Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần

  1. The Curator Ghost
  2. Albers' Assembly
  3. The Unrealized Utopia
  4. PLATTENLOTUS
  5. Sharing One Root, Why Torn Apart?
  6. Eugenics of Cold Flowers
  7. The Galaxy of Electrified Heat
  8. Elysium without Shores
  9. The Spinning Shadows
  10. Atlas of Nations
  11. run + i (ruin)

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©2026 aqat

Future Tense — Solo Exhibition at ara contemporary, Jakarta


2026
Exhibition rendering courtesy the artist 


Future Tense is Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần’s first solo exhibition in Jakarta. Bringing together installation, moving image, sound, performance and constructed objects, the exhibition operates as a temporal laboratory in which obsolete technologies and abandoned political futures return as unstable forms of desire. Presented at ara contemporary in September 2026.



Grants, Fellowships and Residencies


2026



In 2026, Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần was awarded a Graham Foundation Grant and selected for artist residencies at Art Explora in Paris and tra-travel in Osaka. These opportunities support ongoing research and production across architecture, moving image, constructed environments and speculative histories.

More info here and here.

2025

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần undertook a six-month New York Fellowship with the Asian Cultural Council, supporting research and exchange with art organizations, spaces, artists and cultural producers across New York.

More info here.




PLATTENLOTUS — Solo Exhibition at nGbK, Berlin


2025



PLATTENLOTUS was presented as a solo exhibition at station urbaner kulturen / neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) in Berlin. Beginning with the history of East German prefabricated housing and its arrival in Vietnam, the project considers how architectural systems, national symbols and ideological desires persist and mutate across time.




Elysium without Shores — Festival Selections


2025

Elysium without Shores was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and Vilnius Short Film Festival. Constructing a speculative mythology around the Mekong River, the film moves between ritual, archaeological traces, hydroelectric infrastructure and cyborg bodies.

Selected Group Exhibitions


2025

Exhibition view in Columna Rota / Broken Column, photo by Tom de Peyret


Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần’s works were presented in The Utopia of Rules at TWorks, Singapore; Bảy nổi ba chìm — Seven up Three down at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Fluid Systems at carlier | gebauer, Berlin; The Restoration of Happiness at Bloc Projects, Sheffield; and Columna Rota / Broken Column at Museo de la Ciudad de México.




iii.x_Unrealized Utopia — Solo Exhibition at Gallery Medium


2024


Presented at Gallery Medium in Saigon, iii.x_Unrealized Utopia brought together paintings, sculptures, moving images and digital collages conceived as transmissions from unrealized futures. Drawing on Bauhaus archives and nation-building projects in Vietnam, the exhibition examined how modernist forms and abandoned political possibilities continue to circulate through technological imagination.





Many posts and introduction videos are here. 

Exhibition brochure, with an essay by Kathleen Ditzig, designed by Naveen Hattis, can be read here. 



Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbinger is home


2024


For Prospect.6 New Orleans, Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần presented The Curator Ghost at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University. Commissioned by Prospect.6, the monochrome science-fiction film moves between 2075 and Vietnam in 1960 and 1979, following an archaeological object whose imagined evidence unsettles ideas of origin, nationhood and historical memory.





More info here. 




Dream Screen — Leeum Museum of Art


2024



In Dream Screen at the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần presented Elysium without Shores, The Galaxy of Electrified Heat, The Spinning Shadows and Waiting for the Late Moon Drops. The exhibition was curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija as Artistic Director, with Jiwon Yu and Hyo Gyoung Jeon.



More info here. 




Cloud Chamber — Para Site, Hong Kong


2024


Within Cloud Chamber, Art Labor’s first institutional solo exhibition at Para Site, Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần presented The Galaxy of Electrified Heat, a new work commissioned by Para Site. The video installation transforms the infrastructure of hydroelectric power into an unstable, creature-like body, bringing technological promise into tension with ecological destruction.







More info here. 





Revolutionary Romances — SKD, Dresden


2023



PLATTENLOTUS was presented in Revolutionary Romances: Transcultural Art Histories in the GDR at the Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. The exhibition examined the cultural and political relationships developed between the German Democratic Republic and countries of the Global South through historical material and contemporary artistic positions.


More information here.