Haus der Kunst München: Shu Lea Cheang, »KI$$ KI$$«, 14. Februar bis 3. August 2025

Haus der Kunst München: Shu Lea Cheang, »KI$$ KI$$«, 14. Februar bis 3. August 2025

• First institutional survey of the artist working in experimental video and net art

• Presentation of her work of three decades updated into new landscape formats

• Daring science fiction narratives focus on non human intelligences

München, 29. Januar 2025 

The first institutional survey of Shu Lea Cheang (born in 1954, #Taiwan) updates her works and artefacts of the past three decades into new landscape formations. Each gallery is its own world in which internet based installation, software interaction, and multiplayer performance invite to explore and participate.

«KI$$ KI$$« takes Shu Lea Cheang’s first feature film Fresh Kill (1994) as a starting point, presenting the artist and filmmaker’s world building practices. Cheang moved to New York in the 1980s, where she joined the vibrant scene of independent cinema and started experimenting with video, live TV, and network technologies. Since the 1990s her work has challenged and furthered our understanding of digital culture. Cheang anticipated the advance of alternative currencies, investigated gamified societies, and probed bio technologies. Her works often develop over several years, through different stages and media, including video, installation, performance, and various forms of cinema.

 The exhibition updates works and artefacts into new landscape formations extending through four gallery spaces. Trash appears as a primary theme that leads Cheang’s investigation into the entanglement of biosphere and technosphere. Each gallery is its own world in which internet based installation, software interaction, and multiplayer performance invite the audience to explore and play.

 «KI$$ KI$$« reimagines the exhibition as a transformative journey, or a «machine of experience«. From a different angle but in dialogue with the ongoing exhibition of Philippe Parreno, Shu Lea Cheang’s daring science fiction narratives focus on non human intelligences both natural and artificial. Engaging with new and ancient technologies, the exhibition continues our engagement with contemporary and emerging transmedia art practices, following exhibitions by Dumb Type, Tony Cokes, and WangShui.

For their generous support of the exhibition we thank LG Electronics, IT Business. Curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer with Laila Wu.

February 14th through August 3rd, 2025, Haus der Kunst, Nordgalerie, Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich

«Echoes. Plot Twist«

Our annual live exhibition «Echoes« this year blends ancient myth and contemporary technology. «Plot Twist« is an invitation to reflect together on eco fictions, human machine relationships, and other demons. The four day performance programme explores contemporary media: the digital and the body. We are especially looking forward to presenting the premiere of choreographer and dancer Layton Lachman, inaugurating the new TUNE installation in the Terrassensaal by Hanne Lippard and Laurel Halo, and premiering Pussy Riot's new show on the large stage of the Westgalerie, with which the performance collective will then tour the US and Canada. With Anansi’s Web (Curtly Thomas & Nelta Kasparian), Hanne Lippard & Laurel Halo, Invernomuto, Layton Lachman, Lucy Liyou, Pavel Milyakov & Martyna Basta, Pussy Riot, Rully Shabara, and Sarah Friend.

«Tune«

Our fourth year «Tune« sound residencies continue on the intersections of sound, music, and visual arts. The spirit of play is the main thread running through «Tune« 2025, and it takes place across venues of our building. Artists include Valentina Magaletti, Nídia, Moin, life is beautiful, Limpe Fuchs, Hanne Lippard, Laurel Halo, Youmna Saba, Benjamin Brachtel, Laraaji, Nicolas Becker, Tarek Atoui, and Quentin Sirjacq. Next Date: Hanne Lippard & Laurel Halo. Sour Loop. Sound Installation from January 31st, 2025.

Alongside the exhibitions, we maintain our commitment to formats reinforcing participation (Open Haus, MMMHaus, Super Books), to new memories (LSK Galerie, Archiv Galerie), and to cooperative projects (Dance Festival München, Spielart Theaterfestival). 

January 1st through february 2nd, 2025, Westgalerie, Auditorium, all year, various locations 

About Haus der Kunst

Haus der Kunst is changing fast. As a global centre for contemporary art without an own collection, we focus on working with living artists, drawing new lines in art history by re appraising canons and stereotypes. Based on a transdisciplinary, transnational, and transgenerational approach, the shaping vision behind our programme weaves projects into a story that evolves over time, creating a new context in which to understand our increasingly digitalised world. Haus der Kunst aims to lead on exploring the digital transformation and its impact on the arts. Its programme highlights visionary practices of artists from the recent past, linking them to experimentations of the present. Dialogue with the public is established through interconnections across projects and new forms of display that address the body and all senses.

 «Haus der Kunst strives to be a safe hub for exchange and encounter. We aspire to be an institution with a many voiced personality, to inspire, stimulate, and serve as a porous, transparent interface with our public mission visible both online and on site, inside and out«, Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director.

We thank our supporters: Free State of Bavaria, Gesellschaft der Freunde Haus der Kunst, Alexander Tutsek Stiftung, Ulli und Uwe Kai Stiftung.

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