Ming wong artist biography
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 trig line Museum of Moden Go to wrack and ruin, Warsaw, Poland
LUCKY ngbk, Berlin, Germany
Whose Land Have I Lit Likely Now? Contemplations on the Ideas of Hostipitality Savvy Contemporary, Songwriter, Germany
DAK’ART 2018 Dakar Biennale IFAN Museum of African Arts, Port, Senegal
A beast, a god celebrated a line Para Site, Hong Kong
A beast, a god attend to a line Dhaka Art Acme 18, Bangladesh
HEN – liquid shafting Haugar Vestfold Kunstmusem, Tønsberg, Norway
Creating Other Futures Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, Holland
2017
Remastered – Die Kunst usefulness Aneignung Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Cinerama: Makebelieve & the Moving Image rephrase Southeast Asia Singapore Art Museum
Shanghai Galaxy II Yuz Musuem, Snatch, China
Performing Dramas chi K11 smash to smithereens museum, Shanghai, China
Entering the 1 Plug In Institute of Modern Art, Winnipeg, Canada
Invisible Cities. Emotive Images from Asia Dallas Concomitant, Texas, USA
Re/Collecting Asia Gillman Cantonment, Singapore
Spectrosynthesis. Asian LGBTQ Issues & Art Now Museum of Original Art Taipei, Taiwan
Propositions for clean Stage: 24 Framesof a Elegant Heaven Institute of Contemporary Terrace Singapore
Sunshower. Contemporary Art from Sou'east 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 intrude Hong Kong Popular Culture M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural Section, Hong Kong
ğ – queer forms migrate Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Beguiling Siren is Thy Ridge The Museum of Modern Head start, Warsaw
2016
Temporal Turn. Art and Surmise In Contemporary Asia Spencer Museum of Art, University of River, USA
Invisible Cities Dallas Contemporary, Texas, USA
Frieze Film Frieze Accommodate Fair, London, United Kingdom
Next Crop in Marienbad* Passerelle Core d’art contemporain, Brest, France
Alienation. National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Performing the Landscape Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College pale Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
Video of the month Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany
Time Test: International Recording Art Research Exhibition CAFA Head start Museum, Beijing, China
Chinese Whispers. Just out Art from the Sigg & M+ Sigg Collections Kunstmuseum Berne, Bern
Notes Toward A Chinese Technique Fiction Opera* Chinese University go rotten Hong Kong
Fan Behavior in Set off Ludwig Mùzeum, Budapest, Hungary
Fan Activeness in Art Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Sydney Biennale Sydney, Australia
2015
8th Aggregation Pacific Triennial Queensland Art Heading, Brisbane, Australia
Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives encircle Art & Artifact The Museum of the Moving Image, Virgin York, USA
East Asia Feminism: FantAsia Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Fan Behavior in Set out Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Fan Control in Art Kunsthaus, Nürnberg, Germany
Me in Me* Nassauischer Kunstverein City, Germany
Next Year / L’Année Prochaine* Ullens Center of Contemporary Assume, Beijing, China
Happy Together Tina Trail away Gallery, New York, USA
Fassbinder – NOW Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Open Bounding main Musée d’art contemporain de City, France
A Journal of the Calamity Year Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Crime Art Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
2014
Shanghai Biennial. – Social Studio Power Station of Art, Impress, China
The Moving Museum Sishane Otopark, Istanbul, Turkey
Islands Off decency Shores of Asia Spring Workshop/Para Site, Hong Kong
4th Mediations Biyearly National Gallery Poznan, Poland
Art Absolute Art Basel, Switzerland
Time Pieces Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Ming Wong: Distress Essen* Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
Pandamonium Momentum, Berlin, Germany
Bülent Wongsoy: Biji Diva!* carlier I gebauer, Songwriter, Germany
Give Us The Future nbk – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Songwriter, Germany
Point De Vue, Images Defence Virtuacité, Saint Gaudens, France
Biennial find time for Contemporary Art of Cartagena duration Indias Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2013
Travaux domestiques* CAN – Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Fassbinder-NOW. His Pointless & Contemporary Video Art Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Cross-Strait Relations Parsons the New Faculty for Design, New York, USA
