Musquiqui Chihying is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Taipei and Berlin. He explores the cultural and social identities constructed through the flow and circulation of audiovisual elements in physical and virtual spacetime. Specialising in the use of multimedia such as film and sound, he investigates the human condition and environmental system in the age of global capitalisation and engages in the inquiry of and research on issues of subjectivity in contemporary social culture in the Global South. His works have been shown in several international institutions and film festivals, such as 72nd Berlinale (2022), Art Sonje Center in Seoul (2021), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2020), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020), 2016 Taipei Biennial, 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014) etc. He is shortlisted for the 2019 Berlin Art Prize and the winner of the Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award 2019 from Han Nefkens Foundation in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró. He is a member of the Taiwanese art group Fuxinghen Studio, and the founder of the Research Lab of Image and Sound.
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致穎居住和工作於臺北及柏林。他擅長運用聲音及影像等媒材進行創作，以探討全球資本化時代人類生存語境與環境體系之關聯，並多方關注全球南方當代社會之主體性研究與探查。致穎的作品曾於許多國際性的藝術機構與影展展出，包括“柏林影展”（2022）、善宰藝術中心（2021）、巴黎龐畢度中心（2020）、“鹿特丹影展”（2020）、“臺北電影節”（2020）、尤倫斯當代藝術中心（2018）、“臺北雙年展”（2016）、“上海雙年展”（2014）等，並於2019年獲西班牙哈恩內夫肯基金會與米羅基金會頒發年度LOOP錄像藝術首獎，且在同年入圍柏林藝術獎。此外，他是臺灣藝術團體“復興漢工作室”成員，並主持RLIS影響研究室，專注於媒體與圖像研究。
2022
“On The Faience Of Your Eyes”, LIUSA WANG, Paris, France.
“There Are Lights That Never Go Out”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
“The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea”, A+ Contemporary, Art Basel Online Viewing Room.
2019
“The Chinese Museum F”, IN EXTENSO, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
“The Power of My Smile ", Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.
2018
“I'll Be Back”, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
2017
“Resistance is Futile”, CAAC / Gallery 456, New York, USA.
“Figure Flash Camera”, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016
“Musquiqui: The Camera”, EINMAL Temporary Gallery, Modena, Italy
“Modern Life is Dull”, NON Berlin Asia contemporary art platform, Berlin, Germany.
Selected Group Exhibition
“Simulacra of Real Life”, Hsinchu 241 Art Space, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
“72nd Berlinale Forum Expanded”, Silent Green Kulturquartier,, Berlin, Germany.
“Taipei Dangdai”, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
“The Intimate Revolt”, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China.
“The Whiners”, Waleyart, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Wish You Good Health and Happiness - On Beliefs, Governance and The New Life”,
Hsinchu City Art Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
“8th Asia Now”, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France.
“One song is very much like another, and the boat is always from afar”,
Times Museum, Guangzhou, China.
“Transposition”, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea.
“Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun: Trade”, Vernàcular Institute,
Mexico City, Mexico.
“Step Out of the Strange Light”, Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany.
“Readings From Below”, Times Art Center, Berlin, Germany.
“Runaway World”, Gaotai Gallery, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
“Meditations in an Emergency”, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.
“China⇋Afrique: Crossing The World Colour Line”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2019
“Sensuous Tua-Tiu-Tiann”, Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Berlin Art Prize”, Very, Berlin, Germany.
“The Return of Guests”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
“The Racing Will Continue. The Dancing Will Stay”, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China.
“12th OSTRALE Biennale: ism”, Gedenkstätte Bautzener Straße, Dresden, Germany.
“#WOD On Tour”, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
“Kunstraum Berlin”, Germany Embassy Beijing, Beijing, China.
“Yellow Reflection”, Galerie Liusa Wang, Paris, France.
2018
“Crush”, Para Site, Hong Kong, China.
“Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan.
“HINDSIGHT”, Gallery MEME, Seoul, South Korea.
“68th Berlinale Forum Expanded”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.
2017
“5th Huayu Youth Award”, Huayu Art Center, Sanya, China.
“Very Period”, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan.
“OSMOSIS”, Taiwan Power Company, Taipei, Taiwan.
“A Chemical Love Story”, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China.
“Beyond Freedom”, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong.
“A Map of The World That Does Not Include Utopia is Not Worth Glancing At”,
Beijing Commune, Beijing, China.
“The New Normal”, The Hangar- Umam & Dawawine, Beirut, Libanon.
2016
“2016 Taipei Biennial”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Portrait Portrait”, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Millefeuille de Camélia”, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
“Micro City Lab”, Indie Art Hall Gong, Seoul, South Korea.
“No Cause For Alarm”, La MaMa Galleria, New York, USA.
“Flash: Image Left Behind”, MMCA Residency Goyang, Seoul, South Korea.
2015
“2015 Taipei Art Awards”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Kunst & Konstrukt: Kunstpreis der Leinemann-Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst”,
Westraum, Berlin, Germany.
