Metta Setiandi

Metta Setiandi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Jakarta, Indonesia, who adapts themes of social anthropology and ancestral identity across art and design media. Her practice engages with human connection, cultural exchange and lived experience, inviting others to explore heritage and belonging through storytelling.

She works in ceramics, Chinese ink, painting, sculpture, film and photography, with projects including Opening to the Fire, Organic Geometry, Khroma, Romantika di Glodok and Paper, Shadow and Curves. In 2024 she opened MET Glodok in the heart of Jakarta’s Chinatown, an artist-run space for cultural exchange where she continues her family’s heritage through exhibitions, culinary experiences and the visual arts.