We work at the intersection of art and science.
Fungi Foundation has carried out numerous collaborations with artists and curators, and participated in exhibitions and in exhibition-making. As the fields of art and science continue to evolve, we too are transforming our vision of how to best gestate and support artistic research into the world of fungi. Integral to our mission is collaboration across disciplines and the creation of a new mycological paradigm.
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A mixed-reality art project showcased during Donau Festival at Forum Frohner in Austria. The opening performance brought together human participants, plants, fungi, animals, landscapes, bodies of water, and AI into both in-person and virtual spaces. Giuliana Furci was beamed in 3D from Chile to discuss fungal ways of being and delve into the animistic ways we communicate.
Insectageddon is a collective performance and call to action presented by artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña. The event addressed the devastating loss of insect populations around the world due to the immense scale of toxic industrial farming, pesticides, and habitat destruction. Giuliana Furci spoke in NYC about her work involving insects and ways we can move forward together.
Giuliana Furci invited Juan Ferrer and Nicolás Oyarce from Museo del Hongo (Fungi Museum) to the Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, USA, and together they staged a fungal performance.
Fungi Foundation provided support with the content related to fungi in the children’s book “Explorers of the Forest: Guide for an adventure through Southern Chile'' by the artist and writer Catalina Mekis.
Daniel Lie, a Brazilian-Indonesian artist, worked on his research for his work THE NEGATIVE YEARS with the help of the Foundation, in whom Lie was largely inspired for the conception of his project, based on an exhibition held in 2016 at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial.
The Chilean artist Rodrigo Arteaga Abarca is awarded “Fungi Foundation Award for the Promotion of the Fungi Kingdom” for his outstanding work “Convergences” (in the image), in which he grew molds on agar to map Chile and our planet.