‘Intelligible standpoint’ 2010
‘Endless green’ 2008
‘Sitting in my room, too tough to die’ / SUMO STUDIO 2009
. video
‘Doi Saket’ / SUMO STUDIO 2008
‘Vibration lake’ / SUMO STUDIO 2008. video
‘Vibration Park’ / SUMO STUDIO 2007
‘Untitled’ 2007
‘Le Pain Perdu’ 2007
‘Untitled (Double Table)’ 2004
‘Deaf travel’ 2005
‘Sanduhr’ (5 hours) 2011
© 2026 Kuo-Wei Lin and VG Bildkunst. No reproduction or republication without written permission, all rights reserved.
‘The present (Bahnhof Alexanderplatz)’ 2012
“The present (Schönhauser Allee)” 2012
‘To gather together, white loop’ 2012. video
‘Der Kontrapunkt, punctus contra punctum, ‘ 2012
‘Jungle Gym’ 2013
‘Asphalt Bokeh’ 2013
+ WHITE FUNGUS magazine interview
‘Cosmetric’ 2014
‘Inevitable frictions’ 2014. video
‘Temperature surfing on a long bench’ 2015
‘Interstice in anonymous transfer (Auto save)’
2015
‘Interstice - Mute Rack Allowance’ 2015
‘Interstice - Fruit resistance. The non-expiry report’ 2015
‘Right Hand Catcher Left. Vice versa’ 2015
‘To stock the interval’ 2016
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Born in 1982 in Taiwan, Kuo-Wei Lin moved to Paris in 2000 and studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts de Lyon from 2002. He continued at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in 2005 and received an MA from Chelsea College of Art, London, in 2007. In 2010 he took part in projects at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin, and in 2012 he completed his Meisterschüler studies at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee.
He lives and works in Bremen.
Lin’s work explores the material relationships between image and tactics, bridging the traditional and the industrial. He takes objects out of their original purpose and shifts their function or context. Working with subtle phenomena such as wind and heat, he moves across photography, sculpture, installation and publishing.
His long experience as a Taiwanese expatriate shapes how he observes. Lin reconfigures materiality and questions how we read the absurdities of everyday life. He looks for the strange within the ordinary and the overlooked within the monumental, taking contexts apart and putting them back together. For him, understanding a context begins with finding the exception, and with opening up new ways of interacting. His work probes, reshapes and heightens contradictory spaces, drawing on social topology and personal experiences of displacement.
‘Untitled (Long standing practice)’ 2005
‘Synesthesia’ 2016
‘In fragments’ 2023
‘Amplifier’ 2023
‘Overcoming oceans’ 2023
‘Tokens talk’ 2023
‘Commemoria’ 2023
‘Hammering memories’ 2023
‘Thermograms’ - 2021
Lin has exhibited internationally, including at SWAB Barcelona (2024), KIKA Gallery, Kyoto (solo, 2023), Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus (2023), Miss Read at HKW, Berlin (2022), Papier Marché at steirischer herbst, Graz (2021), einBuch. haus, Berlin (2020), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2016), Taipei Biennial (2014) curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2013), Institut français Berlin (2012), Centre Émile Hamilius, Casino Luxembourg (2011), Uferhallen, Berlin (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2009), Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Kraków (2008), Tate Britain, London (2007) and the Goethe-Institut Lyon (2006). Residencies include Hangar, Barcelona (2017) and Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen (2022). In November 2026 he presents the solo exhibition Fortunes at Gemeinde, Cologne.
Since 2019 he has been a member of the Berlin self-publishing collective ANDPRESS. With the collective he developed the book The Food is Good, The Weather is Nice, What Have You Been Up To? (食時事 Shishishi), published in 2023.
Lin is the founder and artistic director of wach Kunstraum in Bremen, an independent space for exhibitions, editions, publications and workshops. His curatorial projects there include PlayTime – Narrative Operative Images, Anti-Ghost and Ombres Portées, as well as Shadow Now at SWAB Barcelona in 2026. In 2026 he serves on the nomination jury for the HAP- Grieshaber-Preis.
Cosmetrics, 2014, Eye shadow and lipstick, 8 papers, 8 white aluminium frames 80 x 110 cm, anti UV plexiglas.
At Taipei Biennial (2014) curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
Untitled, 2026, hammered copper plates
Asphalt Bokeh, 2013, Mixed media, Ø 180 cm at Kuandu Fine Arts Museum Taipei
Clinging Ungrown, 2025/2026, Pigment print on fine art baryta paper, museum glass framed
TriChrom, 2025, Pigment print on fine art baryta paper, museum glass framed