Shawn Pakhin Tang (b.1994)
Bremen (DE) /Hong Kong (HK)
Exhibitions
2025
Hanart Forum, Hong Kong, “Cabinet of Curiosities for the 21st Century”
“Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Hearts Equal Mine)” (Installation)
Dauerwelle, Bremen, Germany, “High Tide Low Current”
“How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body” (Installation)
“Eardrum” (Sound installation)
“Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island)( Video installation)
Specicher XII, Bremen, Germany, “Points of View—Hochschultage 2025”
“Elegy of Resonance II”(Video and Sound installation)
2024
Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, China, “Sparkles”
Artwork
“Black Noise (inhibited)” (Installation)
NGO Dei, Den Haag, Netherlands, “Your Strangers”
Artwork
“Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island)(Video installation)
Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China, “Hong Kong Qi”
Artwork
“Elegy of Resonance I”(Video and Sound installation)
Artwork with Artist Duo fish tank
“Muk6Hak1” (Video installation)
2023
Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong, “Priming Reflex”
Artwork
“Black Noise (inhibited)” (Installation)
Water Light Festival, Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy, “SPILL”
Artwork with Artist Duo fish tank
“Muk6Hak1” (Video installation)
Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery, Hong Kong, “Diachronic Echoes”
Artwork
“Tales of Golden Sun and Golden Sea (Revisited)” (Video installation)
2022
Hidden Space, Hong Kong, “Your Warmth is the Cut of My Flesh”
Artwork
“Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Hearts Equal Mine)” (Installation)
“Thermostat (If blood flows a perceptual warmth, skin is camouflage)” (Installation)
AVA Gallery, Kai Tai Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, “Sojourners of the World”
Artwork
“Insulator Module” (Installation)
“Glitch/Space” (Video installation)
“Summit” (Video installation)
“Playcourt of Shuttle(cock)s/Birds” (Sculpture)
2021
Tai She Wan Tsuen, Hong Kong, “Landescape Project Hong Kong 0.3”
Artwork
“Closed at its Open(Open at its Closed)” (Site specific installation)
Wure Area, Hong Kong, “BED THROW”
Artwork
“A Pair of Dying Lamps” (Installation)
“Catalyst” (Installation)
“Tales of Golden Sun and Golden Sea” (Video installation)
Room 208, Kai Tak Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, “CITYA Youth Current”
Artwork
“Organ” (Installation)
“Playcourt of Shuttle(cock)s/Birds” (Sculpture)
Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong, “Residual Heat”
Artwork
"Lunar Sculpture” (Video installation and sculpture)
Tempé Art Space, Hong Kong, “A Temporal Test for All Possible Clouds”
Artwork
“Shuttle(cock)s/Birds” (Sculpture)
Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, “Letting Go. Carry On: A Capacity Building Initiative” (co-presented by the Academy of Visual Arts and 1a space)
Artwork
“After the Aftermath” (Sculpture)
2020
AVA BA Graduation Show 2020, Kai Tak Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, “Tabula Rasa”
Artwork
“Two Suns” (Installation)
Taichung City Dadun Cultural Center, Taichung, Taiwan, “Young Voices”
Artwork
“Chorus in 4’11”” (Video installation)
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, “Pathfinder”
Artwork
“Chorus in 4’11”” (Video installation)
2019
AVA Gallery, Kai Tai Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, “On Duration”
Artwork
"One Borrowed Summer” (Video installation)
Residency
2024
NGODEI, Den Haag, Netherland
Artist Duo, Fish Tank
Gili Eco Trust, Gili Trawangan, Indonesia
Volunteers and Artist Duo, Fish Tank
Professional practice
Since 2023
Collective Studio interval:in, Hong Kong
Project Director, Founder
Grants
2024
Bremen, Germany, “H.A. Bockmeyer Reisestipendium 2024”
“Diving into the future through analogue sculpture and coral reef restoration”
Lecture
2020
Para Site, Hong Kong, “PS Paid Studio Visits”
Artist
Collections
2025
Private collection by Michael Whittle, “Cabinet of Curiosities for the 21st Century”
“Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Hearts Equal Mine)” (Installation)
2020
Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, “AVA Keeper of Studies Collection”
Artwork
“Two Suns” (Installation)
Studies
2022 — current Digital Media, Hochschule für Künste Bremen (University of the Arts
Bremen), Germany
2018 — 2020 Bachelor in Visual Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
2015 — 2016 Bachelor in Interior Design, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom