Phung-Tien Phan
Works
Exhibitions
it's not me it's you
Jasmine Gregory, Chris Kaufmann, Sveta Mordovskaya, Phung-Tien Phan, Elif Saydam
Sentiment, Zurich, CH
February 17 – March 23, 2024
Phung-Tien Phan
Kartoffel
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
August 25 – November 12, 2023
Phung-Tien Phan
STOP DREAMING
September 10 – October 14, 2021
Phung-Tien Phan
Café Chardonnay - alles nehmen
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
August 1 – October 4, 2020
SAFETY FIRST
Phung-Tien Phan, Niklas Taleb
September 1 – 30, 2018
Was kostet die Welt
Anna- Lisa Högler, Phung-Tien Phan, Andrzej Steinbach
Belle Air, Essen, Germany
April 29 – May 20, 2017
Phung-Tien Phan
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
July 1 – August 16, 2016
Selected Press
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Artist Profile: Phung-Tien Phan, by Elaine Tam, Burlington Contemporary, 2024
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Low-Fi Home Mix, by Chang Qu, Spike Art Magazine, 2022
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Phung-Tien Phan: a trial of many outfits, by Elaine Tam, Doris Press, 2023
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Review of Phung-Tien Phan, STOP DREAMING, by Kristian Vistrup Madsen in Artforum, 2021
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Zwischen Social Media und Tradition, studio visit with Phung-Tien Phan, by Leonie Pfennig in Monopol Magazine, 2021
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Again, This Isn’t an Art-World Critique: Phung-Tien Phan by Stanton Taylor, Mousse Magazine, 2021
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Phung-Tien Phan Unfolds the Many Roles We Play in Life by Moritz Scheper, Frieze Magazine, 2020
Phung-Tien Phan
born 1983 in Essen, Germany
lives and works in Essen, Germany
Education
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2015-2017
Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany; class of Prof. Christopher Williams
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2014
Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany; class of Keren Cytter & Manuel Graf
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2009-2014
BA Photography, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitons
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2025
Project Native Informant, London, UK (forthcoming)
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2023
Kartoffel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
is blue, Édouard Montassut, Paris, France -
2022
Modernistin, with Niklas Taleb, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Found and Lost, with Marina Xenofontos, (curated by Lorenzo Graf), Goethe-Institut Cyprus, Cyprus -
2021
Liste Art Fair Basel (with Drei, Cologne), Basel, Switzerland
STOP DREAMING, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin -
2020
Café Chardonnay - alles nehmen, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
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2019
biste links oder frustriert, Drei, Cologne, Germany
Galeria Half Moon, with Whitney Claflin, Drei, Cologne, Germany -
2018
Safety First, with Niklas Taleb, Aedt, Düsseldorf, Germany
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2016
Peter-Mertes Stipendium, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
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2024
YOURS, offsite organized by Schiefe Zähne, Paris, FR
A String of Toungless Bells, Francis Irv, New York, US
Follow the Feeling, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
it's not you it's me, Sentiment, Zurich, CH -
2023
November, July, August, September, Tokyo, Japan
Slackers, TONUS, Paris, France
Interests, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
Der pinkelnde Tod or what the dead do, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Sneckdown, EACC, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain
Das Lied der Straße, Biennale für Freiburg 2, Freiburg
What are we in now?, The Wig, Curated by the Wig, Makroscope, Mülheim an der Ruhr -
2022
Autofiction, curated by Melanie Bühler, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
How to (not) fit in, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
M I X E D F E E L I N G S, Sammlung Hildebrand, G2, Leipzig, Germany -
2021
Fassaden, Elvira, Frankfurt, Germany
July, August, September, organized by Carla Donauer & Martin Germann, Cologne, Germany
Open Office, Arcadia Missa, London, UK
Chernobyl Papers, organized by New Scenario, Chernobyl, Russia
Sweet Lies - Fiktionen der Zugehörigkeit, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Fire demands its Fuel, curated by KM Temporaer, Drei, Cologne & Markus Lüttgen, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Tourism, curated by Luca Beeler, Richard Sides, Judith Welter, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Taking my Thoughts for a Walk, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany
All Corner Made to be Leaned, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne, Germany -
2020
should we get lunch, I want to burn this place down, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
Bureau de Change, curated by Raoul de Klooker, Campoli Presti, London, UK
Kasten, curated by Luca Beeler and Cédric Eisenring, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland -
2019
Bandwagon Nr. 1, Pogo Bar, Kunstwerke (KW), Berlin
This sweet, will one day be yours, Werkhalle, Cologne -
2018
Trust Camp Vision, Essen, Germany
Junge Kunst am Moltkeplatz, Skulpturenpark Moltkeplatz, Essen
Trust Camp Club, Essen, Germany
I was a teenage medium, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, UK
Trust Camp Normal, Essen, Germany
Die Idee der besten schlechten Idee, 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany
Inaugural Exhibition, Root Canal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands -
2017
Harmoniemusik und Vogelschießen, Shanaynay, Paris, France
Was kost die Welt, Belle Air, Essen, Germany -
2016
Black Dahlia Quest, Roland Garros, Essen, Germany
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2015
Landhaus Schwerte Ergste, curated by New Bretagne, Belle Air (Bel Ètage), Essen, Germany
Wasting Time on the Internet, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
What a b what a b what a beauty, Off Raum, Frankfurt, Germany -
2014
living stills – Neue bewegte Bilder im Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Curatorial Projects
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2020
should we get lunch, i want to burn this place down, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
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2018
Trust Camp, Exhibition Series, Essen, Germany
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2014- 2017
Co-founder of Belle Air, an artist run space, organized and curated by New Bretagne (Frieder Haller, Anna-Lisa Högler, Phung-Tien Phan, Alexander Schöpfel and Niklas Taleb), Essen, Germany
Belle Air / New Bretagne
Awards and Scholarships
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2022
Les Furtifs Residency Programme, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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2020
Kunststiftung NRW, Project Funding
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2018
Kunststiftung NRW, Project Funding (individual projects)
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2015
Peter Mertes Scholarship 2015, Bonn
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2012
Studio residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Scholarship, Marianne Ingenwerth Stiftung, Essen