Christian Tenefrancia Illi is a German-Filipino interdisciplinary working artist who completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Diploma 2018) and received scholarships from the University of Edinburgh: College of Art (2013) and the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (2015-2016). He has exhibited and performed throughout Europe and Southeast Asia, studied philosophy and musicology at the University of Stuttgart (2009) and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2010).
His works emerge from a conceptual approach engaging with the contemporary environment and the aftermath, impact and implications of colonialism and globalization, making use of cognitive fragments as modules in time-based media, utilizing (self-)criticality to confront, map, and decrypt complex structures and contest our perception — the notion and (de-)construction of history and identity.
He is co-founder of KIM/ILLI, an emerging and award-winning studio and collaborative platform formed in 2020; working in the fields of art, architecture, and design — deploying various methodologies ‘within and beyond’ the realms of (im)materiality: visuality, sound, and space — focusing on research, finding intersections, sharing and expanding knowledge, expertise, and networks in the global context, and discursive activities among local communities as well as public spaces.
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BORN IN 1987
STUTTGART, GER
WORKS & LIVES IN
GERMANY & THE PHILIPPINES
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E D U C A T I O N
UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART
Philosophy / French Studies 2009
UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
Musicology / Philosophy / Japanese Studies 2010
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS MUNICH
Painting / Photography / Moving Image / Media Art
2010 w/ Prof. GÜNTHER FÖRG
2011 w/ Prof. JULIAN ROSEFELDT
2012 w/ Prof. KLAUS VOM BRUCH
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY MANILA
Philippine Studies 2017
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S C H O L A R S H I P S / A W A R D S
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH: COLLEGE OF ART
Intermedia Art / Film & Postcolonial Studies 2013 / 14
UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE
Media Art / Moving Image with Prof. ISAAC JULIEN 2015 / 16
SCHOLARSHIP OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND
CULTURAL AFFAIRS BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG 2015
ARTIST RESIDENCY AWARD BARCELONA 2020
Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg,
Württembergischer Kunstverein,
Goethe Institut & HANGAR.ORG
EDGE EAST SIDE COMPETITION
1st Prize / int. Art in Architecture 2021
FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY &
FEDERAL OFFICE FOR BUILDING AND
REGIONAL PLANNING BERLIN
2nd Prize / int. Art in Architecture 2022
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C O L L A B O R A T I ON S /
P R O J E C T S
WARNER / CHAPPELL
Author & Composer since 2010
MÜNCHNER KAMMERSPIELE
Theatre Performance / Video Installation 07 / 2011
UNIVERSITY OF FILM AND TELEVISION / HFF MÜNCHEN
Regieübung / Directing Module 03 / 2015
SQUATTING KNOWLEDGES
Franchising: Asking Same Questions Twice
Communication & Organisation, Panelist 06 / 2015
DISC LAB | RESEARCH & CRITICISM
Visiting Artist and Researcher Program 08 / 2015
HERDING ISLANDS, RATS & THE ANTHROPOCENE
SYNAPSE in collaboration with HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin,
Vargas Museum & Filipiniana Research Center: Introductory Session 10 / 2015
WAITING SHEDS — COOPERATIVE STUDY & RESEARCH PROGRAM
Visual Communication 2015 / 18
MIGRATORY TIMES — SCHOOL SUPPLIES
The Institute of (im)Possible Subjects (IiS)
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Future Making Research Consortium
Visual Communication 05 / 2017
「DIRECTIVE CURATION」
Collective work; Sound Concept 04 — 06 / 2020
KIM/ILLI
Co-Founder & Creative Director — 2020
RENEGOTIATIONS IN SELF-DETERMINATION
‘Choreographies of Labor’ @HANGAR.ORG: 09 — 10 / 2020
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S E L E C T E D — E X H I B I T I O N S
S C R E E N I N G S
JUBELPERSER
W/ SCHORSCH KAMERUN
AKADEMIEGALERIE
Munich, GER 2011
LIVING IN OBLIVION
DRIVE-IN THEATRE
Munich, GER 2012
NICHTS IST ABER BLEIB
CORDONHAUS Cham, GER 2012
P Á R Á S Ï T É
AdBK Annual Exhibition
Munich, GER 2013
P E R D U
KINO DER KUNST
Galerie Karin Sachs
Munich, GER 2015
Noli me tángere {TOUCH ME NOT}
GEGENKINO: VAGINALE Leipzig, GER 2015
INTIMATE POLITIK
Noli me tángere; อันล่วงละเมิดมิได้ Bangkok, THAI 2015
Planting ≠ Rice; { adapt ≠ adopt }
Vargas Museum & Filipiniana Research Center Manila, PH 2015
《Mashed Potato》
년 6월 5일 금요일부터 20일 토요일까지 whatreallymatters Seoul, KOR 2020
Renegotiations in Self-Determination: BEING IN-BETWEEN
Something of Substance in the End / ‘Choreographies of Labo(u)r’
PARATEXT #48 @HANGAR.ORG Barcelona, ES 2020
AMBACTIA MEMORIA
‘Choreographies of Labo(u)r’; KSTN Berlin, GER 2021
ART NOU 2022
Solo Show w/ KIM/ILLI
Galeria H2O, Barcelona, ES 2022
KUNST-AM-BAU
BBR, Berlin, GER 2022
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S E L E C T E D
P E R F O R M A N C E S
CONDITOREI Stuttgart, GER 12 / 2007
AMPERE Munich, GER 03 / 2008
CORD CLUB Munich, GER 04 / 2008
CITADEL Liverpool, UK 07 / 2008
FESTIVAL St. Helens, UK 07 / 2008
KELLER KLUB Stuttgart, GER 01 / 2009
59:1 Munich, GER 01 / 2009
ATLANTIS KINO Munich, GER 07 / 2009
STADTGARTEN Cologne, GER 09 / 2009
NACHTLEBEN Frankfurt, GER 09 / 2009
FRANNZ Berlin, GER 09 / 2009
KNUST Hamburg, GER 09 / 2009
KAMMERSPIELE Munich, GER 07 / 2011
MAXIMILIANFORUM Munich, GER 05 / 2012
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P U B L I C A T I O N S
FRAGMENTS OF IDENTITY —
in the postcolonial PHILIPPINES
DIPLOMA 2017/18
CHAU CHAT:
Le Début
( DIENJE / ROUGH TRADE / WARNER/CHAPPELL ) 2010
CHAU CHAT:
X.Y. op. 39
‘WÄHREND DER ABSCHAFFUNG DES DENKENS’
2010