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.
the Department of Collective Collaboration - 2022
Performative meeting, installation, videos, text on walls, photos, sounds
Collective work with Ida Leijting, Lena Longefay, Eliisa Loukola.
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. The few ways in which our work may differ from day-to-day talk is that it is often (consensually) recorded, and (vaguely) centres around the topics of collectivity and collaboration.
We No Longer Remember How We Got Here - 2022
Duo-channel digital video, found objects, painting, slide films, slide projectors, lightbox
Size variable
We No Longer Remember How We Got Here (video) - 2022
Dual-channel digital video, sound, color
12’15”
Trash Bin Office - Trash Bin Office
2021
On-site behaviour for 14 days, trash from the shop, installation.
Size variable
"You throw a piece away every day, I make a work every day". People bring their unwanted objects here, trying to give
them a second chance. Then, the shop makes its own selection: some of the items go to the shelves, the rest to the bin. Trash Bin Office is here to give a third chance to the rejected ones. Through their labour, the artist works with the residue of consumerism and shows the process in one corner of the shop. A trash bin is a place that holds rubbish until it is collected. We want the unwanted! Be our collector today!
A Haunted Home is Haunting Us - A Haunted Home is Haunting Us
2021
Video projection, charcoal on a curtain, inkjet print on photo paper, dust from drilling in brick
Size variable
The Freeway to a New Planet - The Freeway to a New Planet
2020-21
Found objects, analogue photography, installation, video projection
Size variable, A set of 10
(Exhibition view in the Bierumerschool, 2020)
Nothing Exercise_1. Picking up bricks from the border - Nothing Exercise_1. Picking up bricks from the border
2020
Bricks, analog photography, lightbox, performance video
10' 56"
Nothing Exercise_2. Catch the wind with a mattress bag - Nothing Exercise_2. Catch the wind with a mattress bag
2020
Performance video
3’15”
A Reminder from Last Summer - A Reminder from Last Summer
2019-21
Foam, plastic tube, bean bag, warming sheet, warming light, fan, figure, umbrella, swimming air bed, plastic board, toys, electric torch, mechanical device, styrofoam, animation
Size variable, A set of 6
(Exhibition view in Frank Mohr Institute, 2019)
Everyday I make a flag - Everyday I make a flag
2019
Size variable, A set of 22
