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The Barcelona-based Han Nefkens Foundation, Mori Art Museum, M+ (Hong Kong), and Singapore Art Museum partnered in 2021 to establish the Moving Image Commission(*), and in 2023, awarded the commission to Hao Jingban. This event will be held in conjunction with MAM Collection 021: Hao Jingban, her first solo exhibition in Japan at the Mori Art Museum. The artist will discuss her past works as well as her latest work, I Witness.

* Han Nefkens Foundation’s Moving Image Commission
A program organized by the Spain-based Han Nefkens Foundation that specializes in video works and conducts joint commissions with museums and other institutions around the world, in collaboration with the Mori Art Museum, M+ (Hong Kong), and the Singapore Art Museum.The commissioned works are exhibited at each museum.

Date & Time

19:00-20:30, Wednesday, December 3, 2025 (Doors open: 18:45)

Appearing

Hao Jingban (Artist)
Han Nefkens (Founder and President, Han Nefkens Foundation)
Cho Sunhye (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum)

Hao Jingban creates video works that explore narratives embedded in individuals and collectives through archival research, interviews, and performance practices.Hao’s solo exhibitions include Hao Jingban: Opus One (Matadero Madrid, 2020), Silent Speech (OCAT Xi’an, China, 2019), Uninvited Guests (Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, 2018), New Directions: Hao Jingban (UCCA, Beijing, 2016), and Over-Romanticism (Taikang Space, Beijing, 2016). Her works have been exhibited at institutions and art festivals including Frac Bretagne (Rennes, France, 2025), TANK Shanghai (2024), West Bund Museum (Shanghai, 2023), Arts West Gallery (Melbourne, Australia, 2023), 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Brisbane, Australia, 2021), 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021), Times Art Center Berlin (2020), Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2019), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai, 2019), Times Museum (Guangzhou, China, 2018 and 2019), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2017 and 2019), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA, 2018), FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (USA, 2018), 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016), Kuandu Museum of Fine Art (Taipei, 2016), and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2015).
Prizes and awards include the SeMA-HANA Media Art Award (2021), the International Critics’ Prize at the 63rd Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2017), the Young Artist of the Year award at the 11th Award of Art China (2017), and the Huayu Youth Award Grand Jury Prize (2016).