About Tan Tan

Tan Tan is an intermedia artist living and working in China. She holds a Master’s degree in Experimental Film/Video from China Central Academy Of Fine Arts and Calarts cooperation Master program, and a Ph.D. in Studies in Performing Arts & Media from Ghent University (Gent, Belgium). Currently, she is an associate professor at the School of Experimental Art of Hubei Institute Of Fine Arts (Wuhan, China), and the head of the Performance and Media Studies Center.

Her oeuvre covers experimental film/video art, performance/theatre, music/sound art, installation, cyber art, etc. Urban spaces, social intervention, and spiritual healing are the core topics concerned in her work.

With her works she had several solo exhibitions, took part in numerous art events internationally, such as 60th Berlin International Film Festival, 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), 43rd Tampere Film Festival, 2012 Images Festival（Canada）, 35th Göteborg International Film Festival, Asian Art Top Show 2010(China), 1st ASEAN Biennial(China), Beijing Fringe Festival 2015(China), Wuzhen Theatre Festival 2016 (China), 2018 Waha music festival (Romania), 2019 Creative China Festival at La Mama Experimental theater (The U.S.)

INTERMEDIA ART

Moving image

PERFORMANCE 

MUSIC/SOUND

Urban space

social intervention

spiritual healing

Recent activities (exhibitions, film festivals, performances…)

2024

• Human-Machine Integration: The Age of Robotic Art, 798CUBE, Beijing, January

2023

• Lianzhou International Photography Annual Exhibition, Lianzhou, December

• The 6th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts: Returning to Void and Dimension, Hubei Museum of Art, Fine Arts Literature Art Center

• Work as Director/Dramaturg for site-specific participatory theater performance「Space Ark 2020_Day 1381」, Shekou Theater Festival, Shenzhen, November

• 4th Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, October

• 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Urban Village Tangram, Shenzhen, August

• 1st Hubei Youth Fine Arts Works Exhibition, Wuhan, May

• 1st Sphinx Meta Theater Festival, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, New York, Paris, Berlin, April

• Good Luck Youth Arts Festival-Wuhan Stop, March

• “Yangtze Video Art Community 2010-2011” Intermedia Art Exhibition, Wuhan, February

2022

• Hi Shorts! Film Festival, Experimental Shortlisted, Xiamen, December

• Artistic residency at Yangshuo SugarHouse, Guangxi, December,

• 10th Reel China Biennial at NYU, New York University, October

• Mis(s)placed Women? (2009-2022)，7th Istanbul Biennale, September

• Work as Director/Dramaturg for site-specific participatory theater performance「Space Ark 2020_Day 968」, supported by YAV Art Platform, Shenzhen, September

• DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Seoul, September

• Inaugural Exhibition-The Open Door, Le Châlet Art Museum, Wuhan, June

• Against the War, in the Name of Cinema”, Film Campaign by New Asian Filmmakers Collective”, toured in China and UK, March to July

• "EXIM 2022"-Experimental Video Festival in Macao, China, February

• 2022 Macau International Performance Art Festival, January

2021

• “Double Sided Landscape-Ice and Fire” Art Exhibition, Wuhan, December

• “Mirroring HanKow” Art Exhibition, Wuhan, November

•  Theatre “One-year Anniversary +265 days”, Beijing Fringe Festival, October

• World Nomadic Short Film Week, tour in China, October

• Mis(s)placed Women? (2009-2021)，New Gallery of Visual Arts， Belgrade, October

• “Beyond Words-Art and Healing” Art Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum, March

• “Moon on East Lake” Art Exhibition, Donghu Shan Art Museum, Wuhan, February

• 3rd Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, February

2020

• ·2nd Wuhan Photo Art Fair, Wuhan, November

• “Off the Beaten Track- Tan Tan’s Unknown Ritual” Online Exhibition, October

• "EXIM 2020"Experimental Video Festival in Macao, September

• “Trash New Order” 2020 OCT-LOFT Public Art Exhibition, Shenzhen, September

• “Happy&Watching" Art Exhibition, Donghushan Art Museum, Wuhan, August

• “Waiting for Testing-Rewriting Theatre History” Participatory Exhibition with Archived Contemporary Performance, OCAT, Shenzhen, July

