Free Entry
Hey, I’m just ducking down to Ace Mart…need anything?
Open early and running throughout the festival, Ace Mart has you covered. Come in for treats, meets and something sweet to take home with you.
Built by Ace House Collective (Yogyakarta) and RIFF RAFF ARI (Penrith), Ace Mart is a convenience store for art and festival and life essentials. Australian and Indonesian artworks sit on the shelves beside snacks and drinks. There's an in store radio, and a community workshop space where you can learn new skills.
It's the festival heart, a stop on IMMI Express bus route, a place to hang out. Maybe leave having met an artist, a stranger, or a piece of art you weren't looking for…
Drawn from two ideas Ace House has worked with for over a decade. Lumbung: collectivity, shared resource, mutual care. Nongkrong: being present with your community, no agenda, nowhere else you need to be. RIFF RAFF brings the same instinct for gathering from to ttheir community in Penrith.
Ace Mart is a small gesture at an old idea: that a shop can be a commons, and that time spent together is worth more than any version of it sold back to us.
Ace Mart is located within Civic Arcade.
Ace House Collective was founded in Yogyakarta in 2011 by young artists looking for something outside the gallery system, and opened a physical space in 2013. It's a non-profit, entirely volunteer-run — housed in a simple residential building with two exhibition rooms, tucked behind a café and surrounded by food stalls and coffee stands. No white cube. Art sits inside everyday neighbourhood life, not apart from it.
They run six to seven exhibitions a year, each up to six weeks long, showing painters, photographers, video artists, and mixed-media work from across Indonesia. Their approach draws heavily on youth and popular culture — music, graphic design, skate, street art — using the familiar as an entry point into harder conceptual and political conversations.