NOIR Office 2.0

 Interior Design Office Locate in Taipei, Taiwan
Collabirate with Tsung-Hsiao Hsieh
Commercial
165 m²
2022


Noir 2.0 is a minimalist space designed to inspire creativity. Through grayscale volumes, transparent glass, and natural light, the designer creates a calm, open environment where interior and exterior subtly merge. It invites users to engage with space in a quiet, intuitive way, allowing personal interpretations to unfold.


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The Blue Between
Locate in Taipei, Taiwan
Collabirate with Tsung-Hsiao Hsieh
165 m²
2022 This residential interior design blends European neoclassical structure with subtle Japanese aesthetics. Located in Taipei's suburban hills, the space features panel molding, archways, and vintage furnishings, enhanced by a gentle blue palette and dark wood flooring. The design reflects both emotional resonance and spatial coherence, offering a timeless, intimate living environment.


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Tshuì-Khí I-Sing

 Dential Clinic
Renovation
Taichung, Taiwan
242.5 m²  
2022




This dental clinic, located in a remote area, blends antique elements with contemporary geometric structures to create a poetic and distinctive atmosphere. The design emphasizes an open and bright sterilization room, integrating the spatial flow while using light and materials to evoke a tranquil and unhurried rhythm of life.


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Tshuì-Khí I-Sing  2.0
Dential Clinic
Renovation
Taichung, Taiwan
700 m²  
2023 Building upon the design language established in the original "Tshuì-Khí I-Sing" flagship, this new flagship store is located in five connected three-story historic townhouses. The design seamlessly integrates these structures into a unified whole, blending vintage objects with contemporary geometric expressions. Unlike the original store’s intimate and “concealed” atmosphere, this flagship takes advantage of a large open space in front of the site and embraces a concept of “exposure and openness,” allowing light and nature to permeate the space, creating a tranquil yet refreshing rhythm between indoors and outdoors. Matcha green is chosen as the main visual color running throughout the entire space, applied on painted walls, tiles, fabrics, and tatami mats, becoming the anchoring core of the design.

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Ghosts in the Foreign Land

  
Supported by 
Taiwan Ministry of Culture
Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringfonds)
Nieuwe Instituut 

Exhibited in Mediametic As part of the Hidden Histories program
Exhibition Space
2024

This transnational art project explores 400 years of Dutch-Taiwanese connections through the lens of the 'Bîng Kun Toh' (冥軍桌) ritual in Penghu, where spirits of Dutch, French, and Japanese colonial soldiers are worshipped during Ghost Month. Selected by Stimuleringsfonds and Het Nieuwe Instituut (€40,000 grant) and Netherlands Office Taiwan (€10,000 grant), the collaboration presents six works by Taiwanese and Dutch artists examining how colonial history transforms into contemporary folk beliefs. The exhibition serves as an international platform for post-colonial reflection and cultural reconciliation.

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What Remains after Touch?

Workshop
Kunstfestival
Drawing Centre Diepenheim

Diepenheim, NL
Installation
2025



A participatory workshop by Szu-Han Lin that explores the fragile line between presence and absence, creation and damage—through the intimate act of touch.

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Mounting Mountain 山山


CODA Museum
CODA Paper Art Biennial  
Apeldoorn, NL
Installation
2025




This the fifth transformation in Szu-Han Lin’s Not Leave but Remain series. Composed of over a thousand sheets of hand-rubbed paper, the mountain-shaped installation draws inspiration from a Zen saying to reflect the artist’s evolving percepti10on of “home” shaped by frequent relocations. Viewers are invited to walk around the work, gradually shifting their perspective and entering a contemplative space where personal memory and collective experience converge. Through this quiet path of observation, the work becomes an unfolding meditation on place, time, and transformation.

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Unfolding Nowness
Rozet
Installation
Arnhem, NL

2025

Unfolding Nowness transforms space into a meditative field of presence, where traces of memory and displacement quietly unfold. Through floating structures and translucent layers, the installation invites viewers to drift within the eternal now.

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Muraland


International Drawing Center
Participatie in The Big Drawing Festival
Exhibition and Workshop
Nijmegen, NL

2024


Muraland is an extension of Szu-Han Lin’s long-term project Not Leave but Remain. In this iteration, the paper-based installation is integrated into a centuries-old wall inside the new office and gallery space of Big Drawing Center, located in the heart of Nijmegen. Instead of standing apart from the space, the work adheres directly to the aged surface, allowing Lin’s paper landscape to merge with the textures of time. The wall becomes an active part of the piece, inviting viewers to reflect on the quiet presence of history within our transient relationships to place.


