Anh Trần (b. 1989, Bến Tre, Vietnam) is based in Berlin. Trần’s painting experimentations consist of immersive representations, operating autobiographically within her own displacements. From her departure to Europe from Vietnam, after a decade spent in New Zealand, she developed abstraction as a response to historical academic restrictions - structured around Socialist Realism - by encompassing bold brushstrokes, expressive colors, layers, impasto, and collage. While living a diasporic experience, her aesthetic language underlines her interest in the linguistic differences between Western and South-Eastern countries’ artistic methods, in their closeness to situated political strategies.

Société

Berlin

Bến Tre

Anh Trần

What didn’t happen in September

Searching the sky for dreams (a certain slant of light)

I died for beauty (Abstract Painting)

Why do storms move from west to east if the wind is coming from everywhere

Don’t burn this one, it already has fire in it

Searching the sky for dreams (Secession)