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Mira Asriningtyas is an independent curator and writer whose practice centers on site-specific, multidisciplinary projects that engage with socio-political contexts and cultural histories within the practice of everyday life. She completed the De Appel Curatorial Program (Amsterdam), RAW Academie 6: CURA (Dakar), and holds an MA in Arts and Society from Utrecht University. Mira has curated projects for a range of institutions, including De Appel Art Center (Amsterdam), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai), KKF (Yogyakarta); ISCP (New York); Our Museum (Taipei); HMK (Hoorn); and others. Her writing is widely published in international books, exhibition catalogs, monographs, and journals such as Ocula, PARSE Journal, and Stedelijk Studies.
In 2011, she co-founded LIR, a curatorial collective that evolved from a physical art space into a nomadic initiative fostering experimental exhibitions, research-based art projects, and alternative educational platforms. LIR’s projects are characterized by multidisciplinary collaborations that aim to transmit knowledge, memory, and history across generations.
In 2017, Mira launched the site-specific biennale "900mdpl" in Kaliurang, an aging resort village under Mount Merapi. Inviting local and international artists for research residencies to create a socially engaged archive of the space presented as a multi-site exhibition and an internationally travelling transient museum. The 1st edition (2017) presented community portraits within their living space, while the 2nd (2019) mapped the village’s place within broader Indonesian history. The 3rd edition (2022) explored the intersection of mythology and environmental sustainability, with the upcoming 4th edition set to further develop these themes.
In early 2024, Mira, together with Dito Yuwono, were appointed directors of Cemeti - Institute for Art and Society in Yogyakarta. Founded in 1988 by artists Mella Jaarsma and Nindityo Adipurnomo, Cemeti is Indonesia’s longest-running platform for contemporary art in Indonesia. Cemeti offers artists and cultural practitioners a platform to develop, present, and practice their work in close collaboration with curators, researchers, activists, writers, performers, and local communities across Indonesia. The program takes shape through exhibitions, workshops, talks, assemblies, publications, long-term research threads, and a three-month artist-in-residence program.The subtitle 'Institute for Art and Society' was added in 2017 to express the organization's commitment to socially and politically engaged artistic practices, exploring the possibility for a gallery to act as a site for civic action.