Cinema Pacific Presents: Ming Wong
talk and performance via Skype in conjuction with Ming's installation Life and Death in Venice in the JSMA's Project Space Gallery

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HAPPY 2013!!
Look out for Ming's new solo exhibition this year at Shiseido Gallery in Tokyo, with works inspired by his research on Japanese cinema.

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Gebärde Zeichen Kunst at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
(10 Nov 2012 - 13 Jan 2013)
Opening 9 Nov, 7-10pm

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I Should Be Like You at Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
(3 Nov - 15 Dec 2012)
Opening 2 Nov, 6-9pm

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Meta-Ikon group show in Berlin
part of European Month of Photography (19 Oct - 03 November 2012)

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Reviews of Making Chinatown at Toronto International Film Festival
by Sholem Krishtalka for Toronto Standard
and by B. Ruby Rich for fandor.com

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Liverpool Biennial 2012
Ming plays on the role of the 'Chinese Detective' in a new commission for the Biennial exhibition The Unexpected Guest which explores notions of hospitality.
(15 Sept - 25 Nov 2012)
Learn more about it in his related contribution to Rhizome.

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Kadist Art Foundation interview
Ming talks about Making Chinatown and his new work After Chinatown in this video interview shot in San Francisco.

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Gillman Barracks Opening Exhibition
Ming is showing Kontakthope in the opening exhibition of Singapore's newest art hub.
(15 Sept - 30 Nov 2012)

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Kann es Liebe sein?
Lerne Deutsch mit Petra von Kant/Learn German with Petra von Kant is in a group exhibition "Kann es Liebe sein? (Can It Be Love?)"
(9-30 September 2012 at Grimmuseum, Berlin)
(12 October - 11 November 2012 at Cercle Cité, Luxemburg)
(19-25 November 2012 at Künstlerhaus Wien)

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TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival 2012
A site specific installation of Making Chinatown in hotel rooms at the Gladstone Hotel, as part of TIFF's Future Projections. (6-16 September 2012)

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Group show in Korea at Coreana Museum
Devo partire. Domani / I must go. Tomorrow in a group show Masquerade at Coreana Museum in Seoul, Korea. (30 August - 10 November 2012)

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Rohkunstbau 2012
Ming has been invited to take part in this annual exhibition curated by Mark Gisbourne
(Potsdam, 24 June - 16 Sept 2012)
*Sadly, due to funding cuts, Rohkunstbau was cancelled this year.

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Made in Germany Zwei
Screening of Ming's Angst Essen/Eat Fear at Sprengel Museum, Hannover.
(2 June 2012, 1pm)

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Fuel4Talk: Ming Wong with Aram Moshayedi
Converstion and video screening at Haudenschild Garage in San Diego.
(22 March 2012)

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Midnight Kino-Performance at Babylon Mitte!
A one-night-only screening of Life & Death in Venice and Devo partire. Domani
Single-channel version, specially edited for the cinema
With live piano accompaniment by the artist
Part of Videoart at Midnight a project by Olaf Stüber & Ivo Wessel
(Kino Babylon, Berlin Mitte. Friday 16 March 2012, 24:00)

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Before and After Cinema
Ming Wong in conversation with Sara Arrhenius, director of Bonniers Konsthall.
International conference on the status of the moving image in 20th century and contemporary art.
(Cinema Sture, Stockholm, 9-10 March 2012)

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Persona Performa at Bonniers Konsthall
The video installation version of Persona Performa is featured in the exhibition A Trip To the Moon. Before and After Cinema. (8 February 2012 - 8 April 2012)

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Ming Wong: Making Chinatown at REDCAT, Los Angeles
For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming is showing a new video installation drawing on key scenes from Roman Polanski's Chinatown.
(5 February 2012 - 1 April 2012)

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Persona Performa at the Museum of the Moving Image as part of Performa 2011
For the Performa 2011 Commissions, Ming will present a performance inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Persona. Performances on 10 & 11 November 2011.

