Hanwen Zhang is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in Changchun, China, and has recently been living and working loosely between China and Germany. Drawing from artistic research and field studies, his work examines specific landscapes, infrastructures, and mundane activities through images and texts, weaving them within a network of local, personal, transnational, historical, and ideological contexts. His recent research revolves around marginalized individuals’ exile, troublesome colonial heritage, and secret society activities against the backdrop of East Asian modern/contemporary history.
Zhang holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and has participated in various artist-in-residencies and fellowship programs including the German Chancellor Fellowship (Bonn, 2025), the Braunschweig Projects (Braunschweig, 2023), the Oberhausen Seminar (Oberhausen, 2023), the Fosun Foundation Art Residency (Shanghai, 2021), the BRIClab Video Art Residency (New York, 2020), etc. 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, the CACHE Space in Beijing, as well as at film festivals including the Beijing International Short Film Festival and BBC LongShots. In 2020, Zhang’s film “The First Line of China” was awarded the SAH Award for Film and Video.
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。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。
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、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。