Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu
1992, 2025
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
February 15 – May 5, 2025
Sung Tieu
Without Full Disclosure – Ohne Offenlegung
MGK Siegen, Siegen, Germany
June 30 – November 10, 2024
Sung Tieu
Perfect Standard
April 27 – June 8, 2024
Sung Tieu
The Ruling
Ordet, Milan, Italy
October 28 – December 2, 2023
Sung Tieu
One Thousand Times
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
September 16 – November 19, 2023
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
Sung Tieu
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
September 14, 2023 – January 7, 2024
Sung Tieu
Amour Systémique
Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux
April 7, 2023 – January 5, 2025
Sung Tieu
Civic Floor
Curated by Natalie Bell
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
April 4 – July 30, 2023

Infra-Specter
Sung Tieu
Amant, New York
March 30 – September 10, 2023
Sung Tieu
No Jobs, No Country
Curated by Anna Lena Seiser
n.b.k., Berlin
March 11 – May 7, 2023
Sung Tieu
Civic Floor
Curated by Michelle Cotton
Mudam Luxembourg
October 8, 2022 – February 5, 2023
Sung Tieu
ars-viva-Preis für Bildende Kunst
Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
November 27, 2021 – January 16, 2022
Sung Tieu
Song For VEB Stern-Radio
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
June 16, 2021 – February 27, 2022
Sung Tieu
Multiboy
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
June 12 – October 3, 2021
Sung Tieu
In Cold Print
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
February 8 – August 31, 2020
Sung Tieu
Zugzwang
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
January 31 – August 30, 2020
- Sung Tieu with Remco Torenbosch, Metropolis M, 2024
- Architectures of Control: Sung Tieu, Art Asia Pacific, Frances Arnold, 2023
- Sung Tieu with Amelia Saul, The Brooklyn Rail, 2023
- Not Fracking Around, ArtReview, Cassie Packard, 2023
- Alternative Investments, Artforum, Catherine Quan Damman, 2023
- Der Sound der Sichtbarkeit, Art Kunstmagazin, Raphael Dillhof, 2023
- Sung Tieu, Cura, Paul Rekret, 2021
Publications:

Sung Tieu
One Thousand Times
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Snoeck
2023
978-3-86442-426-7

