Fresh from her 2025 residency in Berlin, Min Wong installs one of her ‘bath house’ immersive sculptures in MAG&M’s North Gallery. Her practice investigates esoteric material culture to explore how ritual and magical technologies function as alternative systems of care, resistance, and embodied knowledge. Through a methodology of appropriation and lived experiences, Wong’s practice recontextualises ancient and contemporary spirituality to reveal histories and emergent systems of ethical care.

Min Wong draws on the tactility and symbolism of historical magical technologies, 1970s esoterica, and contemporary pop culture to create layered installations that question dominant power structures. Her work weaves together references to feminist esotericism, psychoanalysis, desire, power, and horror cinema, transforming these influences into immersive sculptural worlds. In these spaces, resistance becomes personal and embodied, sustained through ritual, intimacy, and acts of imagination.

Min Wong grew up on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, and has since participated in international residencies in Germany, Spain, China and the USA, and exhibited widely including in the 2022 Adelaide Biennale of Australian art.