Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 2025 | 7 pm – 10 pm
On View: September 11 – October 11, 2025
September 8, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – SOCIÉTÉ is pleased to present Anh Trần’s second solo exhibition with the gallery every water has the right place to be in from September 11 – October 11, 2025 during Berlin Art Week at an off-site location. Trần’s immersive abstract paintings navigate a fluid terrain of feeling and movement, tracing dynamic relationships across layered fields of color through an accumulation of performative gestures. Her approach to abstraction doesn’t merely consider mark-making as form, but as a way of opening conceptual and emotional space—an intuitive language through which sensation, memory, and displacement find expression. Her newest body of work unfolds across three distinct media: expansive works on canvas, watercolors on paper, and pieces on silk that obliquely reference the tradition of Vietnamese silk painting. By working across these varied materials and surfaces, Trần enters into a generative dialogue with her substrates, testing how each medium absorbs, resists, or refracts her evolving lexicon of kinetic forms.
NOTES TO EDITORS:
The solo exhibition by Anh Trần will be on view from September 11 until October 11, 2025. About Anh Trần:
Anh Trần (b. 1989, Bến Tre, Vietnam) is based in Berlin. Trần’s painting experimentations consist of immersive representations, operating autobiographically within her own displacements. From her departure to Europe from Vietnam, after a decade spent in New Zealand, she developed abstraction as a response to historical academic restrictions - structured around Socialist Realism - by encompassing bold brushstrokes, expressive colors, layers, impasto, and collage. While living a diasporic experience, her aesthetic language underlines her interest in the linguistic differences between Western and South- Eastern countries’ artistic methods, in their closeness to situated political strategies. She earned an MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, and is a former Rijksakademie van Beedlende Kunsten resident, in Amsterdam. She has had solo shows at Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris; Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam; and participated in group exhibitions at Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland; Pond Society, Shanghai; Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp; Deborah Schamoni, Munich; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; and Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle.
About SOCIÉTÉ:
SOCIÉTÉ is a Berlin-based contemporary art gallery with a global reach. The gallery’s bold curatorial approach plays a pivotal role in advancing its artists’ visions, supporting major museum exhibitions, biennials, and acquisitions by leading institutional collections worldwide. Operating in both the primary and secondary markets, SOCIÉTÉ provides curated advisory services to select clients.
Beyond its exhibitions, the gallery’s publishing initiative, EDITION SOCIÉTÉ, collaborates with prominent writers and graphic designers to produce artist books, catalogues, and, more recently, high-end artist editions.
SOCIÉTÉ is an active presence at major international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, ARCOmadrid, and Gallery Weekend Berlin.
Image Credits:
Anh Trần, As the leaves of the hedge store the light the day thought it had lost, 2025. Acrylic, oil, and flashe on linen. 240 x 183 x 3 cm94 1/2 x 72 x 1 in. Photography by Trevor Good. Courtesy of the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.