From 24 April 2026, the exhibition space Room Room will be transformed into an imaginary yet functional television station transmitting horror, humor, and high drama.

The curatorial duo behind Tofu Collective, Martin Wendelbo and Regen Li, have invited Taiwanese artist Su Hui-Yu (b. 1976) to continue his ongoing work The Trio Hall / A Total Story in a Danish exhibition context. By combining video, installation, and performance, Su’s work creates and involves the audience in an universal TV format – The Variety Show – demonstrating how has been used throughout history, and continues to be used, as an instrument of ‘soft power’ to produce and circulate ideas of ideology, desire, and collective imagination.

Since the Cold War, ‘The Variety Show’ has functioned as a meticulously choreographed television concept where a charismatic host – seemingly spontaneously – presents comic sketches and musical performances interspersed with audience interaction, in an almost imperceptible transmission of ideals regarding gender, consumerism, modernity, and belonging directly into living rooms across the world.

Su Hui-Yu, who grew up in Taiwan in the 1990s, draws threads back to the political climate of that era, as the Taiwanese people transitioned from life under the authoritarian rule of the Kuomintang to living in a democratic state. In an attempt to process the interfaces between personal and collective memory, Su employs ‘reshooting’ as an artistic method, re-filming scenes from popular TV genres to relive fragments of media history that were previously censored, obscured, or politically instrumentalized. By staging these images and scenes for a contemporary audience, Su invites us to understand them in the context of the unstable and anxiety-inducing time, we are in now, which—much like the exhibition—is constantly performing itself.

Vroom Vroom: A Total Story by Su Hui-Yu turns Room Room into three zones of a TV-production set: an SCR (Studio Control Room), a makeup room, and a studio floor, each a cog in a larger system of history production. Thus, the exhibition space is transformed into a production site featuring public rehearsals, recordings, and performances.

The exhibition takes the form of a dynamic broadcast and will continue to evolve throughout the exhibition period with new works developed on-site in collaboration with local contributors.

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INFO

Vroom Vroom: A Total Story by Su Hui-Yu
Curated by Martin Wendelbo and Regen Li, Tofu Collective

24 April – 1 August 2026

Opening Friday, 24 April at 17:00-22:00 with speeches, performances, bar, and a DJ set. Everyone is welcome!

Room Room
Thoravej 29
2400 Copenhagen NV

Vroom Vroom: A Total Story by Su Hui-Yu builds on previous iterations developed at MOCA Taipei (2023) and most recently at MAMBO Bogotá (2025).

The exhibition is realized by Tofu Collective, who won Art Hub Copenhagen’s ‘Curator’s Open Call’ in 2025 and is generously supported by the Bikuben Foundation via Art Hub Copenhagen, the Danish Arts Foundation, the S.C. Van Foundation, and the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Su Hui-Yu (b. 1976, Taipei) is a video artist and movie director working at the intersection of film, performance, and installation to explore the connection between mass media, pop culture, memories of martial law and the post-colonial history of Taiwan. Often foregrounding marginalised voices and drawing on popular culture, Su employs the approach of re-shooting as a method to create new works, revisiting past, unfinished, tabooed, and misunderstood narratives, events and figures to open new readings of collective memory—not as nostalgia, but as an active and critical rewriting.

Su Hui-Yu has exhibited internationally at institutions including MOCA Taipei, MAMBO Bogota in Columbia, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, San Jose Museum of Art (USA), Kunsthalle Winterthur (Switzerland), Casino Luxembourg, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Hyundai ArtLab (Seoul), and Power Station of Art (Shanghai). His works have also been presented at major film festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (which dedicated a retrospective to his video works in 2017), Berlinale (Forum, 2025), Videonale (Germany), Singapore International Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and PERFORMA (New York).

ABOUT THE CURATORS
Tofu Collective is a Copenhagen-based curatorial team, publishing house, and cross-cultural platform facilitating artistic exchange through exhibitions, books, and events. Through transnational initiatives, they are dedicated to supporting next-generation, trailblazing artists and fostering knowledge of contemporary art while cultivating connections across Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and the global diasporic Sinosphere.

As a non-profit DIWO (Do It With Others) organisation, the work of Tofu Collective is rooted in sustained research and collaborative approaches, involving a comprehensive global network of emerging and established artists, art professionals, cultural producers and communities. In doing so, they are committed to realise art projects that bring new cutting-edge perspectives and expressions to the European art scene while disrupting its West-centric structures.

Between 2023 – 2025, Tofu Collective established and operated Tofu Space – a 15-months exhibition programme and experimental platform in the facilities of the Gammel Strand art institution in central Copenhagen. Along the way, they have collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as LG Guggenheim winner Shu Lea Cheang, Taishin Arts Award recipient Su Hui-Yu, and Turner Prize nominee Sin Wai Kin. In 2024, they published their latest book, Typhoon – In the Eye of Taiwan’s New Artistic Whirlwinds, in collaboration with the publishing house dmp editions in Taipei.