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Minh Lan Tran
Guest artist
13.04.2026 - 27.04.2026
Visual arts
Project
Minh Lan Tran’s practice encompasses painting, writing, and performance, exploring the interplay and resistance between language, movement, and matter. Beginning with calligraphy, writing forms an important foundation of her artistic process. Embracing the principles of choreography, Tran carefully distributes different intensities, resulting in compositions that embody the fluidity of physicality. Rooted in diverse traditions and histories, her art addresses themes of social unrest and channels spiritual-political expressions of protest, including self-immolations. Through the convergence of these elements, the artist prioritizes embodiment over representation.
Minh Lan Tran (b. 1997, Hong Kong) lives and works in Paris. Recent solo exhibitions include Fondazione Giuliani (Rome, 2026 – upcoming), The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2026), Balice Hertling (Paris, 2025), Francis Irv (New York, 2025), and Jan Kaps (Cologne, 2023). Group exhibitions featuring her work include Château Lacoste (Aix-en-Provence, 2025), Museum of the Home (London, 2023) and House Berlin (Berlin, 2023).
She studied Art History at the Ecole du Louvre, Paris and the University of Oxford. She holds an MA in Byzantine studies and visual theology from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2020) and an MA in Painting from The Royal College of Art, London (2023).
Medici Residency Occitanie
Application 23.02 - 01.04.2026
Created in 2018 by the Occitanie Region in partnership with the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, the Price Occitanie - Medici dedicated to young contemporary creation aims to develop the international influence of talent from Occitanie by welcoming them to the Villa Medici for a research and creative stay of several months. Each year, the price attracts around a hundred candidates - visual and visual artists - eager to take advantage of the opportunity offered by a residency at one of Europe's most emblematic art centers, in contact with other artists from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Each year, the winner of the Price Occitanie - Medici is selected on the basis of an application and an audition of the shortlisted candidates, each of whom presents his or her project to a jury made up of representatives of the Region, the Director of Villa Medici and associated experts.