Hanwen Zhang is an artist and filmmaker originally from Changchun, China. Grounded in photography and video/film, his practice utilizes “documentary” as a self-reflexive narrative device and extends to diverse fields including sound, installation, and writing. Drawing from artistic research and fieldwork, his work employs on-site filming and visual studies to examine specific landscapes, infrastructures, and mundane human activities reflecting on the intertwined dimensions of individual conditions, stories, memories, collective narratives, archives, and identity within local, transnational, historical, or ideological contexts. His recent research revolves around the exile of marginalized individuals, the treatment of difficult heritage, and the activities of secret societies within the modern and contemporary East Asian historical framework.
Zhang holds a BS from Tsinghua University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is a German Chancellor Fellow (AvH Foundation, 2024–25) and has participated in various artist residencies and fellowship programs, including the Spreepark Art Space Residency (Berlin, 2024), Braunschweig Projects (Braunschweig, 2023), the Fosun Foundation Art Residency (Shanghai, 2021), and the BRIClab Video Art Residency (New York, 2020), among others. His debut film, The First Line of China (2020), received the SAH Award for Film and Video and was selected for the inaugural BBC LongShots online film festival. In 2025, his film Hostile Landscapes (2025) won the Grand Prize at the 39th Image Forum Festival and the Jury Prize at the 19th Busan International Video Art Festival.
张瀚文是一名影像艺术家和研究者，来自吉林省长春市，现漫游工作于中德之间。张的实践基于摄影与视频/电影，将”纪录”作为一种叙事及自省的媒介，并由此延伸向包括声音、装置、写作在内的多元领域。从艺术家研究和田野调研出发，通过实地拍摄及视觉研究的方法，他的作品检视一些特定的地貌景观和人类活动，并在在地的、跨国的、历史的或意识形态的语境中思考个体境况、故事、记忆和集体叙事、档案、身份的一体两面。他近期的研究围绕着东亚近现代历史语境中边缘个体的流亡、困难遗产的处理以及秘密社会的活动展开。
张本科毕业于清华大学，2019 年于纽约视觉艺术学院获得摄影及摄像的艺术硕士学位。他是 2024 年德国总理奖金（洪堡基金会）的获得者，并参与过由不伦瑞克艺术大学、奥伯豪森电影节、东莞燕岭园、上海复星艺术中心、纽约 BRIC、纽约 UnionDocs、Vermont Studio Center 等机构或团体组织的艺术家驻留或奖学金项目。他的作品曾在包括上海当代艺术博物馆、北京缓存空间、杭州天目里美术馆等地展出，也曾在诸多大学、研究所和电影节进行过放映及讨论。他的电影《中国第一线》在 2019 年入选 BBC 首届线上电影节 LongShots，并在2020年被芝加哥建筑史学会授予年度影像奖项。2025年，他的电影《不明的风景》在日本影像 论坛电影节及釜山国际影像艺术节上分别摘取最高奖及年度评委会奖。