Residency
Currently, C2O is working together with Rentang Art Lab in hosting international contemporary art residency.
RENTANG is Surabaya’s first initiative dedicated specifically to international contemporary art residency.
Situated in a historic port–industrial city shaped by movement, labor, and layered histories, RENTANG positions residency not as a retreat, but as an immersive process of living, researching, and creating within the city’s social and material realities.
It functions as a conceptual home, a space for dialogue, exchange, and artistic experimentation across cultures.
Residensi
Saat ini, C2O bekerjasama dengan Rentang Art Lab: Residency & Research Initiatives dalam mengelola residensi di C2O.
Residensi ini memberi ruang dan waktu bagi seniman untuk mengembangkan praktek seni mereka, melalui dukungan akomodasi, dukungan kuratorial, tur ekosistem seni Surabaya, dan tempat untuk program publik.
Saat ini, residensi terbatas pada seniman, peneliti, penulis, pekerja budaya dari manapun kecuali Indonesia.
Simak selengkapnya di Rentang Residency Guideline atau Instagram.
Residents
Ammar Idris
Ammar Idris (b. 1999) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores alternative modes of thinking and making through materials and processes of meaning-making. His work often engages with memory, human conditions, and emotional landscapes. Working across writing (including sajak), mixed media, video, performance, participatory projects, and installation, Ammar continually pushes the boundaries of creative practice while fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue within contemporary art.
He was a finalist in Bakat Muda Sezaman at the National Art Gallery of Malaysia (2021), and has participated in several residencies and workshops, including Young Artist Talent #11 by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC) in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (2020), 3×3 Art Residency by George Town Festival (2021), the 17th CRACK International Art Camp in Kushtia, Bangladesh (2023), and ILTIZAM Seni Art Residency (2025–26).
Through his residency, Ammar will explore and respond to the layered social and cultural narratives of Surabaya, developing new work that reflects his ongoing inquiry into lived experience, collective memory, and the possibilities of artistic exchange.
In partnership with C2O Library, Ammar will undertake a one-month residency in Surabaya, engaging with the local context through research, interaction, and experimentation.
This residency is possible with the support from National Art Gallery Malaysia.
Kexin Hong
Kexin Hong is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. Her work sits at the intersection of collective memory and transgenerational trauma, transposing psychological methods such as Imagery Rescripting into visual practice to explore how imagination and symbolic imagery might reenact and reclaim what history has erased, and what it continues to haunt.
Her work has been presented at W139 Amsterdam, LAB111 Amsterdam, Felix Meritis, Dutch Design Week, ZK/U Berlin, and the 2025 Asia Triennial in Manchester. She has collaborated with scholars, psychotherapists specializing in intergenerational trauma, and diaspora communities across the Netherlands. In 2025, Kexin organized a screening program at ZK/U Berlin that centered on migrant artists. She is also the founder of Echoes from Afar, an Asian online diaspora living archive website.
Her practice has received sustained institutional backing, including support from the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (2024), the Creative Industries Fund NL (2025), the Crazy Peach Art Foundation (Top Grant Recipient, 2025), and the Mondriaan Fund (2026).
Through her residency, Kexin centers on intergenerational trauma within the Dutch-Asian diaspora, and on the use of art as a method of reimagining erased memory. Kexin is interested not in trauma as an archive of suffering, but as a site of agency where narrative power can be reclaimed.
In partnership with C2O Library, Kexin will undertake a one-month residency in Surabaya, engaging with the local context through research, interaction, and experimentation.
Stay tuned for upcoming public programs, open studios, and opportunities to engage with the artist throughout her residency. Follow our updates and be part of the process.