Mica Pan was born in 1994 in Xiamen, China. She had classical drawing training and graduated in 2016 from the Animation programme at the Communication University of China (CUC), Beijing. She went on to study in Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam at the Fine Arts department (graduating cum laude in 2021), and since that time performance has become the main focus of her practice.

She is interested in the subconscious, the idea of “nothingness” in contrast with “something ness”. As a site-specific performance artist, different structures of architecture and spaces often serve as a material and starting point for her idea to manifest into a form, while everyday actions and objects often appear as a medium to merge with space in a minimalistic way. She aims to create a subtle intersection of narrative and feeling/ sensation in space, allowing the audience to enter a realm where they can get in touch with the subconscious in an immersive atmosphere – and still be aware of the present. During her performance, she sees herself and the audience as equal participants, and creates a space where private and public, conceptualized and undefined, meet.

Read more about Mica Pan’s project during DE KWEKERIJ here.