Christian Illi

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.

BORN IN 1987
WORKS & LIVES IN
GERMANY & THE PHILIPPINES

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EDUCATION

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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SCHOLARSHIPS / AWARDS

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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COLLABORATIONS /
PROJECTS

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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SELECTED — EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS

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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SELECTED
PERFORMANCES

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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PUBLICATIONS

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