Bali’s First International Art Fair at Nuanu Creative City Unveils Artist Line-Up for New Media Exhibition “Terra Nexus”

This September, Bali will host Art & Bali 2025, an international art fair on 12-14 September at Nuanu Creative City. In this event, Terra Nexus is a high-energy new media exhibition that brings together 23 artists from around the world and Indonesia, including senior artists from Indonesia who will appear for the first time in a new media art exhibition. The exhibition is both an encounter and a confrontation–between traditional media art and new media art, elements and code, ancestral memory and artificial intelligence, and between ritual and real-time visual processing. In addition to the Terra Nexus exhibition at Art & Bali—other exciting information about Art & Bali such as gallery participants and event programs will be announced in July 2025

Curated by Mona Liem, Terra Nexus unspools across immersive installations, augmented landscapes, and speculative interfaces. Here, we are exploring the interconnections of our planet, as they are systems, coded, broken down, rebuilt. Here, Minecraft becomes a temple. Algorithms breathe. Myths get rerouted through machine learning.

“Imagine a space where imagination comes alive, where science and technology merge to connect us with art, nature, and culture,” says Liem. “This exhibition is a showcase of holistic expression—a stage where technology and science dance together to spark innovation rooted in local cultural context.”

Three established names from Indonesian visual culture participating at Terra Nexus include: Nasirun, a legendary Indonesian painter known for his interpretation of traditional arts with socio-political conversation. Ubrux, an award winning artist known for its newspaper painting technique. Yessiow, Balinese leader in mural art, who integrates decorative wall art with loud vibrant color.

Other participating artists span a global orbit, from Poland, France, Japan, Qatar to South Korea, positioning Art & Bali as not just a fair, but a frequency. A gathering of signals.

“Let’s be clear,” says Lev Kroll, CEO of Nuanu Creative City. “Art here is not an afterthought. It’s not an ornament. At Nuanu, it’s how we build. It’s urban planning. It’s spiritual infrastructure. Terra Nexus is proof of that. You’re not just visiting a show, you’re entering a city that believes art should interrupt, not embellish.”

Set on the southwest coast of Bali, Nuanu is a regenerative city built on principles that resist the extractive logic of most developments. It’s a place where cultural stewardship isn’t a footnote, it’s a design principle. That Art & Bali chose this site is no accident.

“There’s no formula for what an art fair in Bali should look like,” says Kelsang Dolma, Fair Director of Art & Bali. “This isn't a borrowed structure, it’s something born of the land itself: mythic, chaotic, beautiful. Terra Nexus is our way of asking what art becomes when it grows out of ritual, landscape, and collective memory, not just theory or market. Here, the elements aren’t themes, they’re ancestors.”

Alongside major young Indonesian artists like Alodia Yap, Popomangun and Widi Pangestu audiences can enter the dystopian underwater world of Dhanny ‘danot’ Sanjaya, a full-scale Minecraft of the world reimagined by MIVUBI, kinetic light organisms by Mukhamad Aji Prasetyo, and light shows and installations by Notanlab. Nothing about it will feel familiar in an art fair. And that’s the point.

Artists featured in Terra Nexus include: Awang Behartawan, Dadi Setiadi, Dr. Justyna Gorowska, Ivan Sagita, J+Art Award Winners, Jana Schafroth, Nus Salomo, Roger Ng Wei Lun, Satya Cipta, Utami A. Ishii, Valerio Vincenzo, Wisnu Ajitama, and many more artists coming up closer to the date.

PHOTO CREDIT: Nuanu Creative City