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