Szu-Ying Hsu

Summer Residency

Szu-Ying Hsu is a Taiwanese contemporary multimedia artist who works with video, installation and photography. Hsu’s artwork challenges both the limits of the viewer and the very definition of art. Through thought-provoking works, Hsu offers a profound ecological reflection on contemporary society, presented in a philosophical and poetic manner.

Bringing a white rhino from the prestigious Victoria & Albert museum to the busy Bank Street area in London; creating a thin porcelain armor that can only be seen on the opening night of the exhibition; displaying damaged armor in a museum showcase, in violation of the convention: Hsu reveals her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in candid, at times, excoriating work that is frequently both tragic and humorous as she seeks to challenge and redefine the positioning and value of artworks in the contemporary art ecology and the hearts of viewers. Objects that may appear spectacular on the outside, under their layers of packaging, could be empty or hollow.

Hsu’s works have been shown in various exhibitions and film festivals, such as the Internationalen Kurz Film Festival Hamburg (Germany), Mönchehaus Museum Goslar (Germany), the 29th Stuttgarter Filmwinter festival for Expanded Media (Germany), Moving Silence Festival Athens (Greece), Braunschweig International Film Festival (Germany), the 28th and 26th European Media Art Festival (Germany), Borderline-Mirrorlike, the Interaction Exhibition of Independent Young Artists of Taiwan and Israel (Taiwan and Israel), Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennale (Taiwan), and her work Klanghaut 3.0 was invited to be performed at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover (Germany) in 2021. She graduated from HBK Braunschweig, Germany in 2018. Szu-Ying Hsu lives and works in Berlin, Germany.