Yamauchi Terue is an artist based in Japan. In 2010, during her existential journey of searching for and exploring the origin of her life, she came across an old photo of a naked Ama (sea women) diver that deeply inspired her to this day, as she continues to explore human nature and considers a world view nurtured by the sea. In 2013, she graduated from a Haenyeo school on Jeju Island, Korea where she learned traditional free diving fishery and […]
Wang Yiquan, born in Beijing in 1987, is an artist and curator currently based in Shanghai. With research interests including performance art, film, urban space and the relationship between art and economy, he has developed his art into a multi-dimensional practice over the past decade. As an artist, his works combine complexity with diversity. He has constantly challenged the traditional format of exhibitions by transforming multiple artistic mediums into performative settings to create participatory live events and narrative spatial configurations, […]
Wang Ya-Hui lives and works in Taipei. She holds a master’s degree in Arts and Technology from the Taipei National University of the Arts. She works across mediums including video, installation, photography and painting. Using mediums of imagery, her practice centres on the peripheral vision of viewers and the intersections of reality and imagery, proposing questions about virtual and real, interior and exterior, the essence of imagery, and viewing experience. Her motifs revolve around the Eastern natural philosophy and the […]
Wang Bo is an artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. His video works examine social and historical events in an artistic way. As an artist, his works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, Garage Museum in Moscow, International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Visions du Réel in Switzerland, Image Forum Festival in Tokyo, Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia, DMZ Docs in South Korea, Times […]
Suki Seokyeong Kang studied Oriental Painting at Ewha Womans University, Seoul and Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. Her practice is inspired by jeongganbo, the traditional Korean musical notation system invented in the Choson Dynasty. Jeongganbo combines elements of musical notation, such as pitch and tempo, with the posture and movement of a performer in a visually balanced grid layout. Her recent exhibitions include the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), 12th Shanghai Biennale (2019), Black Mat Oriole, ICA Philadelphia (2018), Liverpool […]
Park Jeehee Park Jeehee is a sculptor based in Seoul whose creative practice explores the nature of modern architecture in relation to biology, anthropology, physics and folklore. Her work shows an interest in non-human organisms, time, history and their entanglement in modern buildings, decentring anthropocentric events and meanings in the process. Park has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the MAK center, LA, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, and the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence programme in Scotland. She is […]
Man Mei To obtained her Bachelor of Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) and Hong Kong Arts School in 2017, majoring in painting. Man is the selected artist of Tai Kwun Artists’ Studio Programme 2021 in Hong Kong. She has participated in numerous local and international group exhibitions including Gathering of Consciousness, The 29th Asian International Art Exhibition at Fukuoka (2021), The Spaces Between the Words Are Almost Infinite at Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong (2020), Zoo […]
Born in 1989, Beijing, Luka Yuanyuan Yang is a visual artist and filmmaker. She does visual storytelling through film, photography, artist books and performance. Yang received awards internationally from organisations such as Art Power 100 (2019), Asian Cultural Council (2017), Huayu Youth Award (2016), Rencontres d’Arles (2015), Magenta Foundation (2013) and Three Shadows Tierney Fellowship (2012). Her recent solo exhibitions include Shanghai Low at OCAT, Shanghai (2020), Dalian Mirage at AIKE, Shanghai (2019), Theater of Crossroads at Chinese America Arts […]
Li Qingyue is a Shanghai-born illustrator who creates illustrations for novels, and occasionally picture books, where she reinterprets folk stories through the language of contemporary art. In 2021, her picture book Magic Cloth was awarded Diploma under the Best Picture Books category in Image of the Book, an international contest for book illustration and design. Lee Qingyue has held solo exhibitions including Magic Cloth (2021) and Records of the Buddha: Giugiu’s Travelogue (2016) at the Shanghai Mass Art Center, and […]
Lee Kai Chung performs artistic research on history and historiography, systems, and ideology. In his early years, Lee was inspired by the lack of proper governance over public records, so he developed his own archival research methodology as his key artistic practice. Through research, social participation and engagement, Lee’s work reflects upon historical narratives and demonstrates an individual’s transition between politics and art. Lee received the Altius Fellowship from Asian Cultural Council in 2020 and the Award for Young Artist […]
CHAT will be closed from 24 February to 4 March for exhibition changeover, and will be reopened on 5 March. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and look forward to welcoming you back soon with exciting new exhibitions!
