Director and Founder, Dana SAM untuk Seni dan Lingkungan (SAM Funds for Arts and Ecology).

Natasha is a member of the arts ecosystem in Indonesia. A few labels that are often attached to her would be collector, enthusiast, connoisseur, or patron. It may all be true, but she does a little bit more than all that. As a part of an ecosystem, she takes the role of caressing, nurturing, in various forms.

Not only she initiates and participates, but she produces many forms of art exchanges. To name a few, her work varies from producing a retrospective, such as Handiwirman Saputra’s in TOLOT/Heuristic Shinonome, Tokyo (in 2015); to co-initiating Pollination (since 2017) with Zoe Butt, an exchange platform within Southeast Asia, starting with The Factory Contemporary Art, Ho Chi Minh City, but then it continuously work with many institutions, individuals, and collectives in Southeast Asia.

In 2014, Natasha founded Dana SAM, a grant-giving foundation that supports artistic research, archival work, experimentation, projects, publications, along with various modes of learning and nurturing the art ecosystem. She believes that within an ecosystem, one could do more than just a single thing. Dana SAM’s forms of grants evolve as Natasha believes the ecosystem grows. Projects that have been supported by Dana SAM are accessible here www.danasam.art