Biography

Born in 1973 in Luxembourg
Lives and works in Luxembourg and Berlin
 
Grants and Awards
 
2014/15            

Artist Residency, Villa Medicis, French Academy in Rome, Italy

2009                
 
Prix International d'Art Contemporain, Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco

2008                 

Short residency at MIT List Visual Arts Center and MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA 


2007   

Artist in residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
Residency and Lecture, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA 


2006      

SR-Medienkunstpreis, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken, Germany
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, US

2005
Edward Steichen Award, Grant and Art Residency in NY for 2006
Residency and Lecture, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

2003                 

Golden Lion for the Best National Participation, 50. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2001                 

Prix d'art Robert Schuman
 

Solo exhibitions (Selection)

2024
Daydreams, Kiang Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2022
Beyond, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich, Switzerland


2021                 

Su-Mei Tse Solo exhibition at ADAA Art Fair New York, USA
Enough or alive, Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg

2020                 

Spotlight Art Basel Hong Kong Solo Booth at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China


2019                 

Nested, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), Taiwan

2018               

Nested, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Waterloo Billboard Commission, Hayward Gallery London, UK
Nested, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

2017                

Between Eggs, Stones and Floating Balls, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Nested, Mudam, Luxembourg
A Certain Lightness, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece
Elegy, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China 


2016        

Moony Tunes, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2015                 

one thousand and one dreams behind us…, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA

2014
Faded and the space between, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Gewisse Rahmenbedingungen, Frieze Art Fair, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
… et à l'horizon il y avait l'orage, CAC-Château des Adhémar, Montélimar, France
 

2012 

The Source, Project One, Eslite bookstore, Hong Kong, China

2011                 

Distant Voices, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Lapses of Time, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece
Vertigen de la Vida, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
 

2010            

Stille Disco, Solo Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
New Sense Of Order, Su-Mei Tse & Yves Netzhammer, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg 


2009       

Words and Memories, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA
VARIATIONEN, Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris, France
Prix International d'Art Contemporain Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco
Floating Memories, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA 
Solo exhibition at Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

2008                
Some Magical Clangs, Su-Mei Tse & Virginie Yassef, CRAC Alsace, France
Bird Cage, Su-Mei Tse & Jean-Lou Majerus, Public Art Project, Luxembourg
East Wind, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA
1000 words for snow, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg

2007                 

DUOLOGUE, Lee Mingwei & Su-Mei Tse, 2 Solo Exhibitions at MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
Media Test Wall : Su-Mei Tse, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Su-Mei Tse, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece

2006                 

Su-Mei Tse, solo show, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Proposition de détour, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA
The ICH-Manifestation, Noctour by Contour Video Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
PS1 New York, New York, USA
Albion Gallery, London, United Kingdom
… …, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg


2005                 

Su-Mei Tse: Video works, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, USA
The ICH-Manifestation, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
Su-Mei Tse SOLO, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Danemark

2004                 

Recent Works, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
The First of Moderna Su-Mei Tse, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
JETZT, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece

2003                 

Air conditioned, Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Biennale di Venezia (Luxembourg pavilion), Italy

2001                 

[E:R] conditionné, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, France

2000                 

Rien à voir, projection vidéo, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
 


Public Art


2018     

Hayward/Southbank Billboard Commission, London, UK


2008                 

Bird Cage, Su-Mei Tse & Jean-Lou Majerus, Projet d'Art Public, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
 
Group exhibitions (Selection)

2025
Setouchi Triennale 2025, Setouchi, Japan

2024
H-Box, video screenings, Centro De Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Portugal
My Last Will, Casino, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Art et Sport, Hand In Hand in Hand, Olympiade Culturelle, Maison des Sports, Nevers, France
A Model, Mudam, Luxembourg

2023
Mein letzter Wille, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany
Memory Palace in Ruins, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taiwan
(C-Lab), 35th anniversary exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Échos. Un voyage sonore dans l'abbaye saint-germain, à partir des collections du Centre Pompidou, l'abbaye saint-germain, Auxerre, France
World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
 