• “UNDER THE ROCK” Exhibition and Charity, The museum of creative minds, Shanghai, April

• Voice Online Invitational Exhibition, March

2019

• Shalanaya Open Air Festival, Shanghai, November

• 1st Great Wall of Qi Art Festival, Jinan, October

• Art Hefei Contemporary Art Season | “Antidote” Experimental film/video Exhibition, Hefei, October

• Making Time, for your Artlife | InSEA World Congress Delegate Digital Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada, July

• Festival La Beguda de Soleu, France, June

• Music residency and concerts at Donghushan Art Museum, Wuhan, March

• Perform in theater “The Dictionary of Soul”, in the program of “Creative China Festival”, La Mama Experimental theater, New York, the US, February

2018

• “Burnt of Snow” Performance Art Season - the sixth time -19℃, Inner Mongolia, December, 2018

• “70,80,90” Wuhan Youth Artist Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tanghu Art Museum, Wuhan, November, 2018

• “Thousands of sprouts” International Female Artists Online Exhibition, November, 2018

• The 39th Show of Cement Park Live House, SOWERART Space, Shanghai

• International Factory Theater Festival Laiwu, Laiwu, October

• Fangyu Art Festvial, Jinan, October

• Silk Bridges - A meeting between contemporary artists from China and Costa Rica, Veritas University, Costa Rica, September

• Waha Festival 2018, Romania, July, 2018

• “A Pink River”（performance art）in response to “MISPLACED WOMEN?” project by Tanja Ostojić, performed at Annual Manifestation Against Sexism Gent, Belgium, March

2017

• Qingdao Independent Film Festival 2017, Qingdao, December

• Urban Nomadism: 2017 Hangzhou Liangzhu Big Roof International Moving Image Exhibition, December

• “Encore” International Engravings Exhibition, ADGY International Cultural Center, Beijing, December

• Magmart international videoart festival-winner of X° edition, Scugnizzo Liberato, Naples, Italy, November

• "Trouble Diaries: A political statement" International Female Artists Exhibition, Wuhan, November

• "Art night Kempten" Biennale 2017, Kempten, Germany

• 2nd Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festiva, Mexico City, Mexico, August

• Venize Biennale World Tour 2017-Documenta Stop, Kassel, Germany

• Art Now Live Tour 3, Kassel, Germany

• "Images Vivantes" Art Exhibition, Lesbrouss'art Gallery, June

• Venize Biennale Online Exhibition 2017, May to November

• Venize Biennale 2017 "TRANS-BORDERING ART", Venice, Italy,May

• Lecture performance“The Principles of Survival of Today's Artistic Career/Life” at international conference "DANCE NOW-work with(out) boundaries", Gent, Belgium, March

• Solo exhibition “Unknown Ritual No.1”, Le Clignoteur Art Space, Brussels, Belgium, January

2016

• Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Wuzhen, China, October

• “Paint one another, know one another”Sino Foreign Fine Art Exhibition, Yan Huang Art Musuem, Beijing, China, September

• TanBo Solo exhibition "Venize Biennale World Tour 2016-Chongqing Stop", Chongqing Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, China, June

• Chinese Short Film Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolian National Art Gallery, Central Palace of Culture, Mongolia, June

• Videos&Experimental Films by Artist in Wuhan, The Project of Moving Image XII, U&M Art Space, Guangzhou, China, May-June

• The trailer of “Unknown Ritual” was selected in the program of artistic Cable TV station SFE TV (Souvenirs from Earth Television), Germany, April

2015

• Beijing Fringe Festival 2015, Beijing, China, September

• DM@CC——2015 Wuhan Digital Art Invitational Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum,September

• Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, June

• 1st Changjiang International photography & Video Biennale, Chongqing, China, April

• 11th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, New Delhi, India, March

• TanBo Intermedia Performance “Shadow/ Matter”+Improvised Music/Sound Art Workshop, Wuhan, China, February

