Agan Harahap

Known for his practice in photography and digital manipulations, Agan Harahap offers a reading of social conditions through a blend of satire and parody. Harahap creates new scenarios by blurring the threshold between fiction and reality, filling up the grey area that connects one fact with the others with his authorship. As a result, his works often carry not only a sense of humor but also a critique of contemporary society’s unthinking consumption of images.

Harahap has participated in exhibitions in Indonesia and internationally such as Indonesia Bertutur at the Museum Puri Lukisan, Bali (2024), Indonesia; Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore (2022); Nation, Narration, Narcosis: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2021); and the 5th Singapore Biennale 2016: An Atlas of Mirrors, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2016). His works are in the collections of the Sigg Collection Mauensee, Switzerland; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Freunde der Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; and Tumurun Private Museum, Solo, Indonesia. Agan Harahap is one of the recipients of the Singapore Art Museum S.E.A Arts Fund in 2025.