2021                 

Inventing Nature, Pflanzen in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
Tree Connections, Kulturstiftung Basel H.Geiger, Switzerland 2020/21   L'œil de Huysmans : Manet, Degas, Moreau au MAMCS, France
Online Exhibition II curated by Jenn Ellis : aoraspace.com

2019                 

Land of the Lustrous, curated by Han Shuang, UCCA Dune Art Museum, Aranya Gold Coast, China
Dreams, illusions, phantom flowers presented by Edouard Malingue Gallery with Elephant, London, UK

2018                 

REFLECTION about / about REFLECTION, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
on longing and consolation, Art Festival Watou, Watou, Belgium
SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sidney, curated by Mami Kataoka, Sidney, Australia
Still Waters run deep, Kaoshiung Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

2017                 

Listen Hear: The Art of Sound, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
If it be your will, that I speak no more, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
What is not visible is not invisible, FRAC Collections in Asia, BACC-Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
What is not visible is not invisible, FRAC Collections in Asia, SongEun Art Space, Seoul, South Korea

2016                
Premier Regard 15 ans / 2001-2016, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France
Gigantesque! Expérience Pommery #13, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Moony Tunes, Setouchi Triennale 2016, Honjima Island, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
What is not visible is not invisible, FRAC Collections in Asia, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
Not Early Not Late, Pace Gallery Beijing, China
Boom Bang III, NN, contemporary art space, Northampton, UK
People Like US, USNW, touring Exhibition 2016-2019, Australia

2015                 

30 Years, Artists of the Gallery, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Steichen! Making Meaning of a Legacy, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Personal Notes for a Public Poem, curated by Sofia Eliza Bouratsis, YBDD, Berlin, Germany
About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Roma, Italy
Taking Time, Théatre des Expositions #6, Villa Medicis, Académie de France à Rome, Italy 


2014            

Days of Endless Time, Hirschorn Museum, Washington, USA
Visions and Beyond, The 2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, China
Mythos Wald? Historische und zeitgenössische Interpretationen zum Thema Wald und Bäume, Neu Galerie im Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany
Bloom, Eslite Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
Guess What ? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a World Treasure : Selected Works from YAGEO Foundation Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
A corps perdu, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Fruits de la Passion, La Collection du Centre Pompidou, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Days of Endless Time, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpure Garden, Washington, USA
Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique et Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
NY-LUX. Edward Steichen Award 2004-2014, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2013                 

Exposition des œuvres de la donation Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Musée Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Little Water, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, Japan
Rhythm in it. Vom Rhythmus in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
The Distaff Side, Collection Melva Bucksbaum & Raymond Learsy, The Granary, Connecticut, USA 


2012            

10 Years in Zuoz , Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Ateliers Luxembourg, The Venice Biennale Projects 1988-2011, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg
John Cage, KUAD Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
A House Full of Music. Strategien in Musik und Kunst, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany  4 Films : Adrian Paci, Luisa Rabbia, SUPERFLEX, Su-Mei Tse, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
Neon who's afraid of red yellow and blue? Maison Rouge, Paris, France

2011                 

ANICROCHES, Variations, choral et fugue, curated by Fabienne Fulchéri, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Brick + Mortar International Video Festival, curated by Christopher Cox, MA, USA
Incongru. Quand l'art fait rire, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Thirty Years Peter Blum Edition, Peter Blum Gallery Soho, New York
Pour une République des Rêves, CRAC Alsace, France
Silent Echo, Collection I & II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Walking Through …, MUDAM Collection, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg
HELP ! exposition au profit des victimes du Séisme au Japon, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, France
Quiet Attentions : Departure From Women, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, France

2010                 

The Yvonne Rainer Project, screening program, BFI Southbank, UK
The Record, Nasher Museum of Art Duke University, Durham USA
Lebenszeichen, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
BRAVE NEW WORLD, From the perspective of Mudam Collection, Mudam, Luxembourg
CUE: Artists' Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2009                 

