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HARTA (HABIB Action for the Revival of our Traditions and Arts), in collaboration with Galeri Sultan Nazrin Shah Universiti Malaya and Henry Butcher Art Auctioneer, had organized a retrospective art exhibition titled '50 Tahun ANAK ALAM (1974-2024)'. Click here to see the location.

This is a group exhibition that brings together 12 artists from Anak Alam collective, a pioneering group of Malaysian artists of various background. The artists included are Latiff Mohidin, Mustafa Ibrahim, Ali Rahamad, Zulkifli Dahalan, Maryam Abdullah, Siti Zainon Ismail, Ismail Abdullah, Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim, Yusof Gajah, Mad Anuar Ismail, Abdul Mansoor Ibrahim, and Mazlan Noor. Curated by Faizal Sidik, this exhibition offers immaculate narrative to an important chapter of Malaysian contemporary art.

Anak Alam in visual art scene in Malaysia is equivalent to that ASAS 50 in Malay literature movement. Anak Alam is one of its kind, at the time (1970s) to have successfully gather and synergized the visual art movement pioneered by veteran artists such as Latiff Mohidin, Ali Mabuha, among others, in Malaysia. This exhibition therefore not only captures the creative works produced by the artists, but also the archival record such as zines, letters, shrits, and old catagogue; significantly a thorough exhibitional-research conducted by the Curator, Faizal Sidik.

On 6th August 2026, the exhibition was successfully officiated by Tan Sri Johan Jaafar, an ardent member of Anak Alam who also involved closely with the art movement.

50 Tahun ANAK ALAM (1974 - 2024) (Main Organizer: Harta Gallery)