3 April 25, 7 pm

In German

Venue: KW 4th floor

Registration online.

On the occasion of the exhibition Sung Tieu – 1992, 2025, KW presents an artist talk between Sung Tieu and Bea Schlingelhoff, moderated by art historian Sabeth Buchmann. The discussion will focus on the specific forms of institutional critique that both artists pursue in their respective practices. It will explore their distinct methodological approaches as well as their thematic focuses.

While Tieu examines 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 a space for 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 the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Buchmann is co-editor of PoLyPen (b_books); board member of Texte zur Kunst, Zeszyty Artystyczne, The European Kunsthalle and the documenta Institut. Her publications include: Kunst als Infrastruktur (2022); Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetic, and Critique (2022, co-ed.); Putting Rehearsals to the Test.: Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics (2016, co-ed.); Art After Conceptual Art Generali Foundation (2006, co-ed.); Denken gegen das Denken – Produktion, Technologie, Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer und Hélio Oiticica, Berlin: b_books/ PolyPen (2007).

Bea Schlingelhoff’s work has been shown at Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Bergen

Kunsthall; Kunstverein Köln, Cologne; Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf; Arcadia Missa,

London; Instituto 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. Recent solo

exhibitions include No River to Cross, Kunstverein München, Munich (2021) and Declined

Declinations, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2022).

Schlingelhoff received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles in 2000 and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York in 2001–2002. She currently teaches at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, and lives and works in Switzerland.

Sung Tieu’s recent solo exhibitions took place at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (2024); Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Kunst Museum Winterthur; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Amant, New York, NY; and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (all 2023). Her work has also been featured 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.