ARTLV_09 - The Tel Aviv Bienial, Tel Aviv, Israel
Far and Near: Nature in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Tenants, AD Gallery – Remap2, Keramikos, Athens, Greece
Contemporary Art Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Reflection: The World Through Art, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, Japan
Tenants at ReMap2, parallel project to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
Invasion of Sound, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Biennale Cuvée, World Selection of Contemporary Art, OK, Linz, Austria 

2008    
Images in the night, pour le 10e anniversaire Le Fresnoy, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Time Square, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
WONDER, Singapore Biennale 2008, Singapore
L'Art en Europe, Pommery Expérience #5, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

2007                 

ReMap KM, parallel project to the 1rst Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
Kunstpreis Robert Schumann – Best Of, Trier, Germany
Lieux Communs, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
Merveilleux, Château de Malbrouk, Manderen, France
Une Collection Pour Une Région, Chemins de Traversés GR FRAC Lorraine: 550 km
Musée de la Lutherie et de L'Archèterie Française, Mircourt, France 
L'Horizon de Shangri-La, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
SAMLING´07, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
Body as Spectacle, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia
in midair_soundworks, Hong Kong, China
Listening Awry, Christian Marclay, Santiago Sierra, Kimsooja, Su-Mei Tse, McMaster Museum of Art Ontario, Canada

2006                 

Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Dans les Alpes-Panorama, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Tell me/ Raconte-moi, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Women of Europe, Saint Tropez, France Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2006, Japan

2005                

i-Dentity_An exhibition celebrating 25 years of i-D magazine, London, UK
Art Unlimited, Art 36 Basel, Switzerland
Tell me/ Raconte-moi, Musée national des Beaux-Arts, Québec, Canada
Variations Xanadu, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan
Dis_appearance, Fri-Art, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Fribourg, Switzerland
AURAL CULTURES, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada Radiodays, Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nouvelles Vagues, collections du Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Shanghai, Canton, Beijing, China
Irreducible, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2004               

18e Rencontres Parallèles, Festival, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, France 26e Biennale de São Paulo, São Paolo, Brazil
Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art – 18 Solo Exhibitions, Kinmen, Taiwan 
InVisible Silence, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA Fiction Love, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Emotion 1, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

2003                 

Montagna arte scienza mito, MART, Rovereto, Italy
Affinités sélectives - Wahlverwandtschaften, Metz, France
Réalités_Collections sans frontières II, Galerie Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
Scale 1:1, beaumontpublic + koenigbloc, Luxembourg
Mursollaici, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
 

Artist Talks
 
2018                 

Double Feature, Video Screening & Talk with curator Matthias Ulrich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Nested, Book Launch and conversation with Su-Mei Tse, Christophe Gallois and Anja Lutz, Mudam, Luxembourg
Nested, Book Launch and conversation with Su-Mei Tse, Christophe Gallois and Katrin Weilenmann, Aarau, Switzerland
Nested, Su-Mei Tse in conversation with Christophe Gallois and Katrin Weilenmann, Mudam Luxembourg

2017                 

Nested, Su-Mei Tse in conversation with Christophe Gallois and Katrin Weilenmann, Mudam Luxembourg
Art Basel Hong Kong : Salon, The Language(s) We Speak, Art as Communication, Su-Mei Tse, Sir Michael Craig-Martin, Abigail Reynolds and Alan Lau

2014                 

Lecture, ESAD, Valence, France

2009                 

Many Spoken Words, Embassy of Luxembourg, Tokyo, Japan Artist Talk, in conversation with Pieranna Cavalchini, ISGM, Boston Artist Talk, Art Tower Mito, Japan

2008                 

Creatively Speaking: The Artist's Point of View, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA Lecture and studio visits at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, USA

2007                 

Lecture and studio visits, Program La Seine, ENSBA, Paris, France Conversation Lee Mingwei & Su-Mei Tse, ISGM, Boston MA, USA Lecture, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA


Public Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Coppel Collection, Mexico
CNAP – Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
ECB – European Central Bank, Frankfurt
EIB – European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
FRAC - Lorraine, Metz, France
Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg
MART - Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Schweden
MUDAM - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Museet for Samtidskunst, Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
NMNM - Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
UBS Art Collection, UBS (Luxembourg) S.A., Luxembourg
YAGEO Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Taiwan

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