For more than a decade, the Jakarta-based curator, researcher and activist has worked to promote and elevate Indonesian artists via the organisation and championing of local grassroots initiatives and across international platforms. As director of the Biennale Jogja Foundation since 2018, she has developed an ‘action-based method’ that seeks to rewrite a more decentralised and inclusive art history, as well as ‘creating stronger connections and solidarities among artists, curators, and art activists’ in a region where support for the arts is very limited. In keeping with her collaborative approach to building artistic networks, it was announced last year that Swastika would cocurate Sharjah Biennial 16 (titled to carry and due to open in February 2025) alongside Natasha Ginwala, Amal Khalaf, Zeynep Öz and Megan Tamati-Quennell, with whom she will bring together a selection of artists responding to issues of collectivity, movement, belonging and intergenerational kinship. This year Swastika also sat on the international jury for the Venice Biennale.