Künstlerinnengespräch Sung Tieu, Bea Schlingelhoff und Sabeth Buchmann – Heutige Formen der Institutionskritik

In the organizer's words:

April 3, 25, 7 p.m.

In German language

Location: KW 4.OG

Registration online.

On the occasion of the exhibition Sung Tieu - 1992, 2025, KW invites you to an artist talk between Sung Tieu and Bea Schlingelhoff, moderated by art historian Sabeth Buchmann. The conversation is dedicated to the specific forms of institutional critique that both artists pursue in their respective practices. The specific methodological approaches of both positions will be examined as well as their thematic focuses. While Tieu deals with the often overlooked entanglements of German history, transnational migration and colonial legacies, Schlingelhoff focuses on mechanisms of exclusion within cultural institutions and their historical continuities. The discussion opens up a reflection on different forms of institutional critique and their potential to make hegemonic narratives visible and deconstruct them.

About the speakers:

Sabeth Buchmann is Professor of Modern and Post-Modern Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Buchmann is co-editor of PoLyPen (b_books); advisory board member of Texte zur Kunst, Zeszyty Artystyczne, the European Kunsthalle and the documenta Institute. Her publications include: Art as Infrastructure (2022); Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique (2022, co-editor); Putting Rehearsals to the Test: Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics (2016, co-editor); Art After Conceptual Art (Generali Foundation, 2006, co-editor); Thinking Against Thinking - Production, Technology, Subjectivity in Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer, and Hélio Oiticica, Berlin: b_books/PoLyPen (2007).

Bea Schlingelhoff's work has been shown at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Bergen Kunsthall; Kunstverein Köln; Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf; Arcadia Missa, London; Istituto Svizzero Milano; Schloss, Oslo; Manifesta 9, Genk; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, among others.

Her most recent solo exhibitions include No River to Cross at Kunstverein München, Munich (2021) and Declined Declinations at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2022).

Schlingelhoff received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles in 2000 and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York from 2001-2002. She currently teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts and lives and works in Switzerland.

Sung Tieu's most recent solo exhibitions have been held at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, (2024); Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Kunst Museum Winterthur, MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, Amant in New York, NY, and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, (all 2023). Her work has also been included in major international exhibitions, including the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024), the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023) and the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021). Following 1992, 2025 at KW, Tieu is preparing a major solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern in 2025.

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Online registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kwinstituteforcontemporaryart/1616292