A Curatorial Collective for Climate Action

COP Out Curatorial

Ten curators across Asia-Pacific convene to decentralise COP31
COP Out is a deliberate provocation - a small statement that while COP31 happens in Antalya, Turkey - micro injections of culture are happening outside this sphere of power.

This is the only globally decentralised curated arts response to COP31, coordinated from Asia-Pacific.
a curatorial collective in formation.
What is COP Out?
We are bringing together emerging and early to mid-career curators across Asia-Pacific who are interested in public and community art, and believe that culture is one of the most powerful tools we have for climate action. Not culture as backdrop, not art as illustration for science, but curators and communities as genuine agents of change.

Through an open callout, we will select nine curators across the region to join our Artistic Director, Kat Roma Greer - forging the first COP Out Curatorial Collective in a 12-week online program/collaboration.

From August – November the Collective will meet regularly online to knowledge-share, develop a collaborative framework and plan for a public action during COP31 (9-20 November) in their community (and beyond!). This could take the form of a group action, individual exhibitions, locally-relevant platforms, interlinked happenings, complementary online activities. It’s whatever COP Out cooks up, all whilst building the creative relationships that make genuine collective action possible.

COP OUT is also a longer invitation: to build an ever-increasing curatorial community that thinks collectively about how we programme, who we programme for, and what role public and community art plays in the most urgent conversation of our time. We're interested in knowledge-sharing that's genuinely reciprocal, collaboration that crosses time zones without losing specificity, and collective action timed to one of the biggest climate moments of 2026 - and that doesn't wait for institutional permission to matter.
COP Out 2026 Collective
These applicants have been selected to come together to create a diverse APAC curatorial collective
  • Ahsana Angona // Bangladesh
    Artist / Curator

    Ahsana is known for her community-driven murals, figure drawing, and conceptual paintings. She is a Fearless Collective ambassador who works closely with marginalised groups.
  • doc_dells // Indonesia
    Creator + Curator
    My practice sits at a fierce, non-traditional intersection: it simply connects the dots between human well-being and the spaces we live in. Coming from a clinical background, I see public spaces through a medical lens. A neglected street, one without shade from extreme heat or proper drainage for heavy rains, directly impacts health and makes it much harder for communities to adapt to climate change. This approach is driven by the One Health concept, the fundamental belief that human survival is completely tied to our changing environment.
  • Dwiki Nugroho Mukti // Indonesia
    Artist / Curator
    I specialize in creating project-based artworks with communities and society. I focus on environmental, educational, and village-related issues. create various exhibition activities with a community engagement approach. I want to make art practice closer to the community, because the issues I discuss often occur around me, especially environmental issues.

    I work with a collective called ASRI located in Gresik. We focus on campaign practices to protect and preserve the environment through a cultural activity approach. I am a cultural researcher and archiver of visual practices. As a visual artist I work with various mediums, such as 2d, 3d, project-based art, digital illustration, and graphic design.
  • Ezekiel Sales // Philippines
    Artist/Curator/Researcher
    Ezekiel Sales (zeke) is an artist and researcher whose work revolves around food systems and geography. His practice centers on collective modes of learning through performance, spatial practice, and gardening. He is part of the platform called Performance Ecologies, where he developed performances such as Quantum Heap (2025) and Wah-Wah Ensemble (2026). He has been collaborating with the m(other)-child space based in Metro Manila called The O Home since its inception.

    He is a contributing author to Halo-Halo Ecologies: Food and Environment Studies in the Philippines (University of Hawai‘i Press), and Language of Soil (Bloomsbury Publishing) an anthology about soil forthcoming next year.
  • Kat Roma Greer // Australia-Hong Kong-Thailand
    Curator / Maker / Cultural Manager
    Kat is a cultural manager, curator, creator, and urban disruptor for regenerative change.
    She is driven by a belief that art must inhabit the cracks in the world: the forgotten edges, the places where systems breakdown and perspectives are not being heard - and, from those fractures, build something regenerative. Her practice is built on “creative insurgencies”: tactical, site-specific and site-responsive interventions that reclaim public space for communities, and together reinvent it as a site of imagination and collective agency.

    Through Micro Galleries she has delivered 38+ initiatives across 30+ countries, from kampung communities in Jakarta, Arctic coastlines in Svalbard, townships in Cape Town, to overlooked towns in rural Australia. She is currently developing two creative works that centre the vital nature of polar environments.
  • Ra'z Salvarita // Philippines

    Artist / Curator / Community Activator
    Ra’z Salvarita is a cross-disciplinary creative artivist. His creative endeavors reflect the convergence of the three pillars he primarily works with: Creative Healing Expressions, Sustainable Sacred Ecology, and Practical, Mindful Spirit Vitality.

