Kent Chan

Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Artist statement

Kent Chan is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in Netherlands and Singapore. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema that form a triumvirate of practices porous in form, content and context. He holds particular interest in the tropical imagination, the past and future relationships between heat and art, and contestations to the legacies of modernity as the epistemology par excellence. The works and practices of others often form the locus of his works, which have taken the form of film, text, conversations and exhibitions. He is an upcoming resident at Gasworks, England (2022) and a former resident of Jan van Eyck Acdemie (2019/20), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2017/18) and Rupert’s Residency Program (2015). He has held solo and two-person presentations at Bonnefanten Museum, National University Singapore Museum, de Appel Amsterdam and SCCA-Ljubljana, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Slovenia. His works has been exhibited in venues including Times Museum (China), EYE Film Museum, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Bienalsur (Argentina), Institute of Contemporary Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Busan Biennale, Drodesera Festival of Performing Arts and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. His work is collected in the Rijkscollectie, Netherlands and Bonnefanten Museum.

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