Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) adalah sebuah lembaga nirlaba yang berbasis di Yogyakarta, yang melakukan pemberdayaan infrastruktur seni rupa di Indonesia.
Bidang utama kami adalah dokumentasi, riset, perpustakaan serta penyelenggaraan program edukasi dan eksplorasi seni visual.
Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) didirikan tahun 1995 awalnya dengan nama Yayasan Seni Cemeti (YSC). Mulai April 2007, YSC berganti nama menjadi IVAA dengan pemantapan visi dan fokus kerja sebagai pusat data, riset dan dokumentasi seni rupa kontemporer di Indonesia.
Dengan ini Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) juga berfungsi sebagai sebuah think-tank atau laboratorium kreatif untuk menggagas berbagai pemikiran serta kegiatan yang mendukung perkembangan seni visual dan budaya kontemporer, baik secara praktek mau pun wacana.
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The Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) is a registered non-profit organization based in Yogyakarta that essentially serves to empower art infrastructure in Indonesia and the development of contemporary culture through the medium of visual art.
Its primary focus is documentation, research, its library, and organizing educational programs and visual art explorations.
IVAA was founded in 1995 and was formerly named the Cemeti Art Foundation (CAF). In April 2007 CAF changed its name to Indonesian Visual Art Archive. This name change aims to solidify its vision and focus as the only center of contemporary visual art data collection, research, and documentation in Indonesia.
Therefore, Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) developed as a think-tank, as well as laboratory for creative thoughts and activities supporting visual arts and contemporary ideas through both practice and discourse.