2024
Co-Author and Co-Editor
"Pod, Capsule, Cluster" by Richard Tuttle
A collaboration with M WOODS Museum, published by M WOODS, Beijing, 2024.
This rare event, Tuttle’s first book in China, unfolds as a constellation of ten intimate books within one—each a world unto itself.
This publication accompanies Richard Tuttle's first solo exhibition in China, Introduction to Practice, curated by Victor Wang at M WOODS Museum in 2019. Conceptualized by Richard Tuttle and edited by Kiki Zhu and Victor Wang this book captures the essence of Tuttle’s exhibition, which serves as the artist’s last piece of work. The books are titled Making the Exhibition, Text, China, Artist Book 1, Artist Book 2, Artist Book 3, Archival, Book Video, Internet, and 100 Works in Exhibition, these books weave together a meditative exploration of Tuttle's practice, offering an intimate look into the artist’s reflections, inspirations, and the intricate process of bringing this show to life.
A labor of love spanning five years, this book captures the depth and breadth of Tuttle’s artistry and invites readers into the delicate balance of materiality and life that permeates his work.
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Contributing Writer
Forthcoming Publication
Salman Toor: New Paintings and Drawings
"What we know but cannot say: Victor Wang in conversation with Salman Toor"
A collaboration with AGWA, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, and M WOODS Museum, published by AGWA, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2024.
This forthcoming publication accompanies the exhibition New Paintings and Drawings by Salman Toor, curated by Victor Wang at M WOODS Museum. In an in-depth conversation between Wang, Artistic and Executive Director of M WOODS, and Toor, the publication delves into the artist’s exploration of identity, the fusion of cultural influences, and the evolving role of art history. Together, they address themes of classification and surveillance in Western museology, providing readers with a profound insight into Toor’s distinctive approach and the global art context. [AGWA Link]
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Contributing Writer and Advisor
"Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art"
Phaidon, 2024.
Nominated by 66 leading global experts (including curators, critics, museum directors, and professors), Vitamin Txt showcases 103 living artists, from 34 countries, who place the use of text centrally within their artistic practices. With more the 500 artworks illustrated, and an introduction about the history of artists using text from ancient Chinese calligraphy to contemporary digital art, the book’s focus allows for a showcase of a range of different mediums, providing a cross-disciplinary view into the art world today. (via Phaidon, 2024.)
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Editor and Author
“ Bruce Nauman"
Edited by: Victor Wang, Artistic and Executive Director of M WOODS, Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and former Senior Curator, International Art (Film) at Tate Modern, and Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England, and former Director of Tate. Co-published by: Tate Publishing and M WOODS.
2024
This milestone publication serves as the first monograph on Bruce Nauman in the Chinese language. Marking a significant achievement in the dissemination and sharing of contemporary art within China. Accompanying the first museum retrospective of Bruce Nauman's art in China, held at M WOODS in 2022, the exhibition was organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.
This monograph is edited by Victor Wang, Artistic and Executive Director of M WOODS, Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and former Senior Curator, International Art (Film) at Tate Modern, and Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England, and former Director of Tate.
This 346-page publication, featuring a hard cover and bilingual content in Chinese and English, showcases new and original content, including essays by Victor Wang, Artistic and Executive Director of M WOODS; Ruth Burgon, Research and Public Engagement Curator at The Fruitmarket Gallery; and Henriette Huldisch, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Additionally, it contains a rare interview with Bruce Nauman, conducted by Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England and former Director of Tate, along with Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and former Senior Curator, International Art (Film) at Tate Modern, providing an exceptional glimpse into the artist's thoughts—a rarity, given Nauman's infrequent participation in interviews. This unique collection of perspectives and insights makes the monograph a must-read for enthusiasts and scholars alike in China.
2022
Selection Committee
"Prime: Art's Next Generation."
Phaidon, 2022.
This season, Phaidon returns to this theme with Prime: Art's Next Generation. Once again, we appointed an esteemed panel of experts to select 107 of the best contemporary artists under the age of 40. The selection committee includes plenty of notable figures, such as Frieze’s editor-in-chief, Andrew Durbin; Victor Wang, artistic director and chief curator at M WOODS Museum in Beijing; Tate curator Fiontan Moran; Krist Gruijthuijsen, Director of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin; and Bernardo Mosqueira, artistic director of Solar dos Abacaxis in Rio de Janeiro and curatorial fellow, of the New Museum in New York. (via Phaidon, 2022.)
2021
Co-Editor and Co-Author
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Hearing Time
Exhibition Catalogue
Published by M WOODS, Beijing and Kab Inc./Kab America Inc.
Victor Wang. "The World is a Sound Garden: Notes on RYUICHI SAKAMOTO and A Non-History of East Asian Modern Noise". In "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Hearing Time." Exhibition Catalogue. Produced by M WOODS, Beijing and Kab Inc./Kab America Inc.
Exhibition curated by Sachiko Namba, Victor Wang and Zhang Youdai.
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time" at M WOODS, Beijing (Hutong) from March 15th to August 8th 2021.
Managing editor: Deng Yingying
Editors: Sachiko Namba, Victor Wang
Authors: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Lin Han, Sachiko Namba, Victor Wang, Zhang Youdai, Shigeru Matsui
Catalogue Design: Studio NA.EO
Translation: Deng Yingying, Lavender Zhao, Amstutz Communications, Zhang Lu, Aiko Masubuchi, Qi Yuanlin
Photography: Tian Yu, Xiao Niu, Yang Dongxu, Zhao Yihan
Pages：314
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Editor and Author
"Giorgio Morandi: Centrality, Language, and China."
