About the artwork
Eddie brings an explosive, irreverent energy to the exhibition. His creatures - mutant animals, hybrid cartoons, chaotic anthropomorphic figures - charge across the surface of his works like invaders from another dimension. But beneath the playful exterior lies a sharp critique of modern society: its absurdities, its contradictions, its over-consumption and moral amnesia. Eddie’s drawings and paintings are small only in scale, never in spirit. They act as electric jolts within the exhibition, reminders that disturbance can be joyful, grotesque, ecstatic - and always necessary.
About the artist
Eddie Hara (b. 1957, Salatiga, Indonesia) is an Indonesian artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Educated at the Indonesian Institute of Arts (Yogyakarta) and the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunst Enschede (Netherlands), Hara is known for his playful yet politically charged visual language.
His work addresses global issues such as politics, feminism, and racism, blending raw imagery with social critique. Hara has exhibited internationally, with works held in collections including the Singapore Art Museum and Museum der Kulturen Basel.
Exhibitions
This artwork was part of SMALL DISTURBANCES exhibition in June 2025.
What is it that unsettles us, not with a crash but with a murmur? What do we overlook that, once seen, cannot be unseen? The show is less about grand gestures and more about the gravitational pull of the unnoticed - the broken thread, the flawed line, the offbeat rhythm that exposes a deeper pattern beneath.
This show embodies the idea that change rarely arrives as thunder - it begins with a quiet shift in the air, a subtle redirection of focus. The artists in this exhibition do not shout. They nudge, whisper, tease, and provoke. They understand that the small is never just small. It is the seed of something much larger.
More about the exhibition you can find here.
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