We work at the intersection of art and science.
We have carried out numerous collaborations with artists, museums, and galleries. As art and science continue to evolve, we are also transforming our vision of how to best foster and support artistic research, to promote collaboration across disciplines and the creation of a new mycological paradigm.
“Arch Future” by renowned Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña at Xavier Hufkens Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, spanned over sixty years of the artist and poet’s career. Among the featured works was one centered around an oil painting created in homage to the discovery of Psilocybe stametsii, a fungal species co-described in 2023 by Giuliana Furci, founder of the Fungi Foundation, and named in honour of renowned mycologist Paul Stamets. Accompanying the painting was the sound piece Honguito niño, composed from the vocalizations of Vicuña and Furci, woven together with the music of composer Cosmo Sheldrake
"Song of the Cedars" was composed in collaboration with musician Cosmo Sheldrake, writer Robert Macfarlane, field mycologist Giuliana Furci from the Fungi Foundation, the legal scholar César Rodríguez-Garavito and the voice of the forest. This is the first known attempt in any jurisdiction to establish the 'moral authorship' of an ecosystem as a co-creator in a work, an action that, if successful, will create a legal precedent whereby the natural world is acknowledged as a vital creative force.
The Mirador Interactive Museum (MIM) hosts Chile’s first permanent exhibition dedicated entirely to the Fungi Kingdom. The museum receives more than two thousand visitors daily, making it one of the three most visited museums in Chile. It is known for offering interactive and immersive experiences for people of all ages. Even Jane Goodall visited the Fungi Room during her last trip to Chile. The exhibition was created in collaboration with the Fungi Foundation
The exhibition "Pilze – Verflochtene Welten" (“Mushrooms – Interconnected Worlds”) at the Museum Sinclair Haus at Bad Homburg, Germany, received over 11,500 visitors, showcasing paintings, photos, drawings, sculptures, and interventions inspired by fungi. Fungi Foundation’s documentary 10 Days in the Forest was part of the exhibition.
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Mexican dance creation that seeks to raise public awareness of the wonders of being part of a connected, living, vibrant, and ever-moving whole through mycelium. Fungi Foundation collaborated on the project by contributing videos and photographs used in interactive activities accompanying the performance. Directed by Myrna de la Garza.
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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.
Exhibition of the interdisciplinary artistic project Atlas Fungi that groups artists from the Aysén Region in Patagonia whose work is inspired by the Fungi Kingdom. The Fungi Foundation supported this project with talks and scientific curatorship. Among the artists are Catalina Mekis, Jorge Felipe Soza, Sebastián Peña, María Jesús Faúndez Alcalde and Rodrigo Lizama.
Fungi Foundation mentors Museo del Hongo (Fungi Museum) in Chile and is the scientific curator of their exhibitions. For Fungi Museum’s INFINITA exhibition, at the XIV Biennial of Video and Media l Arts in Santiago (2019), we curated a vitrine with a collection of eight native species of fungi collected by the Foundation in the most extreme environments of Chile. The exhibition was held at the Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna National Museum in Santiago, Chile.
Exhibition in an appearance of the Museo del Hongo, in which the Foundation worked as scientific curators. The exhibition included works by artists Sergio Mora Díaz, Oktopus.tv, Daniel Reyes, Claudia Müller and Paula Garrido. Held during the Science Week at the Parque Forestal Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile.
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 is the sponsor and scientific curator of the exhibition called “Vigilantes” by the artist Ivan Navarro in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Valdivia.
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.
Exhibition by Finnish artist Pia Lindman at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial in Brazil, curated by Giuliana Furci and Fungi Foundation. Giuliana has also provided mycological knowledge for Lindman’s project Geological Time, carried out in part in the Karukinka Natural Park, Chile.
Dan Lie, a Brazilian-Indonesian artist, worked on their research for his work THE NEGATIVE YEARS with the help of the Foundation, in whom Lie was largely inspired for the conception of their project, based on an exhibition held in 2016 at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial.
In collaboration with the National Museum of Natural History, the Foundation tours the exhibition “Fungi: a Kingdom to be discovered”, to several cities in Chile: Arica, Antofagasta, Valparaiso, Viña del Mar, Osorno, Valdivia and Puerto Montt, among others.
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.
