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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
2024 The Technic of Introspection and Sad drawing series, Club solo, Breda (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
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