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| Yung-Shan
Tsou> |
born in Taipei,
Taiwan lives and works in Berlin Since 2011 member of BBK Berlin mobile:+49 174 624 38 42 email:yungshan.tsou@gmail.com |
| Yung-shan
Tsou 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 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 KNM Berlin in Innovation Series Soundscape—Literature into Music in 2014. Now she takes part in the Taiwanese-German literature exchange program, which lasts from 2015 to 2017. She is also working on a project of Chinese calligraphy. |
| 2011 |
Meisterschülerin at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin | |
| 2008 | Erasmus Scholarship, Fine Arts at the Universidad Barcelona |
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| 2002-2010 | 2002-2010 Textile and surface design at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, ended with degree of Diplom |
Recognitions
| 2017 |
Grant holder of National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan |
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| 2017 |
International writers' residency in Château de Lavigny, Switzerland |
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| 2016 |
Artist residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, USA; Taiwan Ministry of Culture Fellow |
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| 2016 |
Artist residency at Camac Art Centre, France; Taiwan Ministry of Culture Fellow |
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| 2015 |
Shortlisted in KALEID 2015
London "Artists Who Do Books" |
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| 2015 |
Grant holder of "Books
from Taiwan", funded by Taiwan Ministry of Culture |
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| 2013/2014 |
Grant holder of Taipei Book Fair
Foundation, funded by Taiwan Ministry of Culture |
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| 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 |
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| 2013 |
Finalist of NOPX|artbook 2012|2013, International Contest of Artist Books, Turin, Italy | |
| 2011 |
Finalist of 2011
TSMC Literaturwettbewerbs, Taiwan, novel „The Waiting Room“ (in traditional Chinese) |
Publications
| 2017 |
short stoty: Driesprong, Terras international literary magazine (in November) |
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| 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 |
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| 2016 |
novel: La Salle d’attente,
Piranha éditions |
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| 2013-2015 | artist's books: flip!s |
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| 2014 |
novel: 鐵道共乘旅遊手冊 (A Traveler's Guide to Ride-sharing, traditional Chinese version) ISBN: 9789866026867 |
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| 2013 |
novel: 等候室 (The Waiting Room, traditional Chinese version) ISBN:9789866026379 |
Reviews/Interviews (selected)
| 2016 |
En attendant Nadeau: J’habite entre ici et là-bas |
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| 2016 | Lettres de Taïwan: Tsou Yung-Shan: « This is about expectation » |
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| 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
| 2017 |
Our Gaze, solo exhibition; SinArts Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands |
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| 2016 |
SFAI140, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA |
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| 2016 |
Book Semiotics, Santa Fe Art Institute, USA |
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| 2016 |
Cabinets of curiosities:
intermediate worlds of visible and invisible creatures, Alter
Friedhof St. Marien–St. Nikolai, Berlin |
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| 2016 |
26th KOUSAKU exhibition: People who plant a tree, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan |
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| 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 |
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| 2013 |
The 4th Sheffield
International Artist's Book Prize and Exhibition, Sheffield U.K. |
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| 2013 |
102年度國立台灣文學館好書推廣主題書展, National Museum of Taiwan Literature,
Tainan, Taiwan |
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| 2013 |
NOPX|artbook 2012|2013, International Contest of Artist Books in NOPX, Turin, Italy | |
| 2013 |
Abwesend, anwesend, solo exhibition;
Joie Éternelle, Taipei, Taiwan |
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| 2012 |
Typosphäre – The current positions of script-/ imagery, Galerie im Turm Berlin |
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| 2012 |
Book-Like
Objects, tamtamART Berlin |
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| 2011 |
POSSIBLE ARTs, Kunsthaus-Viernheim | |
| 2011 |
Silent
Years, solo exhibition; VBM20.10
CONTEMPORARY ARTS & DESIGN Berlin |
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| 2010 |
The
Incredible 10 und
Friedichstadt Zentral - experimental music- und art festival
Dresden |
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| 2009 |
Voyage Voyage!,
Galerie Bild Plus Berlin |
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| 2008 |
Anonyme Zeichner #9, art space
Kreuzberg/ Bethanien Berlin |
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| 2006 |
Segmente des Alltag, solo exhibitions; art space Polymar und Bona-Preiser-Bibliothek
Berlin |
Collections
| 2017 |
book collection, The Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation, Switzerland |
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| 2016 |
artists book collection, Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA | |
| 2016 |
artists book collection, Denison University Library, Granville, Ohio, USA |
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| 2013-2016 |
private collections in Canada, Germany, Taiwan, USA |
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2013 |
The AGYU artist book collection, The Art Gallery
of York University, Toronto, Canada |
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2011 |
private collection in Taiwan |
| 2017- |
columnist for UDN Global |
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| 2016 |
Bookbinding workshop at Institute of American Indian Arts, USA |
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| 2015-2017 |
Book design in the project of german-taiwanese literature exchange program Das Leben ist eine Insel – Literatur@Taiwan |
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| 2014 |
Innovation Series: SoundScape–Literature into Music,
Taiwan |
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| Juni 2013 | Open Art Academy in the Kunsthalle am Hamburger
Platz Berlin |
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| 2012-2013 | Calligraphy workshops im HdA
Kunstsalon Berlin |
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