2025
Friday 3 October | 1–8 PM
Maria Skolgata 83, Stockholm
MULU Office (Liu Chao-Tze and Zhou Junsheng)
Workshop: Floorplane by MULU Office (Studio 1) — exploring the IASPIS floor-plan as a starting point for collaborative making throughout the day
2025
Michał Chojecki – Oficyna Peryferie
Marta Tomiak – Togu Riso Press
Daniel Gutowski – Togu Riso Press
Hikaru Takada – Puresu de Tokyo
Liu Chao-tze & Zhou Junsheng – MULU OFFICE
Ryoko Ando & Shinsuke Kanno - Hand Saw Press
Location and Time:
Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo, 7-16 July 2025
Hand Saw Press’ Zine Festival _Summer 2025 kicks off this week on July 10! At Gallery CUBE1,2,3, we welcome risograph studios from Poland, Taiwan, and Japan as guest artists, showcasing and selling their vibrant zines, books, and printed works. As part of the festival, we’ll launch a collaborative book-making project, created live during the event.
Singapore Design Week
2024
MULU OFFICE ( Liu Chao-Tze & Zhou Junsheng)
26th Sep-6th Oct 2024
inkjet printed photographs on paper, acrylic keyrings, acrylic mirror
Derived from the ’21 THINGS’ series, ‘MUSEUM SHOP’ prints tourist photos from museums worldwide (2016–2024) onto acrylic keyrings. These keyrings symbolize museum shop souvenirs and serve as “mini-windows”, merging the museum’s browsing experience with window shopping. This juxtaposition displays the visual similarities between museum and shopping mall presentations, reflecting the interconnectedness of consumer and cultural spaces.
2024
BIBF Art Book Fair: Paper Road
China National Convention Center, Beijing
19th June - 23rd June 2024
"Tropical Opening" brings together art books made by Southeast Asian artists, as well as publications that are directly or indirectly related to the region, inviting readers to unfold the pages of these warm and humid tropical islands on this newsstand floating in the sea of the art book fair.
2024
3.3058m2 Book Space, Kaohsiung, TW
1st March - 31st March 2024
At the 3.3058m2 Book Space, the project disassembles RELICS MAGAZINE, an artist’s book collaboratively created with artist Ni Jui-Hung, and ingeniously translates the images between its pages into a physical exhibition space. In doing so, it constructs a scene that exists beyond the narrative of the book itself. Viewers are involuntarily drawn into the scene they have created, coming to understand visual exhibition as an extension of text, and thus grasping the possibilities of reading.
2023
✸ Exhibitions & Events｜1 Dec-18 Dec
✸ Photobook Fair｜15 Dec-17 Dec
✸ Main Venue｜C-LAB Art Space III
✸ Satellite Venues｜pon ding & nos:bookspace, Taipei, TW
A photobook fair based in Taipei focusing on images and self-publishing. Including photozines, dummy books, artists’ books, photobooks, art books, catalogs, photography magazines, photography theories, anthologies, and journals, and any forms of publications.
2023
Curated by Wang Zheng Wei Studio and 1/2 Room
1/2 Room - Daily Goods & ART, Chang Hua, TW
Dummy Books
An Ultimate Guide to Zen Living is a five-year photographic project (2016–2020). In these photographs, Buddha statues and images of the Buddha can be seen in European home-goods stores, clothing and gift shops, and big-box retailers, displayed in shop windows and on shelves alongside garden plants, candles, lampshades, yoga mats, and various lifestyle decorations, sometimes even bearing discount or sale labels. The way these Buddha figures are presented seems to strip them of their religious and cultural contexts, reducing them to symbols that convey nothing more than a certain sense of “Zen.”
2023
Celsius Projects, Malmö, SE
20th May - 18th June 2023
In CLOUDECK: Katalog, the exhibition space becomes an extension of the book’s time and space, and the exhibition itself also takes place within the book’s unfolding. After the physical exhibition at Celsius Projects in Malmö is ended, it will continue in between the pages of the catalog, traversing geographical boundaries and beyond, an exhibition in Malmö has just begun.
