Artisti
Sung Tieu
Born in 1987 in Hải Dương, Vietnam, Sung Tieu 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 the 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 Gwangju Biennale (2024), Shanghai Biennale (2023), Bienal de São Paulo (2021), and Kyiv Biennale (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). She is currently a substitute professor at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg.
Henrike Naumann
Berlin-based artist Henrike Naumann was born in Zwickau (GDR) in 1984. Her 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, Haiti (2015, 2017) and the Kyiv Biennale, Ukraine (2023). Naumann was a fellow at the Berlin Artistic Research Program 2024/25, where she is researching the relationship between art and war. She has accepted a professorship in sculpture at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, beginning in 2026.