Mali Wu
Mali Wu ( Chinese 吴 玛 悧 ; * 1957 in Taipei ) is a Taiwanese installation and concept artist .
biography
After graduating from college in German literature at Tamkang University , she came to Vienna in the early 1980s, then from 1982 to Germany at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where she attended Günther Uecker's class . In 1985 she went to Taiwan again. In 1995 she had a group exhibition Balancing Acts in the Ifa Gallery in Bonn of the Institute for Foreign Relations . In the same year she was represented at the 46th Biennale di Venezia (Palazzo delle Prigioni) with the Installation Library , and there in 1997 in the exhibition Segmentation / Multiplication with Fang Marvin Minto and Tsong Pu. In 1998 she was represented in the exhibition “Half of Heaven” in the Bonn Women's Museum with the video work History of the Women of Hsing-Chang .
Wu Mali is considered the “godmother” of Taiwan's socially committed art. Since the 1990s, she has produced a number of influential projects including (together with Bamboo Curtain Studio ) Art as Environment - A Cultural Action at the Plum Tree Creek , which won the 2013 Taishin Arts Award . In addition to her artistic work, she directed the translation of Suzanne Lacy's Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art and Grant Kester's Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art into Chinese . In 2007 she organized the conference Art and Public Sphere: Working in Community and later edited a volume of the same name to bring together local practitioners, theorists and officials. She heads the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Arts at National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU) in Kaohsiung . In 2014 she curated a major exhibition entitled Art as Social Interaction , which presented socially engaged projects by 30 artists and groups from Taiwan and Hong Kong . She is also active in building regional networks.
In 2018 she was co-curator of the 11th Taipei Biennial .
literature
- Katy Deepwell : Mali Wu. A profiles. In: n.paradoxa. International Feminist Art Journal. Ed. Katy Deepwell, Vol. 5, November 1997, ISSN 1461-0434, pp. 45-53. (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Mali Wu in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zheng Bo: An Interview with Wu Mali. In: Field . 2016, pp. 151-164 , accessed December 2, 2018 (American English, ISSN 0015-0657 ).
- ↑ 第 11 届 台北 双年展 公布 参展 名单 透露 了 哪些 信息？ In: ifeng.com. art.ifeng.com, September 13, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018 (Chinese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wu, Mali |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mali Wu; 吴 玛 悧 (Chinese writing) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Taiwanese installation and concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taipei |