Hanwen Zhang is an artist and filmmaker originally from Changchun, China, and currently based in Göttingen, Germany. Drawing from artistic research and fieldwork, his work employs on-site filming and visual studies to examine specific landscapes, infrastructures, and mundane human activities reflecting on the intertwined dimensions of individual conditions, stories, memories, collective narratives, archives, and identity within local, transnational, historical, or ideological contexts. His recent research revolves around the exile of marginalized individuals, the treatment of difficult heritage, and the activities of secret societies within the modern and contemporary East Asian historical framework.