OVERVIEW

Phung-Tien Phan

Liste Year

Year of Birth

Country of Birth

Presented by

2021

1983

Germany

Drei

Objects

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KVHBF 2020 Phung Tien Phan Cafe Chardonnay allesnehmen Foto Michael Pfisterer DSC1144

Installation view:
Café Chardonnay - alles nehmen, 2020
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg

KVHBF 2020 Phung Tien Phan Cafe Chardonnay allesnehmen Foto Michael Pfisterer DSC1161

Installation view:
Café Chardonnay - alles nehmen, 2020
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg

KVHBF 2020 Phung Tien Phan Cafe Chardonnay allesnehmen Foto Michael Pfisterer DSC1148

Installation view:
Café Chardonnay - alles nehmen, 2020
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg

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Installation view:
biste links oder frustriert, 2019
Drei, Cologne

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Volkswagen (Saigon), 2019 (detail)

Bankett Gruppe0 c 2016

Untitled (Bankett Gruppe 0), 2016
Wood, tiles, cut plastic bottles, plants
110 × 240 × 210 cm

Bankett Gruppe0 b 2016

Untitled (Bankett Gruppe 0), 2016
Installation view: Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 2016

Moving Image

Girl at heart, 2020
Online viewing

Tourism Kunsthaus Glarus 13 NIL

Girl at heart, 2020
Installation view: Tourism, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2021

Actress & Actors, 2019
Online viewing

00001 Drei PTP

Actress & Actors, 2019
Installation view: biste links oder frustriert, Drei, Cologne, 2019

Half Moon, 2019
Online viewing

PTP WC GHM View

Half Moon, 2019
Installation view: Galeria Half Moon, Drei, Cologne, 2019

Biography

Liste Year

Year of Birth

Country of Birth

Presented by

2020

1983

Germany

Drei

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The ambivalence underlying Phan’s role as bourgeois European grows deeper with the two sculptures titled Volkswagen. These portable shelving units each contain one scale model of a cramped studio apartment—like those common in Vietnamese cities—and one reinterpretation of the kind of scaled down Buddhist altars popular among the country’s diaspora.

Phan contrasts these homages to her ancestral home with relics from her actual one: vintage European espresso machines, humorously repurposed as floral vases resting on top of the sculptures. Much like the cuts in Actress & Actors, the assemblages suggest that biography can be shown not through a single location or scene, but rather through what happens in between.

(Stanton Taylor, Artforum, 2020)

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Phung-Tien Phan
Girl at heart, 2020
Single-channel-HD-video, sound
00:05:09

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Phan’s videos work with a seemingly private everyday aesthetic of trivial self-stylization that makes you think they weren’t a precisely planned spectacle, but that’s what they are in the literal sense of the word. Architecture, furniture, picture-in-picture situations, and the protagonists oscillate in their depictions and actions between inner desires and outer representations, between their own notions of identity and the gazes of “Others.”

Her camerawork and editing evoke YouTube videos and suggest a kind of intimacy that goes hand in hand with a sense of aimlessness and restlessness. Yet this aspect also makes them equally inaccessible at times.

Phung-Tien Phan
Half Moon
, 2019
Single-channel-HD-video, sound
00:10:34