Carla Chan

born 1989 in Guangdong, CN

Bachelor of Arts, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

lives and works in Berlin and Hong Kong

 

Awards and Honors

2017

Winner of the TOY BERLIN MASTERS AWARD

2016

Finalist (Interactive Media Category),
The 22nd ifva Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia, HK

Best Visual-Aural Interaction Award, MADATAC 08, ES

Förderpreis, 20th CYNETART International competition

Shortlist, The Lumen Prize

Shortlist, Discovery LOOP, Barcelona Video Art Award, ES

Finalist (Interactive Media Category)
The 21st ifva Hong Kong Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia, HK

2014–2015

Culture Exchange Arts Development Fund
Home Affairs Bureau, Hong Kong, HK

E/M/D/L – European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research Project
Residency, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT

Residency, I-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology), Plymouth, GB

Residency, Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, Dresden

Residency, Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication,
Education and the Mass Media (UoA NTLab), Athens, GR

Residency, Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], Montréal, CA

2013

Residency, Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V., Dresden

Hong Kong Short Film New Action Express Funding,
Hong Kong Arts Centre, HK

Top 3 Video
OK. Video – Jakarta International Video Festival, ID

2012

Selected work, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award, HK

Solo Exhibitions

2018

Goethe Institute Hong Kong, HK
Breathing the Unpredictable

2017

FAK - Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst Münster e.V., Münster
Unseen Land

Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
The Ashes of Snow

SEXAUER, Berlin
When the world is left only black and grey

2016

SMAC, Berlin
TO OUTLAND

STUDIOLO, Berlin
The Melting Black


Group Exhibitions / Screenings

2017

Garden Town, Karachi, PAK 2017
Karachi Biennale,


Galerie de Prêt, Angers, FRA
Bennale Video Project, Artothèque


Sprüth Magers Image Movement Store Berlin
Fractured Gestures


Galerie Gerken ( Berlin Art Week ), Berlin
Kinectical Patterns


Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, CH
China A Chemical Love Story


Gallery Exit, HK
PLUNGING MY HAND INTO THE LAKE OF BILLOWING TREES


TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes), Canarias
ES Video Art Miden


Luzern, CH
Blue Balls Festival 2017


Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin
Berlin Masters - TOY BERLIN MASTERS AWARD 2017


Berlin Gallery Exit, HK
Kunstpreis HAUS am KLEISTPARK


Microscope Gallery, New York, US
Fractured Gestures

WRO Art Center, Warsaw, PL
WRO Biennale 2017

Rennes, Nantes, Saint-Malo, FR
Oodaaq Festival

Berghain, Berlin
A Partial Eclipse of the Heart

K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong, HK
One World Exposition 2 - #like4like

Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, HK
The 22nd IFVA – Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia

SEXAUER, Berlin
SMALL - an exploration of miniature

Centro Conde Duque, Madrid, ES
MADATAC 08

2016

The Nunnery Gallery Bow Arts Trust, London, UK
Visions in the Nunnery

Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Canarias, ES
Espacio Enter Festival

Caerphilly Castle, Wales, UK
The Lumen Prize

LEIMAY, New York, USA
Never - Still, CAVE home at LEIMAY

HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden, Dresden
20th CYNETART International festival for computer based art

Museum of Decorative Art, Berlin
EVA conference Berlin

ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Punto y Raya Festival

Nowa Gazownia, Poznan, PL
5th Mediations Biennale Poznan

Sawtooth ARI Gallery’s Portal Space, Tasmania, AU
Tasmanian International Video Art Festival

WNDX festival for moving images, Winnipeg, CA

Kraftwerk, Berlin
Berlin Atonal

Greenbelt Festival, Northamptonshire, UK

Tinou, Kikladhes, GR
Kinono - Video Art

Sao Paulo, BR
Besides the Screen

Seoul, KR
EXiS 6th: Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul

Kalamata, Messinia, GR
Festival Miden 2016

Ostrale - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
OSTRALE '16

Funkhaus, Berlin
Mira Festival

CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, KR
Abstract Mind: The International Exhibition on Abstract Art

Valparaiso, CL
Proceso de Error - Festival Internacional de Video Experimental

Madrid, ES
Immersive Festival

Rennes, Nantes, Saint-Malo, FR
Oodaaq Festival

Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, HK
22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2016)

Hek (Haus der elektronischen Künste), Basel, CH
Fractured Gestures

San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, US
Rite of Passage

The 21st IFVA - Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia (Finalist), Hong Kong Arts Centre, HK

2015

The Hole - Institut für Sehsüchte, Berlin
Mindpirates Film Night

EXBAZZI, Milan, IT
DESERTING REALITY at Celeste Prize

Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, PE
ESPACIO 360'

Floating Projects, Hong Kong, HK
Micro Narrarives: Invertive seeing

Société des Arts Technologiques, Montréal, CA
IX Symposium, EMDL Liminal Spaces

Motorenhalle, Dresden
Digital // Analog: Indifferenz

The Morgue, London, UK
Bright Shadow

2014

HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden, Dresden
CynetArt International Festival 2014

Montréal (CA), Athens (GR), Plymouth (GB), Dresden, Vienna (AT)
European Mobile Dome Lab [E/M/D/L] Project Presenation

2013

HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden, Dresden
CynetArt International Festival 2013

Barockpalais Großer Garten, Dresden
Morphonic Lab XII: Metamorph
(co- Ulf Langheinrich and Zbigniew Karkowski)

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, HK
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012

National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, ID
OK. Video – Jakarta International Video Festival

Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
Flash Smash

UWM, Milwaukee, US
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart
26. Stuttgarter Filmwinter

ACO_Book, Hong Kong, HK
Siuding_Carla Chan Joint Exhibition

2012

10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
HKFOREWORD: Disordia

HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong, HK
MINAMATA: a requiem

Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong, HK
Media art & the environment - The Desert Metropolis

2011

Youth Square, Hong Kong, HK
Writing Machine Collective Edition 4

Blue Lotus Gallery, Fo Tan, Hong Kong, HK
Micro Narratives: Invented Time & Space