Hanwen Zhang is an artist and filmmaker originally from Changchun, China.
Grounded in photography and film, his practice uses “documentary” as a self-reflexive device of inquiry into how identities are formed, mediated, and transformed. Through artistic research, fieldwork, and visual studies, he examines images, archives, landscapes, infrastructures, and everyday activities as sites where histories, power relations, and collective identities are produced and negotiated.
His work focuses particularly on modern and contemporary East Asia, where colonialism, migration, shifting political regimes, infrastructure, and nationalist narratives have continuously shaped and unsettled notions of belonging across national and regional boundaries. By reflecting on the mediating capacities of photography, film, and documentary, his practice explores not only how identities are represented and remembered, but also how images and narratives might participate in their reconfiguration.
Zhang holds a BS from Tsinghua University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He was 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，现漫游工作于中欧之间。
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，探讨身份是如何生成、流动及转化的。从个体经验和情动出发，以在地拍摄及视觉研究为主要方法，他的作品检视特定的地貌景观、基础设施、个体叙事和记忆，并在跨国及历史的多重语境中思索它们与国族身份、官方档案和意识形态的互动。
他的创作尤其关注现当代东亚语境，在这一地区，殖民主义、移民、政权更迭、基础设施以及民族主义叙事不断塑造并扰动着跨越国家与区域边界的归属观念。通过反思摄影、电影与纪录片的媒介作用及其介入现实的能力，他的实践不仅探讨身份如何被呈现与记忆，也进一步关注影像与叙事如何参与身份的重构。
张本科毕业于清华大学，2019 年于纽约视觉艺术学院获得艺术硕士学位（摄影及摄像方向）。他曾获得德国总理奖金（洪堡基金会，2024）及BS Projects艺术家奖金（不伦瑞克艺术大学，2023），并参与过由柏林Spreepark艺术空间、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 2020 年入选 BBC 首届线上电影节 LongShots，并在同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》在东京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。