Nefkens used to buy art. He has mostly stopped now, becoming instead, ArtReview wrote in May, ‘a collector of conversations and connections’, working with approximately 60 art institutions towards commissioning new videowork for their collections. Attempting a more focused philanthropic model, the former journalist’s footprint doesn’t end there: he estimates those works are then shown around 24 further times elsewhere. This year his foundation worked with the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, À+, Hong Kong and Singapore Art Museum to fund a new work by Philippines-based John Torres & Shireen Seno; with Museu Tàpies to bring a film by Syrian artist Huda Takriti into the Barcelona institution’s collection; and with Delhi’s Prameya Art Foundation, Dubai’s Ishara Art Foundation, Antwerp’s M HKA, Bangkok’s deCentral, Hong Kong’s Para Site and Sydney’s Artspace on a film by Indian artist Vishal Kumaraswamy. In November the foundation announced its biggest initiative yet: a $120,000 Eurasia Moving Image Commission. Meanwhile the foundation saw the fruits of its funds in shows at institutions ranging from MOCA Taipei to MCAD Commons, Manila.