As part of the phased expansion of the foundation that began in 2021, Teiger Foundation has explored strategies for funding internationally that both extend the legacy of our founder David Teiger and take the foundation in new directions. Our international funding is currently by nomination only.
Building on Teiger’s legacy as a funder of the Venice Biennale, Teiger Foundation supported The International Art Exhibition in 2022, 2024, and 2026. Support for other international recurring exhibitions includes the 2027 Berlin Biennial, curated by Vasyl Cherepanyn.
2025 brought the first grantees of the International co-creation program, created to support curators outside the United States who want to work together across national borders. Grant amounts range from $50,000 to $300,000 for projects that may unfold over several years.
On these pages you may find additional international grantees funded between 2021 and 2025.
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International co-creation grants support curators located outside the United States who want to work together across national borders. It aims to start or strengthen platforms for artists that individual curators could not develop alone—projects that share time, visibility, knowledge, and trust across different geographical regions, and that foster models of shared authorship.
In the program’s first cycle, Teiger Foundation awarded three full grants (to curators Miguel López, Hajnalka Somogyi, and Gabi Ngcobo) as well as capsule grants the following people and projects: Teesa Bahana and the reopening season of Kampala’s 32° East; Oyindamola (Fakeye) Faithful and Àsìkò Art School’s Côte d’Ivoire edition; Gridthiya Gaweewong’s exploration of the Mekong River as connector of six Southeast Asian countries; Selom Kudjie’s and Sour Grass’ research partnerships in Guinea-Conakry and the Caribbean and Costa Rica, respectively; and Christine Tohmé’s exhibition that takes the WW1-era Sykes-Picot Agreement as a jumping-off point.
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Miguel A. López, Chief Curator at Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM, in Mexico City, initiated a three-part project in collaboration with Ilaria Conti, Executive Director and Chief Curator of La Nueva Fábrica in Antigua, Guatemala, and Juan Canela, Chief Curator of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá in Panama City. Conceived in response to Mexico’s longstanding tendency to look north toward the United States, the project is anchored at Museo del Chopo and aims to foster greater exchange between Mexico and Central America through exhibitions, publications, and public programs across the region. The exhibitions include a cross-generational presentation of the work of Mayan Kaqchikel artists Rosa Elena Curruchich and Angélica Serech (on view at Museo del Chopo August–November 2025; La Nueva Fábrica February–September 2026; and the Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston October 2027–March 2028); a solo show of Nicaraguan artist and queer activist Elyla presented alongside a documentary exhibition on the activist collective Operación Queer (Museo del Chopo, November 2025–March 2026; MAC Panamá, April–September 2027); and the first comprehensive survey of Nicaraguan-American curator and artist Rolando Castellón (Museo del Chopo, August–November 2027, with a co-presentation at a US institution to be determined).
A collective study platform co-conceived by Gabi Ngcobo, Director of Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Anawana Haloba, artist and co-founder of independent nonprofit research program Livingstone Office of Contemporary Art (Zambia); and writer and curator Hera Chan, based in Amsterdam and Yogyakarta (Indonesia) will emerge over the course of two years in Rotterdam, Yogyakarta and Livingstone. The three cities differ radically: one is a port with historic ties to Dutch colonialism, the next is in a tropical climate near an active volcano in a cultural ecosystem characterized by communal life and coexistence; while the last is focal point for wildlife conservation as it intersects a vital animal migration corridor from Mosi-ao-Tunya National Park. The collaborative project sees these contextual differences as constitutive of its work. The project begins in January 2027 with a collective study session in Livingstone, followed by curatorial residencies at Yogyakarta’s Lohjinawi Art Studio, a residency program founded by writer, organizer, and curator Alia Swastika. In Rotterdam, Melly will host an artist through its residency platform TOOLSHED leading up to a group exhibition featuring newly commissioned and existing works that chime with the project’s framework in 2028. Renée Akitelek Mboya, a filmmaker and curator based in Nairobi, will document the project over two years and create a filmic publication that will be launched in Livingstone and Rotterdam in early 2029.
Hajnalka Somogyi, Director and Co-curator of OFF-Biennale in Budapest, Hungary, brings together Iran-born and Vienna-based independent curator and educator Azar Mahmoudian; Albania-born Eriola Pira, curator and programs director at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in New York, United States; and Romania-born Anca Rujoiu, curator at Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden, to develop a curatorial project made up of an exhibition within OFF-Biennale 2027 and an international assembly at a future date. Founded in 2014 as a grassroots initiative to strengthen civil society and public life through art, the 2027 edition of OFF-Biennale is organized against the backdrop of Hungary’s political transition from Viktor Orbán's sixteen-year illiberal regime. The project asks how different modes and rhythms of care, listening, and communication might help rebuild connections across fractured social spheres and sustain communities amid institutional erosion, media manipulation, and diminished trust. Having worked across contexts shaped by uneven cultural infrastructures and restricted freedoms, the four curators explore attunement as an artistic and political practice: paying attention, sensing shared conditions, aligning across difference, and recognizing interdependence. The project considers how such forms of attunement can cultivate new forms of solidarity and create conditions for collective action.
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The International co-creation grant was conceived in collaboration with atresti/Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy.