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Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2024: Sung Tieu
In her new body of work, 1992, 2025, Sung Tieu deepens her ongoing critical engagement with the 1980 recruitment agreement between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which led to the migration of approximately 60,000 Vietnamese contract workers to the GDR during the 1980s. While previous exhibitions focused on the living and working conditions of these workers up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, this exhibition shifts its lens to the far-reaching consequences of the GDR’s collapse. Through a series of newly commissioned works and an accompanying publication, Tieu investigates how the political and social upheavals, along with the pervasive racialised structures and discrimination of that era, have impacted the identities, roles, and social networks of the Vietnamese community in Germany—and continue to shape them to this day.
Tieu is the recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2024, which is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and awarded in cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Curator: Léon Kruijswijk
Assistant Curator: Linda Franken
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