“Meisterschuülerpreis des Präsidenten Auswahlausstellung”, U.D.K, Berlin, Germany.
“Through the Looking-Screen”, Gallery 175, Seoul, South Korea.
“Boys and Their Toys”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
“10 Years of Palatti”, Kotti-Shop, Berlin, Germany.
“10th Shanghai Biennale: Social Factory”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
“Place an Image / Place in Image”, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany.
“DUMMIES” with Schwanzo Kollektiv, Modena, Italy.
2013
“Palatti Schopf”, Ledi - Die Wanderbühne, Oberegg, Switzerland.
2012
“Post - Office 2”, PINGPONG Artspace, Taipei, Taiwan.
“2012 Taiwan Biennial”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
“F - Stop”, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.
“Book - Like Object”, tamtamART, Berlin, Germany.
“Refugium”, DIE ARBEIT atelier and showroom, Berlin, Germany.
“Post - Office”, PINGPONG Artspace, Taipei, Taiwan.
“TASTEN SPIELE”, Musikinstrumenten - Museum, Berlin, Germany.
“Salon Schwarzenberg”, Neurotitian, Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
“Das WOHNUNGSPROJEKT”, COLLETTIVO CAZZO, Berlin, Germany.
“2012 Taiwan Biennial”, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
“F - Stop”, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany.
“Book - Like Object”, tamtamART, Berlin, Germany.
“Refugium”, DIE ARBEIT atelier and showroom, Berlin, Germany.
“Post - Office”, PINGPONG Artspace, Taipei, Taiwan.
“TASTEN SPIELE”, Musikinstrumenten - Museum, Berlin, Germany.
“Salon Schwarzenberg”, Neurotitian, Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Awards
2022
“20th Taishin Arts Award”, Short List, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Taiwan.
“Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award”, Han Nefkens Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.
“Berlin Art Prize”, Short List, Berlin, Germany.
2017
“5th Huayu Youth Award”, Short List, Sanya, Chian.
2015
“Taipei Art Awards”, Honorable Mention, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan.
Screening
“35th Filmfest Dresden”, Dresden, Germany.
“38th Shortfilm Festival Hamburg: International competition”, Zeise Kinos, Hamburg, Germany..
“28th Encounters Film Festival: Encounters Grand Prix Award competition”, Bristol, UK.
“36th Image Forum Festival: East Asian Experimental Competition”, Tokyo, Japan.
“Practices of rupture. Toward a reparative justice”, Archive Sites, Milano, Italy.
“I Could Not Recall How I Got Here”, Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, UK.
“Black, A Film Festival, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Territories Under My Skin / Re-Visited”, City Kino Wedding, Berlin, Germany.
“Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival”, Florence, Italy.
“13th Shanghai Biennale – *A* Wet-Run Rehearsal”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.
“Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red Internationalism”, OCAT, Shenzhen, China.
“Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand”, Bangkok, Thailand.
“International Film Festival Rotterdam”, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2019
“33rd Image Forum Festival”, Theatre Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan.
“Screening German Colonial Violence: Café Togo”, University College London, London, UK.
“Projection-Rencontre: Café Togo & Soleil O”, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France.
2018
“Busan Art Film Festival”, Busan, South Korea.
“3rd Salto Independent Film Festival”, Salto, Uruguay.
“33th Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival”, Belfort, France
“18th Flensburger Kurzfilmtage”, Flensburg, Germany.
“3rd Spain Moving Images Festival”, Madrid, Spain.
“8th Irepresent International Documentary Film Festival”, Freedom Park, Lagos, Nigeria.
2016
“Run! Run! Run! Biennale 2016”, UCL, London, UK.
“Zgodbe Zastrte Drugacnosti: Eksperimentalni Filmi O Aziji”, Slovenska Kinoteka,
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2014
“Die Nächste Generation V”, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
“ENTER”, Blockbuster Exhibitions, Berlin, Germany.
Lecture & Talk
2022
“Musquiqui Chihying in Conversation with An Van. Dienderen”, WIELS, Brussel, Belgium.
“Empire Through The Lens”, Delfina Foundation, London, UK.
“Gazing From The Sinosphere: Media Art As Border Crossings”,
UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
2018
“South of the south: Rhetorics of Geography and Imageries of Delinking”,
Guangdong Times Museum, Guangdong, China.
2017
“Photo Talks 25: Musquiqui Chihying”, Lightbox, Taipei, Taiwan.
2015
“Etat Forum: Artist Talk #7 - Musquiqui Chihying”, Etat Forum, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Lecture: The Restaurant”, Kontext-Labor-Bernau, Berlin, Germany.
2013
“Al-mashaa or the Space of the Common”, HKW, Berlin, Germany.
Grants
2019
“Research Stipends in Fine Art”,
Berlin's Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, Germany.
2015
“Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin”,
Geschäftsstelle der NaFöG-Vergabekommission, Berlin, Germany.
2014
“Studienabschuluss-Stipendium des DAAD”, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin,
Germany.
2010
