“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour”.
William Blake
Marked by her cosmopolitan origins, between Europe and Asia, and by an attention to the sonorous dimension of the world, the practice of Su-Mei Tse involves issues such as time, memory, musicality, and language. Presented in 2017-2019 at Mudam Luxembourg, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Yuz Museum in Shanghai and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, her exhibition Nested is the result of several years of research in different geographical contexts, starting with Italy and Asia. New directions are apparent in her work, including contemplation, our relation to the vegetable and the mineral, the multiplicity of modes of existence, and the possibility of a personal relationship with history.
Taking its title from two works in the exhibition that create a dialogue between the microcosm and the macrocosm, this panel discussion will explore the rich universe of the work Su-Mei Tse and its links to other fields, disciplines, and art forms. It gathers writers and curators from different backgrounds who have been following the work of Su-Mei for several years and who will highlight different facets of her practice.
SU-MEI TSE: A WHOLE UNIVERSE
Saturday, April 20, 2019, 14: 00-16: 00, TFAM Auditorium
Panel discussion with Doryun Chong (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong), Chia Chi Jason Wang (Curator and Art Critic) and Yang Yeung (Independent Curator and Art Writer), moderated by Christophe Gallois (Mudam Luxembourg), curator of the exhibition. Preceded by a discussion between Su-Mei Tse and Christophe Gallois.
The talk is in Chinese and English with simultaneous interpretation.
Free admission, no reservation required.
About artist, participants and moderator
Su-Mei Tse was born in 1973 in Luxembourg. She lives and works in Luxembourg and Berlin. Tse is an internationally-celebrated artist who rose to prominence in 2003 when she represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale and was awarded the prestigious Leono d’Oro award for her tripartite installation ‘Air Conditioned’. Her work has since been exhibited extensively including solo shows at Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2018); Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2017); Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona (2011); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2009); Art Tower Mito, Japan (2009); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2008); PS1, New York (2006); Casino, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (2006); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2005); Moderna Museet, Sweden (2004). Group exhibitions include: Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2009); National Gallery of Art, Poland (2009); Singapore Biennale (2008); Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); De Appel, Amsterdam (2005); Sao Paulo Biennale (2004). Tse has had recidencies in the Villa Medici, Academy of France in Rome, Italy from 2014 to 2015, in MIT List Visual Arts Center and MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA in 2008, and etc. She has additionally been the recipient of multiple prizes, including the Prize for Contemporary Art by the Foundation Prince Pierre of Monaco (2009) and the Edward Steichen Award, Luxembourg (2005).
Christophe Gallois, A graduate of the Université de Rennes 2 and holder of the Curating Contemporary Art MA from Royal College of Art in London, Christophe Gallois (born 1978) has been curator/head of exhibitions at Mudam Luxembourg since 2007. His curatorial practice, which is intimately linked to his reading, is articulated around notions such as image, time, language, and sound. At Mudam Luxembourg he has been the curator and co-curator of several major group shows, including The Space of Words (2009) and L’Image papillon (2013), and one-person exhibitions by Guillaume Leblon (2009), John Stezaker (2011), Sanja Ivekovic (2012), Fiona Tan (2016), Su-Mei Tse (2017), Katinka Bock (2018) and Jeff Wall (2018). He contributes regularly as both an essayist and interviewer to art magazines, exhibition catalogues and monographs.
Doryun Chong is Deputy Director, Curatorial and Chief Curator of M+, a new museum of visual culture that will open its Herzog & de Meuron–designed building in 2020, in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District. Appointed as the inaugural Chief Curator in 2013, Chong oversees all curatorial activities and programs, including acquisitions, exhibitions, learning and public programs, and digital initiatives encompassing the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art. Some of the exhibitions he has curated or co-curated at M+ include Mobile M+: Live Art (2015), Tsang Kin-Wah: The Infinite Nothing, Hong Kong in Venice (2015), Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief World Tour (2018), and Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint (2018). Prior to joining M+, Chong worked in various curatorial capacities at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2003–2009) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009–2013).
Born in 1961, Chia Chi Jason WANG lives and works in Taiwan as a curator and art critic.
He was the curator of the Taiwan Biennial 2008, the Taiwan Pavilion at the 51st International Art Exhibition of the Biennale of Venice 2005, and the 9th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale of Venice 2004. He also worked as co-curator of the 2002 Taipei Biennial. His other recent positions included Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2001). He has curated over forty exhibitions since 1998. In recent years, his attention is drawn more specifically towards senior major Chinese contemporary artists in Taiwan, China, and overseas. Recent major exhibitions he has curated include: The Distant Planet: The Art of Chao Chung-hsiang (Asia University of Modern Art, Taichung, 2019), Crisscrossing East and West: The Remaking of Ink Art in Contemporary East Asia (MOCA Yinchuan, China, 2017), Animal Farm: The Paintings of Su Wong-shen (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 10/2015-02/2016), Amassing the Essence: Thirty Years of Paintings by Liang Quan (Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2015), and Xu Bing: A Retrospective (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2014).
Beginning in 1992, he has contributed widely to various art catalogs and Chinese and English magazines, such as LEAP (Beijing), Art China (Shanghai), Modern Art (Taipei Fine Arts Museum), Artco (Taipei), Yishu (Taipei/Vancouver), Artist Magazine (Taipei), Chinese Art News (Taipei), Contemporary (London) and Art and Asia Pacific (Sydney). He also served on the Academic Advisory Board of Asia Art Archive from 2004 to 2009.
Yang Yeung is a writer of art and an independent curator. She founded the non-profit Soundpocket in 2008 and is currently its Artistic Director. In 2015, she started independent project A Walk with A3 located at a back alley in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong to support the right of art to be in the streets and right of pedestrians to encounter art as a daily experience. Currently Yeung is a member of the international research network Institute for Public Art and contributes research writings on place-making public art projects regularly to the network’s conference and archive. She is member of the independent art critics collective Art Appraisal Club (HK) and the International Art Critics Association (HK). She is also Councilor on the board of Make A Difference (MaD), a regional platform based in Hong Kong that encourages social innovation and creative change-making for good. She was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2013-14. She was selected to participate in the UNESCO training workshop on the 2005 Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in 2018. She currently teaches classics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.