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2017
BFA Material Art and Design, Tainan National University of Art, TW
2014
Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm, SE
(MULU OFFICE)
2025
MUSEUM SHOP, SHOP: HOW DO WE SHOP (group exhibition), Bugis+,
Singapore, SG
(MULU OFFICE)
2024
RELICS MAGAZINE, 0.3025m² BOOK,
Kaohsiung, TW
(MULU OFFICE)
2024
Tsau Thuann Art Festival,
1/2 room,
Chang Hua, TW
2023
CLOUDECK: Katalog, Celsius Projects,
Malmö, SE
(MULU OFFICE)
2023
Iridescence & The Rising Wave,
Shimmer,
Online
2020
The Water Party David Bernstein Solo Exhibition,
A Tale of A Tub,
Rotterdam, NL
2019
The Land of the Wind, Between Shadow-and-light, Towards the Blue Water, 181 Storefront, Cultureland Artist In Residence, Amsterdam, NL
(Solo Exhibition)
2019
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, Shimmer,
Rotterdam, NL
2019
The Library Is A Pattern, A Bluebook Isn’t Blue, South Explorer Open Studio, QSG,
Rotterdam, NL
2019
Photobook As Method,
Lightbox Photo Library,
Taipei TW
2018
I’m Not Your Dreams or Imagination,
Lewisham Art House,
London, UK
2018
O, Look at the View!, The Orient Chinese Restaurant, Deptford X Festival, London, UK
(Solo Exhibition)
2017
Rubbish and Romance, Deptford Project Space, London, UK
2016
The Dreamers' Diarrhea,
Huashan 1914,
Taipei, TW
2013
BIBF Art Book Fair: Paper Road
China National Convention Center, Beijing, CN
2024
Fotobook DUMMIES Day #4,
C-LAB,
Taipei, TW
2023
SEA Reading Room, nos:bookspace, Athena Bookstore, Takao Bookstore, Random Space,
Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, TW
2022
Fotobook DUMMIES Day #3 Photobook Fair, Athena Bookstore,
Taipei, TW
2022
RE: Tropical Reading,
Good Underground Space,
Hualien, TW
2022
Tropical Reading: Unfolding Photobooks,
pon ding,
Taipei, TW
2021
Fotobook DUMMIES Day #2,
Flip flop Hostel,
Taipei, TW
2019
We Love You, You Dummy,
Not Just Library,
Taipei, TW
2019
Fotobook DUMMIES Day,
Another Brick,
Taipei, TW
2018
2025
We are our landscapes, Cultureland Artist In Residence,
Amsterdam & Starnmeer, NL
2019
Last Updated 25.12.15
2024
Published by Mulu Office New Taipei City, December 2024
First edition, first printing of 400 copies
Printed and bound in Taiwan
ISBN 978-626-98638-0-8
神聖の充滿—AN ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ZEN LIVING is a collection of photographs of Buddha statues taken by Liu Chao-Tze between 2016 and 2020 in Europe. These statues are often found in garden sections, surrounded by tropical plants and artificial turf, or appear in home décor sections as flowerpot or candle holders—settings that are both absurd and captivating. Moving through museum shops, antique stores, flea markets, supermarkets, and residential windowsills, the book offers glimpses into various European cities. It reads like both a travel journal and a scripture returning from the “West”.
2024
Edited by Jhen Chen, Joanna Lee, K. Chen, Simon Scott, Valentin Marmonier
Published by Limestone Books in 2024
ISBN 978-908-33616-3-5
Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-publishing (Second Edition) emerges from Fotobook DUMMIES Day’s field research across Southeast Asia, offering an insider’s exploration into the realm of photography practitioners , artist collectives, independent publishers, art bookstores, spaces and organizations. This publication is the first monograph focusing on Southeast Asia through the lens of photobook and self-publishing.
2022
(Liu Chao-tze, Lin Junye)
Published by pon ding in 2022
Edition of 400
ISBN 978-986-98628-4-4
Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing is divided into three parts: a) artists; b) art bookstores; c) photobooks and self-publishing scenes; plus, an appendix and an index of ten cities. A bilingual publication, the English version reads from left to right; the Chinese version right to left.
2020
Published on Bangkok Art Book Fair CO-OP, Online. 15th September 2020
“Why Do We Make Photobooks?” by Liu Chao-tze reflects on the meaning and practice of photobooks, especially in the context of self-publishing and independent photography culture. Beginning with a discussion about the term photobook itself, the essay considers how naming shapes our understanding of the medium. It situates photobooks as autonomous art forms that bridge photography and publishing, offering artists control over narrative, form, and context. Through historical context, cultural perspectives, and examples from Asia and beyond, the text argues that photobooks are vital tools for creative expression, interpretation, and shaping cultural discourse.
2020
Big Book 210 x 297 mm,
Small Book 120 x 160 mm;
Big Book 40 pages, Small Book 22 pages;
Print-On-Demand.
Published by Fotobook DUMMIES Day in 2020
Small Book 120 x 160 mm;
Big Book 40 pages, Small Book 22 pages;
Print-On-Demand.
Published by Fotobook DUMMIES Day in 2020
A Way of Seeing: Reading Southeast Asia through photobook and self-publishing (Reading SEA) is a field research project focusing on photobooks and self-publishing that initiated by Fotobook DUMMIES Day (FBDD). This includes Bangkok, Manila, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Ho Chi Minh City and Yangon. Reading SEA is a try out of mapping the self-publishing and photography scene in Southeast Asia.
2019
Edited by Liu Chao-Tze
210 x 140 mm, 114 pages,
three-hole pamphlet binding, injekt print, unique copy.
Self-published in 2019
210 x 140 mm, 114 pages,
three-hole pamphlet binding, injekt print, unique copy.
Self-published in 2019
Hai-Po is an artist’s book that was made during the
Cultureland Artist In Residence, Amsterdam & Starnmeer, NL.
2016 & 2017
Edited and designed by Liu Chao-Tze
297 x 210 mm, 42 pages,
laser print, saddle stitch,
Limited edition of 10 copies.
Self-published in 2016
297 x 210 mm, 42 pages,
laser print, saddle stitch,
Limited edition of 10 copies.
Self-published in 2016
Photozines contains Buddha photos that collected from the supermarkets, life-style shops in Europe.