Pham Minh Duc (b. 1991, Schlema) is a multimedia artist based in Berlin, working across installation, performance, and object-making. He studied architecture before earning a Master’s degree in Exhibition Design and Scenography at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2019, and later studied performance and design theory at the Berlin University of Arts.

His practice tenderly probes at the subject of identity, belonging and existence at the intersection of gender, race and class, resurfacing what has long reverberated: migrant histories, queer lineages, and solidarities formed between communities through movement and rupture. Born to a family of Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR (German Democratic Republic, or East Germany), Pham draws from the lived experience of growing up between cultures, shaped by separation, cross-cultural kinship, and the unresolved aftermath of German reunification. Several of his works, such as ‘12 Percent – Giờ ăn đến rồi!’ (2022), ‘A High Mountain, A Sweet Dream’ (2023) and ‘Never Quite Right’ (2025) trace the experiences of Vietnamese contract workers in the GDR. His works have been exhibited in various venues in Germany such as the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin and others, both domestically and internationally.

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