Fiona Tan
Fiona Tan (* 1966 in Pekanbaru ) is an Indonesian photographer , filmmaker and video artist of Chinese - Australian origin. She lives and works in Amsterdam .
life and work
Fiona Tan was born in Indonesia in 1966 to an Indonesian-Chinese father and an Australian mother of Scottish origin. Finona Tan spent her early childhood in Melbourne , Australia. Tan studied from 1988 to 1992 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and from 1996 to 1997 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Fiona Tan prefers to work with the media of photo, film and video.
Fiona Tan's works are often self-portraits and portraits of individuals and groups with different cultural backgrounds from different social classes. Her work alternates between documentation and fiction , biography and imagination . Moge u inoney tijden leven / May You Live in Interesting Times from 1997 is a documentary with an autobiographical character. The work Vox Populi is a series of photos collected from private photo archives and family albums, which are arranged into a large whole from small parts.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 2019: Fiona Tan: Goraiko , Sprengel Museum , Hanover
- 2019: Fiona Tan GAAF , Museum Ludwig , Cologne
- 2016 Geography of Time , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main.
- 2013 Point of Departure Museum for Contemporary Art , Siegen / Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian.
- 2009 53rd Venice Biennale , Fiona Tan Disorient , Dutch Pavilion
- 2007 80 days of the Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich
- 2003 Fiona Tan – Akte 1 De Pont Museum , Tilburg
- 2002 Fiona Tan – Akte 1 Villa Arson , Nice
- 2000 Scenario Kunstverein in Hamburg , Hamburg
Group exhibitions
- 2013 Suspended Histories Museum Van Loon , Amsterdam
- 2012 Unfinished Journeys * National Museum Oslo, Oslo
- 2011 Temprary Stedelijk 2 Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
- 2010 Fast Forward 2, The Power of MoRon ZKM , Karlsruhe
- 2009 I doubtlessly Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg , Wolfsburg
- 2008 Be (com) ing Dutch Van Abbemuseum , Eindhoven
- 2007 Cine y Casi Cine 2007, Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid
- 2006 Work Groups and Installations Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Basel
- 2005 Shadow Play Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense / Kunsthalle Kiel / Landesgalerie at the Upper Austrian State Museum , Linz
- 2004 Time Zones, Recent film and video Tate Modern , London
- 2003 Why! Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
- 2002 documenta 11 , Kassel
- 2000 Cinema Without Walls Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam
- 1999 Zug (air) Museum Kurhaus Kleve , Kleve
- 1999 Life Cycles Gallery for Contemporary Art , Leipzig
Awards
- 2019 Spectrum - International Prize for Photography
- 2007 Deutsche Börse, Photography Prize 07, London / Frankfurt (nominee)
- 2004 Infinity Award for Art , New York
- 2004 Artes Mundi Prize , Cardiff (nominee)
- 2003 IASPIS grant and residency, Stockholm
- 2001–2002 scholarship from the DAAD's Berlin artist program
- 1998 JC van Lanschot Prize for Visual Arts Belgium, Netherlands
- 1997 Prize for the best national debut film at the Dutch Film Festival
- 1996 Prix de Rome for film / video
literature
- Fiona Tan. Point of departure Edited by Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea and Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, 2013 ISBN 978-8-47907-6-894
- Rise and Fall / Fiona Tan , Vancouver Art Gallery, Aargauer Kunsthaus , 2010 ISBN 978-1-89544-2-793
Web links
- Fiona Tan
- Fiona Tan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Art in America, Matthew Guy Nichols Fiona Tan ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 1, 2015 (English)
- ↑ The Guardian Artist of the week 208: Fiona Tan accessed on March 1, 2015 (English)
- ^ Fiona Tan-Professional Strangers, accessed March 1, 2015
- ↑ Around the world in 80 days ... accessed on March 1, 2015
- ^ Sprengel Museum Hannover , accessed on August 22, 2019
- ↑ Biography Fiona Tan ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 1, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tan, Fiona |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indonesian photographer, filmmaker and video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pekanbaru , Indonesia |