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Where Water Folds


Bijbels Museum and Buitenplaats Doornburgh
Participatie in Exodus program
Installation and  Talk
Maarssen, Utrecht, NL

2023  


Where Water Folds reconfigures Szu-Han Lin’s earlier work within a former monastery in the Netherlands. Through graphite frottage on cascading sheets of A4 paper, the artist transforms bodily memory and domestic textures into spatial traces, resonating with the site's history of female devotion and silent ritual.

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Not Leave but Remain
Dutch Design Week
Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 22
Research and Installation
Microtuin, Eindhoven, NL

2022



Not Leave but Remain is a wall-mounted installation composed of graphite rubbings on A4 paper, documenting surface textures from forty past dwellings. Inspired by Georges Perec’s reflections on the relationship between paintings and walls, the work explores how private memories can inhabit a universal, everyday material. Through fading graphite, wrinkled paper, and traces of the artist’s movement, the installation reveals how spatial and bodily memory unfold over time. It investigates the fluid connections between personal history and the anonymous spaces that quietly shape our daily lives.

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Één , Twee, Drie, Fail!
Dutch Design Week
Group Exhibition with Vis-a-Visa Collective
Performance and Talk
Microlab, Eindhoven, NL

2023


This workshop is a participatory workshop developed as an extension of Ghosts in the Foreign Land. Reimagining the Penghu bîng-kun-toh ritual, participants craft offerings to their own souls using glutinous rice and symbolic materials—becoming both worshipper and ghost. Through this fictional self-ritual, the workshop questions the boundaries between the living and the dead, the self and the other.

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Home Sweet Home

25 years of radical shapeshifting at
MU Hybrid Art House
Group Exhibition with Vis-a-Visa Collective
Collabrated with Lucas Maassen and  Alexandre Humbert
Performance and Talk
Eindhoven, NL

2023
Home Sweet Home is an installation by designer collective Vis-à-Visa, addressing the precarious reality of non-EU artists navigating visa requirements. Through a candy floss-covered house that melts and rebuilds each week, the work reflects the instability of temporary residence. The space also hosts poetry, legal talks, and dialogues on the challenges of securing an artist visa.

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Ghost  Spine



Present at Mediametic
Participate in Ghosts in the Foreign Land
Collabirate with Wessel Verrijt
Sculpture and Instllation
Amsterdam, NL

2024
Ghost Spine is a sculptural installation carved from White Popinac, an invasive species tied to colonial history in Penghu. Imagining her body as host to a Dutch ghost, the artist channels sensation and memory into a monumental spine—where history, illness, and myth converge in physical form.

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Breathing in the Ghost

Present at Mediametic
Participate in Ghosts in the Foreign Land
Collabirate with Man-Ting Lin
Performance, Video and Installation
Amsterdam, NL

2024



Breathing in the Ghost is a short video work set among the Dutch fortress ruins of Snake Head Mountain in Penghu. Through an imagined dialogue between a Taiwanese woman and a Dutch ghost, the film reflects on colonial hunger, possession, and the futility of national boundaries in the afterlife.


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Feeding your Ghost 2.0

Present at Garage Cafe #2.5
Participat in Garage Rotterdam
Collabirate with Wen-Hsuan Lin
Presentation and Workshop
Rotterdam, NL

2024

Building on the Feeding Your Ghost 1.0 workshop, this site-specific version for Garage Rotterdam reinterprets Taiwanese Ghost Month rituals through the symbolic “Five Offerings.” Participants are invited to become both worshipper and ghost, using ritual as a means of reflection, dialogue, and healing across realms—between the living and the spectral.

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Feeding your Ghost 1.0

Present at Mediametic
Collabirate with Wen-Hsuan Lin
Presentation and Workshop
Amsterdam, NL

2024
This workshop is a participatory workshop developed as an extension of Ghosts in the Foreign Land. Reimagining the Penghu bîng-kun-toh ritual, participants craft offerings to their own souls using glutinous rice and symbolic materials—becoming both worshipper and ghost. Through this fictional self-ritual, the workshop questions the boundaries between the living and the dead, the self and the other.

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Ghosts in the Foreign Land  鬼地方計畫



Supported by
Taiwan Ministry of Culture
Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringfonds)
Nieuwe Instituut

As part of the Hidden Histories Program
Research and Exhibition
2023 - 2024

Ghosts in the Foreign Land is a cross-cultural research and art project initiated by Taiwanese artist Szu-Han Lin in late 2023. The project centers on the bîng-kun-toh ritual in Penghu, Taiwan — a local ceremony held during the Ghost Month to commemorate wandering foreign spirits. Rooted in the colonial past of the island, this ritual reflects centuries of geopolitical conflict and displacement in the region.