Oath against Minimalism
Sung Tieu
Spector Books
2020
9783959054133
CV
Solo Exhibitions
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2025
- 1992, 2025, KW Instititute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
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2024
- The Benchmark, Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany
- Civic Floor, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
- echo, Sung Tieu with Martin Beck, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
- Der Förderpreis zum Rubenspreis der Stadt Siegen, MGK Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
- Perfect Standard, Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Germany
- One Thousand Times, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
- Civic Floor, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada
- Steven Rhall and Sung Tieu: Statecraft, MUMA, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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2023
- Sung Tieu: The Ruling, Ordet, Milan, Italy
- Sung Tieu: Unbroken, Intermission, Piraeus, Greece
- One Thousand Times, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Sung Tieu: Civic Floor, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
- Infra-Specter, Amant, New York, USA
- Sung Tieu: No Jobs, No Country, n.b.k. Showroom, Berlin, Germany
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2022
- Sung Tieu: Clock Against Idealism, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain
- CONDITION 01 : SUNG TIEU – MOVING TARGET SHADOW DETECTION, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, France
- Sung Tieu: Civic Floor, Mudam, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Everything Or Nothing, Sfeir Semler, Hamburg, Germany
- Sung Tieu Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, Austria
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2021
- Sung Tieu – Fall, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Sung Tieu, Stedelijk Museum Commission, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Multiboy, Stiftung Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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2020
- What is your |x|?, Emalin, London, England
- In Cold Print, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
- Zugzwang, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
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2019
- Park Piece, Fragile, Berlin, Germany
- Formative Years on Dearth, Parrhesiades, The Yard & Flat Time House, London, England
- Loveless, Piper Keys, London, UK
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2018
- Song for Unattended Items, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
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2017
- Remote Viewing, Nha San Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Coral Sea as Rolling Thunder, Art Basel Statements, Basel, Switzerland
- Memory Dispute, Sfeir-Semler Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
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2015
- Emotion Refuge, Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
- Alien Refuge, FIAC Art Fair, Paris, France
- Subnational Enterprise, Dong Xuan Center & Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin, Germany
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2014
- TROI OI, in various Vietnamese flower shops in Berlin’s subway stations, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions
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2025
- No Walking in Circles, UA26, Vienna, Austria
- ACCUMULATION – ÜBER ANSAMMELN, WACHSTUM UND ÜBERFLUSS. Erste Sequenz, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
- We haven’t opened yet but we are Working on it and are doing our best to meet your expectations!, Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg, DK
- Shelf Life, Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Germany
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2024
- Setting the Tone of the Exhibition—The Anatomy of Exhibition Openings, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, SE
- IN.SIGHT – Die Schenkung Schröder, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
- Air de repos (Breathwork), Capc. Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- SOCIETY: OR INFINITE REHEARSALS, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
- Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Dizzying Effect, Hua International, Berlin, Germany
- A Soundscape of the 21st Century, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
- Long-Distance, 4th Kamias Triennial, Toronto, Canada
- Alltag und Epoche, EXILE, Erfurt, Germany
- SOFT POWER, DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
- Echos der Bruderländer, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
- Coming Soon, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France
- The Persistence of a Present Past, Société, Berlin, Germany
- 118½, Emalin, London, England
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2023
- Guest Relations, Jameel Art Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Cosmos Cinema, 14th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
- Long Gone, Still Here - Sound as Medium, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
- Revolutionary Romances? Globale Kunstgeschichten in der DDR, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
- The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
- Cry Me A River, SIMIAN, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Assembly, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- AMOUR SYSTÉMIQUE, CAPC – musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- on affairs, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria
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2022
- Mostly Sunny, FRAGILE, Berlin, Germany
- Prolog: Revolutionary Romances, Albertinum Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- World out of Joint, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
- INFORMATION (Today), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
- Tomorrow is a Different Day, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Hand to your ear, Part 2 (noise/silence), Emalin, London, England
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2021
- Nation, Narration, Narcosis: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
- Allied, Kyiv Biennial 2021, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Endless Garment 2, X Museum, Beijing, China
- Stars Down to Earth, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
- Ars Viva 2021, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Histories Of A Forever War, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
- Metabolic Rift, Atonal Festival, Berlin, Germany
- Though It’s Dark, I Still Sing, 34th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
- TECHNO, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
- INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
- Pop Up: Artist Running #3’ by soda, Void+, Tokyo, Japan
- A Sculpture in Search of an Author, LAYR, Vienna, Austria
- Last Year, Your Palm Trees, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
- Collecting Dissonance, Auto Italia, London, England
- HI-STORYTELLING, Sfeir Semler, Hamburg, Germany
- For Refusal, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
- Benefit of the Doubt, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany
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2020
- Listening: Resonant Worlds, Arts Maebashi, Tokyo, Japan
- Ars Viva 2021, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
- In the Forest, Even the Air Breathes, GAMeC Museum, Bergamo, Italy
- Paranoia TV, steirischer herbst ‘20,Kleine Zeitung, Graz and Klagenfurt, Austria
- Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
- Touch, Peles Empire, Berlin, Germany
- Recession Grimace, Klosterruine, Berlin, Germany
- Come closer, Biennale Matter of Art Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
- Nameless. echoes, spectres, hisses, A.I. Gallery, London, England
- REALITY, Tropez, Berlin, Germany
- Real Time, Seventeen, London, England
- Platform: London, David Zwirner Online, London, England
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2019
- We shall survive in the memory of others, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
- The Season of Cartesian Weeping, East London Cable, David Roberts Foundation, London, England
- back there, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
- The Ghost War, WTF Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
- Mercury, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
- While I Kiss The Sky, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
- Empty Vase, Vacancy Gallery, Shanghai, China
- Open Studios, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
- HybrID, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Deep Sounding - History as multiple narratives, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
- S/F Photography, or a Monolith after 200 years, Kayoko Yuki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Artists Use Photography, Praz Delavallade Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- Lifehacks, BQ Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- A Fear of Monsters, Asia Film Archive, Singapore, Singapore
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2018
- SKY PAINTING, Unit 21 – Penarth Centre, London, England
- The Culture Collider, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland
- Diaspora, Ma Homey, Space _31, Berlin, Germany
- UnAuthorised Medium, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- No War, No Vietnam, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
- If you need guidance please ask your colleague, Mathias Güntner Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
- Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
- First I have to put my face on, Like A Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, Italy
- DECREATION, Whitstable Biennial, Kent, England
- Domestic Detail, Play-Co, Studio Ed Fornieles, London, England
- Die Stelle des Schnitts, film programme, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
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2017
- DECREATION, 51zero Film Festival, Rochester, England
- DISPLA(Y)CED, Kunstverein Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz and in public spaces, Dresden, Germany
- Original Fake, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, Spain
- The Stillness Of A Departure, Polansky Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
- Plazoleto, Skyline Plaza, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Gender, Identity and Material, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
- Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
- Neue Kunst In Hamburg, Multiple Box, Hamburg, Germany
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2016
- Park View, Frankfurt am Main Berlin Project Space Festival, Berlin, Germany
- This Is Your Replacement, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
- W A R II, Mostyn, Mostyn, Wales
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2015
- By Boat (Farewell), Gallery José Garcia, Mexico City, Mexico
- DEEP SKIN, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOlab), Ontario, Canada
- Group Show, Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany