TANG Han
b. 1989
TANG Han, 1989 born in Guangzhou. PhD in Art Practice, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Hamburg, DE (2025-now); MA, Art in Context, Berlin University of Arts, Berlin, DE (2015-2019); BA, Painting, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, CN (2008-2012). Lives and works in Berlin.
Tang Han works across the mediums of film, video, installation. Her practice delves into the micro-intricacies of everyday life and the natural world through storytelling, exploring questions about representation and meaning, and shedding light on the interplay between the seen and the spoken in diverse cultural contexts.
Her work has recently been shown at 14th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2025), Para Site, HongKong (2024), Science Gallery London (2024), Taikang Art Museum, Beijing (2024), 22nd Biennial Sesc_ Videobrasil, Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo (2023), West Den Haag, the Hague (2023), Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul (2023), Hong-gah Museum, Taipei (2023), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2023), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2023), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022), OCAT Shenzhen (2020). She has screened work at film festivals and institutions including the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin (2023), New National Gallery, Berlin (2023), Beijing International Short Film Festival (2023), International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal (2022), Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2022), DOK Leipzig (2021, 2022), Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (2021, 2022). 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).