Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2024: Sung Tieu 1992, 2025
In the organizer's words:
Curator: Léon Kruijswijk
Assistant curator: Linda Franken
The research-based practice of Sung Tieu (* 1987, UN) reflects on the subtle dynamics between individual life realities and overarching systemic forces. Through installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, text, video and sound, she examines archival, bureaucratic and institutional structures that determine inclusion and exclusion, legality and illegality.
In 1992, 2025, the artist addresses the effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Vietnamese contract workers from the former GDR and migrants like herself. In doing so, she examines how the socio-political conditions of the time had a lasting impact on social roles and communities. Tieu focuses on 1992 as a central point of reference - the year she arrived in Germany, which was marked by a wave of far-right violence that was further escalated by the actions of state institutions, including the police.
Tieu, who often takes a critical perspective on her immediate working environment, is using a new commission to implement institutional changes at KW that are due to come into force in 2025.
Sung Tieu is the winner of the Schering Stiftung 2024 Award for Artistic Research, which has been awarded jointly with the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion since 2020. In addition to prize money, the award includes an exhibition, which includes the production of new works, and a monograph.
The Schering Stiftung Prize for Artistic Research is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and awarded in cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
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