"The contract criticizes KW for charging a €5,000 yearly fee from each of its board members. While the institution has said that those fees are critical to KW's funding, Tieu argues in the piece that it has limited the diversity of the board "in an era where the legacies of exclusion and economic gatekeeping persist within cultural institutions and beyond," per the text in the piece."
"The work further states that it "operates through institutional logic: a self-reflexive transaction that redirects cultural capital toward structural reform." When the work was presented at KW, it hung near a similar piece that memorialized Tieu's disqualification from a competition to design a memorial for Nguyễn Văn Tú, a Vietnamese person who was murdered by German far-right extremists in 1992 after migrating to East Germany in the '80s."
Declaration of Donation is a work engraved on four mirrors that contains a contract critiquing KW's practice of charging a €5,000 yearly fee from each board member. The work links those fees to limits on board diversity and frames the transaction as a redirection of cultural capital toward structural reform. Sung Tieu nominated curator Mi You for a five-year board term and agreed that sale proceeds would cover the fee. The piece was installed near a memorial-related work referencing Tieu's disqualification from a 1992 memorial competition for Nguyễn Văn Tú. KW director Emma Enderby expressed gratitude for the provocation.
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