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MACBA receives donation of 18 videos from the Han Nefkens Foundation and begins a stable collaboration
This donation reflects the philosophy of the Han Nefkens Foundation, focused on promoting the creation of new works without building its own collection, and always in close collaboration with artists and institutions.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) announced this Friday the incorporation of eighteen works of video art into its collection, thanks to a generous donation from the Han Nefkens Foundation (HNF), an entity based in Barcelona and recognized for its support of international contemporary art.
This donation not only enriches the museum's collection with audiovisual pieces of high artistic value, but also symbolizes the beginning of a long-term collaboration between MACBA and the Han Nefkens Foundation. With this agreement, both institutions reaffirm their shared commitment to the promotion of video art and the support of emerging artists from around the world.
PHOTOGRAPH. JINGBAN, HAO. "OPUS ONE", 2020. MACBA COLLECTION. MACBA CONSORTIUM. DONATION FUNDACIÓN PRIVADA HAN NEFKENS.
“When I think about each of the pieces, I remember the conversations I had with the different institutions and collaborators who made it possible. Behind each of these pieces, there is a vast network of experience, commitment and passion shared between different agents,” says Han Nefkens.
The donated works, acquired by the Han Nefkens Foundation between 2009 and 2022, are the fruit of its scholarship and awards program, which has as its main objective to support young creators from all over the world. The pieces, mostly in video format, have previously been exhibited in international exhibitions organized in collaboration with various cultural institutions associated with the foundation.
“The works in this donation reflect a rigorous commitment to processes rooted in very specific contexts. They provide a significant contribution to the understanding of social and geopolitical issues, articulated through different experiences of the world. These pieces are incorporated into key areas of the museum's curatorial lines: experimental artistic practices; history, power and memory; ecology and multispecies theory; decolonial, postcolonial and anticolonial approaches, among others", emphasizes Elvira Dyangani Ose.
PHOTOGRAPH. HAZARA, AZIZ. "BOW ECHO", 2019. MACBA COLLECTION. MACBA CONSORTIUM. DONATION FUNDACIÓN PRIVADA HAN NEFKENS.
The collaboration between MACBA and the Han Nefkens Foundation goes beyond a simple institutional alliance: it is projected as a strategic complicity that wants to sow the future in the field of contemporary video art. Together they promote initiatives such as the Moving Image Commission , a biannual award that becomes a springboard for the creation of new works in video format. This project, also shared with the MUAC of the UNAM, in Mexico City, and The Bass Museum of Art, in Miami, weaves an international network of support for emerging creation.
The eighteen works are: Hand in Hand with Amigos para Siemre by Jungju An from 2016, Opus One by Jingbao Hao from 2020, EBB AND FLOW by Gabriel Mascaro from 2012, City of Tales by Arash Nassiri from 2017, Rehearsal by Aziz Hazara from 2020, Paradise by Bárbara Sánchez Barroso from 2017, Aesthetics of Weapons by Erkan Özgen from 2018, Heavy Metal Honey by VAljko Chachkhiani from 2018, Bow Echo by Aziz Hazara from 2019, Orbital Squares by Brothers Moojin from 2020, First Rain, Brisel Soleil by Thao Nguyen Phan from 2021, A State in a State by Tekla Aslanishvili from 2022, Eclipe I, II by Sojuang Jun from 2020, La nave de los locos by Sojung Jun from 2016, Trùng mú - Endless sightless by Nguyen Phuong Linh of 2018, Maya Watanabe's Liminal from 2019, Shuruq Harb's The Jump from 2020 and Musquiqui Chihying's The Lighting from 2021.
