Tianyi Zheng

artistic research - decolonization - Diaspora - experimental - installation - objects - video

Tianyi Zheng, Tin-e (1995, CN) is an artist/researcher/curator based in Hong Kong and the Netherlands, whose current interests include the interface and narration between space, place, and the identity of people, as well as heterotopology and hauntology. Displayed in mixed media installations, her work comprised of found objects, video, sound, and performance. She graduated from Frank Mohr Institute (MFA in MADTech) in 2021 and received a BA in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2018). Zheng's work has been shown in SIGN Project Space, Groningen (2021); Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin (2021); Kunstpunt, Groningen (2021); Artist Residency in Bierumerschool, Bierum (2020); PMQ, Hong Kong (2018) and Kunstraum Gallery of ZHdK, Zurich (2017). Zheng was awarded the JanNaijkens Prize (2022) and supported by the Amarte Fund (2023). She has curated cultural events such as the Wild Art Festival in Green Wave Art Hong Kong.

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    • Season Highlights

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-09-2022 t/m 25-09-2022
    • Location: Kunstpodium T, Tilburg
    • As an office, as well as a meeting place, one of the main activities of the Department of Collective Collaboration is that of facilitating (in-person) conversations. Although the somewhat large (conference) table may fool you, these talks hardly involve anything conventionally office-like: the majority (if not all) of our work is performed casually; through water cooler gatherings, lunch talks and smoking-break conversations.
    • https://departmentofcollectivecollaboration.wordpress.com

    Where the windows are openโ€ฆ pigeons can nest

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-06-2022 t/m 03-07-2022
    • In collaboration with: Kunstpodium T
    • Location: Noordstraat 105, 5038 EH, Tilburg
    • Acting as a continuous nesting process (or almost a residency), the exhibition will open halfway through, as an on-site sharing of our methodologies, but also as a celebration of our conceptual common ground. Until the very end we will be challenging and (re)building each other's works, in order to rethink what art making really means.
    • https://www.instagram.com/kunstpodiumt/

    AFAIR

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 05-03-2022 t/m 17-04-2022
    • Location: SIGN Project Space, Groningen
    • AFAIR (as far as I remember) is a search for possibilities and counter-narratives to look again at place and destination, often with personal histories, memories and connotations. The artists Giath Taha (Syria, 1982), Jean-Baptiste Castel (France, 1994), Tianyi Zheng (China, 1995), George Mazari (Germany/Afghanistan, 1992) created new works especially for SIGN that were presented during AFAIR are shown .
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/Caj18K8t5oj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

    May the Art World Tear Us Apart Til We Meet Again

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 12-03-2022 t/m 27-03-2022
    • In collaboration with: Struggling Art Space
    • Location: Bierumer School, Bierum, NL ,
    • May the Art World Tear Us Apart Til We Meet Again brings together 12 artist friends to share their struggles with being an artist. The exhibition is based on The Real Story by Curator and Artist MeMe. In-depth conversations between the 12 artists have been translated into 12 questions and these have been returned to them โ€“ Curator MeMe is awaiting an answer. Talking about the personal struggles in the art sector has produced this exhibition. During the exhibition
    • https://www.bierumerschool.nl/index.php/2022/03/12/may-the-art-world-tear-us-apart-til-we-meet-again/

    One moment please I'm Lost for Words

    Project

    • 18-12-2021 t/m 18-12-2021
    • Location: Pip Expo, The Hague

    Once Again in One's Hand

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 03-12-2021 t/m 17-12-2021
    • Location: Mamamini, Groningen

    Summer Reminder

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 03-09-2021 t/m 26-09-2021
    • Location: Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin
    • Originated from the political movement in Hong Kong in 2019, โ€œ๐˜ˆ ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜“๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณโ€ is a mixed media installation that metaphorically tells the story of the exiled imagination and suppressed. It is generally thought of grieving as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lesson the power of the forces that debilitate us. It is hoped that grievance would become a power to alleviate suffering and healing.
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/CTMiahtsd99/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

    Let's not go back to normal

    Residencies / exchange

    • 08-11-2020 t/m 05-03-2021
    • Location: the Bierumerschool, Bierum

    Swerve, Graduation Expo Frank Mohr Institute

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-06-2021 t/m 24-06-2021
    • Location: MOBi, Groningen

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Corona Bridging Grant for Artists, Curators, Researchers, Mondriaan Fund, NL

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • Air Kunstpunt, NL

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Hanze scholarship, NL

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Holland scholarship, NL

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • YS Mug 3-Dimension Creative Grant, HK

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Amarte Fund, NL

    • 2023
      Pricing

    • JanNaijkens Prize 2022, NL

    • 2022
      Pricing

    • Sino Digital Media Art Award, HK

    • 2017
      Collection

    • The One Minutes

    • 2023, Amsterdam
      Publication

    • MYEW! Vol.3 Retirement

    • 2021
    • MYEW! -
      Publication

    • MYEW! Vol.2 DTF

    • 2021
    • MYEW! -
      Publication

    • MYEW! Vol.1 Hot Gun Cold Pie

    • 2021
    • MYEW! -
      Publication

    • Things Will Work Out Tomorrow

    • 2021
    • Stepback Forward - SHEN Jun & LEE Kai Chung
      Publication

    • Our Manifestos II_Videography, Documentary Impulses

    • 2021
    • Floating Projects -