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.
“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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
