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Fiona Tan: Gray Glass, 2020. Three-channel video installation (black and white, sound), film still. Commissioned by the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. With support from Mondriaan Fund, NL, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

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Fiona Tan Mit der anderen Hand With the other hand

Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg [3] October 31, 2020–February 21, 2021

Information up to date: October 6, 2020

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Presse Introduction T +43 662 842220-601 The -based video and film artist Fiona Tan (Pekan Baru, ID, F +43 662 842220-700

1966) has won worldwide acclaim as a leading contemporary artist since the [email protected] 1990s. Her work, which has been showcased at numerous biennials and in www.museumdermoderne.at diverse other international exhibition contexts, charts voyages through space and time, through contemporary and historic visual universes.

The Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthalle Krems mount Fiona Tan’s first mid-career retrospective. Spanning her output of the past twenty years, the presentation is divided into two virtually concurrent exhibitions at the two institutions. Its title, Mit der anderen Hand / With the other hand, refers to a melancholy entry in Franz Kafka’s diary about the sensitive outsider whose very inability to bear life makes him an alert chronicler and prolific memoirist of his time.

The exhibition at the Museum der Moderne offers comprehensive insight into central themes and concepts that anchor Fiona Tan’s thinking and art: alterity and identity, remembering and forgetting, the aesthetics of travel, the relationship between humanity and nature, documentation and fiction, and the interactions between photographic and film images.

Tan’s works always also read as a critique of seeing, as when she harnesses archival footage to deconstruct the European perspective on other cultures. The relations between Orient and Occident are the subject of the video installation Disorient, which premiered in the Dutch pavilion at the 2009 .

The iconography of the sea and mountains plays a prominent part in Tan’s oeuvre, exemplified in the exhibition by News from the Near Future, 2003, Brendan’s Isle, 2010, Leviathan, 2015, and Depot, 2015.

Ascent, 2016, is a filmic narrative about Japanese Mount Fuji for which the artist collected over 4,000 amateur photographs. The result is a probing exploration of the mountain as a photographic image and national myth.

For a new work on film commissioned for the exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Gray Glass, Fiona Tan shot material in the Alps around Salzburg: on the glaciers at Hoher Sonnblick and in the Eisriesenwelt cave system in Werfen.

The exhibition is accompanied by a two-volume publication released by Snoeck: a bilingual exhibition catalogue and a reader in separate German and English editions with writings on Fiona Tan’s oeuvre and texts by renowned international curators and critics and by the artist herself.

Curators: Thorsten Sadowsky and Marijana Schneider

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Publications related to the exhibition

Fiona Tan. Mit der anderen Hand / With the other hand Ed. Thorsten Sadowsky for the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Florian Steininger for Kunsthalle Krems.

Exhibition catalogue With a foreword by Thorsten Sadowsky and Florian Steininger and essays by Ruth Horak, Thorsten Sadowsky, Nina Schedlmayer and an interview with Fiona Tan and Eva Sangiorgi. Softcover, 160 pages, ca. 100 color ill. Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne, 2020 Bilingual German/English: ISBN 978-3-86442-324-6 € 29,80

Reader Ed. and with an introduction by Gilda Williams. With contributions by John Berger, Saskia Bos, David Campany, Stéphane Carrayrou, Dawn Chan, Lynne Cooke, Laura Cumming, Brian Dillon, Thomas Elsaesser, Juliana Engberg, Okui Enwezor, David Frankel, Christophe Gallois, Philip Gefter, Denis Gielen, Massimiliano Gioni, Mark Godfrey, Hettie Judah, Midori Matsui, Philip Monk, Elisa Schaar, Sabine Maria Schmidt, Adrian Searle, Joel Snyder, Adelina Vlas, and Doris von Drathen and substantial writings by Fiona Tan. Softcover, 400 pages, ca. 30 black-and-white ill. Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne, 2020 Deutsch: ISBN 978-3-86442-325-3 English: ISBN 978-3-86442-326-0 € 19,80

Both volumes (reader in German or English): € 39,90

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Presse Biographical note T +43 662 842220-601 Fiona Tan (Pekan Baru, ID, 1966–Amsterdam, NL) F +43 662 842220-700

The visual artist and filmmaker Fiona Tan has garnered international acclaim [email protected] with subtly executed video and film installations in which explorations of www.museumdermoderne.at memory, time, history, and the role of visual imagery are central themes. Her installations and photographic works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in major international cultural institutions. She has also written and directed two feature films.