    He was an artist fellow for the following programme: Future Leaders Art Program (2020-2021 cohort) for the Australia Council of the Arts; fellow with the “Arts for Good” program by the Singapore International Arts Foundation; and is a Teaching Artist fellow with the Teaching Artist in Asia Exchange Workshop sponsored by the Korea Arts & Cultural Education Service.

    He completed a degree in Mass Communication with a Certificate in Environmental Journalism at Silliman University. In 2018, he presented a TEDx Talk on “Artivism: Effecting Environmental Consciousness through Art.”
  • Ria San Gabriel // Philippines
    Artist · Dabbler · Curator
    Ria San Gabriel is a multidisciplinary creative focused on tech, inclusivity, and economic empowerment. A Makers Unite Amsterdam and Brisbane Artforce alumna, she applies participatory design through street art, interactive media, and community activations to center mental health, gender, and environmental equity. She co-founded a fashion-tech sustainability startup and worked with rural farmers and indigenous artisans on projects supported by the British Council Arts, University of the Arts London, Forest Foundation, UNDP, and the US Mission to ASEAN. She holds master's degrees in Entrepreneurship & Innovation (Design & IT) from the University of Queensland and Women & Development from the University of the Philippines.
  • RYU SATAKE //
    Japan
    Space Artist
    RYU SATAKE is a Japanese new media artist whose practice explores the movement of space itself through digital imaging, generative processes, and immersive installations. Rather than treating space as a passive container, he investigates it as an active phenomenon where presence, traces, and perception continuously emerge and transform. His work has been presented internationally through exhibitions, publications, and artist programs in Japan, Europe, and the United States. By combining digital technology with architectural thinking, SATAKE creates spatial experiences that invite viewers to reconsider the relationship between body, memory, and the invisible structures that shape perception.
  • Shirley Wong //
    Singapore
    Curator, Writer, Artist
    Shirley Wong is a Singaporean curator, writer, artist and communications practitioner whose work explores how people encounter art, culture and one another. After more than 15 years in corporate communications and investor relations, she shifted her attention towards museums, public engagement and contemporary art. Her practice moves between curating, writing, research and artistic experimentation, with a particular interest in audiences who feel uncertain, excluded or underrepresented in cultural spaces. She is the founder of SUM+ARTS and ART PADI, an Asian Civilisations Museum docent, and a graduate of NUS Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship and SOAS Asian Art, based in Singapore today.
  • Solar Punk // Cambodia + Portugal
    Community organiser + movement
    Solar Punk Cambodia, established in 2025, is a collective exploring alternative futures where people, nature, and technology exist in reciprocity and balance. Bringing together artists, curators, environmentalists, and dreamers, we are guided by a shared question: How do we cultivate a society that is honest, beautiful, and regenerative - one where all living beings can flourish according to their own nature, rather than conforming to the pressures of modern society?

    Through creative exchange and collaboration with fellow collectives, including SeaPunks, Solar Punk Cambodia has helped cultivate the ideas, relationships, and foundations that continue to inform the vision we are realizing today.

    Represented by Tytaart and Miguel Jeronimo
How it Works
Building a committed curatorial community
  • Apply and be selected
    Go on! It's worth throwing your curatorial hat in! We're not looking for magic, we're looking for cool people with a desire to share and together, do cool things.
  • Connect with the group during a 12 week virtual program
    Turn up weekly, online, for knowledge-sharing and collaborative ideas and action
  • Create Something
    Something small for your community, something big with the full collective for COP31 (9-20 November). Online, offline, big, small - it's up to you and the collective.
Who Should Apply?
If you're a curator who works close to community, who's navigating the tension between local urgency and global frameworks, and who's ready to make something real alongside others doing the same - we want to hear from you.
  • You are an emerging or early to mid-career, curator (this includes hybrid creative/curator, artist/curator, producer/curator, community activator/curator) who is interested in developing or extending their curatorial practice in relation to the climate crisis, extending their networks into international curatorial connections, keen to forge new ways of collaborating or working together, and wants to elevate their profile and practice.  
  • You are based in Asia Pacific
  • You are already working at the arts/climate/community intersection or intend to begin doing so
  • You are interested in working close to and within community
  • You are reliable, proactive, innovative, willing to knowledge-share
  • You are willing to discuss, share, and accept without shaming, judging, or creating conflict
  • You are committed, and will show up – online, and off.
  • Excited by collective rather than solo practice
  • Want profile and international curatorial connection
  • Can produce a small happening without a large (or any?) budget and/or is willing to work to obtain funds for their project (guidance available)
  • Have an existing local network and venue relationships, or a clean plan for form one
Apply Now
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Important Dates

Program commences: 19 August

90 minute weekly meetings for 12 weeks.

COP31 outcomes: 9-20 November

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