Silva are scheduled to honor this occasion as the Chief Guests.
For more details call Chathuranga on
0775804504 : chathuranga.biyagama@gmail.com E mail