Hanchen Zhang

Research-based designer and artist based in the Netherlands. His practice works across sound, moving image, objects, and installation to examine how infrastructural systems shape ecological, territorial, and social relations. Through field recordings, sensing devices, reclaimed materials, and audiovisual composition, he builds spatial narratives that make large-scale systems perceptible without reducing them to illustration. His work has been shown at Nieuwe Instituut, Temporary Art Centre, OSCAM, De Bouwput, and international screening platforms. Trained in Geo-Design at Design Academy Eindhoven and originally rooted in ceramics, he approaches design as a situated form of inquiry into extraction, mediation, and more-than-human coexistence.