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| TSOU
Yung-Shan> |
born
in Taipei, Taiwan lives and works in Berlin since 2011 member of BBK Berlin artist/author/translator mobile:+49 174 624 38 42 email:yungshan.tsou@gmail.com |
| Education |
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| 2011 |
Meisterschülerin at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin | |
| 2008 | Erasmus Scholarship, Fine
Arts at the Universidad Barcelona |
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| 2002-2010 | Textile
and
surface design at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, ended
with degree of Diplom |
| TSOU
Yung-shan
is a Berlin-based Taiwanese artist whose work involves
handwriting and bookmaking as conceptual artistic
expressions. After completing her Meisterschüler study at
the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin in 2011, Tsou exhibits
her growing folio of works via diverse exhibitions. 2011 she
had her solo exhibition “Silent Years” in the Gallery
VBM20.10 CONTEMPORARY ARTS&DESIGN Berlin; she also
participated in the exhibition “Possible Arts” in
Kunsthaus-Viernheim. In 2012 she curated and took part in
the exhibitions “Book-Like Objects” in tamtamART Berlin and
“Typosphäre – The Current Positions of script-/ imagery” in
Galerie im Turm Berlin. She was one of the finalists of
NOPX|artbook 2012|2013, International Contest of Artist’s
Books in NOPX, which was held in Turin, Italy; then she was
shortlisted in KALEID 2015 London “Artists Who Do Books”. In
the meantime she built up her own edition “Luftschlösschen”.
Its first project is a CD production of an audio play
Heinzelmenschen. Her artist’s books are collected
in USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland and in Taiwan. Collaterally, Tsou has been intensively involved in novel writing since 2011. In 2013 she won the first prize of Taoyuan County Creative Writing Awards in the category of short stories in Taiwan. She has two published novels: THE WAITING ROOM. Its French version La Salle d’attente was published in September 2016. A TRAVELER’S GUIDE TO RIDE-SHARING, was rendered into the music piece Falling Farewell and premiered by Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin in Innovation Series Soundscape—Literature into Music in 2014. Her third novel AVE MARIA will be published in 2022. 2015-2017 she took part in the Taiwanese-German literature exchange program Das Leben ist eine Insel. Thank Taiwan Ministry of Culture Fellow, in 2016 she attended artist residencies at Camac Art Centre, France and at Santa Fe Art Institute, USA. In 2017 she was invited to participate in international writers' residency in Château de Lavigny, Switzerland. 2017-2018 she was one literature grant holder of National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan. In 2017 she had her solo exhibition Our Gaze in The Hague. In 2018 she realized the exhibitions Back to Pages: Artists Books in Shanghai and Cross-Domain Reading & Writing: A Biblio-ecology at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. In 2020 she participated in ART TAIPEI|Taiwanese Artists' Books. Thanks to the special scholarship program of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, her book project AVE MARIA was completed. With the NEUSTART KULTUR - scholarship program 2021 from the Stiftung Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst, she has started a new artist's book project. |
Recognitions
| 2021 | Scholarship holder of NEUSTART KULTUR – Scholarship Program 2021 of Stiftung Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst, Germany | |
| 2020 |
Scholarship holder of Special Scholarship Program of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017-2018 |
Literature grant holder of
National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan |
|
| 2017 |
International writers'
residency in Château
de
Lavigny, Switzerland |
|
| 2016 |
Artist residency at Santa Fe
Art Institute, USA; Taiwan Ministry of Culture Fellow |
|
| 2016 |
Artist residency at Camac Art
Centre, France; Taiwan Ministry of Culture Fellow |
|
| 2015 |
Shortlisted in KALEID 2015
London "Artists Who Do Books" |
|
| 2015 |
Grant
holder of "Books
from
Taiwan", funded by Taiwan Ministry of Culture |
|
| 2013/2014 |
Grant
holder of Taipei Book Fair Foundation,
funded by Taiwan Ministry of Culture |
|
| 2013 |
First prize winner of 18th Taoyuan County Creative Writing Awards in the category of short stories | |
| 2013 |
Grant
holder of
National Museum of Taiwan Literature, Taiwan |
|
| 2013 |
Finalist of NOPX|artbook 2012|2013, International Contest of Artist Books, Turin, Italy | |
| 2011 |
Finalist
of 2011 TSMC Literature Prize, Taiwan, novel „The Waiting Room“ (in traditional Chinese) |
Publications
| 2022 |
novel: 萬福瑪麗亞(Ave
Maria), Unitas Publishing Co., Taipei (in the planning
stage) |
|
| 2020 |
novel:
Ave Maria (extract), stadtsprachen magazin, Berlin |
|
| 2018 |
artist's books: Cross-Domain Reading & Writing: A Biblio-ecology, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei | |
| 2017 |
