PAST APPARITIONS
Non Conforming XXX brings together works that reflect on the nonconformity of the Fungi Kingdom to the binary hegemonies of current knowledge systems.
The symbiosis between art and science, mycorrhizae and lichens, once again guide the contents of this multimedia installation that was presented for the first time at Ciencia Fricción, in Barcelona 2021.
A FUNGUS GARDEN MAC PF
MAC Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile
December 6th 2022 - January 21st 2023
The works of our virtual exhibition A Fungus Garden, designed for Ars Electronica 2020, were presented in video format in the 2018-2022 Retrospective of Chilean projects that participated in the Austrian festival.
Rotten Body Resurrection is a mix media performance that works on the theme of putrefaction and how the fungus symbolizes a portal between life and death.
Our first apparition that addresses in depth cultural links of mankind with some psychoactive mushrooms; Amanita muscaria and Psilocybe species.
The invitation is to meet as beings, commensals, fragments, as species and technologies, capable of problematizing about our practices.
Mutualists, the Fungus Museum’s 19th apparition, is an immersive experience inspired by the microscopic embrace between native plant species of the Maule region such as ruil, queule, and orchids, and their companions, mycorrhizal fungi.
Undisciplines: A Gathering of Contemporary Artistic Practices is the largest collective exhibition prompted and organized by Galeria Republica since its establishment in 2014. Inscribed withing the program “Territories in Suspense: Exhibitions and Mediations 2021-2022”, the gathering brought together over 20 artists, investigators, and curators, in order to reflect, through a series of artistic projects and processes, on the emergence of situated and undisciplined knowledge that mobilizes new critical imaginaries and alternatives for the construction of possible futures.
For the Fungus Museum’s 17th apparition, decomposition and fermentation are at the center of the experience and reflection so that we can ask ourselves: how can these processes be understood as a transition between autonomy and a collective?
GIRA: Affective Strategies
Transmisión en vivo canal de YouTube Museo del Hongo
4 de Noviembre 2021
Come and navigate through the Museum’s first GIRA, where you will be able to virtually visit some of our collection’s emblematic works of art.
An invitation from Sebastian Jatz to intervene sculptures made of concrete and burnt wood with fungus mycelium, an experiment that we carried out in collaboration with the Biofabrication Laboratory at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile’s Architecture, Design, and Urban Studies Faculty.
Fungi and plants that embrace; the different symbiotic relationships that originate from the Fungi Kingdom are the inspiration for the Fungus Museum’s first in-person exhibition abroad.
Come and navigate through the Museum’s first GIRA, where you will be able to virtually visit some of our collection’s emblematic works of art.
FUNGI: ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGES FOR COEXISTENCE
Online transmission, Berlin Science Week, Germany
November 2020
Online presentation and conversation panel regarding the videos Mapu Kufull and Chilean Sign Language for Mycology.
In the context of Science Week, the Fungus Museum will present live molds, videos, and sculptures in the collective exhibition “Tearamas”.
A FUNGUS GARDEN
Ars Electronica Kepler’s Gardens Digital Exhibition
9 al 13 de septiembre 2020
What would a mushroom garden look like? Our own body and its decomposition are the subjects addressed in the Fungus Museum’s first virtual exhibition.
An invitation to open up and explore fungi’s infinite means of connecting with human existence.
MYCELIATING MINDS THROUGH ART
Telluride Mushroom Festival. Telluride, United States
August 2019
Video-performance that explores the origins and work of the Fungus Museum to date.
Alexandra Mabes, Elisita Punto and Natalia Cabrera converge body, sound, and light for this first edition of Fungus Night, a gathering for the Fungus Museum’s collaborators and friends.
Exhibition developed in the context of an initiative by the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Patrimony.
Possibilities of fungi as biomaterials, not only in industrial design, but also in visual arts, are presented in a pioneering and interregional work.
Light mycelium connects floating mushroom crops and biomaterial prototypes in this exhibition at the top of an iconic hill in our city.
Subterranean crops of three species of edible mushrooms are custodied by visual artist Ivan Navarro’s light sculptures.
PROTOTYPE FOR MUSEO DEL HONGO
Club Social de Artistas Santiago, Chile
4 al 6 de noviembre 2016
The appearance of the Fungus Museum, designer Juan Ferrer’s thesis project, which responded to what fungi are, what they do, and how different species of the Fungi Kingdom live.