Year in Review 2022

Dear friends, colleagues, and Melly visitors,

At Kunstinstituut Melly, we are excited to be creating activities at the intersection of art and education, and no less to zealously devote our attention to artistic experimentation as much as to public engagement. Let’s continue to do this together! A year-end or New Year donation will support our programs and grow our community. Any amount you choose to give is much welcomed and appreciated. Your participation in this fundraising drive will surely take our public engagement further, backing and encouraging us to experience our times through partnership and meaningful encounters with art.

This year, once the pandemic lockdown was lifted in February, we committed to re-engaging visitors in our art exhibitions, educational and public programs, as well as our digital content. Throughout the year, our activities welcomed artists, educators, and multivocal communities. Together, we have also been testing how best to contribute to strengthening our cultural ecosystem, to thrive intimately and publicly, more creatively and resourcefully.

In 2023, it is our hope that we can engage you more closely. We will present solo exhibitions by artists Lucy Beech, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, and Jennifer Tee, as well as art projects by Funda Baysal, Shardenia Felicia, Marcos Kueh, Falke Pisano, Uriël Matahelumual, Sijben Rosa, Tromarama, Anna Witt, and Susanne Khalil Yusef. Our program will include co-presentations with the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Vienna Secession, among other institutions. Plus, we are excited to be working on a forthcoming international group exhibition with art addressing cultural legacies, personal affections and political conflict through the grandmother figure.

Relatedly, next year’s edition of our innovative talent development program CLIP: Collective Learning in Practice will focus on oral histories and intergenerational exchange; we will be organizing it in collaboration with the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Also in 2023, we will further develop our latest research initiative, Tools for Demodernizing, in partnership with Art Space Sydney in Australia, The Javett Art Center at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín in Colombia, and the Committee for the Creation of a Contemporary Art Institution in Prishtina, Kosovo.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in the year ahead. In the meantime, and on behalf of the team at Kunstinstituut Melly, many thanks for your engagement to date and best wishes for these holidays.

Sincerely,

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Director