Artists & Curator
Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu, born in 1987 in Hải Dương, Vietnam, is a Vietnamese-German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Having been raised between political systems, Tieu's work unfolds at the intersection of biography and geopolitics. Her practice examines the enduring aftershocks of the Cold War and observes colonial entanglements and the subtle mechanisms of institutional power and sociopolitical agendas. Through sculpture, found objects, sound, video, photography, text, and archival material, Tieu constructs spatially dense, immersive installations, creating environments that unpack the social and psychological effects of migration, bureaucracy, and control. Her work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions held at Kunsthalle Bern; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Amant Foundation, New York; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.); Mudam – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; and Haus der Kunst, Munich, among others. She has also participated in the 14th Taipei Biennial (2025), 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024), 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021), and the 4th Kyiv Biennial (2021). Tieu has received numerous awards, including the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research (2024), the Rubens Promotional Award of the City of Siegen (2024), and the Audience Award of the Preis der Nationalgalerie (2021).
Henrike Naumann
Henrike Naumann, born in Zwickau (GDR) in 1984, is a Berlin-based artist whose practice reflects on socio-political issues at the level of design and interior design, exploring the friction between opposing political opinions in relation to taste and personal everyday aesthetics. In her installations, she arranges furniture and objects to create scenographic spaces into which she integrates video, sound, and performance. Naumann's work probes the mechanisms of radicalization and their entanglement with personal experience and expands into a broad range of lectures and interdisciplinary collaborations. Naumann has received numerous prizes, including the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship, the Max Pechstein Prize of the City of Zwickau, the Leipziger Volkszeitung Art Prize, and the Scholarship of Villa Aurora / Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. Her work has been presented in major exhibitions at SculptureCenter, New York; the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University; the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw; and the Wall Memorial of the German Bundestag, as well as the Ghetto Biennale and the Kyiv Biennale. Naumann was a fellow at the Berlin Artistic Research Program 2024/25, where she researched the relationship between art and war. She has accepted a professorship in sculpture at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, beginning in 2026.
Kathleen Reinhardt
Kathleen Reinhardt is the director of the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin. Her curatorial practice engages German and international contexts, with a focus on contemporary art, art under state socialism and post-socialist practices, and the discursive potential of collections in relation to ideology, memory, and identity. She is particularly interested in the museum as a space for artistic research and production, as well as the role of feminist thought in rethinking institutional frameworks. At the Georg Kolbe Museum, Reinhardt has developed a program combining historical inquiry with contemporary practice, including exhibitions such as Lin May Saeed: The Snow Falls Slowly in Paradise, A Dialogue with Renée Sintenis (2023) and Noa Eshkol: No Time to Dance (2024). From 2016 to 2022, she was curator for contemporary art at the Albertinum (Dresden State Art Collections), overseeing acquisitions, solo and group exhibitions, and publications including Slavs and Tatars: Made in Dschermany (2018) and For Ruth, the Sky in Los Angeles: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz (2019). In 2020/21, she curated 1 Million Roses for Angela Davis and initiated the research and exhibition project Revolutionary Romances: Transcultural Art Histories in the GDR (2019–2024). A scholar of African American art and socially engaged practices, Reinhardt holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in Global Art Histories. She teaches internationally and publishes in exhibition catalogues, scholarly volumes, and journals including African Arts, Art Margins, Contemporary And, and Kaleidoscope.