Giorgio Morandi: The Poetics of Stillness. M WOODS Museum, English and Chinese.
Published by M WOODS, Beijing
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2020
Author
Victor Wang, "Black China", Artforum Magazine,
Print. Bulletins From Around the Globe, Sept 2020.
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Author
Victor Wang, "Two Months That Failed to Change the World."
Art Review Magazine, April 2020.
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2019
Contributing Writer
Victor Wang. "Zhang Peili: Notes on Immersion and 30x30."
In Micro Era: Media Art from China
Edited by Anna-Catharina Gebbers and Udo Kittelmann, and Yu Zhang.
Published by Kerber Verlag, 2019.
2018
Contributing Author and Collaborator
Victor Wang. "Oscar Murillo: the build-up of content and information." Horizons in Flight Mode. New Monograph. David Zwirner Books, English and Chinese. 2018.
Published on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition of paintings and works on paper at David Zwirner, Hong Kong, in 2018, the build-up of content and information is accompanied by an essay by curator and writer Victor Wang, who attests to Murillo’s work as being guided by mobility. This publication is available in both English only and bilingual English/traditional Chinese editions.
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Author and Editor
"Performance Histories from East Asia 1960s–90s: An IAPA Reader."
Edited by Victor Wang
Designed by Liam Johnstone.
Published by David Roberts Art Foundation, 2018.
Victor Wang, a curator, has edited a new publication that features a collection of essays, photographs, and archival materials on the history of early performance art in East Asia, showcasing the region as a network of events and artists.
The publication will include texts by scholars and historians from Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan, such as KuroDalaiJee, Reiko Tomii, Yuko Hasegawa, Joan Kee, Yao Jui Chung and Victor Wang; and images by Hirata Minoru, Jiro Takamatsu, Murai Tokuji, Ma Liuming, Yingmei Duan, Kim Ku Lim, Jung Kangja, RongRong and Tehching Hsieh. An invaluable new research tool, the publication is available free at events and online.
Text: “Modernity Without Museums: East Asia’s Expanded Sense of Public Space”, by Victor Wang
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Author
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Exhibition Booklet
Victor Wang. “Institute of Asian Performance Art: Tokyo TOKAS Project Vol. 1”. Curated by Victor Wang. Tokyo Arts and Space, 2018. 10. 13 - 2018. 11. 11
トーキョーアーツアンドスペース本郷
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Exhibition Booklet
Victor Wang. “Michael Dean: Analogue LOL” 迈克尔·迪恩: 笑之类比. Curated by Victor Wang
ShanghART Gallery, 24 March – 13 May 2018
2017
Exhibition BookletVictor Wang. “Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Time Immemorial (You’re Just Mad Because We Got Here First)”. Curated by Victor Wang. The High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom, 30 November - 17 February, 2018
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Author
Victor Wang. "Review: Mitsutoshi Hanaga at NADiff Gallery Tokyo." Artforum, September 2017 Issue.
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Exhibition Booklet
“Rehearsals from the Korean Avant-Garde Performance Archive”. Korean Cultural Centre UK
June 27 - 19 Aug
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Guest Editor
"Galleries Without Borders."
Edited by Victor Wang.
Published by LEAP 艺术界 Magazine - Art Basel Hong Kong Special Issue, 2017.
Cover by: Trevor Yeung, ‘Live in Hong Kong, Born in Dongguan’, 2015
Contributions and interviews by: Ying Kwok // Ruth Noack // Sunjung Kim // Margarita González Lorente // GCC// Ko Sin Tung // Nikita Yingqian Cai // Christina Li // Ward Shelley // Jo-ey Tang (special feature) // Chen Yin-Ju x Huang He (commission) // Adeline Ooi // Bao Yifeng // Lin Han // Nadine Zeidler // Edouard and Lorraine Malingue // Vanessa Carlos // Zhou Tiehai // Jacob Dreyer // CHOW Chun Fai // José Ángel Toirac // Evelyn Taocheng Wang
2016
Contributing Writer
Victor Wang, “密室 (Secret Chamber),“ Artforum China 艺术论坛, CRITICS’ PICKS,
上午艺术空间 | AM ART SPACE.
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Exhibition Booklet
Victor Wang. “Neïl Beloufa: Soft(a)ware 尼尔•贝卢法软·见”. Curator: Victor Wang 王宗孚.
chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, 9 November – 8 December 2016
2015
Contributing Writer
Victor Wang, "The Creation of Sanctioned Spaces and the Fall of the Cuban Wall: The 12th Bienal de la Habana," C Magazine 128, December.
2014
Contributing Writer
Victor Wang,
"Is the Museum a Battlefield?" 13th Istanbul Biennial.
BlackFlash Magazine, May.
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Contributing Writer
Victor Wang, "Space Painting," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vol. 13, January/February 2014.
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2013
Contributing Writer
Victor Wang, "Performing Around Capitalism: Museum as a Place of Art Production," Performa Biennale Magazine (Essay), published online, 2013.
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Invited Contributor
‘Forgotten Poems’
Victor Wang curated a coupling of images by artist John Akomfrah and a previously unpublished poem by Amiri Baraka for the Arc Journal at the Royal College of Art, in recognition of his contribution to the publication
With contributions by: Brian Dillon, Ute Meta Bauer , Russel Mills, John Akomfrah, Alice Butler, Victor Wang, Jack Brindley, Amiri Baraka, Ruth Beale, Nicholas Johnson , Laure Prouvost
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2012
Interviewer
Victor Wang, interviewer.
"On the Structure of the Self: An Interview with Marian Penner Bancroft," Canadian Art Magazine, 2012
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