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Ting Tsou is a curator, researcher and free-lance writer who lives and works in Berlin and Taipei. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany. In recent years, her art criticism and exhibition review articles have appeared in such periodicals as ARTouch.com, Artist, CLABO, No Man’s Land and other media. Her research interests lie in the cultures of the curatorial and exhibition history, with a focus on transdisciplinarity, contemporaneity, archive studies, canonization and historiography.

Her recent curatorial and research activities include the National Culture and Arts Foundation funded exhibition “Housing Things” (Yo-Chang Art Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Curator’s Incubator Program, 2021) and participation in “The Whole Life: An Archive Project” (Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, 2018-2022).

• 2022

  Jinshan No.14, Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi City, Taiwan

• 2021

  Housing Things, Yo-Chang Art Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan

• 2020

  Global Swarming — Theoretical Fun, ANDPRESS collective project, einBuch.haus, Berlin, Germany

• 2019

  The Eight Views of Taiwan — From Forming the Scenic Spots to Actualizing an Imagined Geography, exhibition-in-box

• 2018

  RE: Bachelor Machines, collective project, HGB Gallery, Leipzig, Germany

• 2018

  Jinshan No.14 — Unboxing, LIU Chien-Wei’s site-specific project, Miaoli, Taiwan

• 2011

  Delay Days, collective project, Taiwan Photo Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2010

  Situation — Glasshouse — Party, collective project, TNUA Glasshouse, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2010

  The Brightness of Inspiration — Crossover PartΙ Art VS. Cinema, SPOT-Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2009

  Multi — Being, Bamboo Curtain Studio, New Taipei City, Taiwan

• 2020-

  Doctoral candidate, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany, supervisor: Beatrice von Bismarck

• 2017-2019

  M.A., Cultures of the Curatorial, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany

• 2010-2013

  M.F.A., Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan

• 2006-2010

  B.F.A., Department of Fine Arts, with a Minor in Department of Motion Picture, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan

• 2020-

  Artist, Berlin-based special contributor

• 2014-2016

  Exhibition planner and technician, Thousand Bird Arts Co., Ltd, Taipei, Taiwan

• Selected Participating Projects

• 2016

  Working — Through: Vandy Rattana and His Ditched Footages, TheCube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2015

  An Asian Survey — Bruce Yonemoto, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2015

  Wu Tien-chang : Never say Goodbye, 56th La Biennale di Venezia, Taiwan Pavilion, Venice, Italy

• 2014

  9th Taipei Biennial: The Great Acceleration: Art in the Anthropocene, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2014

  Never odd or eveN, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

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• 2009-2014

  Video design assistant and project manager, Hexagon Creative Co., Ltd, Taipei, Taiwan

• Selected Participating Projects

• 2014

  Beyond Time, U-Theatre, December Dance, Brugge, Belgium

• 2012

  Beyond Time, U-Theatre, New Vision Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China

• 2011

  Proclaiming of Skin Surface, Sun-Shier Dance Theatre, Experimental Theatre, NTCH, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2009

  Clear Life, Vera Chen, Seoul Fringe Festival, Seoul, Korea

• 2022

  “The exhibition-rewritten history—Documenta: Politics and Art in Deutsches Historisches Museum” (written in Chinese; the original title:（被）改寫歷史的展覽──柏林德國歷史博物館「文件展：政治與藝術」), Artist No. 560

• 2021

  “Let Art Tell the Truth—Forensic Architecture and Its Investigate Commons”(written in Chinese; the original title: 讓藝術說出真相—法醫建築的「調查公域」), Artist No.557

• 2021

  “When The Imagined Foreign Geography Becomes Our Daily Landscape: 1927”(written in Chinese; the original title: 當他方的想像地理成為你我的日常風景，年：1927), No Man’s Land, 2021.8.3

• 2021

  “We Have Never Failed—Profiling Arts@ITRI”(written in Chinese; the original title: 我們不曾失敗過——側寫「藝術家進駐工研院」), Arts@ITRI, 2021.8

• 2021

  “A Glimpse into Brazilian Arts Institutions: Art Disney, Museums for the Poor and the Fugitive, and a Perfect Center of Public”(written in Chinese; the original title: 巴西藝文機構觀察：藝術迪士尼、貧民與逃亡者的博物館、完美的里民中心), CLABO, 2021.6.16

