I was recently a guest of Gus De--Ida Bagus Sidharta Putra--at Griya Santrian (Jl Danau Tamblingan, Sanur), where I opened their Gallery's 5th Anniversary Exhibition, 'White Paintings'. The Gallery is the only one in Bali to continuously host new shows of contemporary Indonesian art, and this exhibition was made up of works by some of Bali's best new artists, based around the theme of 'white'. I particularly enjoyed Ni Nyoman Sani's works, which play on images of women and fashion.
The gallery is quite an achievement, since it has broken the mould of the set collection displays of the major private galleries, and Wayan Sukra, the German-born curator, is one of the only people working in the area with a genuine art history and curatorial background. There have been attempts to do this before in Bali, notably Agus Wawarunto's Natayu Gallery, and the Ganesha Gallery at the Four Seasons, but the Santrian is the only new space to have been able to keep up shows of consistent quality.