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Sung Tieu: 1992, 2025
Edited by Léon Kruijswijk and Linda Franken
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2025
In this publication, the Vietnamese-German artist Sung Tieu analyzes the effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR and migrants such as herself. In her research-driven artistic practice, Tieu examines the inextricable tensions between individual lived experiences and the overarching mechanisms of systemic regulation, questioning the hidden structural logics that shape categories of legality and illegality, inclusion and exclusion.
Tieu, the recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2024, investigates, through a series of newly commissioned works, how the political and social upheavals of the fall of the Berlin Wall, along with the pervasive racialized structures and discrimination of that era, have impacted the identities, roles, and social networks of the Vietnamese community in Germany—and continue to shape them to this day.
The publication was developed collaboratively by Tieu, curator Léon Kruijswijk, and assistant curator Linda Franken. The texts include an interview between Franken and Tieu, providing insights into the artist’s conceptual and methodological processes. In an associative essay, Kruijswijk and Raoul Zöllner reflect on KW as an institution, its direct surroundings, and the Berlin districts of Marzahn and Lichtenberg in the context of the years 1992 and 2025. Additionally, Thu Fandrich and Tamara Hentschel (Reistrommel e. V.) use oral history to trace the upheavals of the early 1990s in Berlin—written down and expanded with additional sources by Franken.
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Design: Dan Solbach, with Leon StarkGerman Copyediting and Proofreading: Dr. Hans Georg and Katrin Hiller von Gaertringen
Vietnamese Copyediting and Proofreading: Do Tuong Linh