Sung Tieu
9th Promotional Award of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen
30 Jun - 10 Nov 2024
Installation view, Sung Tieu, Without Full Disclosure, 9th Rubens Prize Promotional Award of the City of Siegen, MGKSiegen, 2024, Courtesy the artist, Emalin, London, Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
Sung Tieu, There Is Green Gas in Ohio State, 2023, Reverberations, 2023, Installation view, MGKSiegen, 2024, Courtesy the artist, Emalin, London, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
Sung Tieu, Per Square Meter, 2024, Installation view MGKSiegen, 2024, Courtesy the artist and MGKSiegen, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
Sung Tieu, Mural for America, 2023, Installation view MGKSiegen, 2024, Courtesy the artist, Emalin, London, Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
Sung Tieu, Infra-Specter, Exhibiton view, Amant NY, © Amant, Photo: New Document
Sung Tieu, Mural for America, 2023, Courtesy the artist, Emalin, London, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg and Galerie Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Photo: New Document
Installation view, Sung Tieu, The Ruling, Ordet, Milan, 2023, Courtesy the artist, Ordet Milan and Galerie Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Photo: Nicola Gnesi
Sung Tieu, The Ruling (Population of Indochina), 2023, Installation view Ordet, Milan, 2023, Courtesy the artist, Ordet Milan and Galerie Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Photo: Nicola Gnesi
Sung Tieu, There Is Green Gas in Ohio State, 2023, Reverberations, 2023, Installation view, MGKSiegen, 2024, Courtesy the artist, Emalin, London, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer
Sung Tieu (*1987 in Hai Duong, Vietnam, lives and works in Berlin) will receive the 9th Rubens Prize Promotional Award of the City of Siegen on 30th June 2024. The prize-giving will take place during the exhibition opening at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen.
Sung Tieu creates minimalist environments, working with various media such as installation, sculpture, video, photography, drawing, text, and sound. Documents, found objects and memorabilia, even down to the interiors of public offices play a key role. Her works are based on extensive research and are conceived in relation to the exhibition venue’s immediate surroundings and in collaboration with several contributors. Her installations often combine documentary and fictional elements, being characterised by a simple formal language enabling the objects themselves to speak.
Sung Tieu has earned a reputation for works that reflect her own migration experience after the fall of the wall. Born in Vietnam, the artist followed her father, who was working as a contract labourer in the GDR, to a reunified Germany at the age of five. Against this background, her art deals with questions of social responsibility and the impact of bureaucratic power structures and social control. She also examines the global implications of colonialism and the Cold War. The artist concerns herself with the ideological, economic and socio-political structures that determine our coexistence and are manifest in standardisation, measurability and quantifiability. She is interested in the information concealed behind seemingly transparent processes, open data, political news, and everyday objects. The focus is on critical infrastructures determining who and what will become visible.
Curated by Thomas Thiel
Sung Tieu creates minimalist environments, working with various media such as installation, sculpture, video, photography, drawing, text, and sound. Documents, found objects and memorabilia, even down to the interiors of public offices play a key role. Her works are based on extensive research and are conceived in relation to the exhibition venue’s immediate surroundings and in collaboration with several contributors. Her installations often combine documentary and fictional elements, being characterised by a simple formal language enabling the objects themselves to speak.
Sung Tieu has earned a reputation for works that reflect her own migration experience after the fall of the wall. Born in Vietnam, the artist followed her father, who was working as a contract labourer in the GDR, to a reunified Germany at the age of five. Against this background, her art deals with questions of social responsibility and the impact of bureaucratic power structures and social control. She also examines the global implications of colonialism and the Cold War. The artist concerns herself with the ideological, economic and socio-political structures that determine our coexistence and are manifest in standardisation, measurability and quantifiability. She is interested in the information concealed behind seemingly transparent processes, open data, political news, and everyday objects. The focus is on critical infrastructures determining who and what will become visible.
Curated by Thomas Thiel