Jane Hwang is a multimedia artist based in Berlin. She employs research-based narratives to navigate the intersections of community memory and documentation. Her work examines oral history, rituals, archives, geopolitical dynamics and the sensory impact of historical findings through film, text, and audiovisual installation. She is particularly interested in liminal spaces where boundaries blur, exploring ways to reinterpret and embody collective memories through multisensory experiences.
Hwang holds a B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an M.A. in Art in Context from the Berlin University of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited on various platforms, including a solo exhibition at Artspace Hyeong, Seoul (2024), as well as screenings and group exhibitions at the 18th River Film Festival, Padua (2024), CCA Berlin (2023), the Icelandic Visual Artists Association, Reykjavik (2020), and the Museum für Fotografie Berlin (2020).
Artist Statement
My practice focuses on developing methodologies that create profound connections with past memories through text, sound, moving images, and multisensory experiences. By integrating historical findings, untold oral histories, unrecorded documentation, and unresolved emotions, my work seeks to decolonize societal perceptions. It involves critically reframing historical and cultural perspectives, inviting marginalised voices, and fostering the reconstruction of collective memories in contemporary contexts.
Bridging the past and present, my work reveals overlooked stories that are fundamental to our collective identity. Through immersive experiences, I invite viewers to question the boundaries and categories that define our world—life and death, time and space, fantasy and reality, nation and territory, and the self and the other.
janehwangjane@gmail.com