Wei Tan

Wei Tan (b. Malaysia, 1991) is a painter and sculptor based in Berlin. With a background in music composition, she completed her Master's degree in Music Technology at New York University. In summer 2015, while developing work on image-based experimental sound art, Wei Tan plunged into the world of abstract painting – first collaborating with her teacher Gina Bonati in a small East Village apartment, then experimenting on her own, drawing inspirations from the great Abstract Expressionists and today’s cross-disciplinary artists. Since then she has worked and exhibited in New York, London, Kuala Lumpur and Berlin.

Wei Tan’s art began as an urgent act of self-revelation through improvisation. Each painting is a journal entry where thoughts and memories are purged. Like making soup, materials are thrown onto the canvas and mixed together through spontaneous gesture. Wet paint, powdery pastels and viscous oil clash into each other creating haphazard geographies. Often a period of mindless doodling is carried out before the painting emerges with an unexpected coherence. The process of automatic drawing allows thoughts from the subconscious to emerge and form a narrative.

In her later work, Wei Tan developed an interest in more ta...

2014 Master’s in Music Technology (MM)
New York University, New York, USA

2012 Bachelor of Music (BMus)
King’s College London, London, UK

06/2021 Bild einer Ausstellung (Group)
Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany

03/2021 Rooms and Interiors (Solo)
Arte Globale, Online

01/2021 London Art Fair: Edit 2021 (Group)
London Art Fair, Online

11/2020 Chairs, Wei Tan | Contemporary Paintings | Part 1 (Solo)
Artsy Viewing Room, Online

10/2020 Piercing Together the Order of Things (Group)
AucArt, Online

09/2020 Summer Exhibition (Group)
Arte Globale/Artsy, Online

02/2020 LA Art Show (Group)
LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, USA

09/2019 Shingle22j: Biennial of Contemporary Art (Group)
Museo Civico Archeologico, Rome, Italy

07/2019 Salon des Refusés (Group)
Joseph Wales Studios, Margate, UK

06/2019 Salon des Refusés (Group)
Camden Image Gallery, London, UK

05/2019 Bath Open Art Prize (Group)
44AD Artspace, Bath, UK

05/2019 ARTspring 2019 (Group)
Zeiss Major Planetarium, Berlin, Germany

04/2019 Sunny Art Prize Exhibition (Group)
Harmony Art Gallery, Shanghai, China

03/2019 Abstraction: A Fine Art Collective (Group)
Envision Arts, Online

09/2018 Sunny Art Prize Exhibition (Group)
Sunny Art Centre, London, UK

06/2018 Summer Exhibition (Group)
Arte Globale, Online

05/2018 BAI Fellows (Group)...