Akeroyd Collection
Artists
Su-Mei Tse
b. 1973, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; lives and works in Luxembourg.
Su-Mei Tse is an artist and musician known for her interdisciplinary practice spanning installation, sculpture, photography, and sound. Her work frequently explores themes of identity, memory, and cultural heritage, and she frequently incorporates elements of Eastern and Western culture into her pieces. Tse’s work is often poetic and meditative, capable of creating a sense of contemplation and introspection in the viewer. Her use of simple materials and forms, combined with her attention to detail and sensitivity to sound and space, creates a powerful and immersive experience that invites viewers to reflect on their own perceptions of the world around them.
Su-Mei Tse represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and was awarded the Leono d’Oro award for her tripartite installation Air Conditioned. Recent solo exhibitions include This is Not A Love Song, Peter Blum Gallery, New York (2025); Daydreams, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2024); Nested, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2018); Nested, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2017); Vertigen de la Vida, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona (2011); Floating Memories, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2009); Su-Mei Tse, Art Tower Mito, Japan (2009); East Wind, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2008); PS1, New York (2006); ... ... , Casio, Casino, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (2006); The ICH-Manifestation, Renaissance Society, Chicago (2005); The First of Maderna Su-Mei Tse, Moderna Museet, Sweden (2004). Group exhibitions include Setouchi Triennale 2025, Takamatsu; H BOX, CAM—Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon (2024); ACE À FACE, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022); Still Waters Run Deep, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2018); Setouchi Triennial, Honjima (2016); Far and Near: Nature in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2009); Invasion of Sound, National Gallery of Art, Poland (2009); WONDER, Singapore Biennale (2008); Dans les Alpes-Panorama, Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); Radiodays, De Appel, Amsterdam (2005); 26e Biennale de São Paulo, Sao Paulo Biennale (2004).
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Exhibitions
This is (not) a love song, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, US (solo)
Setouchi Triennale 2025, Takamatsu, Japan (group)
Animals of the Mind , curated by Boris Kremer, Luxembourg Urban Garden (LUGA), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (group)
Daydreams, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (solo)
H BOX, CAM—Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal (group)
A Model, curated by Bettina Steinbrügge, MUDAM, Luxembourg (group)
Art and Sport, curated by Fabien Danesi, organised by GrandPalais: 'Hand in hand in hand', Maison des Sports, Nevers, France (group)
My Last Will, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg (group)
Mein letzter Wille, curated by M+M, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany (group)
Memory Palace in Ruins, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan (group)
35th anniversary exhibition, curated by Jay Lai, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (group)
World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, curated by Mami Kataoka, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (group)
FACE À FACE , Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, Mudam Luxembourg, Germany (group)
Distant Voices, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
Enough or alive, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg (solo)
Selection of NTMoFA’s Collection, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (group)
In the (very) beginning, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
In the Company of Artists: 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (group)
Nested, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
Nested, Yuz Museum Shanghai, China (solo)
Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Roma, Italy (group)
Walking and Pausing..., Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg (solo)
Su-Mei Tse: L’Echo, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA (solo)
Nested, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (solo)
Still Waters Run Deep, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (group)
Waterloo Billboard Commission, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK (solo)
Between eggs, stones and floating balls, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Engadine, Switzerland (solo)
Nested, MUDAM, Luxembourg (solo)
Lapses of Time, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
Elegy, Kiang Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
Listen Hear: The Art of Sound, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA (group)
Proposition de detour, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA (group)
Boom Bang III, NN, a contemporary art, Northampton, UK (group)
Moony Tunes, Setouchi Triennale 2016, Honjima Island, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan (group)
Steichen! Making Meaning of a Legacy, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium (group)
one thousand and one dreams behind us ..., Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Guess What ? Hardcore Contemporary Art’s Truly a World Treasure : Selected Works from YAGEO Foundation Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (group)
Visions and Beyond, The 2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, China (group)
Faded and the space between, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
Fruits de la Passion, La Collection du Centre Pompidou, Japan (group)
Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique et Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (group)
... et a l’horizon il y avait l’orage, CAC-Chateau des Adhemar, Montelimar, France (solo)
exposition des œuvres de la donation Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Musée Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (group)
Little Water, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, Japan (group)
Ateliers Luxembourg, The Venice Biennale Projects 1988-2011, MUDAM, Luxembourg (group)
4 Films : Adrian Paci, Luisa Rabbia, SUPERFLEX, Su-Mei Tse, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (group)
The Source, Project One, Eslite bookstore, Hong Kong (solo)
Silent Echo, Collection I & II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (group)
Vertigen de la Vida, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Stille Disco, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
BRAVE NEW WORLD, From the perspective of MUDAM Collection, MUDAM, Luxembourg (group)
New Sense Of Order, Su-Mei Tse & Yves Netzhammer, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg (solo)
Words and Memories, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
VARIATIONEN, Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris, France (solo)
ARTLV_09 - The Tel Aviv Bienial, Tel Aviv, Israel (group)
Tenants at ReMap2, parallel project to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (group)
Su-Mei Tse, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan (solo)
Floating Memories, Isabella Sewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA (solo)
Solo exhibition, Prix International d’Art Contemporain Foundation Prince Pierre, Monaco (solo)
Some Magical Clangs, Su-Mei Tse & Virginie Yassef, CRAC, Alsace, France (solo)
East Wind, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA (solo)
1000 words for snow, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg (solo)
Bird Cage, Su-Mei Tse & Jean-Lou Majerus, Public Art Project, Luxembourg (solo)
DUOLOGUE, Lee Mingwei & Su-Mei Tse, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan (solo)
Media Test Wall: Su-Mei Tse, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA (solo)
Su-Mei Tse, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
Body as Spectacle, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia (group)
Su-Mei Tse, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA (solo)
Su-Mei Tse, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
The ICH Manifestation, Noctour by Contour Video Festival, Mechelen, Belgium (solo)
Su-Mei Tse, Albion Gallery, London, UK (solo)
... ... , Casion, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (solo)
The ICH-Manifestation, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (solo)
Nouvelles Vagues, Collections du Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Shanghai, Canton, Beijing, China (group)
Su-Mei Tse: Video works, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, USA (solo)
Tell me/ Raconte-moi, Musée national des Beaux-Arts, Québec, Canada (group)
Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art – 18 Solo Exhibitions, Kinmen, Taiwan (group)
Fiction Love, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (group)
The First of Maderna Su-Mei Tse, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Recent Works, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA (solo)
JETZT, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
Su-Mei Tse, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Anvers, Belgium (solo)
Air conditioned, Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Biennale di Venezia (Luxembourg pavilion), Italy (solo)
Réalités_Collections sans frontières II, Galerie Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland (group)
Rien a voir, video projection, Instants Chavires, Montreuil, France (solo)
[E:R] conditionné, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, France (solo)
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Awards
Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco
SR-Medienkunstpreis, Saarlandischer Rundfunk, Saarbrucken, Germany
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, U.S
Edward Steichen Award, Grant and Art Residency, New York, U.S
Golden Lion for Best National Participation, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Prix d’Art Robert Schuman, interrégional price SaarLorLux, Luxembourg
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2001