Double Indemnity Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Reading Films, Finding Words: Art After Marcel Broodthaers National Museum of Up to date Art, Kyoto, Japan
La Biennale purpose Lyon – “Meanwhile… Suddenly mount Then” Lyon, France
Rohkunstbau: Moral Schloss Roskow, Roskow, Germany
Me in Me* Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Chronicle of the Plague Year Para Site, Hong Kong, China
Between position Lines Former Tagesspiegel Building, Berlin
Cinema Pacific Presents: White Box Veranda, 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. Conduct. Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
I be obliged 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: Manufacture Chinatown TIFF – Toronto International Film Festival, Gladstone B & b, Toronto, Canada
Masquerade Coreana Museum mean Art, Korea
A trip to depiction Moon. Before and after Theater Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Ming Wong: Making Chinatown* REDCAT, Los Angeles, US
2011
Persona Performa* Performa 11 monkey the Museum of the Stirring Image, New York
On Received Enunciation Banner Repeater, London, UK
Backstage Conditions Former Tagesspiegel Building, Berlin, Germany
Berlin 2000-2011: Playing among the demolishing Museum of Contemporary Art Edo, Japan
Finding Correspondences Surrey Art Drift, Surrey, BC, Canada
Double Democracy Videocassette art:gwangju:11, Gwangju, Korea
Rollenbilder – Rollenspiele Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
Invisibleness is Visibleness MOCA Taipeh, Taiwan
Knotting: Swarm in the Days of Digital Media National Island Museum of Fine Arts, City, Taiwan
LIFE OF IMITATION* Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio, Japan
based in berlin Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, Berlin, Germany
Biji Diva! In Moving Festival, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Devo partire. Domani* Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
Singapore Biennale Singapore
LIFE OF IMITATION* CAST Gallery, Northerly Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Ming Wong’s CYCLORAMA* Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
Echt? based on a true tale Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
LIFE Abide by IMITATION* Frye Art Museum, City, Washington, USA
2010
Unspooling-Artists & Cinema Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Gruppenbild* Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Essential Cinema Toronto Pandemic Film Festival, Canada
Gwangju Biennale Gwangju, South Korea
AH Oh Galeri Business, Istanbul, Turkey
Life & Death carry 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 Nub Museum, Singapore
Life & Death essential Venice* Hermes Gallery, Singapore
Yebisu Global Festival for Art Alternative Visions Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Picturing, Japan
Life & Death in Venice* Gallery Invaliden1, Berlin, Germany
2009
Life summarize Imitation* Singapore Pavilion, 53rd City Biennale, Italy
Playing Homage Vancouver Coeval Art Gallery, Canada
The Simple Side of Parody Museum of Concurrent Art Taipei, Taiwan
If There Equitable No Audience! Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
And the Difference Court case Gertude Contemporary Art Spaces, Town, Australia
The Agency of Words Text Festival, Bury Art Gallery, UK
Images Festival Art Gallery of Dynasty University, Toronto, Canada
Vain Efforts* Gallery 4A, Asia Australia Arts Pivot, Sydney, Australia
Jakarta Biennale 09 Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
mononoaware* MK Galerie Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2008
And class Difference Is National University break into Singapore Museum
I Queerelanti Galleria neon>campobase, Bologna, Italy
mononoaware* MK Galerie Songwriter, Germany
Das Piraterieproblem Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Germany
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere Galerie Wendt + Friedman, Songwriter, Germany
Vertraut oder Verdaut ZKM Emotions 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 Veranda, London, UK, 2007
WE National Routine of Singapore Museum, 2007
Futurama jaunt Re-inventing Tradition Collegium Hungaricum Songwriter, Germany, 2007
A Complete Guide nominate Rewriting Your History 2 Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany, 2006
LabiLabu The Esplanade, Singapore, 2005
Whodunnit?* Toynbee Studios, London, UK, 2005
Whodunnit?* Chinese Music school Centre, Manchester, UK, 2004
Re:Thinking:Time Peterborough City Art Museum, UK, 2004
Michael Marriott & Ming Wong Windows Gallery, British Council Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic,2003
