Thu Van Tran
1979
Geboren in Ho Chi Minh City | Born in Ho Chi Minh
Lebt und arbeitet in Paris | Lives and works in Paris
Studien | Studies
2004
MFA, Master of Fine Art, verliehen mit Auszeichnungen der ENSB-A, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris | MFA, Master of Fine Art, delivered with distinctions by ENSB-A, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Seminar über Ausstellungspraxis – ENSB-A (FR) – Leitung: Christian Bernard | Exhibition Practice Seminar - ENSB-A (FR) - Directed by Christian Bernard
2001
Coubertin Foundry, Saint-Rémy Les-Chevreuses, Frankreich – Compagnons du Devoir | Coubertin Foundry, Saint-Rémy Les-Chevreuses, France – Compagnons du Devoir
2000
Glasgow School of Art (Bachelor), Environmental Design Department | Glasgow School of Art (Bachelor), Environmental Design Department
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) | Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Write as the Beasts Cry at Night, La Loge, Brussels
In spring, ghosts return, Almine Rech, New York
2023
We see gold and purple, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
We live in the flicker, MAMAC – Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Nice, Nice
2021
Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
2020
H as Homme, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Novel Without a Title, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
2019
Colors of Grey, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine
Art Basel Unlimited
Alimine Rech Gallery, Paris
2018
VCCA - Vincom Center for Contemporary Art – Hanoi (VN), (cur. Mizuki Endo)
La Grande Place Musée Du Cristal – Fondation Hermès – Saint Louis, (cur. Marie Cozette, Synagogue de Delme)
Galerie Saint Séverin – Paris, “Maidday”
2017
Meessen De Clercq – Brussels, “Mountains are like the bones of the earth. Water is its blood.”
Joseph Tang Gallery – Paris, “The Blind Excuse” w/ Marieta Chirulescu
Frieze – Randall’s Island – New York
2016
Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara (MEX), “Listen, the darkness deepens”
Macleay Museum, Sydney, “From stamping to reading”
n.b.k. (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Berlin, “Exchange of presents”
Les Abattoirs – Médiathèque, Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, “Writing and other flickers”
2015
Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, “We are this, and that, aren’t we?”
Espace Art et Essai – Rennes 2 University, “Cao Su pleure”
2013
MÉPIC – Musée éclaté de la presqu’île de Caen, “Rejections”
Statements – Art Basel, Basel, w/ Meessen De Clercq
Centre d’Art Villa du Parc, Anemasse, “The 18th Place”
Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, “We live in the Flicker”
2011
Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris, “The Humain Stain”
2010
La Maison Rouge – Le Patio, Paris, “The Pure Number according on Duras”
2009
Bétonsalon – Centre d’Art et de Recherche, Paris, “Book People”
2007
L’Espace – Centre Culturel Français, Hanoi
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse, “Backlight”
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) | Group exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Isa Mona Lisa, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Tongues of Fire, Kunsthalle Trondheim, Norway
Ceramic Brussels, Almine Rech, Brussels
2023
58th Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Avant l'Orage, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris
2022
A Century in Color, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Réclamer la Terre, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2021
Deux scénarios pour Une collection, FRAC Normandie, Rouen
2020
Global(e) Resistance, MNAM Centre Pompidou, Paris
Busan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (MOCA), Busan
Les échos du territoire, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Presence in the Absence, Galerie Alexander Levy, Berlin
2019
The Unwritten Library / After Babel, Visual Arts Centre in Megaron, Athens,
2018
Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
The Schwartz Foundation, Art Space Pythahorion, Samos
Cosmogonies, MAMAC, Nice
Un désir d'Archéologie, Carré d'Art, Nîmes
2017
Entre Deux Infinis, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénéchou, Paris
Manipulate The World, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Montag or The Possible Libraries, Frac Franche-Comté
Remember Lidice, Lidice Museum, Lidice
Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, The Arsenale, Venice
Jardin Infini. De Giverny à l’Amazonie, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
2016
La Timidité des Cimes, Le Parvis, Tarbes
The Meurice Prize Exhibition, The Meurice Hotel, Paris
A Brief History of The Future, Palazzo Reale, Milan
ANTHROPOCENE, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
2015
Soudain...La Neige, Maba - Fondation Rothschild, Nogent-Sur-Marne
Dévider le Réel, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
Remember Lidice, Block Edition, Berlin
A Brief History of The Future, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
Translation as A Negotiation, The kunsthalle, Mulhouse
2014
Matérialisme Histérique, Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris
Le Corps Invisible, Gerlie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers
Sans titre (Je suis là), Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris
Interprète, Le Plateau, FRAC Île-de-France
Par Les Temps Qui Courent LiFE, Saint-Nazaire
2013
Vehbi Koc Fondation, Istanbul
Nuit Blanche, Paris
The Unanswered Question, Tanas Fondation / n.b.k. – Berlin
2012
L’Homme de Vitruve, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
Twentieth to twentieth, End of Century, New York
Particles, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
2011
Soudain Déjà, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Au grenier quatre pièces de mémoire, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain – Rochechouart
2010
Liste, Basel, Switzerland
All Over, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris
Le Carillon de Big Ben, Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine
2009
Meeting You Halfway, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris
Phase Zéro, Galerie Serge Aboukrat, Paris
Là Ou Je Suis N’existe Pas, Lieu Commun, Le Printemprs de Septembre, Toulouse
Memory of Void, Kimusa, Artsonje Center, Seoul
2007
Expériences Insulaires, Le CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine
2006
Voir en Peinture, La Générale, Paris
2005
Tolerate Me, Galerie DAP, Warszawa
Galerie Hengevoss-Durkop, Hamburg
2004
Félicité, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris
Première Vue, Galerie du Passage Retz, Paris
Singles, Galerie Pitch, Paris
Kuratorische und künstlerische Leitung | Curating and artistic direction
2017
MNAM, France / United Kingdom
Fondation Kadist, France
MAC VAL, France
2014
Centre Georges Pompidou – Bpi – Paris, “Duras Song” an exhibition on Marguerite Duras archives activated in an installation by Thu Van Tran, and co-curated with Jean-Max Colard
2006
La Générale – Paris, “Hradacany”, co-curated with Yann Chateigné
Collections (a selection) Collection (a selection)
Preise und Stipendien | Awards and Scholarships
2023
Rosa Schapire Art Prize, Freunde der Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
2018
Production allowance, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphique et Plastique, France
2017
Short listed for The Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art, The Meurice Hotel, France
2013
Production allowance, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphique et Plastique, France
2010
Installation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France
2009
Finalist Audi Talents Awards, France
Individual creation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France
Support of the Amis de la Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
2008
Exhibition allowance, Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Paris, France
2006
Individual creation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France, France
2005
Installation allowance, Drac Ile-de-France
Laureate Mulhouse 05 Prize, France, Henry-Claude Cousseau selection
2004
Project allowance, Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Paris, France
Sammlungen | Collections
Agnès Rein Collection, France / United Kingdom
Foundation Kadist, Paris, France
Frac Normandie, Rouen, France
Frac Rhône-Alpes – IAC Villeurbanne, France
Frac-Île de France, France
Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Josée and Marc Gensollen Collection, Marseille, France
Louis Vuitton Foundation, France
Lidice Memorial, Lidice, Czech Republic
Musée National d'Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Fondation, Camogli, Italy
The Strauss Collection, San Diego, USA
Sanders Collection, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Thibault Poutrel Collection, Paris / London, France / United Kingdom
Vehbi Koc Fondation, Istanbul, Turkey
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
