Sung Tieu – 1992, 2025
with Linda Franken, Léon Kruijswijk, Dan Solbach, Sung Tieu & Raoul Zöllner

On the occasion of the publication release Sung Tieu – 1992, 2025, KW invites you to a discussion with some of the involved editors and authors.

The accompanying publication for the exhibition 1992, 2025 was developed collaboratively by the artist Sung Tieu, curator Léon Kruijswijk, and assistant curator Linda Franken. It brings together various perspectives on the themes of the exhibition. The texts include an interview between Franken and Tieu, providing insights into the conceptual and methodological processes behind the artistic work. 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 Linda Franken.

The publication’s design, created by Dan Solbach, references KW, a history—a book published in 2021 as part of KW’s 30th anniversary, documenting the institution’s history. The visual connection of 1992, 2025 to that publication not only continues an existing discourse but also opens up new space for alternative historiographies, centering narratives that have remained largely unseen. With 1992, 2025, KW, a history is expanded with parallel histories and contemporary perspectives, which will be discussed in depth at the book launch.

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The publication is co-published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln.

Sung Tieu is the recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2024, which has been awarded jointly with the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion since 2020. In addition to prize money, the award covers an exhibition that encompasses the production of new works as well as a publication that is scheduled for release in April 2025.

The Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and awarded in cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art.