Sung Tieu — À propos — Slash Paris

Born in 1987 in Hải Dương (Vietnam), Sung Tieu lives and works in Berlin. A German-Vietnamese artist, she develops a conceptual practice at the intersection of sculpture, installation, sound, video, and drawing. Her work interrogates mechanisms of power, bureaucratic systems, and forgotten historical narratives, particularly those related to the Cold War and transnational migrations. Tieu is particularly interested in how institutional structures shape identities and communities, revealing dynamics of control and exclusion.
In 2024, she received the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research, leading to a major exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, 2025) titled 1992, exploring the post-Wall repercussions for Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR. Her works have been presented in institutions such as the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg, 2022), Haus der Kunst (Munich, 2020), and the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023). Tieu is also a member of art collectives such as TROI OI and Asia Art Activism.
Sung Tieu is represented by Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Hamburg). Her rigorous and critical approach offers a rereading of geopolitical narratives and a reflection on collective memory