Timoteus Anggawan Kusno is a visual artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice spans installations, moving images, and institutional interventions. His work stretches across the blurred boundaries of fiction, history, fantasy, and memory, interrogating the coloniality of power and the unseen. Kusno examines the medium’s role in narratology, critically engaging with editing and production structures to reflect on history-making and its entanglements with power, ideology, and structured ignorance.

Kusno’s work has been presented internationally at major cultural institutions including Tate Modern (London), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), MoCA Taipei, Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, ILHAM Gallery (Kuala Lumpur), Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing), BOZAR (Brussels), the Mumbai City Museum, Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Gwangju Biennale, Sharjah Art Foundation, and Biennale Equator, among others.

His accolades include the Han Nefkens Foundation-Loop Barcelona Video Production Award (2021), the VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images grant (2023), and support from the Mondriaan Fonds (2024). His works are held in the collections of institutions such as the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato, Italy) and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, South Korea). He has participated in the ACC Rijksakademie Residency, the Locarno Residency at the Locarno Film Festival, and is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents. His films have been screened at international festivals including Berlinale, IFFR Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, CPH:DOX, and Ji.hlava IDFF. In 2025, the International Film Festival Rotterdam featured a focused program on his works.

Since 2013, Kusno has developed the Centre for Tanah Runcuk Studies, a fictional institution dedicated to experimental research on the (lost) territory of Tanah Runcuk in the Dutch East Indies. This long-term project involves historians, ethnographers, artists, curators, and writers in a critical investigation of historical narratives and their construction.

Kusno also engages regularly in teaching and guest lecturing, with past invitations from institutions such as the Hessen Film and Media Academy (Berlin), Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam), Beaux-Arts de Paris, Tokyo University of the Arts, and Peking University (Beijing). His essays have appeared in Third Text Online, Retorik, and other publications. He lives and works between Amsterdam (NL) and Yogyakarta (ID).