Cẩm-Anh Lương (she/they/Cẩm-Anh) is a new media artist and designer from Vietnam, currently based in Berlin. She holds a BA in Communication Design from HTW Berlin and previously studied Business Law at Vietnam National University in Hanoi. Their work focuses on personal narratives, migration, and the politics of memory, using mixed media or virtual reality to create immersive, interactive experiences that challenge perceptions of reality. These installations and virtual worlds would then serve as platforms for exploring forgotten histories shaped by the legacies of colonization, state propaganda, and stereotypes imposed on postcolonial migrant female* bodies.
Cẩm-Anh was awarded the kultur_formen Durchstarten grant in 2020, the DAAD Abschlussarbeit Stipendium and Culture Moves Europe grant in 2024. Her work has been exhibited in a group performance at Berlin Biennale 10 (2018), nGbK (New Society for Visual Arts in Berlin, 2021), Vorspiel Berlin (2022 & 2023), Carnival of Algorithmic Culture Toronto (2023), and documenta-fifteen (2022).
Cẩm-Anh was awarded the kultur_formen Durchstarten grant in 2020, the DAAD Abschlussarbeit Stipendium and Culture Moves Europe grant in 2024. Her work has been exhibited in a group performance at Berlin Biennale 10 (2018), nGbK (New Society for Visual Arts in Berlin, 2021), Vorspiel Berlin (2022 & 2023), Carnival of Algorithmic Culture Toronto (2023), and documenta-fifteen (2022).
Beside the artistic practice, Cẩm-Anh works as an an art educator, advocating for alternative voices that empower marginalized communities. She has collaborated and participated with collectives such as neue nachbarschaft/Moabit (2021-23) menseer_projekt (which she initiated, 2020-21), and *foundationClass*Collective (2018-22), examining the intersection of new media art, technology, and social justice.
For a complete CV (exhibitions, grants, working experiences); to collaborate or anything else, feel free to get in touch.
︎ camanh at proton dot me
EXHIBITIONS
2024/11 – Solo Show
After me, the deluge
Sau ta là hồng thuỷ
– SOMA Art Berlin – Berlin, DE
2024 – Galopp Bachelorausstellung
– HTW Berlin - Berlin , DE
2023 – Mind & Machine – Vietnam Festival of Creativity & DesignHai An Gallery - Ho Chi Minh City & Vietnamese Women’s Museum - Hanoi, VN
2023 – Carnival of Algorithmic Culture
- Toronto, CA
2023 – Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM
- Berlin, DE
2022 – documenta fifteen
Fridericianum & Hafenstrasse 76 - Kassel, DE
2022 – Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM
Silent Green – Berlin, DE
2021 – Wo sind die Grenzen?
w/ Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit - Berlin, DE
2021 – This is (not) the end
w/ Design Students of HTW Berlin,
Alter St. Matthäus Kirchhof - Berlin, DE
2021 – Werkschau HTW Berlin
– Berlin, DE
2021 – Die Balkone 2- Scratching the Surface – Berlin, DE
2020 – *foundationClass - from within the cracks neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) - Berlin, DE
2019 – Palmification - feldfünf Projekträume - Berlin, DE
2019 – Sommerfest The Garden Bridge
Brücke-Museum - Berlin, DE
2019 – Rungang weißensee with Grundlagen: Mobile Kitchen
weißensee Kunsthochschule - Berlin, DE
2018 – Rungang weißensee with *foundation Class
weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin - Berlin, DE
2018– Berlin Biennale 10 / I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #13, The *foundationClass’ non-Cafeteria of the Academy of Misery– Akademie der Künste - Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
2019-24 – BA Communication Design
HTW Berlin – Berlin, DE
2006-10 – BA Business Law
Vietnam National University – Hanoi, VN
TRAINING
2022 – Virtual Exhibitions: Designing & Curating for the Metaverse
Node Center for Curatorial Studies - Berlin, DE
2018-19 – *foundationClass
weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
– Berlin, DE
2019 – Artist Training : Fine ArtsUniversität der Künste Berlin / Weiterbildung College
– Berlin, DE
GRANTS & AWARDS
2024 – Culture Moves Europe
Funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union & Goethe-Institut – EU
2024 – DAAD Studienabschluss Stipendium – DE
2022 – Musikfonds
Issued by Musikfonds e.V. (Music fund) – DE
2022 – Outreach GrantsIssued by The Palaeontological Association – UK
2022 – Outreach & Education AwardIssued by Society of Vertebrate Paleontology – USA
2020 – Durchstarten
Issued by Berlin Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung (Berlin Cultural Education Project Fund) – DE
2008 – Canon Photo Marathon Hanoi Runner Up prize– VN
WORKSHOP/TEACHING
2023-24 – Paläéo for all
Art/Science workshop series for children (8-12) - Co-Leading w/ Dr. Roland Sookias– University of Liège -BE
2021-23 – neue nachbarschaft Moabit Berlin e.V.Art workshop facilitator for children (5-14) and women* w/ diverse background
– Berlin, DE
2020-21 – WAS GEHT?! Magazin Design workshop series for young people (20-27) w/ diverse background- Berlin, DE
2020-21 – menseer projektPerformance workshop series for BIPOC &/or transational students of HTW Berlin - Project founder/ Co-Leading- Berlin, DE
2019 – weißensee Art academy
(Summer Semester)
Performance workshops series on cultural appropriation for foundation year students - Co-Leading w/ Dachil Sado
– Berlin, DE
OPEN STUDIO
2023 – ZK/U Openhaus MAY Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Center for Art and Urbanistic - w/ Jukai Collective
– Berlin, DE
2023 – Berlin Design Week
– Open Studio Night
HTW Berlin
– Berlin, DE
TALKS
2023 – Mind & Machine Practice Talk: How we see arts in AI era? - w/ Christian Berg, Ha Chau Bao Nhi – Mod. Hải Nam Nguyễn – Hanoi, VN
2023 – Curating through Conflicts & Care – Symposium Curating Conflict - w/ Lama el Khatib, Fogha Mc Cornelius Refem – Mod. Maithu Bùi
– Berlin, DE
2023 – Jardin d(’h)iver / Vorspiel - Roundtable Eocene, Virtual Reality, and the Gardens - w/ Edoardo Micheli, Lucien Danzeisen & Dr. Roland Sookias– Berlin, DE
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Banner: “The advantages of being a migrant woman* of colour artist”, in tribute to Guerilla Girls.