April 14
Happy birthday, Hiuwai
Wishing you the most wonderful year ahead. Full of new conversations, new territories to explore, and people worth getting lost with.
Head of Exhibitions, MACBA Barcelona
Now on view
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom
MACBA, Feb 14 – Sep 28, 2026
Co-produced with Nottingham Contemporary, Brown Arts Institute, Kunstinstituut Melly
"There is something valuable in getting lost in this kind of process. Getting lost in order to then emerge with something."
Contemporanea, 2025
2023–2024
MACBA, with Guim Camps
108 invited participants. Inhabiting, gathering, sharing, being permeable.
2023–2024
2023
MACBA, with Elvira Dyangani Ose. Co-produced with Sharjah Art Foundation
2019–2020
MACBA, with Dia Art Foundation (Jessica Morgan, Alexis Lowry)
2017
MACBA, with Bartomeu Mari. Traveled to K21, MMCA Seoul, Sharjah Art Foundation
2025
Panorama da Arte Contemporanea Portuguesa
Galeria Municipal do Porto, with Raphael Fonseca
20 artists, different generations. Sculpture, painting, photography, moving image, text.
2026
Samdani Art Foundation / Dhaka Art Summit
Guest curator. Ten Bangladeshi artists, score-based commissions across international institutions.
"You start from listening, from observing what is happening in the territory, and from there the exhibition takes shape."
Contemporanea, 2025
How the colonial paradigm has shaped contemporary society. From the 1955 Bandung Conference to present-day politics of memory.
Conditions of representation. Belonging, anti-colonial struggles, strategies for resistance.
Dissolving distinctions between humans and environment. Collective strategies in the face of climate crisis.
Construction from the bottom up. Starting from listening and observing what is happening in the territory.
K. Verlag / L'Internationale, 2022. Co-editor with Meagan Down, Nkule Mabaso, Pablo Martinez, Corina Oprea
More than 25 voices. A response to climate change and the toxic politics of today.
MACBA, 2016
Editorial Board, 2021–2023
Learning from Others: Towards a Visitor-Centered Museum
CIMAM Rapid Response Webinar, panelist
CIMAM Annual Conference
Buenos Aires, travel grantee
LOOP Barcelona Discover Award
International jury member, multiple editions
In conversation with Akram Zaatari
MACBA, public programme
Hiuwai Chu is Head of Exhibitions and Curator at MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, where she has worked since 2007. She studied anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University, and previously worked as associate editor at Aperture Foundation in New York.
Her areas of research are in relation to the conditions of representation, with special emphasis on diasporic communities, and how the colonial paradigm has shaped current societal and environmental conditions.
As an assistant curator at MACBA (2007–2016), she worked on exhibitions with John Baldessari, Rita McBride, Lawrence Weiner, The Otolith Group and Raqs Media Collective.
She is on the board of Cordova, an independent curatorial project in Barcelona. External tutor at Metafora Studio Arts. In 2022, she served as president of the expert committee selecting the Catalan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Lara Fluxa).
Positions
Boards, advisory, teaching
MACBA / Sharjah Art Foundation. Khalili, 2023
Zaida Trallero
MACBA. Anna Moreno, 2026
Kiasma, Helsinki. Steegmann Mangrane, 2023
Galeria Municipal do Porto. Lucido Devaneio, 2025
Max Andrews & Mariana Canepa Luna. Panorama 21, 2021
Jessica Morgan & Alexis Lowry
Dia Art Foundation. Posenenske, 2019
MUAC. Fraser, 2016
MACBA. Ourahmane, 2023
MACBA. Zaatari, 2017