Hsu Che-Yu Will Participate In the 34th Bienal de São Paulo

34th Bienal de São Paulo

Taiwanese artist Hsu Che-Yu’s prize winning work “Single Copy” is going to be on view in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo “Faz Escuro mas eu canto” (“Though it’s dark, still I sing”).

The 2021 Bienal de São Paulo is titled “Though it’s dark, still I sing,” a reference to a 1965 poem by Thiago de Mello, and was conceived prior to the onset of the pandemic, aiming to inquire what art can do in this challenging time.

In Hsu Che-Yu’s work “Single copy,” the artist interprets the conjoined twins separation surgery experienced by two Taiwanese brothers Chang Chung-jen and Chang Chung-i, intertwining the individual memories and the collective memories of the political relationship of Taiwan and China at that time. This work will be shown along with works by other 90 artists, reflecting what forms of art and ways of being in the world are possible and necessary now.

Hsu Che-Yu Receives Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award

Image：Fundació Joan Miró website

Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award is established by the Han Nefkens Foundation in collaboration with Loop Barcelona and the Fundació Joan Miró in 2018. The award is devoted to support Asia artists’ production in the video art field.

After receiving $15.000USD funding from Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award for producing new work, which will be showing at public institution such as Fundació Joan Miró, Loop Barcelona, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, MOCA Taipei, ILHAM, Kuala Lumpur for the next two years.

Hsu Che-Yu states: “I’m honoured to be awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation - Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award this year. Most of my works explore the relationship between individual and collective memories from Taiwan. I'm happy these efforts find positive reactions outside my hometown and looking forward to collaborating with Han Nefkens Foundation in the coming year.”

Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin 2020

Taiwanese Artist Hsu Che-Yu's "Single Copy" Exhibited in Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin 2020

Image: Single Copy, Single channel video, FRP sculpture, 21'17''，2019，1/6+2AP

This year's "Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin" will be held in the Louvre, the Grand Palace and the Pompidou Centre in Paris, France. As the European benchmark video art platform, "Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin" is dedicated to the contemporary practice and critical reflection of moving images. Filmmakers, contemporary / digital artists, scholars, guest curators, supervisors of cultural Institutions and of emerging organizations will gather together, using multiple forms of participation such as debates, round tables, forums, project-based creations, etc., in an attempt to construct a polysemous performance towards the educational turn, as a vagrancy of heterogeneous media which is open to the public. 

Hsu Che-Yu, the Taiwanese artist who won the ”HUGO BOSS Asia Art Award for emerging Asian artist” in 2019, is more honored to be invited to exhibit his work “Single Copy”. He hybridized the image projection with the sculptural form, and used his unique and ridiculous representational method to convey the alienated visual language, and further performed the open interpretation of social events and artistic events.

Che-Yu Hsu in Taipei Fine Art Museum

Installation View

Hsu Che Yu's "Microphone Test" in Experimental Film And Video Festival

Detailed images of "Microphone Test"

Hsu Che Yu in Asia Now, Paris

Mirroring Selfie (2015)

Artist Hsu Che-Yu won the first prize of Taishin art award

Shooting the dream from last night / 2015 / 53 x 46 in / print on cotton canvas / 3/5 edition

Taishin award , the most important annual art award in Taiwan has just announced the winner of the year by the jury team-Kasahara Nichole(Tokyo) the curator of Tokyo photography museum, Frie Leysen(Belgium) the Founder of Brussels Kunsten Festival des Arts ,Chi Hui lin(Taiwan), Tchen Yu Chiou(Taiwan), and lin Chi min(Taiwan).

We are glad to know that, among hundreds of Taiwan museum exhibitions and performance artworks, Hsu Che Yu's Microphone test series has been picked as the  First prize, which is 50,000USD dollar-value.The awarded Piece is currently exhibited in MonTue, Taipei.