Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần

B. 1987, Hennigsdorf, Germany

Venue

Woldenberg Art Center #202
Newcomb Circle, New Orleans, LA 70118

Monday, Closed

Tuesday–Friday, 10am–5pm

Saturday–Sunday, 11am–4pm

Neighborhood

About the Artist

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần is an art laborer based in Saigon. She makes art collectively and individually and curates and writes for various local and international publications, exhibitions, and projects. Her artworks blend politics and sci-fi aesthetics through the assemblages of animation, 3D design, historical archives, and architecture. She creates a non-linear and absurd reading of modern histories that question the dominant post-Cold War narratives about the Third World. Arlette is obsessed with the fantasy of a futuristic Third World utopia in which political ideals are remixed, and human and non-human beings coexist and amalgamate. 

Trần studied art and theories at Freie Universität Berlin, Univerzita Karlova in Prague, and California Institute of the Arts with a Fulbright scholarship. Her individual practice and collective works with Art Labor have been shown at Lagos Biennial 2024; Albertinum Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Dhaka Art Summit; 57th Carnegie International; Cosmopolis #1 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; and Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.

Previous Works

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, run + i (ruin) (still), 2020.

Video, Image courtesy of the artist.

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, Albers’ Assembly #2, 2021.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, The unrealized utopia - Schlemmer, 2023.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, The unrealized utopia - Moholy Nagy, 2023.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, PLATTENLOTUS (still), 2022.

Video. Image courtesy of the artist.