Book Launch: Sung Tieu – 1992, 2025 mit Linda Franken, Léon Kruijswijk, Dan Solbach, Sung Tieu & Raoul Zöllner

In the organizer's words:

May 3, 2025, 4 p.m.
In English language
Location: KW Studio

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On the occasion of the publication of Sung Tieu - 1992, 2025 , KW invites you to a conversation with participating editors and authors.

The publication accompanying the exhibition of the same name was developed jointly by the artist Sung Tieu, the curator Léon Kruijswijk and the assistant curator Linda Franken. It brings together different perspectives on the themes of the exhibition. The text contributions include an interview between Franken and Tieu, which provide insights into the conceptual and methodological processes behind the artistic work. In an associative essay, Kruijswijk and Raoul Zöllner reflect on KW as an institution and its spatial location as well as the Berlin districts of Marzahn and Lichtenberg in the context of 1992 and 2025. In addition, Thu Fandrich and Tamara Hentschel (Reistrommel e. V.) use oral history to trace the upheavals of the early 1990s in Berlin - formulated and expanded with additional sources by Linda Franken.

The design of the publication, created by Dan Solbach, refers to KW, a history - a book that was published in 2021 as part of KW's 30th anniversary and documents a history of the institution. The design of 1992, 2025 not only continues an existing debate, but also opens up a new space for alternative histories that focus on previously less visible narratives. With 1992, 2025, KW, a history is supplemented by parallel stories and contemporary perspectives, which will be discussed in greater depth at the book launch.

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The publication is co-published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne.

Sung Tieu is the winner of the Schering Stiftung 2024 Award for Artistic Research, which has been awarded jointly with the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion since 2020. In addition to prize money, the award includes an exhibition, which includes the production of new works, and a monograph.

The Schering Stiftung Prize for Artistic Research is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and awarded in cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

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More info: https://www.kw-berlin.de/book-launch-sung-tieu-1992-2025/