• 2020

  “An Imaginary Complex? When Cultural Institutions Become ‘National Business Cards”—On the Upcoming Journey of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin”(written in Chinese; the original title: 想像共合體？當文化機構成為「國家名片」——論柏林洪堡論壇即將開啟的新博物館之旅) , Artist No.547

• 2020

  “An Art Navigated National Landscape—Lost in America in n.b.k”(written in Chinese; the original title: 以藝術導航的國家風景——新柏林藝術協會「迷失在美國」) , Artist No. 547

• 2020

  “The Power of Vulnerability—11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: The Crack Begins Within”(written in Chinese; the original title: 脆弱的力量——第十一屆柏林雙年展「裂縫從內開始」), Artist No.545

• 2020

  “Painting Infinity — Katharina Grosse: It Wasn’t Us”(written in Chinese; the original title: 繪畫無限的現地繪畫——柏林漢堡車站美術館「卡塔琳娜．格羅斯：不是我們」), Artist No.544

• 2020

  “Art is Weapon—John Heartfield: Photography Plus Dynamite”(written in Chinese; the original title: 藝術就是武器：「約翰．哈特菲爾德——攝影加炸藥」), Artist No.543

• 2020

  1, 2, 3, Inhibition, Adjustment, Event, ANDPRESS, Berlin, Germany

• 2019

  “Culture, Research, Practice and Mediation of the Curatorial: Cultures of the Curatorial at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig”(written in Chinese; the original title: 策展的文化、研究、實踐與中介：德國萊比錫視覺藝術學院策展文化研究所), ARTouch.com, 2019.11

• 2019

  “Running Water Leaves No Trace—15th Biennale de Lyon Where Water Comes Together with Other Water”(written in Chinese; the original title: 藝術注生，流水無痕——第15屆里昂雙年展「匯流之所」), ARTouch.com, 2019.10

• 2019

  Decentralized Approach—How the Curatorial Reviews Histories in Exhibition, master colloquium, supervisors: Beatrice von Bismarck and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany

• 2018

  “Questioning the History: The 10th Berlin Biennial We don’t need the other hero”(written in Chinese; the original title: 對於歷史的再次質問，第十屆柏林雙年展「我們不需要另一個英雄」), ARTouch.com, 2018.7

• 2018

  “After the War, Whose Art Scene? The Fast-Expanding Art Landscape in Beirut”(written in Chinese; the original title: 戰爭之後，誰的藝術場景？訪貝魯特急遽擴張的藝術版圖), ARTouch.com, 2018.5

• 2018

  “Exhibition Review: Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War”(written in Chinese; the original title: 旁設政治：文化自由與冷戰), ARTouch.com, 2018.1

• 2010

  “The Various Experiences of Art and the Ways to Live and Strive—An Interview with Yao Jui-Chung”(written in Chinese; the original title: 多樣的藝術歷程與生存姿態——專訪姚瑞中), Journal of Fine Arts issue 1

• Academic Research

• 2019-2022

  Participation in “The Whole Life: An Archive Project,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany

• 2018-2020

  “Curatorial Practice as the Methodology of Interdisciplinary Research ─ Taking Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin as an Example,” grant research project, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan

• Art Residency

• 2021

  Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

• Solo Exhibition

• 2015

  The Memo About Her, ( ) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2013

  The Encounter with the Passed, 8 1/2 Gallery, TNUA, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2011

  Leak Through the Reality, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

• Awards and Funding

• 2019

  Curator’s Incubator Program, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan

• 2013

  First Prize, New Taipei City Creativity Award, Taiwan

• 2010

  Second Prize of Multimedia, the Arts Award of Taipei Country, Taiwan

• 2009

  Outstanding Art Prize of School of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan

• 2009

  Classic Collection (Mixed media), National Taiwan University of Arts

• Lecture and Presentation

• 2021

  Image Editing in the Curatorial Situation — From Book to Your Eyes________, lecture, Lightbox, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2021

  Your Curatorial Situation and My Hospitality, exhibition forum, Yo-Chang Art Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan

• 2019

  “The Eight Views of Taiwan—From Forming the Scenic Spots to Actualizing an Imagined Geography,” exhibition-in-box presentation, MZIN, Leipzig, Germany

• 2019

  “The Eight Views of Taiwan—From Forming the Scenic Spots to Actualizing an Imagined Geography,” exhibition-in-box presentation, artbook.Berlin 2019, Berlin, Germany