Fiona Tan was educated in Amsterdam, NL, studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1988 until 1992 and then at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten from 1996 until 1997. Her work has earned her numerous accolades and fellowships (see below).

Solo exhibitions in recent years have included GAAF at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE (2019), Ascent at the Museum De Pont, Tilburg, NL (2017), Geography of Time at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE (2016), and Mudam, Luxemburg, Ascent at the Izu Photo Museum, Nagaizumi, JP (2016), Depot at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, GB (2015), and Geography of Time at the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, NO (2015).

Fiona Tan represented the with her solo presentation Disorient at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).

Her work has also been featured in various international group exhibitions, including the São Paulo Biennial, BR (2010), the Venice Architecture Biennial, IT (2010), IX, DE (2002), and the , TK (2001).

Fiona Tan’s work is held by numerous international public and private collections, including the Tate Modern, London, UK, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, US, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL, in the , Paris, FR, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, JP, the Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE, and the MCA, Chicago, IL, US.

Awards and fellowships

2019 Spectrum International Prize for Photography, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE 2017 Amsterdam Prize for Art, Amsterdam, NL 2016–2017 Getty Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA, US 2007 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 07, London, GB / Frankfurt am Main, DE (nominated) 2004 Infinity Award for Art, New York, NY, US 2004 Artes Mundi Prize, Cardiff, GB (nominated)

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1997 Best national debut film award, Netherlands Film Festival, NL [email protected] 1996 Prix de Rome, Film/Video, NL www.museumdermoderne.at

Fiona Tan’s work in museum collections (selection)

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, JP Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, NO Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR De Pont Museum, Tilburg, NL Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, DE Don Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, US Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL, US Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain) Lorraine, Metz, FR FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain) Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, FR FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain) Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, FR Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, NL Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, US Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US LVMH Collection, Paris, FR Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, ES Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, US National Museum of Art, Osaka, JP National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, JP Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, US Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE Schaulager, Basel, CH Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Taipei Art Museum, Taipei, TW Tate Collection, London, GB Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, JP Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA

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Presse Events T +43 662 842220-601 F +43 662 842220-700

Press conversation with Fiona Tan [email protected] Museum der Moderne Salzburg www.museumdermoderne.at Mönchsberg, Auditorium Friday, October 30, 2020, 11 a.m.

Artist talk Saturday, October 31, 2020, 3 p.m. Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Auditorium Fiona Tan in conversation with Thorsten Sadowsky

Director’s guided tour with Thorsten Sadowsky Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 6:30 p.m. Free attendance with museum ticket

Curator’s guided tour with Marijana Schneider Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 6:30 p.m. Free attendance with museum ticket

Partner Exhibition

Fiona Tan. Mit der anderen Hand

Kunsthalle Krems Museumsplatz 5 3500 Krems an der Donau Austria

November 21, 2020–Februar 14, 2021

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Fiona Tan Disorient, 2019 Two-channel high-definition video installation High-definition video (color, 5:1 surround sound) Still Commissioned by the Mondriaan Fund for the Dutch pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, IT With support from Mondriaan Fund, NL, Frith Street Gallery, London, GB, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY, US © Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

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Fiona Tan Ascent, 2016 Installation, 2 parts Room 1: 16:10 projection (color, 7:1 surround sound) Room 2: 150 color photographs, mounted, wall shelf Still © Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

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Fiona Tan Depot, 2015 High-definition video installation High-definition video (color, stereo sound) Still Commissioned by the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, GB With support from Sfumato Foundation, Art Fund UK, Mondriaan Fund, NL, The Embassy of the Netherlands, London © Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

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Fiona Tan Leviathan, 2015 Video installation Video (color, stereo sound) Still Film fragments: courtesy of the Eye Film Institute, NL Commissioned by the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, GB © Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

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Fiona Tan News from the Near Future, 2003 Video projection Video (black and white, tinted, stereo sound) Still Film fragments: courtesy of the Netherlands Film Museum Commissioned by the Netherlands Film Museum © Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

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Fiona Tan Gray Glass, 2020 Three-channel ultra-high-definition video installation Video (black and white, stereo sound) Still Commissioned by the Museum der Moderne Salzburg With support from Mondriaan Fund, NL, Museum der Moderne Salzburg © Courtesy of the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

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