2014

• "EXIM 2014"-Experimental Video Festival in Macao, China, November

• "Self-Consistency" Installation and Video Exhibition at Creative Capital International Art Festival, Wuhan, October

• DANS QUELLE VIE TU MONDE(S)?-2014 “The China-French Cultural Spring”，Wuhan,China,June

• 2014 “Sound/Body/Image/Power” Multi-Media Art Festival -“Faith Ÿ Pain and Itching”Performance Art Session + Contemporary Art Exhibition，chi K11 art space,Wuhan,China

• Academy+Space "Social Dimension"-Young Artists Invitational Exhibition, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China, April

2013

• 1st ASEAN Biennial, Nanning, China, December

• 2rd Wuhan Design Biennale, Wuhan, China, November

• 3rd Beijing film Academy International New Media Arts Triennial Exhibition, Beijing, China, October

• China Central Academy Of Fine Arts Agnès Varda's Award,Beijing, China, October

• "Lost In Home"Tan Tan Experimental Film/Video Art, CCD Workstation, Beijing, China, August

• The 10th Beijing Independent Film Festival, Beijing, China, August

• "Lost in Home"Tan Tan Moving Image Exhibition+Improvised Music Concert, Jiali Gallery, Beijing, China, July

• "Constelacion"videoarte en femenino,Calera de León, Spain,July

• VJ&sound art+Matthieu Ha&Eric Bribosia, Wuhan, China, May

• Experimental Film/Video 27th Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan, April-May

• 43th Tampere Film Festival-"Retrospective of Tan Tan", Tampere, Finland, March

• "FestArt"exhibition of 43th Tampere Film Festival-"China Experience", Tampere, Finland, February

2012

• 4th "Festival Shadows"Chinese Independent Film Festival, Paris, France

• "Eyeseverywhere: East and West Women Artists"exhibition, The Gallery of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China, June

• 25th Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, April

• 42th Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland, March

• 35th Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg, Sweden, January

• 41th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, January

2011

• "EXIM 2011"-Experimental Video Festival in Macao, China, December

• 7th Culture and Art Festival of Songzhuang, Beijing, China, October

• 8th China Independent Film Festival, Nanjing, China, October

• 1st Shandong Video Art Exhibition-TCL Interactive Art, Jinan, China, October

• ELLES TOURNENT - Women's Film Festival Brussels, Belgium, September “China New Design””Exhibition for Italy & China Culture Year, Triennale Design Museum of Milano, Palace Art Gallery of Torino, Italy, June

• 3th China college Student 3 min Film Festival “Avant-Garde” section, Zhuhai, China, May

• “MIX—BOX 3 4 5”New Media Art Exhibition, Chengdu, China, April--May

• 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Rotterdam, the Netherlands, January

2010

• “Berliner Aids Hilfe”film festival,Berlin, Germany, November

• “Boundless City” Wuhan in youth experimental video exhibition, Wuhan, China, November

• The 2nd Beijing Film Academy New Media Art Triennial, Beijing, China, October

• 7th China Independent Film Festival, Nanjing, China, October

• Hubei Institute of Fine Arts's 90th anniversary Exhibition, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China, October

• “New view of academy” Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fine Arts Literature Art Centre, Wuhan, China, October

• "Everyone’s Donghu lake" Art project, Wuhan, China, July-August

• "X SPACE" exhibition, Hubei Art Museum, Wuhan, China, July

• 60th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, February

• Asian Art Top Show 2010, Beijing, China, February

Selected awards

• China Dream won “Magmart X Prize” at Magmart Festival 2017, March, Italy

• Lost in Home won "The Best Exploration" Award at 5th XI'AN International video festival, China, October, 2014

• Positive won "New Emerging Experimental Filmmaker Academy Awards" at 2nd Beijing Film Acadamy New Media Art Triennial, Beijing, October, 2010

• A Disappearance Foretold, for which I worked as a photographer, won “Scam International Award” at Cinéma du Réel Film Festival 2008, France

• Live won “The Best Experimental Film Award-professional group” at 14th Beijing Student Film Festival, April, 2007