Hanwen Zhang is an artist and filmmaker currently based in Braunschweig. He holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and was the recipient of the SAH Award for Film and Video 2020. As a current fellow of Braunschweig Projects, he has participated in various residencies and programs including the Oberhausen Seminar in Oberhausen, the Fosun Foundation Art Residency in Shanghai, the BRIClab Video Art Residency in New York, the UnionDocs Summer Documentary Lab in New York, and the VSC Artist-in-Residency in Vermont. His work has been exhibited and screened at venues such as the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, the OCAT Institute in Beijing, BY ART MATTERS in Hangzhou, CACHE Space in Beijing, as well as at film festivals including the Beijing International Short Film Festival and BBC LongShots.
Zhang’s artistic practice revolves around capturing photographs, videos, and films, employing documentary as a narrative and self-reflective device. His work encompasses various mediums such as sound, installations, and writings. Drawing from artistic research and field studies, he often explores mundane objects or activities through the lens of visual studies, contemplating them as still or moving images within a broad range of critical, local, transnational, historical, and ideological contexts. Throughout this process, Zhang reflects on the technological trajectory and physical existence of photography, video, and film, as well as their entanglement with subject matters that span from individual living conditions, personal stories, love, and memory to collective archives, narratives, trauma, and identities.
张瀚文是一名影像艺术家和研究者，现作为 Braunschweig Projects 访问学者生活工作于德国布伦瑞克。他本科毕业于清华大学，2019 年于纽约视觉艺术学院获得摄影方向艺术硕士学位。他曾获得 SAH Award for Film and Video 2020，参与过由奥伯豪森电影节、东莞燕岭园、成都A8设计中心、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，也曾在北京国际短片联展、BBC LongShots等电影节放映。
基于摄影与视频/电影，张瀚文的实践关注静态与动态图像的技术轨迹和物理基础以及它们与意识形态和日常生活的纠缠，将纪实作为一种叙事及自省的媒介，并由此延伸向包括声音、装置、写作在内的实践。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，他意图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。