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Global Indo Diaspora /Wereldwijde Indische diaspora
Indies history knows no boundaries. From the Netherlands to Australia and from the United States to beyond: all over the world, people with an Indies background have shaped their stories, culture, and identity.On this page, the Indies Museum maps the international diaspora. We connect organizations, artists, and thinkers who, just like us, keep the Indies heritage alive and translate it into the world of today.
Partners in our network
The Indisch Museum is taking a major step in unlocking the global Indo diaspora. With the launch of the new platform ‘Global Indo Diaspora’, the museum is officially expanding its network to include international partners and artists, including the Dutch Australia Cultural Centre (DACC) in Australia and Adam de Boer, visual artists in the United States.
Indo history is a global story. Over the decades, people with an Indo background have spread out across the globe. With this new direction, the Indisch Museum aims to bring these scattered stories together on a single digital platform.
The Indisch Museum is more than a physical or digital place in the Netherlands; it is a point of connection for the entire community. By collaborating with organizations such as the DACC and individual artists from, for example, the United States, we can paint a much richer and more contemporary picture of what Indo identity means today.
The collaboration with the DACC focuses on the exchange of knowledge regarding history, heritage, and cultural projects. Additionally, with the exhibition by American artist Adam de Boer, the museum presents a premiere for the new section ‘Global Indo Diaspora’, which centers on contemporary perspectives from the diaspora.
Below you will find the organizations with which we collaborate closely. Together, we work on knowledge exchange to strengthen the global Indian voice.
Dutch Australia Cultural Centre (DACC)
The DACC is our regular partner in Australia. Together, we investigate the migration pathways between the Netherlands, Indonesia, and Australia.et DACC is onze vaste partner in Australië. Samen onderzoeken we de migratielijnen tussen Nederland, Indonesië en Australië.
The Awahou Nieuwe stroom in New Zealand
Overseas Artists in the Spotlight
The Indisch Museum offers a digital platform to artists from across the diaspora. Their work provides a unique glimpse into what it means to be “Indies,” far removed from the place where their roots lie.
Adam de Boer (USA)
Adam de Boer (b. 1984, California).
For over a decade, Adam de Boer’s work has combined traditional Javanese crafts, such as wood carving and batik, with Western oil painting as a way to connect his artistic practice with those of his distant cultural forebears. His coastal scenes and cityscapes explore the visual textures, cultural minglings and socioeconomic realities of California and Indonesia. De Boer’s recent work depicts the cultural hodgepodge that is Los Angeles while maintaining a strong connection to his own Dutch-Indonesian immigrant heritage.