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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


2011

Meisterschülerin at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2008
Erasmus Scholarship, Fine Arts at the Universidad Barcelona
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 three 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 was 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 and the Research Scholarship of Visual Art 2022 of the Berlin Senate Department of Culture and Europe, she has started a new artist's book project.



Recognitions

2022

Scholarship holder of Research Scholarship of Visual Art 2022 of the Senate Department of Culture and Europe, Berlin, Germany
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


2023

novel: Ave Maria (extract 2), stadtsprachen magazin, issue 24, Berlin
2022

novel: 萬福瑪麗亞(Ave Maria), Unitas Publishing Co., Taipei
2020

novel: Ave Maria (extract 1), stadtsprachen magazin issue, 14, 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)

2023
全球流動性下,無數的希望與幻滅:鄒永珊《萬福瑪麗亞》,NCAFe, National Culture and Arts Foundation e-magazine, Taiwan
2022
鄒永珊獻給世間的救贖──寫《萬福瑪麗亞》看亂世浮生,China Times, Taiwan
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


2023

Present Moments, exhibition in the Berlin Asia Arts Festival, Gallery Moving Poets Novilla, Berlin
2022

Book presentation: Ave Maria, Novilla, Berlin Asia Arts Club, Berlin
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

2023

private collections in Germany, Taiwan
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





Cooperative Projects/Workshops/Events

2023

Literatur-Pop-Up-Store in Literaturforum in Brecht-Haus
2023

Berlin Asia Arts Festival, Gallery Moving Poets Novilla, Berlin
2023

nflb summer festival: The Secret Garden, Kulturhof Koloniestraße 10, Berlin
2022

Book presentation: Ave Maria, Novilla, Berlin Asia Arts Club, Berlin
2020

PARATAXE presentation: Tsou Yung-Shan & Milenko Goranović
Literaturhaus Berlin
2019

FernostBerlin – die asiatischen Autor*innen Berlins
PARATAXE Symposium V, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
2018
-2023

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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