Tang Han
lives and works in Berlin
Her artistic practice is based on her own experience of cultural collision, and focuses on the subtleties of everyday life rather than taking a macro perspective. Through this approach, she deconstructs and interprets complex questions, and is skilled in using historical materials to reconstruct narratives in response to contemporary issues. She uses diverse artistic mediums, including video, film, installation, and text, to explore the intersection of ecology, feminism, and consumer culture in contemporary society.
Her work has been recently shown in exhibitions at 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo (2023, upcoming), Kunstverein Hamburg (2023), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2023), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022), Kunsthaus Dresden (2021), OCAT Shenzhen (2020), and HOW Art Museum, Shanghai (2020). She has screened work at film festivals including the International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal (2022), Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2022), Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel (2021). She was awarded the Award for Excellence at 34th Image Forum Festival in Tokyo (2020) and the Silver Dove Award at 64th DOK Leipzig (2021).
CV and Portfolio
Contact: info@tang-han.com
Education / Program
2021-2022 BPA//Berlin program for artist, Berlin, Germany
2015-2019 Master of Arts, Berlin University of Arts, Berlin, Germany
2008-2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2022 19 Köpfe + Pink Mao, After The Butcher, Berlin, Germany
2018 Shape of Appetite, Galerie von Empfangshalle, Munich, Germany
2016 Pepper project: You’re So Hot!, Octagon, Berlin, Germany
2015 Money Becomes Money, Vitrine, Nuremberg, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2023 Memory is an Editing Station, 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil (forthcoming)
2023 Female artists’ program, Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)
2023 De kunst van de Chinezen/L’art chinois, Briefing Room, Brussels, Belgium
2023 European Media Art Festival: Trembling Time, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
2023 The Educational Web, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2023 Nián Nián: The Power and Agency of Animal Forms, Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2023 AUFBRUCH, Screening: PINK MAO, Stadttheater Spandau, Berlin, Germany
2022 BPA// Exhibition, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2022 In Translation — The Contexts of Nature, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, China
2022 Vasi Comunicanti – II Edizione, “Relazione, femminile singolare” (Screening), Alchemilla, Bologna, Italy
2022 Monitoring: Absolutely Killing It, 39th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Südflügel KulturBahnhof, Kassel, Germany
2022 Animation Perspectives, 65th DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2022 Spoiler Alert, BPA// Raum, Berlin, Germany
2022 60 x 60, Museum Brot und Kunst, Ulm, Germany
2022 Ways of Eating, Postpost, Beijing, China
2022 13th Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), Taipei, Taiwan
2022 27th Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino Pavasaris”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 40th International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA), Montreal, Canada
2021 Listening to the Stones, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2021 38th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
2021 64th DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2021 te magazine Screening: Liquified Units, 6th abC Art Book Fair, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2020 Let This Moment Transformative, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
2020 34th Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Interrupted Meals, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2020 60 Days of Lockdown, LUXELAKES·A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2017 7th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Shenzhen, China
Awards
2022 Nomination of TIDF Visionary Award, Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Nomination of Next Generation Award, Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF), Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Silver Dove (Best Short) – German Competition, 64th DOK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2020 Award for Excellence, 34th Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Grants / Stipends
2022 Research Stipend, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Germany
2022 Work Stipend, Funding Program for Women Artists in Film/Video, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Germany
2021 Project grant, Neustart Kultur, BBK Bundesverband, Germany
Curation
2021 Summer Special: BPA// Berlin program for artists, Videoart at Midnight, Babylon, Berlin, Germany
Talks / Events
2023 COSTUMES AND COLLAPSE: Ho Rui An, Screening “Lining”(2021) and Artist Talk with Ho Rui An and Tang Han, Pickle Bar, Berlin, Germany
2023 How to understand “Asia as Principle”?, Reading session: From Where I Stand by AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research), A.P Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022 Tour with Tang Han & UUU: Ginkgo Tour & Tasting, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2021 AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research) Archiving Talk, Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany
2019 Practice outside the studio, Ox Warehouse, Macau, China
2018 How the mouse guards the granary?, Soengjoengtoi(SJT), Guangzhou, China