MING WONG
lives & works in Berlin
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EXHIBITIONS (selection; *denotes solo show)
2018
Busan Biennale Busan, South Korea A beast, a god and a line Museum of Moden Art, Warsaw, Poland
LUCKY ngbk, Berlin, Germany
Whose Land Have I Lit On Now? Contemplations on the Notion of Hostipitality Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
DAK’ART 2018 Dakar Biennale IFAN Museum of African Arts, Dakar, Senegal
A beast, a god and a line Para Site, Hong Kong
A beast, a god and a line Dhaka Art Summit 18, Bangladesh
HEN – liquid gender Haugar Vestfold Kunstmusem, Tønsberg, Norway
Creating Other Futures Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, Holland
2017
Remastered – Die Kunst der Aneignung Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Cinerama: Art & the Moving Image in Southeast Asia Singapore Art Museum
Shanghai Galaxy II Yuz Musuem, Shanghai, China
Performing Dramas chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
Entering the Landscape Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Invisible Cities. Moving Images from Asia Dallas Contemporary, Texas, USA
Re/Collecting Asia Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Spectrosynthesis. Asian LGBTQ Issues & Art Now Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
Propositions for a Stage: 24 Framesof a Beautiful Heaven Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
Sunshower. Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ming Wong. Learn German With Petra Von Kant* Tyneside cinema, Newcastle, UK
Up and Down. Die Avantgarde von Heute als Salonkunst von Morgen Kindl Zentrum für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Ambiguously Yours. Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
ğ – queer forms migrate Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2016
Temporal Turn. Art and Speculation In Contemporary Asia Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, USA
Invisible Cities Dallas Contemporary, Texas, USA
Frieze Film Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
Next Year in Marienbad* Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest, France
Alienation. National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Performing the Landscape Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
Video of the month Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Whispers. Recent Art from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Notes Toward A Chinese Science Fiction Opera* Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fan Behavior in Art Ludwig Mùzeum, Budapest, Hungary
Fan Behavior in Art Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Sydney Biennale Sydney, Australia
2015
8th Asia Pacific Triennial Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art & Artifact The Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
East Asia Feminism: FantAsia Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Fan Behavior in Art Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Fan Behavior in Art Kunsthaus, Nürnberg, Germany
Me in Me* Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
Next Year / L’Année Prochaine* Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Happy Together Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA
Fassbinder – NOW Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Open Sea Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France
A Journal of the Plague Year Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Crime Art Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
2014
Shanghai Biennial. – Social Factory Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
The Moving Museum Sishane Otopark, Istanbul, Turkey
Islands Off the Shores of Asia Spring Workshop/Para Site, Hong Kong
4th Mediations Biennial National Gallery Poznan, Poland
Art Unlimited Art Basel, Switzerland
Time Pieces Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Ming Wong: Angst Essen* Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
Pandamonium Momentum, Berlin, Germany
Bülent Wongsoy: Biji Diva!* carlier I gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Give Us The Future nbk – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Point De Vue, Images Du Virtuacité, Saint Gaudens, France
Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2013
Travaux domestiques* CAN – Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Fassbinder-NOW. His Work & Contemporary Video Art Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Cross-Strait Relations Parsons the New School for Design, New York, USA
Double Indemnity Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art After Marcel Broodthaers National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
La Biennale de Lyon – “Meanwhile… Suddenly and Then” Lyon, France
Rohkunstbau: Moral Schloss Roskow, Roskow, Germany
Me in Me* Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Journal of the Plague Year Para Site, Hong Kong, China
Between the Lines Former Tagesspiegel Building, Berlin
Cinema Pacific Presents: White Box Gallery, Portland & Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art,
Ming Wong* Eugene, Oregon, USA
The Life of Others Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
Extra Kino: Art goes Cinema OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
2012
Kann es Liebe sein Künstlerhaus Wien, Austria
Gebärde Zeichen Kunst – Gesture. Sign. Art. Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
I should be like you * Carlier/Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Kann es Liebe sein Cercle Cité, Luxemburg
Liverpool Biennial Liverpool, UK
Encounter, Experience and Environment Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Kann es Liebe sein Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Ming Wong: Making Chinatown TIFF – Toronto International Film Festival, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Masquerade Coreana Museum of Art, Korea
A trip to the Moon. Before and after Cinema Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Ming Wong: Making Chinatown* REDCAT, Los Angeles, US
2011
Persona Performa* Performa 11 at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York
On Received Pronunciation Banner Repeater, London, UK
Backstage Riders Former Tagesspiegel Building, Berlin, Germany
Berlin 2000-2011: Playing among the ruins Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Finding Correspondences Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Canada
Double Democracy Video art:gwangju:11, Gwangju, Korea
Rollenbilder – Rollenspiele Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
Invisibleness is Visibleness MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
Knotting: Swarm in the Era of Digital Media National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
LIFE OF IMITATION* Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
based in berlin Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin, Germany
Biji Diva! In Transit Festival, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Devo partire. Domani* Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
Singapore Biennale Singapore
LIFE OF IMITATION* CAST Gallery, North Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Ming Wong’s CYCLORAMA* Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
Echt? based on a true story Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
LIFE OF IMITATION* Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
2010
Unspooling-Artists & Cinema Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Gruppenbild* Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Essential Cinema Toronto International Film Festival, Canada
Gwangju Biennale Gwangju, South Korea
