Abhijan Toto (they/them) is a curator and writer, interested in ecosophy, indisciplinary research, labour and infrastructures, based between Berlin, Germany; Bangkok, Thailand and Seoul, South Korea. In 2018, they began assembling the Forest Curriculum with Pujita Guha, a multi-platform project for research and mutual co-learning around the naturecultures of the forested belts of South and Southeast Asia. They were the Artistic Director of A House In Many Parts, a multi-disciplinary festival in Bangkok, supported by the Goethe-Institut and French Embassy, which they founded in 2020 and have been part of the curatorial team at Shedhalle, Zurich (2022 - 23) and of Hosting Lands (with the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, Pujita Guha and Aziza Harmel) Denmark (2022- 25). They were also the curator, with Mari Spirito of A Few In Many Places (2021), Seoul, Bangkok, Istanbul, New York, San Juan, Guatemala City, a platform for international collaboration and collective practice, conceived by Protocinema. They have previously worked with the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh; Bellas Artes Projects, Manila and Bataan, the Philippines; Council, Paris, France and Asia Art Archive. Selected recent exhibitions include Foliage #4 (with Do Tuong Linh), VCCA Foundation, Hanoi, Vietnam (2022); A Moment In Extended Crisis (with Andy Butler) UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2023); In The Forest, Even The Air Breathes, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy (2020); Minor Infelicities, Ujeongkuk, Seoul, South Korea (2020); Southern Constellations (with Bojana Piskur), Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (2019); The Exhaustion Project: There Is Still Work To Be Done, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2018). They have participated in residencies with the Staatenkunstfonds, Denmark; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Pro-Helvetia and the HSLU-University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Luzern, Switzerland and guest lectured at the HDK, Valand; Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen; the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; Monash University, Melbourne among others and is part of the steering committee of the Artist-for-Artist Program. They are a contributor to collective research initiatives such as ‘A Glossary of Common Knowledge’, la internationale (2021) and ‘Under the Mango Tree’, the slow institute (2020). They were awarded the 2019 Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi X, at the GAMeC, Bergamo.

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