Ruey-Shiann SHYU & WANG Chun-Chi

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Ruey-Shiann SHYU was born in 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan, and currently lives and works in New York and Taipei. Shyu is known for creating machine-like art work. By using mechanical form as an abstract art language to express his various ideas and feelings towards life, memory, and issues concerning the environment, society, and politics. A work of art may be composed of a single or hundreds to thousands of different components, 95% of which he designs and makes himself, Despite this massive complexity, visually his work leaves an impression of simplicity. 

WANG Chun-Chi is a Taiwanese artist and curator based in Berlin. Recently, she was the assistant curator, for the 2012 Taipei Biennial and the organizer for WEEKEND Project, Berlin in 2010 and 2011. Other recent exhibitions curated include No One River Flows, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2014; Urban Synesthesia, Taipei, 2013; Immaterial Project, Paris, 2012; Liquidshell, Berlin, 2011; Edition N.1-Wonderland, Berlin, 2011; Tangible Intangible, Berlin, 2010; and Future Guide to the Web, New York, 2001. She is the founder and director of IDOLONSTUDIO, Berlin.