By documenting the disappearing ritual and facilitating artistic exchange between Taiwanese and Dutch artists, the project revives neglected histories and explores contemporary ways of engaging with colonial memory, spiritual landscapes, and intangible cultural heritage.




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Art

Szu-Han Lin


studio.szuuu@gmail.com
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Szu-Han Lin is a Taiwan-born spatial designer and visual artist based in the Netherlands. 

Trained in Applied Arts and Interior Design, she has over a decade of professional experience across residential, commercial, and healthcare projects. Her design approach blends refined aesthetics with empathetic functionality, extending from concept development to on-site supervision. In 2018, she founded her own studio while pursuing a Master’s in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where her practice evolved toward a more research-driven, conceptual direction.

Design is her foundation—where she builds connections between people, objects, and space. Art, on the other hand, is her way of exploring perception, memory, and social constructs. Her artistic practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, and urban intervention, often employing subtle gestures to reawaken bodily awareness and emotional depth.

Through a poetic visual language, she navigates the blurred edges between fiction and reality, engaging with themes such as cultural memory, mortality, and feminist narratives. Her art and design practices complement each other, seeking resonance between functionality and poetics, form and perception.



Education

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2013
 Master of Social Design   
Design Academy Eindhoven 
Eindhoven, the Netherlands                   

Master of Interior Architecture 
Attended to Art EZ Institute of Arts  
Zwolle, the Netherlands                                 

Bachelor of Applied Arts_ Interior Design Group (Major) 
Spanish Language and Culture (Minor)
Fu Jen Catholic University
New Taipei, Taiwan      


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2019
 A Red Room (coming soon)
Exhibition and Talk
International Drawing Center, Nijmegen, NL 
Dec., 2025

Soul Portraits: A Workshop Series on Inner Tracing (coming soon)
Participate in the Big Draw Festival
13. Sep., 2025 Nijmegen, NL
20.Sep., 2025 Arnhem, NL
28.Sep., 2025 Zutphen, NL

CODA Museum Paper Art (on going)
Biennial Exhibition
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL
May-Nov., 2025

What Remains after Touch ? 
Workshop
Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Diepenheim, NL
8. Jun., 2025

Home Sweet Home
Group exhibition
Rozet, Arnhem, NL
Feb-May. 2025

Hidden (Hi)stories
Symposium
Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
30, Nov., 2024

A Fictional Self-ritual
Presentation
Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
10, Dec., 2024

Feeding Your Ghost
Workshop and Talk
Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
Nov., 2024

Ghosts in the Foreign Land
Exhibition and Talk
Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
Nov.-Dec., 2024

Muraland
Exhibition and Talk
International Drawing Center, Nijmegen, NL
May-Nov., 2024

Één, Twee, Drie, Fail!
Performance and Talk
Dutch Design Week, Microlab, Eindhoven, NL
Oct., 2023

Exodus
Exhibition and Talk, Bijbels Museum and Buitenplaats
Doornburgh,  Maarssen, Utrecht, NL
Mar.-Sep., 2023  

Home Sweet Home
Performance and Talk
MU Space, Eindhoven, NL
May-Jun., 2023

Not Leave but Remain
Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 22, Dutch Design Week
Microtuin, Eindhoven, NL
Oct., 2022

Planting Home
Dutch Design Week
Plant Fiction, Eindhoven, NL
Oct., 2022

The Object is Absent
Performance
 MU Space, Eindhoven, NL
Oct., 2019





Employment

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2015
 Studio Szu, Self-employed, Interior Architect     
Project "Noir Office" was published in IW magazine issue No. 146

 J.C. Architecture, Senior Project Designer                       
Project "Happier Cafe" awarded the 2017 Good Design Award and the 2015 Taiwan Interior Design Grand Award/Space Furniture

Peny Hsieh Interiors, Junior Interior Designer  
Project "DDG Office" awarded the 2017 Taiwan Interior Design Award/Office Space.                               

Freelance Interior Designer     
Working on the projects of bakery and art gallery

Simple Interior Design, Junior Interior Designer                       


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Language

English
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Mandarin, Taiwanese
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Dutch, Spanish
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Press


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2023
 Het Parool (printed/digital)
Art & Media 
Exodus
Edo Dijkster House
12 Jul. 2023

De Volkskrant (printed/digital)
Culture & Media 
Exodus
Sarah van Binsbergen
30 Mar. 2023


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