Jao Moon

The experience of growing up in the marginalized periphery of Cartagena de Indias Colombia turned Jao Moon into a political body. Living in an environment of constant resistance made them question the predominant social orders, this became the matter of Jao Moon’s work.

Jao Moon’s work interrogates dominant social structures through the lens of queerness, migration, and diaspora.

Key works include Memory of Dislocation; Everybody Can Be / Everybody Cannot Be at Ballhaus Naunynstraße; and The Lifetime of Fire – Manifestos for a Queer Future, presented at HAU, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and Museo Anahuacalli (CDMX).

Their performances and collaborations have been shown at institutions including Volksbühne Berlin, Sophiensaele, Kampnagel Hamburg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Centre Pompidou Paris, HKW Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Liste Art Fair Basel, Tanz Quartier Wien 2025.