Thu-Van Tran: Write As Beasts Scream at Night

Thu-Van Tran 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.

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  Thu-Van Tran, New Colors of Grey (Roma), 2026

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  Thu-Van Tran, Human Track, 2025

At the Kindl, the artist (* 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City) 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.

Curators: Kathrin Becker & Magdalena Mai

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).

Reduced price: €4.00

Takes place here:

• Kindl - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst