On Sunday 30 November 2025, our current resident artists will be sharing the results of their residencies with the public:
- Jenny Logico-Cruz and Blonski Cruz of Langgam Performance Troupe (Philippines)
- textile artist Awika Samukrsaman (Thailand)
- curator Joella Kiu (Singapore)
- visual artist Mao Sovanchandy (Cambodia) with her collaborator Yuryphal Tum
An interactive musical artwork by musical instrument maker and sound artist Hewodn (Indonesia) will also be on display.
Entry is free. Registration is required only for the garden tour. All other activities are open for drop-in without registration.
Please bring your own picnic, plus walk about our gardens at your leisure, explore our heritage house and the underground gallery.
Register for the Garden Tour: https://forms.gle/Lv81KpxDmj2Lgohp7
Schedule
9am-11am Garden Tour
11am-2pm Open Studios
11:30am-12:30pm “The Inheritance of Taste” — performance, lecture and sample food serving by Langgam Performance Troupe
2pm-3pm Lunch break — please enjoy your BYO picnic in the gardens!
3pm-6pm Open Studios
4pm-5pm “The Inheritance of Taste” — performance, lecture and sample food serving by Langgam Performance Troupe
Travelling Directions
Address: Rimbun Dahan, Km. 27 Jalan Kuang, Mukim Kuang, Selangor, 48050.
Use Waze to drive to Rimbun Dahan: https://waze.com/ul/hw284q6meb
Use Google Maps to drive to Rimbun Dahan: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ft5fV9YpGsvciCtU8
Landmarks: Our front gate is opposite Warung Selera Ria and also next to the start of Lorong Belimbing. Do not enter Lorong Belimbing, please enter the front gate from the main road.
Tips for Visitors
- We have parking inside the compound, along the driveway. Just drive in the front gate and park as indicated along the drive.
- Bring your own mosquito repellent!
- We are sorry, Rimbun Dahan is not a fully wheelchair accessible venue. Wheelchair access is possible to the artists studios and some of the outdoor areas, but not to the underground gallery or the heritage houses.
- Wear practical shoes if you are planning to walk around the garden.
- Bring an umbrella in case of rain.
- No refreshments or water provided. Feel free to bring your own picnic, and enjoy it in the gardens; please clean up all your trash.
- No pets, no swimming — thank you for your cooperation.
If you have any questions, please email arts@rimbundahan.org or WhatsApp Bilqis at +6017-3103769.
About the Resident Artists
Jenny Logico-Cruz is a contemporary performance-maker, educator, and cultural worker. Blonski Cruz is a dramaturg, producer, filmmaker, and photographer. For the past 10 years, with Jenny as artistic director and Blonski as company manager, Langgam Performance Troupe has focused on experimental, process-based, interdisciplinary approaches, and practice-as-research works. The group has gained significant cultural notoriety in the independent theater landscape, becoming known as a producer for bold and innovative underground performance works. Read more about their project >>
Joella Kiu is a curator and art historian based in Singapore. She studies how artists employ the visual, textual, counter-cartographic, speculative and mythological to communicate urgent ecological conditions and contemporary lived realities. spent a month at Rimbun Dahan in November 2025, experimenting with writing with a more personal voice and pushing past the thorny exterior of the durian. The text will be printed as physical booklets that will be free to take (while stocks last!) on Open Day. A digital copy will also be available. Read more about Joella’s residency >>
A musical instrument installation, ‘The Trees’ Longing for Fertile Soil in the Industrial Age’ by East Javanese sound artist Hewodn, will be available for visitors to play during Rimbun Dahan Open Day. Agus Nur Wahidin, known as Hewodn, is a traditional instrument-maker and sound artist, who spent a month at Rimbun Dahan in September 2025. Born in Banyuwangi, East Java, he currently lives in Tuban. He attended the Islamic University of Malang, where he joined student theater and music groups. His group Unen-Unen Rengel focuses on playing ancient folk instruments from East Java, some of which are rare or almost extinct. Hewodn has learned how to construct these instruments, and often shares his knowledge through workshops and performances. Read more about Hewodn’s residency >>
Awika Samukrsaman (b.1991, Surin, Thailand) received her Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts (BFA) from Thammasat University. She lives and works in Ratchaburi, Thailand. Awika’s interest in texture in textile works has brought her to the folk wisdom of local ethnic groups. She has been a member of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture since 2018. Awika co-founded Wisdomative in 2019, a platform for developing local weaving art and crafts, and in 2021 she co-founded PhiFa collective. On Open Day, Awika will show a number of site-specific weaving works which seek to make visible vanished connections between humans, plants and manmade structures. Read more about Awika’s residency >>
Mao Sovanchandy, a multidisciplinary artist from Cambodia, and her collaborator Yuryphal Tum, spent two months at Rimbun Dahan in 2025, drawing inspiration from the regenerative nature of mulch. They will share their experiments with water hyacinth pulp, plaster, photography, food and performance at Open Day on 30 November 2025. Mao Sovanchandy (b. 1998) is an independent multidisciplinary artist exploring mixed-media works that reflect environmental and social issues, as well as societal norms, drawing from self-reflection and personal experience. Sovanchandy’s collaborator Yuryphal Tum (b. 1992) is an independent artist and architect from Cambodia. Her practice encompasses sculpture, installation, architecture, and archival work, often assembling meaning from small fragments and found materials. Read more about Chandy and Yury’s residency >>
More info about resident artists coming soon…
About Rimbun Dahan
Rimbun Dahan is the home of Malaysian architect Hijjas Kasturi and his wife Angela. Set on fourteen acres outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the compound of Rimbun Dahan is a centre for developing traditional and contemporary art forms. It features buildings designed by Hijjas Kasturi, as well as two early 20th century traditional Malay houses from Perak and Penang, in an indigenous Southeast Asian garden environment which has recently been awarded arboretum status. Rimbun Dahan is private property, and is only open to the public on Open Days.