Chongjin Chen was born in Beijing (CN) and now lives in Eindhoven (NL). Growing up in rapidly modernizing China, she has an urge to contemplate what contemporary values often neglect. She is interested in qualities considered insignificant—the weak and the fragile. She responds to her life experiences and social dynamics with bold yet delicate imagery, often infused with seemingly casual and playful teasing. For example, she enjoys dressing up trivial matters into grand narratives. Her mediums include drawing, sculpture, and video installation, where handcraft and contemplation are often central to her methods. Through these diverse mediums, her work reflects the ambivalence she perceives in her surroundings, characterized by a subtle and sensitive quality, often with a touch of humor.


SOLO EXHIBITION

2024 The Technic of Introspection, Textielfabrique, Rotterdam (NL), 19th April- 9th May


GROUP EXHIBITION & EVENT

Upcoming RE:FWD, NDSM FUSE, Amsterdam(NL), 7th Feb - 6th Jul 2025

2025 RE:FWD, Kunstlinie, Almere(NL)

2024 OPEN BLIK symposium, Club Solo, Breda (NL)

2024 Sad drawing, Club Solo, Breda (NL)

2024 Out of Blue Dinner, Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam (NL)

2024 Out of Blue Dinner, VHDG, Leeuwarden (NL)

2023 Under soft construction, De Fabriek, Eindhoven (NL), 4th-17th Sep showing: Plan14:Stove ⇌ Jet engine

2023 Video club 15th edition, silent green, Berlin (DE), showing: Dinner time

2023 Non Native Native Fair, Framer Framed, Amsterdam (NL), showing: Dinner time

2023 Personeelskamer, Amsterdam (NL), showing: Slippy snow and nobody

2023 The form of labour, Kunstloc Brabant, LocHal, Tilburg (NL), 9th Dec- 26th Feb, showing: Desk monument of Chinese migrant worker, Plan14: Stove ⇌ Jet engine

2022 Bullshit Drawing club, residency for the people, Eindhoven (NL)

2022 Next to the WoOd workshop, microlab, Eindhoven (NL)

2022 De snoepwinkel, Plan-B, Eindhoven (NL)

2022 Multidentity, Gdynia design days, Gdynia (PL), showing：Pagan festival, http://en.guide.gdyniadesigndays.eu/2022/exhibitions/multi-identity,28

2022 Everybody Else, Temporary Art Center, Eindhoven (NL), showing: Slippy snow and nobody grass. https://www.tac.nu/programma/everybody-else-tac-united/?lang=en

2022 Digital Flux Symposium, Framer Framed x Non Native Native, Amsterdam (NL),
showing: Stove ⇌ Jet engine, https://framerframed.nl/en/projecten/digital-flux-symposium/

2022 Benefit for Brabant, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven (NL), showing: Inflated coin

2021 GEO-DESIGN Budget airline, curated by Martina Muzi, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL), 9th Oct - 14th Nov, showing: Plan14 Stove ⇌ Jet engine. https://geodesign.online/archive/projects/plan-14-stove-jet-engine

2021 Dutch Design Week, Beursgebouw, Eindhoven (NL), showing: Pagan festival

2020 Leader of Parper sculpture workshop, host for We Lens (Beijing), Arnhem (NL)

2019 Festival 100% Makerz, Villette Makerz, Paris (FR)

2017 Inflated coin, China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CN)

2017 A Jewelry in ///, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CN), 2017


PUBLICATION

The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design, Louise Schouwenberg en Michael Kaethler, Valiz, 2021


WORK

Member of NOR collective, Eindhoven, 2023-2024

Van Abbemuseum, Curator intern, 2023

COUGH IN VAIN, Shanghai, Jewelry designer, 2018


EDUCATION

Contextual Design, Ma Degree, Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherland，2021

Jewelry Design, Ba Degree, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), 2017

Jewelry Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts，2016