short stoty: Driesprong, Tijdschrift Terras, Amsterdam | |
| 2016/2017 | novel: The Waiting Room (extract), Absinthe: A Journal of World Literature in Translation, issue 22: Pen & Brush, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| 2016 |
artist's books: Heinzelmenschen
(audiobook), Edition Luftschlösschen, Berlin |
|
| 2016 |
novel: La
Salle d’attente, Piranha éditions, Paris |
|
| 2013-2015 | artist's books: flip!s,
Berlin |
|
| 2014 |
novel: 鐵
道共乘旅遊手冊 (A Traveler's Guide to Ride-sharing, traditional Chinese version) ISBN: 9789866026867, Taipei |
|
| 2013 |
novel:
等
候室 (The Waiting Room, traditional Chinese version) ISBN:9789866026379,
Taipei |
Reviews/Interviews (selected)
| 2020 |
PARATAXE digital 1: Tsou Yung-Shan in conversation with Martin Jankowski | |
| 2018 |
【人
物誌】鄒永珊：十年熬一顆大蘋果，轉角國際 udn Global |
|
| 2017 |
Le Vent Sombre: La
salle d'attente |
|
| 2017 |
Nancy Hoffmann: New
Spaces |
|
| 2016 |
En attendant Nadeau: J’habite
entre ici et là-bas |
|
| 2016 | Lettres de Taïwan: Tsou
Yung-Shan: « This is about expectation » |
|
| 2016 |
RTI: Artist and Author Tsou Yung-Shan (part 1/ part 2) | |
| 2015 | The Quietus, Verfreundungseffekt: Waiting For Something To Happen —Tsou Yung-shan's The Waiting Room | |
| 2014 |
Living in Berlin x interview 024 | |
| 2013 |
Taipei Times, Book review: The Waiting Room |
Selected exhibitions
| 2020 |
ART
TAIPEI 2020｜Taiwanese Artists' Books: Materials and
Interfaces, Taipei, Taiwan |
|
| 2018 |
Back to Pages: Artists' Books, Bananafish Books and Gallery, Shanghai, China | |
| 2018 |
Cross-Domain
Reading & Writing: A Biblio-ecology, Taipei
Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
|
| 2017 |
Our
Gaze, solo exhibition;
SinArts Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands |
|
| 2016 |
SFAI140,
Santa Fe Art Institute, USA |
|
| 2016 |
Book
Semiotics, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA |
|
| 2016 |
Cabinets of
curiosities: intermediate worlds of visible and
invisible creatures, Alter Friedhof St. Marien–St.
Nikolai, Berlin |
|
| 2016 |
26th KOUSAKU
exhibition: People who plant a tree, 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan |
|
| 2014 | Touring exhibitions of documents about making “A Traveler's Guide to Ride sharing”, diverse independent bookstores, Taiwan | |
| 2014 |
Book
presentation in Taiwan Pavillon at Frankfurter Book Fair |
|
| 2013 |
The
4th Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize and
Exhibition, Sheffield U.K. |
|
| 2013 |
102
年度國立臺灣文學館好書推廣主題書展, National
Museum of Taiwan Literature, Tainan, Taiwan |
|
| 2013 |
NOPX|artbook 2012|2013, International Contest of Artist Books in NOPX, Turin, Italy | |
| 2013 |
Abwesend,
anwesend,
solo exhibition; Joie Éternelle, Taipei,Taiwan |
|
| 2012 |
Typosphäre
–
The current positions of script-/ imagery, Galerie
im Turm Berlin |
|
| 2012 |
Book-Like
Objects, tamtamART
Berlin |
|
| 2011 |
POSSIBLE ARTs, Kunsthaus-Viernheim | |
| 2011 |
Silent
Years,
solo exhibition;
VBM20.10
CONTEMPORARY
ARTS & DESIGN Berlin |
|
| 2010 |
The
Incredible
10 und Friedichstadt Zentral - experimental music-
und art festival Dresden |
|
| 2009 |
Voyage
Voyage!, Galerie Bild Plus Berlin |
|
| 2008 |
Anonyme
Zeichner #9, art space Kreuzberg/ Bethanien Berlin |
|
| 2006 |
Segmente
des
Alltag, solo exhibitions; art space Polymar und
Bona-Preiser-Bibliothek Berlin |
Collections
| 2019 | private
collection in France |
|
| 2017 |
book collection, The
Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation, Switzerland |
|
| 2016 |
artists book collection, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA | |
| 2016 |
artists book collection,
Denison University Library, Granville, Ohio, USA |
|
| 2013-2016 |
private
collections in Canada, Germany, Taiwan, USA |
|
|
2013 |
The
AGYU artist book collection, The Art Gallery of York
University, Toronto, Canada |
|
|
2011 |
private
collection in Taiwan |
| 2020 |
PARATAXE
presentation: Tsou Yung-Shan & Milenko Goranović Literaturhaus Berlin |
|
| 2019 |
FernostBerlin
– die asiatischen Autor*innen Berlins PARATAXE Symposium V, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin |
|
| 2018-2022 |
Graphic design in the project
Sheng of TPMC(Tout
Pour la Musique Contemporaine), France |
|
| 2018 |
24-hr
Soapbox Speech |
|
| 2018 |
Cross-Domain
Reading & Writing: A Biblio-ecology in Art│Lectures |
|
| 2018 |
Cross-Domain
Reading & Writing│Talk |
|
| 2017 |
Speaker of Conversas
Berlin
#25 |
|
| 2017 |
Guest artist-writer of Taiwan
Week, Netherlands |
|
| 2017- |
Columnist
for
UDN Global |
|
| 2016 |
Bookbinding workshop at
Institute of American Indian Arts, USA |
|
| 2015-2017 |
Book design in the project of
german-taiwanese literature exchange program Das
Leben ist eine Insel – Literatur@Taiwan |
|
| 2014 |
Innovation
Series: SoundScape–Literature into Music with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, premiered in Taiwan |
|
| Juni 2013 | Open
Art Academy in the Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz
Berlin |
|
| 2012-2013 | Calligraphy workshops im HdA
Kunstsalon Berlin |
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