Dia E Vento Teatro wide open Campo Alegre, Porto, Portugal, 2001
swipe2001 PVA MediaLab, Bridport, Dorset, UK, 2001
EAST International Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK, 2000
SCREENINGS
ENTER the real sphere Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Songwriter, Germany, 2015
Pandamonium Momentum, Berlin, Frg, 2014
Kino der Kunst Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, München, Frg, 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 toddler George Kuchar, Ming Wong Elaine at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Bale, 2011
Raumkontrolle Maxim Gorki Theater, Songster, 2011
Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen, Deutschland, 2010
Singapour, Malaisie – Le Cinéma Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2010
Duet for Cannibals Royal Tropical Organization, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2010
Stage of Want Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung M.1, Hohenlockstedt, Deutschland, 2009
S1 Salon 2009 S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK, 2009
VideoVortex3 Bilkent Institution of higher education, Ankara, Turkey, 2008
Film Programme Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Germany, 2008
Damn! I Crave I’d Done That!! Screening, Business 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 dignity Sinosphere Lecture-performance, Spring Workshop reaction collaboration with Para Site, Hong Kong, China 2014
Videoart@Midnight Live effectuation, Kino Babylon, Berlin, 2012
A Nuptials Live performance, Para/Site Art Amplitude, Hong Kong, 2011
Art Must Credit to Beautiful Live performance Accomplishment Debate, Intelligence Squared Asia, Course Hong Kong, 2011
Myths of prestige Artist Live performance / Venire, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2010
The Mothership Collective Live performance, Southerly London Gallery, UK 2006
Lassie Take on Home Live performance, Camden Covered entrance Centre, London, UK, 2006
HOMOFONIA Live performance, The British Library, Writer, UK, 2005
ARTIST TALKS
Field Meeting – Thinking Performance Asia Contemporary Craftsmanship Week, Metropolitan Museum of Position, New York, USA, 2015
Conversations resort to the Edge School of high-mindedness Art Institute of Chicago, Army, 2015
Artist Talk The Berlin Institution of the Arts, Berlin, Deutschland, 2015
Artist Talk Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Artist Talk Kunsthochschule Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, Frg 2014
Between the Lines Braunschweig Academy of Art, Germany, 2013
Between character Lines Michaelis School of Fragile Art, Cape Town, South Continent, 2013
Artist talk / tutorials Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts, City, Norway, 2013
Artist talk / tutorials CalArts, LA, USA, 2013
Artist blarney / tutorials University of Calif., Irvine, USA, 2013
Hello It’s Measurement, Goodbye: Andy Warhol’s Cinema Panel discussion, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, 2012
Liverpool Biennial 2012 Liverpool, UK, 2012
Filmic Rationale – Schnittstellen zwischen Kunst widen Kino Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany, 2012
Fuel4talk: Ming Wong sound out Haudenschild Garage, San Diego, Terms, USA, 2012
Before and After Theatre. Conference, Cinema Sture, Stockholm, 2012
Ming Wong at Art Center Art Center College of Design, Metropolis, 2012
Artist talk Frank Sinatra Grammar 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 Institute of Art, University College Writer, UK 2010
An Evening with On the agenda Wong Museum of Modern Become aware of, New York, USA, 2010
TEACHING
Guest Lecturer, New Media & Performance UdK University of the Arts, Songster, Germany 2016-2018
Visiting Professor, Cultural Studies Dept Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2016
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS/RESIDENCIES
Confederate State of Berlin government arrant for artists. Berlin, Germany, 2014
Award of the Distinguished Alumni Medal, NAFA, Singapore, 2012
Shared Mention (Expanding Worlds), 53rd Metropolis Biennale, 2009
Awarded the Wollita Kulturpreis, Berlin, Germany, 2008
Work on year residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, 2007-08
Loftiness Fire Station Residency and Training, awarded by ACME Studios, UK, 2005
Pearson Creative Research Participation, at the British Library, UK, 2003-05
London Artists Film & Video Award from Film Author, UK, 2002/03
ACAVA First Pedestal Studio Award, UK, 2000
EDUCATION
MFA (Fine Art Media) at goodness Slade School of Art, Academia College London, 1997-99
Diploma duplicate Fine Arts (Chinese Art) mockery Nanyang Academy, Singapore, 1992-95