About
Hansel Tai is an artist and designer living and working in Tallinn, Estonia.
Hansel’s work focuses on queer culture in the Post-internet Epoch, in which the natural is shadowed by the body cult, deformation, subcultural signs and high gloss metal, and hyperstition is materialised into fetish objects.
His pierced jade and glitched-out chromey adornments encourage our mutation into cyborgs, bringing with them confusion, domination, information, euphoria, dystopia and nightmare all at once. They are multi-level skeuomorphs: real objects imitating digital ‘objects’ imitating real objects. They are something to grab onto as we are whipped about an ever-changing digital landscape.
Hansel is the winner of the Enjoia’t MISUI Award 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, the winner of the Gallery Alice Floriano Award at Budapest Jewelry Week 2023, and the honoree of the One for the Future Award (2023-2024) at NYC Jewelry Week.
His works are in the permanent collections of Museum Arnhem, NL and CODA Museum, NL.
Gallery Representation
A-Galerii
Galeria Alice Floriano
Galerie Beyond
The Closer Gallery
Hansel Tai is an artist and designer living and working in Tallinn, Estonia.
Hansel’s work focuses on queer culture in the Post-internet Epoch, in which the natural is shadowed by the body cult, deformation, subcultural signs and high gloss metal, and hyperstition is materialised into fetish objects.
His pierced jade and glitched-out chromey adornments encourage our mutation into cyborgs, bringing with them confusion, domination, information, euphoria, dystopia and nightmare all at once. They are multi-level skeuomorphs: real objects imitating digital ‘objects’ imitating real objects. They are something to grab onto as we are whipped about an ever-changing digital landscape.
Hansel is the winner of the Enjoia’t MISUI Award 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, the winner of the Gallery Alice Floriano Award at Budapest Jewelry Week 2023, and the honoree of the One for the Future Award (2023-2024) at NYC Jewelry Week.
His works are in the permanent collections of Museum Arnhem, NL and CODA Museum, NL.
Gallery Representation
A-Galerii
Galeria Alice Floriano
Galerie Beyond
The Closer Gallery
Press
Hansel Tai: Assassination – Voyage to Paradise, Volume 1
Hansel Tai ASSASSINATION – Voyage to Paradise 06.09.-01.10.2024
Hansel Tai näitus „MÕRV - REIS PARADIISI“
Hansel Tai - Discover - New York City Jewelry Week 2024
Metalsmith Magazine. Vol 44, No 1 / 2024
Jewelry x Technology Discussion: Contemporary Jewelry's Response (Makiko Akiyama)
Harper’s BAZAAR Jewelry Interview
Jaanus Samma & Hansel Tai duo exhibition “In Loving Hands: Combining the Past with the Future”
Klimt02 The value of creation and thinking. Interview with Hansel Tai by Xiao Liang
Klimt02 Nude Jade Pierced by Hansel Tai
AFTER PARTY YET TO COME
GEM Z: The Farthest from Earth We’ve Ever Been
i-D VICE These radical artists are screwing with jewellery in 2020
Non-Stick Nostalgia Y2K RETROFUTURISM IN CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY - Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) New York
Current Obsession Issue #7 Beneath Diamondised Skins
ESTONIAN ART 1 2019 Sexting You with All My Heart
Piercing the Divine Body
A. KODANIK ON HANSEL TAI’S EXHIBITION “EDEN OF THE EAST”
Current Obsession Paper for Munich Jewellery Week 2019
Klimt02 HANNA HANSEL
Current Obsession Feature Dirt Container
AUTOR Magazine #4 – The Senses Issue
Hansel Tai: Assassination – Voyage to Paradise, Volume 1
Hansel Tai ASSASSINATION – Voyage to Paradise 06.09.-01.10.2024
Hansel Tai näitus „MÕRV - REIS PARADIISI“
Hansel Tai - Discover - New York City Jewelry Week 2024
Metalsmith Magazine. Vol 44, No 1 / 2024
Jewelry x Technology Discussion: Contemporary Jewelry's Response (Makiko Akiyama)
Harper’s BAZAAR Jewelry Interview
Jaanus Samma & Hansel Tai duo exhibition “In Loving Hands: Combining the Past with the Future”
Klimt02 The value of creation and thinking. Interview with Hansel Tai by Xiao Liang
Klimt02 Nude Jade Pierced by Hansel Tai
AFTER PARTY YET TO COME
GEM Z: The Farthest from Earth We’ve Ever Been
i-D VICE These radical artists are screwing with jewellery in 2020
Non-Stick Nostalgia Y2K RETROFUTURISM IN CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY - Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) New York
Current Obsession Issue #7 Beneath Diamondised Skins
ESTONIAN ART 1 2019 Sexting You with All My Heart
Piercing the Divine Body
A. KODANIK ON HANSEL TAI’S EXHIBITION “EDEN OF THE EAST”
Current Obsession Paper for Munich Jewellery Week 2019
Klimt02 HANNA HANSEL
Current Obsession Feature Dirt Container
AUTOR Magazine #4 – The Senses Issue
