Author: Diego Berel

DIEGO Luister Berel’s oil painting entitled ‘Raising Sun’ which was exhibited on February 23, 2018 at the UOB Chinese Year Celebration Painting Exhibition, at Mulia Hotel Jakarta sold for IDR3 million. This painting exhibition which only lasts a few hours attracts many painting lovers from Jakarta especially what more this exhibits displayed the work of children with special needs.

DIEGO, who represented the Daya Pelita Kasih School (DPK), won the third title in the 2018 SMPLB-SMALB National Student Painting Competition, a special needs painting contest was held by the South Jakarta Education Office. Diego Luister Berel, who has successfully delivered the DPK School, won the third place in the national painting competition.

THE piano recital, Ananda Sukarlan is held alongside a painting exhibition by artists with mental and physical disabilities from the Art Brut Indonesia Foundation and Yayasan Daya Pelita Kasih and the concert’s theme focused on people with disabilities, both mental and physical.

This collaboration piano recital and painting exhibition with theme of ‘Difference Unite, Piano Recital & Painting Exhibition for Special Needs’ at the ballroom of JS Luwansa Hotel, Kuningan, South Jakarta on March 5, 2018. Diego has participated in this event with displayed two paintings.

AN exhibition of paintings by youth with special needs took part in enlivening the Earthy Christmas event, the Pullman Thamrin Hotel Jakarta from 15 December to 29 December 2019. The hotel provided an area on the 2nd floor to exhibit these paintings with youth with special needs and works they also aim for charity.

Diego Luister Berel, at this painting exhibition exhibited four of his paintings and several of his paintings were sold at this two week exhibition.

WITH theme of Year End Season 2015 Painting Exhibition was held at Sari Pan Pacific Hotel Jakarta, Diego Luister Berel with his friends joined at this art exhibition and held for the public starting from December 15-20, 2015. At this painting exhibition he was displaying three paintings and one of his painting was sold.

IN this time, Diego Luister Berel’s visual art works without limits, this time he presents painting in an exclusive suitcase with a ‘funky’ style and cheerful color. Diego’s paintings at a suitcase is abstract expressionist categories with strokes as look in a direction, but he can display beautiful paintings. He deliberately took part in the auction and painting exhibition at the UOB Indonesia-Heartbeat Donation Painting Exhibition in April 2017. [Sold by Auction]

DIEGO, who represented Daya Pelita Kasih School for solo exhibition at the 2016 Biennial General Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Council of Cheshire Homes painting exhibition in Grandkemang Hotel, South Jakarta. In this event he exhibited several of paintings and his painting has been sold at this event. Shown in the picture, Diego is taking a photo with his new friends from the Wisma Cheshire at the closing day of the exhibition.

DIEGO Luister Berel has won first prize in the SMPLB-SMALB Level in the 2017 International Disability Day Painting Contest organized by the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection of the Republic of Indonesia at Taman Mini Mall, East Jakarta.

Diego, who attends at Daya Pelita Kasih Center, a school with special needs in the South Jakarta area, can be used as a model in achieving his best achievements to win first prize.