Ming Wong

Ming Wong (b. 1971, Singapore) currently lives and works in Berlin. His interdisciplinary practice incorporating performance, video and installation unravels ideas of ‘authenticity’ and the ‘other’ with reference to the act of human performativity. In recent years, he has had strong theatrical interests in the intersection of sci-fi and traditional Chinese culture, particularly Cantonese opera. Wong uses this speculative association to tackle issues such as Chinese modernity, the role of popular culture in building national identities. His works often assemble languages and personalities to create their own “World Cinema”.

Ming Wong (b. 1971, Singapore) currently lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions include Cosmic Theatre, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (2023), Pictures from the Wayang Spaceship, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2023), Rhapsody in Yellow, Berliner Festspiele (2023); Fake Daughter's Secret Room of Shame, ASAKUSA, Tokyo, Japan (2019); Next Year / L’Année Prochaine, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2015); Me in Me, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2013); Ming Wong: Making Chinatown, REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA (2012); Life of Imitation, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan/ CAST Gallery, Tasmania, Australia/ Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA (2011)/ Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2010)/ Singapore Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy (2009). Group exhibitions include Signals: How Video Transformed The World, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States (2023); Pier Paolo Pasolini: Tutto è santo. The political body, MAXXI, Rome, Italy (2022); Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2020), Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Chengdu, China (2018); Sunshower. Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2019), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2017), and numerous art tri-/bi-ennials in Shanghai, Singapore, Seoul, Busan, Gwangju, Sydney, Brisbane, Aichi, Taichung, Hawai'i, Lyon, Liverpool, Dakar, Jakarta. His works are also in the collections of Singapore Art Museum; M+, Hong Kong; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, LA; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan.