Renan Laru-an

Director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin

Renan Laru-an (b. 1989, Berlin/Sultan Kudarat) is a researcher, curator and the artistic director of SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin. He creates exhibitionary, public, and research programs that study ‘insufficient’ and ‘subtracted’ images or subjects at the juncture of development and integration projects. Laru-an is a founding member of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network (PCAN), a recently initiated public institution for contemporary art temporarily housed at the University of the Philippines Vargas Museum.

Renan has been (co-)curator of the 2nd Biennale Matter of Art, Prague (2022); the 6th Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2019); the 8th OK.Video—Indonesia Media Arts Festival, Jakarta (2017); and other exhibitions.

Laru-an’s scholarship has been supported by the Foundation for Arts Initiatives, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and other fellowships. He was Curatorial Advisor to the 58th Carnegie International.

Laru-an’s visit is organised in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute in the UK and Ireland and the Goethe-Institut Finnland.

A person with short dark hair and glasses standing in front of a tree, wearing a colourful shirt.

Renan Laru-an.