HAN NEFKENS FOUNDATION. AND AIDA SOPRANO GARIFULLINA - JE VEUX VIVRE – GOUNOD.

Newsletter 03.2025 EXHIBITION  The Lighting by Musquiqui Chihying Reversal and Terra Incognita by Timoteus Anggawan Kusno at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona Room 20 Opening: 13 March 2025,7 – 9pm   Exhibition: 14.03.2025 – 18.05.2025 Credit:The Lighting, Musquiqui Chihying. Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2019, in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Art Sonje Center Seoul; Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; MoCA Taipei; Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. Credit: Reversal, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno. Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Grant 2021, in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; MoCA Taipei; ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève; Art Hub Copenhagen. We are thrilled to announce the exhibition ”New Talents In Asian Video Art. Musquiqui Chihying And Timoteus Anggawan Kusno” at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, from 13th March to 18 May 2025.   This exhibition presents audiovisual projects by Musquiqui Chihying (Taipei, Taiwan, 1985) and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 1989), both winners of the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art production Grant.   Musquiqui Chihying was awarded the grant in 2019, in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Art Sonje Center in Seoul, Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art of Taipei, Taiwan and Ilham Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Timoteus Anggawan Kusno in 2021, in collaboration with Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing; MoCA Taipei; ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève and Art Hub Copenhagen.   In The Lighting, Musquiqui Chihying explores the intersection between the rise of kung-fu movies in the 1970s and the more recent development of specific technologies to photograph racialized people. The resulting film combines references to the popularization of cell phone photography and the globalisation of the martial arts cinema genre. It features African American actor Jim Kelly along with images of a narrator resembling Bruce Lee that were generated using facial motion capture software and voice recognition technology.   The joint exhibition also includes Reversal and Terra Incognita, the first two instalments of Timoteus Anggawan Kusno’s Phantoms trilogy. The common thread running through these films is the jathilan, a traditional Javanese dance that invokes supernatural forces and ancestral spirits to possess the bodies of those participating. According to Kusno, the state of trance thus achieved allows the dancers to free themselves from the repression imposed by the feudal elite all the while allowing them to process memories of the colonial past.   Musquiqui Chihying (b. 1985, Taiwan) is a visual artist and a filmmaker who resides and works in Taipei and Berlin. Musquiqui Chihying's works have been exhibited in numerous international art institutions, including WIELS in Brussels, Art Sonje Center in Seoul, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Neue Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin, Power Station of Art in Shanghai, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, among others. His film works have been screened at various film festivals, including Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Berlin International Film Festival in Germany, Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands, and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.  In 2023, he was awarded the Tung Chung Prize by The Hong Foundation in Taiwan. In 2019, he received the LOOP Video Art Award from the Han Nefkens Foundation and the Joan Miró Foundation in Spain. He was also nominated for the Berlin Art Prize in Germany that same year. He is a member of the Taiwanese art group Fuxinghen Studio and leads the Research Lab of Image and Sound (RLIS), focusing on media technology and image politics research.   Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (b. 1989, Indonesia) is a visual artist and filmmaker working with installations, drawings, and moving images. His practice navigates the fluid intersections of fiction and history, fantasy and memory, while critically addressing the coloniality of power and its lingering specters. Kusno’s works have been featured and programmed at major international institutions and biennales, including TATE Modern (London), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA, Seoul), the Mumbai City Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA, Taipei), Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Center for Fine Art Brussels, and the Gwangju Biennale, among others.  His films have premiered at renowned international film festivals, including Berlinale, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Dok.Leipzig, and CPH:DOX. In 2021, he was awarded the Video Production Award from the Han Nefkens Foundation – Loop Barcelona.  He later received the VISIO Production Fund (2023) and was supported by the Mondriaan Fonds and the Locarno Residency in 2024. In the 2025 edition, IFFR dedicated a focused program to his films. He lives and works between Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia).

AIDA GARIFULLINA - JE VEUX VIVRE – GOUNOD. 

Young star soprano Aida Garifullina performs her signature aria Je Veux Vivre in the stunning setting of the Vienna Opera House. The track features on Aida’s debut album, out on Decca Classics.