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Thu-Van Tran. Write As Beasts Scream at Night
Maschinenhaus M2
Thu-Van Tran, New Colors of Grey (Roma), 2026
© Thu-Van Tran / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026
Thu-Van Tran, Human Track, 2025
© Thu-Van Tran / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech
Curators: Kathrin Becker & Magdalena Mai
Thu-Van Tran (* 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City) lives and works in Paris. Her work draws connections between the political entanglements of nations and colonial legacies, traces of which remain inscribed and visible in many places: in language, bodies, and landscapes. At the KINDL, the artist presents her most recent works, some created specifically for this exhibition – including ceramics, painting, and drawing – which address the ecological and traumatic consequences of colonialism in Vietnam and Australia, and their resonances in Europe. Write As Beasts Scream at Night invokes the forces of resistance in nature, which quietly but persistently rebel against the wounds inflicted by human hands.
With her newly produced graphite drawings from the Trail Dust series, as well as ceramics created in Australia, Thu-Van Tran draws attention to landscapes permanently altered by bushfires, resource extraction, and a history of violence. Among her references is the Western Australian region around the “Golden Mile”, land claimed by various Aboriginal groups and marked by vast open-pit mines. Tran thus deepens her reflections on fire as a destructive as well as spiritual and transformative force, and on conflict-scarred land and the memory inscribed within it.
Write As Beasts Scream at Night is co-produced by the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art and the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici.
Supported by the Office of visual arts of the Institut français Germany and the French Ministry of Culture
As part of Berlin Art Week 2026
Thu-Van Tran (* 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City) lives and works in Paris. Her work draws connections between the political entanglements of nations and colonial legacies, traces of which remain inscribed and visible in many places: in language, bodies, and landscapes. At the KINDL, the artist presents her most recent works, some created specifically for this exhibition – including ceramics, painting, and drawing – which address the ecological and traumatic consequences of colonialism in Vietnam and Australia, and their resonances in Europe. Write As Beasts Scream at Night invokes the forces of resistance in nature, which quietly but persistently rebel against the wounds inflicted by human hands.
With her newly produced graphite drawings from the Trail Dust series, as well as ceramics created in Australia, Thu-Van Tran draws attention to landscapes permanently altered by bushfires, resource extraction, and a history of violence. Among her references is the Western Australian region around the “Golden Mile”, land claimed by various Aboriginal groups and marked by vast open-pit mines. Tran thus deepens her reflections on fire as a destructive as well as spiritual and transformative force, and on conflict-scarred land and the memory inscribed within it.
Write As Beasts Scream at Night is co-produced by the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art and the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici.
Supported by the Office of visual arts of the Institut français Germany and the French Ministry of Culture
As part of Berlin Art Week 2026
Runtime: Sun, 13/09/2026 to Sun, 14/02/2027
Price info: If you don’t apply for reduced admission, you now have the choice between two prices: You can pay 7 euros (KINDL for YOU) or support the KINDL with 10 euros (YOU for KINDL).
Price: €10.00
Reduced price: €4.00
Reduced price info: Reduced admission applies to pupils, students, pensioners, severely disabled persons, holders of artCard.
Free admission for children and young people up to 18 years of age.
Free admission for everyone on the first Sunday of every month.
Price: €10.00
Reduced price: €4.00
Reduced price info: Reduced admission applies to pupils, students, pensioners, severely disabled persons, holders of artCard.
Free admission for children and young people up to 18 years of age.
Free admission for everyone on the first Sunday of every month.
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