Grant Recipients
2025
Shikishima Foundation is proud to announce our 2025 grant recipient.
© Sung Tieu, Exhibition view, Bleed, Kunsthalle Bern, 2025. Photo: David Aebi
| Exhibition Title: | Sung Tieu |
| Participating Artist: | Sung Tieu |
| Exhibition Venue: | Kunsthalle Bern |
| Exhibition Dates: | Sep 12, 2025 - Nov 23, 2025 |
Grant summary:
For her exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern,
Sung Tieu develops a new body of work that traces Switzerland’s historical entanglements with colonial economies,
centering on the cultivation of caoutchouc (natural rubber) in French Indochina.
The project engages with the legacy of Swiss-born physician and bacteriologist Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin,
whose presence in Southeast Asia from 1890 onward exemplifies how scientific knowledge and colonial extraction were co-constitutive.