AH Oh Galeri NON, Istanbul, Turkey
Life & Death in Venice* Studio Tresorio, Naples, Italy
Napoli Teatro Festival* PAN, Naples, Italy
Sydney Biennale Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia
The Fate of Irony KAI10, Düsseldorf, Germany
Life of Imitation* Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Life & Death in Venice* Hermes Gallery, Singapore
Yebisu International Festival for Art Alternative Visions Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Life & Death in Venice* Gallery Invaliden1, Berlin, Germany
2009
Life of Imitation* Singapore Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy
Playing Homage Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Canada
The Simple Art of Parody Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
If There Is No Audience! Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
And the Difference Is Gertude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
The Agency of Words Text Festival, Bury Art Gallery, UK
Images Festival Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
Vain Efforts* Gallery 4A, Asia Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
Jakarta Biennale 09 Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
mononoaware* MK Galerie Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2008
And the Difference Is National University of Singapore Museum
I Queerelanti Galleria neon>campobase, Bologna, Italy
mononoaware* MK Galerie Berlin, Germany
Das Piraterieproblem Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Germany
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere Galerie Wendt + Friedman, Berlin, Germany
Vertraut oder Verdaut ZKM Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Angst Essen – Eat Fear* Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Kunstinvasion Blumengroßmarkt, Berlin, Germany
Filem-Filem-Filem* Singapore Fringe Festival
2000-2007
T.O.R.A.G.E: Ming Wong The Agency Gallery, London, UK, 2007
WE National University of Singapore Museum, 2007
Futurama and Re-inventing Tradition Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Germany, 2007
A Complete Guide to Rewriting Your History 2 Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany, 2006
LabiLabu The Esplanade, Singapore, 2005
Whodunnit?* Toynbee Studios, London, UK, 2005
Whodunnit?* Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK, 2004
Re:Thinking:Time Peterborough City Art Museum, UK, 2004
Michael Marriott & Ming Wong Windows Gallery, British Council Prague, Czech Republic,2003
Dia E Vento Teatro do Campo Alegre, Porto, Portugal, 2001
swipe2001 PVA MediaLab, Bridport, Dorset, UK, 2001
EAST International Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK, 2000
SCREENINGS
ENTER the real world Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2015
Pandamonium Momentum, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Kino der Kunst Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, München, Germany, 2013
OK/Extra Kino:Art Goes Cinema OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria, 2013
Mission Afterviews: Devo Partire. Domani Victoria Theatre, San Francisco, USA , 2012
Made in Germany Zwei Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, 2012
Videoart@Midnight Kino Babylon, Berlin, 2012
Films by George Kuchar, Ming Wong Elaine at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, 2011
Raumkontrolle Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, 2011
Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, 2010
Singapour, Malaisie – Le Cinéma Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2010
Duet for Cannibals Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2010
Stage of Desire Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung M.1, Hohenlockstedt, Germany, 2009
S1 Salon 2009 S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK, 2009
VideoVortex3 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2008
Film Programme Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Germany, 2008
Damn! I Wish I’d Done That!! Screening, Project Space 176, London, UK, 2008
PERFORMANCES
Live Art:Looking At The Stars Live Performance, Mobile M+, Hong Kong, 2015
Apocalypse Postponed Live performance, Absolut Art Bar, Art Basel Hong Kong, 2014
Blasting off into the Sinosphere Lecture-performance, Spring Workshop in collaboration with Para Site, Hong Kong, China 2014
Videoart@Midnight Live performance, Kino Babylon, Berlin, 2012
A Wedding Live performance, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, 2011
Art Must Be Beautiful Live performance / Debate, Intelligence Squared Asia, Art Hong Kong, 2011
Myths of the Artist Live performance / Panel, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2010
The Mothership Collective Live performance, South London Gallery, UK 2006
Lassie Come Home Live performance, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, 2006
HOMOFONIA Live performance, The British Library, London, UK, 2005
ARTIST TALKS
Field Meeting – Thinking Performance Asia Contemporary Art Week, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2015
Conversations at the Edge School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, 2015
Artist Talk The Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2015
Artist Talk Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Artist Talk Kunsthochschule Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Germany 2014
Between the Lines Braunschweig University of Art, Germany, 2013
Between the Lines Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa, 2013
Artist talk / tutorials Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts, Trondheim, Norway, 2013
Artist talk / tutorials CalArts, LA, USA, 2013
Artist talk / tutorials University of California, Irvine, USA, 2013
Hello It’s Me, Goodbye: Andy Warhol’s Cinema Panel discussion, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, 2012
Liverpool Biennial 2012 Liverpool, UK, 2012
Filmic Affairs – Schnittstellen zwischen Kunst und Kino Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany, 2012
Fuel4talk: Ming Wong with Haudenschild Garage, San Diego, CA, USA, 2012
Before and After Cinema. Conference, Cinema Sture, Stockholm, 2012
Ming Wong at Art Center Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, 2012
Artist talk Frank Sinatra School of Performing Arts, Astoria, 2011
Singapour, Malaisie – Le Cinéma Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2010
Unspooling-Artists & Cinema Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK 2010
Slade Contemporary Art Lecture Slade School of Art, University College London, UK 2010
An Evening with Ming Wong Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 2010
TEACHING
Guest Professor, New Media & Performance UdK University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany 2016-2018
Visiting Professor, Cultural Studies Dept Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2016
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS/RESIDENCIES
Federal State of Berlin government grant for artists. Berlin, Germany, 2014
Award of the Distinguished Alumni Medal, NAFA, Singapore, 2012
Special Mention (Expanding Worlds), 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009
Awarded the Wollita Kulturpreis, Berlin, Germany, 2008
One year residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, 2007-08
The Fire Station Residency and Bursary, awarded by ACME Studios, UK, 2005
Pearson Creative Research Fellowship, at the British Library, UK, 2003-05
London Artists Film & Video Award from Film London, UK, 2002/03
ACAVA First Base Studio Award, UK, 2000
EDUCATION
MFA (Fine Art Media) at the Slade School of Art, University College London, 1997-99
Diploma of Fine Arts (Chinese Art) at Nanyang Academy, Singapore, 1992-95