Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran

Lives and works in Germany | Born 1987
Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran is an art laborer based in Saigon. She creates art both collectively and individually and also curates and writes. Her artworks combine politics and sci-fi aesthetics through the use of animation, 3D design, historical archives, and architecture. Arlette is fascinated by the idea of a futuristic Third World utopia where political ideals are reimagined, and humans and non-human beings coexist and merge. She presents a non-linear and absurd interpretation of modern histories that challenges the dominant post-Cold War narratives about the Third World.

Recent solo shows include PLATTENLOTUS, station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf, Berlin (2025), and iii.x_Unrealized Utopia, at Gallery Medium, Saigon (2024).
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2019 - 2022 MA - Aesthetics & Politics, California Institute of the Arts, US
2009 - 2013 BA - Art History and Philosophy, Freie Universitat Berlin, Humboldt University, University Greifswald, Germany & Charles University in Prague, Czech
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 PLATTENLOTUS, station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf, Berlin, Germany
2024 iii.x_Unrealized Utopia, Gallery Medium, Saigon, Vietnam
Selected Groups Exhibitions
2025 Art Jakarta 2025, ara contemporary, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Utopia of Rules, TWorks, Singapore
Bảy nổi ba chìm – Seven up Three down, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, US
Official Selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam & Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2025 REFUGE, Lagos Biennial 2024, Nigeria
Dream Screen, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Cloud Chamber, Para Site, Hong Kong
the future is present, the harbinger is home, Prospect New Orleans 6, US
2023 Revolutionary Romances. Transkulturelle Kunstgeschichten in der DDR: Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany
2022 Posthuman: Story Telling for Earthly Survival, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
2010 Syntax and Diction, Sàn Art, Saigon, Vietnam
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Residencies
2022 Artist-in-residence at the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
Selected Award & Prizes
2025 Asian Cultural Council’s New York Fellowship Program
2023 Teiger Foundation Research Grant
2022 Art in Networks: GDR and its Global Relations Fellowship, Institut für Kunst- und Musikwissenschaft, TU Dresden
Margaret F. Williams Memorial Fellow at the Asian Art Museum San Francisco
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