Kent Chan is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in Netherlands and Singapore.
2023 year exhibited in Biennial Find out more
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 imaginary, 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 Medialab Matadero and a former resident of Gasworks (2022) and Jan van Eyck Academie (2019/20). He has held solo and two-person presentations at Kunstinstituut Melly, de Appel, Bonnefanten Museum and Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst.
Liverpool Biennial 2023
Hot House (2020-ongoing)
Kent Chan’s ‘Hot House’ (2020 – ongoing) is an installation and project space which questions the relationship between climates and cultures, and the influence of heat and humidity on our bodies and minds. For Liverpool Biennial 2023, Chan engages with artworks and artefacts of tropical provenance from the Global Cultures collections of World Museum, National Museums Liverpool to produce a new series of videos and installation. Forming part of Chan’s ongoing enquiry into heat and humidity, climate, history, art and the tropics as a meteorological region, the work opens a discussion around why these objects have historically arrived in institutions far from their home countries, where climatic conditions are vastly different, and how they are subsequently perceived. ‘Hot House’ posits
Kent Chan’s ‘Hot House’ (2020 – ongoing) is an installation and project space which questions the relationship between climates and cultures, and the influence of heat and humidity on our bodies and minds. For Liverpool Biennial 2023, Chan engages with artworks and artefacts of tropical provenance from the Global Cultures collections of World Museum, National Museums Liverpool to produce a new series of videos and installation. Forming part of Chan’s ongoing enquiry into heat and humidity, climate, history, art and the tropics as a meteorological region, the work opens a discussion around why these objects have historically arrived in institutions far from their home countries, where climatic conditions are vastly different, and how they are subsequently perceived. ‘Hot House’ posits the cool and dry, climate-controlled museum conditions as a manifestation of the assumed superiority of one climate and culture over another. Showing at Bluecoat
Hot House (2020-ongoing)
Showing at Bluecoat
Tuesday to Sunday 11:00am–5:00pm
