The National Museum of Ethnography and Prehistory “L. Pigorini” has invited H. H. Lim to participate in the three-month Artist Residency Programme “Outside In – Illuminating Guests” in early 2016.
H. H. Lim will be investigating the museum's Asiatic collections, with particular regard to the Indonesian and Malaysian collections, interacting with the museum staff on the theme of “The making of point of views”.
During the three-month residency, H. H. Lim, museum curators and audiences will be involved in exchanges and reflections on alternative and experimental ways of interpreting and displaying ethnographic objects.
The residency at the Museum of Ethnography is part of SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage - a collaborative project involving ten European museums of Ethnography and World Cultures, with the aim of creating dialogues on citizenship and belonging in contemporary Europe.
H.H. Lim was born in Malaysia in 1954. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and has since lived and worked in Rome and Penang. He founded Edicola Notte, an exhibiting space located in Trastevere, Rome.
Selected personal and collective exhibitions: Oltre. Il primo piano, Istituto di Cultura Italiano, Budapest (2015); Brera in contemporaneo, Accademia di Brera, Milano (2015); No coffee no cigarettes, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno (2015); Passaggi, Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporaine, Saint-Etienne (2015); Mirare Giacomo Leopardi, Idill’io n°13, Recanati (2015); Mirare, Idill’io n°11, Recanati (2015); RI-FLESSIONI, R.A.M. radioartemobile, Roma (2015); National Visual Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2015); Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods, The Museum of Goa, evento collaterale della Biennale di Kochi Muziris, India (2014); Tornare al Senso Costruttivo, performance al Teatro Verdi, Milano (2014); Open Museum Open City, progetto per R.A.M. radioartemobile e per la collezione Maxxi, Roma (2014); Sconfinamenti, 57° festival dei due mondi, Spoleto (2014), Politicamente Parlando, Galleria Bianconi, Milano (2014); La Nuit Blanche, La Gaitè Lyrique, Parigi (2013); 6. Biennale di Praga, Praga (2013); 55. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione della Repubblica di Cuba, Venezia (2013); John Cage Experiments And Its Context, NCCA Centro Nazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Mosca (2013); Landscape on the Move, De Vleeshal & De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg, Olanda (2012); Il tesoro nascosto, GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma (2011); Hidden Treasure, Tang Gallery, Bangkok (2011); 12. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura della Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (2010); 3 Camere, R.A.M radioartemobile, Roma (2010); Gone with the Wind, UCCA Centro Ullens per l’Arte Contemporanea, Pechino (2010); Onda Anomala, evento collaterale di Manifesta 7, Von Morenberg, Trento (2008); Guangdong Station, Museo d’Arte, Guandong (2008); Emergency Biennale, Biennale di Istanbul, Istanbul (2007); Wherever We Go, Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco (2007); the 5th Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Museo d’Arte di He Xiangning, Shenzhen (2006); “Sweet Taboos” “Go Inside”, 3° Biennale di Tirana, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte, Tirana (2005); À l’ouest du sud de l’est, CRAC Centro Regionale d’Arte Contemporanea Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, Francia (2004); Villa Arson, Nizza (2004); Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula (2002); Tribù dell’Arte, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma (2001)
