Concurrent to the award, a solo exhibition by Sung Tieu, titled “Without Full Disclosure”, will open across eleven rooms of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, bringing together works from the last seven years.
Sung Tieu's art deals with questions of social responsibility and the impact of bureaucratic power structures and social control. She examines the global implications of colonialism and the Cold War and its aftermath in often minimalist environments, working with various media such as installation, sculpture, video, photography, drawing, text and sound.
Sung Tieu is interested in the information concealed behind seemingly transparent processes, open data, political news, and everyday objects, laying bare the ideological, economic and socio-political structures that determine our coexistence and are manifest in standardisation, measurability and quantifiability.
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 viewers to intuitively approach the objects on view.
Alongside the award and exhibition, an eponymous publication, “Sung Tieu. Without Full Disclosure” will be published by Distanz Verlag; an over 1000-page artist’s book, it includes an introductory text and an interview with the artist.
Curator: Thomas Thiel
Assistant Curator: Jessica Schiefer
Biography
Since 2015, Sung Tieu’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Most recently, the artist has staged solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne; Oakville Galleries, CA (all 2024); Kunst Museum Winterthur, CH; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US; Amant, New York, US; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n. b.k.) (all 2023); CAPC - Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.); Mudam, Luxembourg (all 2022); Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2021); Nottingham Contemporary, UK, and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2020). Her works have been shown at 34th Biennale de São Paulo (2021) and 14th Shanghai Biennale, China (2023). In 2024, the artist will take part in the 15th Gwangju Biennale. Tieu is the winner of the Frieze Artist Award 2021, the ars viva Prize 2021, and the Audience Award of the Nationalgalerie Berlin Prize 2021; this year, in 2024, she also received the Schering Foundation Prize for Artistic Research. She lives and works in Berlin.
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