(b. 1991) is an artist based in Berlin.
Their practice investigates dispositions and relational proximity through shared history of violence, science, and technology.Working across video, installation, mixed media, and writing, Bùi translates negotiations of life into spatial and situated encounters, with a particular interest in how resonance, speech, and agency emerge.
Their work has been presented at the 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (DE), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (DE), Kunsthalle Bratislava (SK), aashra Ashkal Alwan (LB), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (DE), E-WERK Luckenwalde with Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE), and the Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius (LT).
Education
2017 - 2023
MFA UdK University of the Arts Berlin, Lensbased Class Hito Steyerl, DE
2015 - 2016
Computational Linguistics, LMU Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, DE
2012 - 2016
BA Philosophy, Logic and Literature, LMU Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, DE
Residencies, Grants and Awards
2026 - 2027
BPA// Berlin Program for Artists
2025
ars viva 2027 Nomination
Kunstfond Stipend, Stiftung Kunstfond
S+T+Arts Grand Prize Nomination
Dreaming Beyond AI – Coalition Building in Times of AI Fellowship
2024
VH Award Nomination
Human Machine Fellowship, JUNGE AKADEMIE, Akademie der Künste Berlin
2023
Future Generation Art Prize Nomination
FUNKEN, artistic-technological research residency at Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems (ENAS),
TU Chemnitz Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN)
2022
11th Berlin Biennale’s Curatorial Workshop
Solo Exhibition
2025
Operation Remediation, Galerie Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, DE
2024
fromBattlefields toRoborders, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, DE
Selected Group Exhibition
2027
(forthcoming) BPA//, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2026
(forthcoming) eCommemoration, Silent Green, Berlin, DE
2025
Womb of Fire – Dạ Lua, Vin Gallery & Gallery Medium, Saigon, VN
curated by Đỗ Tường Linh, Nga Nguyen, Thao Nguyen, Huyen Nguyen
Bells and Cannons, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, LT
curated by Virginija Januškevičiūtė, Valentinas Klimašauskas
Womb of Fire – Dạ Lua, Mơ Art Space, Hanoi, VN
curated by Đỗ Tường Linh, Nga Nguyen, Thao Nguyen and Huyen Nguyen
Human Machine, E-WERK with Akademie der Künste, Luckenwalde, DE
curated by Helen Turner, Clara Hermann, Katharina Worf, Niels Boogers
Screen Time, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, DE
curated by Philipp Freytag, Anne Richter
2024
Walking with Mountains, aashra Ashkal Alwan Online, Beirut, LB, curated by Ali Yass
Open Studios, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE, curated by Clara Hermann
2023
Nhớ: Space Between One End and the Other, Kunsthalle Bratislava, SK,
curated by Denisa Tomková, Kvet Nguyen
Who We Are – Reflecting a Country of Immigration, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
curated by Johanna Adam, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Dan Thy Nguyen
FUNKEN Academy, Technologie Campus und Fraunhofer Institut Chemnitz, DE, curated by Klub Solitaire
2022
12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, DE
curated by Kader Attia, Đỗ Tường Linh, Marie Helene Pereira, Rasha Salti, Noam Segal
2021
KW Digital: Open Secret Online, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE, curated by Nadim Samman
Conditions of Necessity, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE, curated by Çağla Ilk, Misal Adnan Yildiz
2020
#Mygration Festival Deutschland Online, Forum Factory, DE, curated by Vicky Truong
Talks
2026
Panel Talk, Bells and Cannons, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, LT
2025
Lecture, Humboldt University Berlin x SAVVY Contemporary, DE, Apocalyptic Intoxication with Thao Ho
Artist Talk, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE, Aspects of Presence with Ali Akbar Mehta, Anna Engelhardt
Artist Talk, Canòdrom, Barcelona, ES, Coalition Building in Times of AI: Intersecting Struggles
Artist Talk, University Bielefeld, DE, 50 Years after the end of War, in Conversation with Phuong Phan
Lecture, Weaving Liberations, Digital Justice Fund, Sarajevo, BA, On Technologies
Guest Lecture, Humboldt University Berlin, DE, American Studies, Operation Remediation
2024
Artist Talk, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE, Human Machine in Conversation with Sonya Isupova
Workshop, ASAP Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, US, Methodologies with Ayasha Guerin
Guest Lecture, University of the Arts, Berlin, DE, How to gather
Artist Talk, Panel, Technical University Berlin, DE, KuK Tuesday: Dislocation, with Khuê Phạm, Diệu Ly Hoàng
Guest Lecture Online, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, DE, Art as Politics
Lecture, Academy of Art Prague, CZ, Make Voices Heard Symposium
2023
Guest Lecture, Panel, School of Visual Arts, New York, US, The Algorithmic State, with Rebecca L. Stein, Payton Croskey,
invited and moderated by Noam Segal
Curation, Moderation, nGbK, Berlin, DE, Curating through Conflict with Care Symposium
2022
Performance, Panel, 12th Berlin Biennale, Stasi Headquarters, Campus for Democracy, Berlin, DE,
The Digital Divide Conference with Noel W Anderson, Tarek El-Ariss, Noam Segal
Artist Talks, 12th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE, Breaking (In)Visibilities with Vanessa Vu, Duc
Vu Manh; Kunst im Kontext with Sinthujan Varatharajah and Moshtari Hilal
Talk, Podcast Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE, 1992 – 30 Jahre Gegenwart, in Conversation with İbrahim Arslan
2021
Artist Talk, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE, MMRBX – Mixed Realities
Talk, Rice and Shine Podcast, Generation 1991, in Conversation with Vanessa Vu and Minh Thu Tran
2020
Artist Talk, Forum Factory, Berlin, DE, #Mygration Festival Deutschland Online with Vicky Truong
Screenings
2025
Art Switch Foundation, Parsons School of Design, New York, US, Nature Thinking – Sensing Change
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, Saale, DE, Boundless Labor
University Bielefeld, DE, 50 Years after the end of War Conference
2023
FAMU Academy of Performing Art, Prague, CZ, Art of Moving Image
2022
Columbia University, New York, US, Advanced Architectural Design Graduate Studio, Lecture by Noam Segal
2020
Forum Factory, Berlin, DE, #Mygration Festival Deutschland Online
Selected Press and Publication
2027
(forthcoming) Manchester University Press, Humboldt University Berlin (Ed.), The Provisional Image: War, Mediation and the
Diasporic Ordinary. In: The Diasporic Ordinary: Aesthetics, Affects, Archives, by Thao Ho and Maithu Bùi
(forthcoming) Center for Literature, Burg Hülshoff, Negotiation of Life, In: A report on Gen AI in the Arts.
10.12.2025
Camera Austria no. 171, Maithu Bùi, p. 21-32, by Lưu Bích Ngọc & Hải Nam Nguyễn.
der Freitag, in Cooperation with Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Die Künstler:innen der Bewegung.
BLOK Magazine, Nhớ: Space Between One End and the Other, by Denisa Tomková, Kvet Nguyen.
2023
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Maithu Bùi, p. 67, Who We Are – Questions for an Immigration Country catalogue
12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: Still Present!, Maithu Bùi, p. 122-123, catalogue, by Đỗ Tường Linh
2022
e-flux Criticism, A short and incomplete history of “bad” curating as collective resistance, by Gregory Sholette.