Isaac Chong Wai

Isaac Chong Wai’nin pratiğine yerleştirdiği kavramsal, politik ve performatif nitelikler, toplumsal değişimlerin ve küresel olguların aciliyetini işleyen disiplinlerarası bir yaklaşımla iç içe geçer. Chong’un beden, güçsüzlük, şiddet, kolektivizm, lidersizlik, yas ve benzeri temalar üzerinden yaptığı müdahaleli temsiller izleyiciyi  yeni bir incelemeye davet ederken eserlerindeki incelikli, şiirsel ve fakat eleştirel yapı anlam sistemlerine sızar.

Isaac Chong Wai (b. 1990) is a participating artist in this year’s 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Also this year, Chong received the Art Prize of the City of Nordhorn 2024, a prize awarded since 1979 to artists who have attracted attention with a fresh and nationally significant body of work. 

Chong's recent exhibitions include the Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok 2024 and the Biennale Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paolo 2023. His works have been exhibited at prestigious venues including the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the MMCA in Seoul, IFFR in Rotterdam, MOCA in Taipei, and M+ in Hong Kong. His works are represented in renowned collections, including the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, where the works were included in the Museum’s revised permanent exhibition, which opened in 2023; in Germany’s Bundeskunstsammlung; in Kadist, Paris and San Francisco; and in the Burger Collection, Hong Kong. He was awarded the New York Désirée & Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council and was a fellow of the Tarabya Cultural Academy. In 2024, the Tagesspiegel named Chong one of the TOP 100 personalities in Berlin’s culture scene. 

Isaac Chong Wai studied Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Baptist University and Art in Public Space and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. He lives and works in Berlin and Hong Kong.


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  - Falling Carefully
  - Instances of Erasure
  - 2019
  - Uçuruma Yerleşmek
  - Ağlamaya devam edersek, kör olacağız
  - Vekâleten
  - Recurrence 2
  - Unlock
  - Recurrence
  - I Made a Boat in Prison-A Journey to the Shore
  - What is the future in the past? And what is the past in the future?