Shu Lea Cheang’s daring futuristic imaginative and prescient is taking up Munich’s Haus der Kunst in KI$$ KI$$, her first institutional survey. Described as a “machine of expertise,” the exhibition takes audiences on a sensorial journey by the avant-anarch oeuvre that cemented her standing as a pioneering voice in new media artwork.
Starting together with her 1994 characteristic movie Recent Kill , the present delves into three a long time of works spanning video, set up, efficiency and cinema. Circling software program installations, web interactions and multiplayer performances, Cheang transforms every gallery right into a world of its personal, inviting a playful reconsideration of the bodily and the digital.
“She thinks of her artwork as a sketch or a rehearsal main in the direction of movie,” the museum wrote. The present “focuses on the mise-en-scène: somewhat than presenting particular person objects, the works are synchronised and mixed to type landscapes which guests might wander by and discover and have interaction with at leisure.”
Peppered all through the KI$$ KI$$ are remnants of trash, an emblem used to attach organic and more and more technified realities: Residence Supply fills the air with scents of do-it-yourself meals as a robotic arm piles takeout bins, whereas Portal to the Subsequent provides a automotive crash scene a creative second life, warning the risks of our society’s insatiable want for velocity.
Born in Taiwan, the artist moved to New York within the Nineteen Eighties, the place her profession took root within the burgeoning new media and impartial cinema scene. With experiments grappling with biotechnology, dwell TV and various currencies, Cheang continues to push the envelope of digital tradition, difficult the social expectations each step of the way in which.
KI$$ KI$$ is now on view by August 3, 2025.
Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1,
80538 München, Germany
