Venus Lau

Director, Museum MACAN

Lau joined Museum MACAN in 2024, armed with a wealth of experience from Hong Kong and Greater China. Prior to joining Museum MACAN, she held roles as Artistic Director of the K11 Art Foundation, and as Art Strategic Director of the Modern (Meta) Media Group based in Shanghai which owns multiple cultural platforms including Nowness, Art Review and Numero Art China.

She has solid experiences in writing and curating. Her passion for creating cross-disciplinary dialogues in contemporary art is highlighted through exhibitions that speak to the visual zeitgeist and promises to lend a different perspective to the museum’s direction and drive, as a key institutional pillar in the regional art ecosystem.

Fenessa Adikoesoemo

Chairwoman, Museum MACAN Foundation

Fenessa chairs the Museum MACAN Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on education through art. Its first initiative is the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia. In this role, Fenessa focuses on developing the Museum and ensuring that its public programs are sustainable while the exhibitions relevant to the regional public.

Fenessa was a fellow at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, where she worked closely with museum leadership across departments as part of her research on museum management and strategy. She was also a fellow at The Guggenheim, New York, where she proceeded to sit on the Collections' Council of the leading art institution. Besides her work in the arts, Fenessa is currently a Management Trainee at AKR Land Development, her workplace since 2014. She graduated as a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Melbourne.

Haryanto Adikoesoemo

Founder, Museum MACAN

Born in 1962 in Surabaya, Indonesia, Haryanto Adikoesoemo is the President Director of PT AKR Corporindo Tbk, a publicly listed logistics company in Jakarta, Indonesia. Last year Haryanto was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. He was named as CEO of the Year by Koran Bisnis Indonesia in 2005. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young LLP in 2008, and Businessman of the Year by Forbes Indonesia in 2012. As a collector, Haryanto had been developing his collection for 25 years into one of the most significant collection in Indonesia, starting from the early Indonesia modern art until modern and contemporary art throughout the world. At the recent Award for Authenticity, Leadership, Excellence, Quality, Seriousness in Art held in Jakarta in August 2017, Haryanto was presented with the Best Collector, along with 12 other prominent Indonesian players in the art scene.