⇩ How Tintin became The Most International Artist in the Universe.

 

Tintin Wulia (b. 1972, Denpasar, now based in Brisbane, Godalming, and Gothenburg) is an artist and senior researcher at HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. Her work over the past quarter-century was showcased in the retrospective exhibition Tintin Wulia: Things-in-Common at the Hiroshima MoCA (2024-25).
 
She has previously exhibited in major exhibitions such as Istanbul Biennale (2005), Yokohama Triennale (2005), Jakarta Biennale (2009), Moscow Biennale (2011), Gwangju Biennale (2012), Asia Pacific Triennale (2012), Sharjah Biennale (2013). In 2017 she represents Indonesia in the 57th Venice Biennale with a solo pavilion 1001 Martian Homes. Her work is part of public and private collections including in the Van Abbemuseum, Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art and He Xiangning Art Museum. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow 2018 with the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and a recipient of Australia Council for the Arts' Creative Australia Fellowship 2014-2016. Her project Trade/Trace/Transit (2014-2016) was supported by Australia Council for the Arts' New Work - Mid Career grant.
 
Wulia joined the University of Gothenburg as a Postdoctoral Fellow in design, crafts and society with a focus on migration (working with the university's Centre on Global Migration, based in the School of Global Studies), 2018-2020. She then secured a 2021-2023/4 Swedish Research Council grant for her project Protocols of Killings: 1965, distance, and the ethics of future warfare as its Principal Investigator. She is also currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of International History, and a sole collaborator for political scientist William Walters (PI) in the SSHRC/CRSH-funded Rethinking declassification: dis/closure, infrastructure, aesthetics, 2024-30.
 
Wulia's current project, Things for Politics' Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change (THINGSTIGATE), of which she is Principal Investigator forming and leading a research group, is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), 2023-28.