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Devo Partire. Domani / I must go. Tomorrow at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
As part of the exhibition Berlin 2000-2011: Playing among the Ruins
(23 September 2011 - 9 January 2012)

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Ming Wong at Backstage Riders in Berlin
in a group exhibition sponsored in part by KUNST magazin (7 - 11 September 2011)

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In Love for the Mood at art gwangju:11
presented by Vitamin Creative Space as part of the Double Democracy project
(1 - 4 September 2011)

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Ming receives Performa Commission
Look out for Ming´s new project at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York commissioned for Performa 2011 (November 2011)

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Life and Death in Venice at Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Parallel to the Salzburg Festival 2011, as part of the exhibition Rollenbilder - Rollenspiele (23 July - 30 October 2011)

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2 shows in Taiwan
Ham&cheesomelet is in Invisibleness is Visibleness at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (9 July - 4 September 2011)
Kontakthope is in Knotting:Swarm in the Era of Digital Media at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2 July - 10 October 2011)

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Ming's first solo show in Japan
Ming Wong: LIFE OF IMITATION at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (25 June 2011 - 28 August 2011)
See documentation of the installation at the Hara Museum here

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In Transit 2011 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
As part of the In Transit Performing Arts Festival, Ming presented his first 'live' performance, Biji Diva!, inspired by the life and music and films of Turkish transgender diva, Bülent Ersoy (18 June 2011)

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based in Berlin
Ming presented Kontakthope at Atelierhaus Monbijoupark as part of based in Berlin (10 June 2011)

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Hong Kong International Art Fair
Four Malay Stories and Filem-Filem-Filem presented by Vitamin Creative Space at Art HK (26 - 29 May 2011)

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A Wedding in Hong Kong
Ming Wong participated in A Wedding, a project presented by Para/Site in Hong Kong (26 May 2011)

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Art Must Be Beautiful Debate
Ming Wong took part in the debate "Art Must Be Beautiful," organized by Intelligence Squared Asia during Art HK (Friday, 27 May 2011) along with Lars Nittve, Simon de Pury, David LaChapelle and Stephen Bailey
Click here to see documentation of Ming's performance.

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Solo show at Villa Romana
Devo partire. Domani / I must go. Tomorrow at Villa Romana in Florence, Italy.
6 May - 5 June 2011.
Click here to see documentation of the installation at Villa Romana

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Singapore Biennale
Asian premiere of Devo partire. Domani / I must go. Tomorrow at Singapore Biennale
13 March - 15 May 2011
Click here to see documentation of the installation in Singapore

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Solo show in Tasmania
Ming Wong: LIFE OF IMITATION at CAST Gallery in Tasmania, Australia as part of 10 Days on the Island Festival, 24 Mar - 24 Apr 2011

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Ming's first solo show in China
Ming Wong's CYCLORAMA opens at Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou on Sunday 27 Feb 2011

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HAPPY NEW YEAR
2011 starts off with Ming's first US museum solo exhibition at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington

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Art Basel Miami
Ming's Life & Death in Venice at Vitamin Creative Space's booth, 2-5 Dec 2010

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Myths of the Artist symposium @ Tate Modern
Ming Wong's talk at Tate Modern on 20 Nov 2010

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An Evening with Ming Wong @MoMA
Ming Wong's talk at Museum of Modern Art in NYC on 18 Oct 2010

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Unspooling Artists & Cinema @ Cornerhouse Manchester
Group Exhibition 2 Oct 2010 - 9 Jan 2011

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Kontakthope solo project at n.b.k. Showroom
Curated by Kathrin Becker, Sophie Goltz
Sept 28 – Nov 5, 2010
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)

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abc art berlin contemporary 'light camera action'
Ming's outdoors cinema billboard at the abc art fair 7-10 Oct

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FRIEZE magazine Sept 2010
Dominic Eichler writes about his travels with Ming as they revisit shooting locations in Naples for his piece inspired by Pasolini's Teorema.

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Essential Cinema Exhibition at Toronto International Film Festival
12 Sept - 11 Oct 2010

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ART iT online magazine article & essays
Interview by Andrew Maerkle, essays by Adele Tan & HuFang

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ArtReview magazine Cover Feature April 2010
Axel Lapp writes about Ming's Life & Death in Venice.