Sung Tieu
9th Promotional Award of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen
30 Jun - 10 Nov 2024
Sung Tieu (*1987) will be receiving the 9th Promotional Award of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen on 30 June 2024. The award is endowed with prize money, an exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen and a publication.
Tieu creates minimalist environments and works using changing media such as installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, text and sounds, found objects and memorabilia. Her works are based on extensive research and are often created to interrelate with their immediate environment in the exhibition venue and in conjunction with her collaborators. They deal with questions of social responsibility and bureaucratic power structures in the context of social coexistence. In July 2023, a jury of experts chose the artist, who grew up in Berlin, as the latest winner and explained their decision as follows: “Sung Tieu is one of the most exciting voices of her generation. Born in Vietnam, at the age of five she followed her father – who had been working as a contract labourer in the GDR since the late 1980s – to the reunified Germany. In her works, she reflects on her own experience of migration, which unfolds along the complex fault lines of former East and West Germany and their respective allies. Her works are not solely biographical, however they are devoted to the ideological, economic and socio-political structures that define our social coexistence. Her work highlights the critical infrastructures that determine who or what achieves visibility.”
Curated by Thomas Thiel
Tieu creates minimalist environments and works using changing media such as installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, text and sounds, found objects and memorabilia. Her works are based on extensive research and are often created to interrelate with their immediate environment in the exhibition venue and in conjunction with her collaborators. They deal with questions of social responsibility and bureaucratic power structures in the context of social coexistence. In July 2023, a jury of experts chose the artist, who grew up in Berlin, as the latest winner and explained their decision as follows: “Sung Tieu is one of the most exciting voices of her generation. Born in Vietnam, at the age of five she followed her father – who had been working as a contract labourer in the GDR since the late 1980s – to the reunified Germany. In her works, she reflects on her own experience of migration, which unfolds along the complex fault lines of former East and West Germany and their respective allies. Her works are not solely biographical, however they are devoted to the ideological, economic and socio-political structures that define our social coexistence. Her work highlights the critical infrastructures that determine who or what achieves visibility.”
Curated by Thomas Thiel