Born in Beijing, Chongjin Chen is a Visual Artist based in Eindhoven. She studied at Central Academy of Fine Art and China University of Geosciences in Beijing. She received her MA degree in Art from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2021.

She is fascinated by the monumentality of artwork and the ceremonial quality of the artist's labor. She deals with labour in her work, often through painting and sculpting. she likes to choose techniques that echo her body and spirit, and explores traditional craft skills in various contemporary contexts.



EXHIBITION & EVENT


Up coming

+The form of labour, Kunstloc Brabant, LocHal, Tilburg (NL), December 2022, showing: Desk monument of Chinese migrant worker, Stove ⇌ Jet engine

2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2021

*GEO-DESIGN Budget airline, curated by Martina Muzi, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL), showing: Stove ⇌ Jet engine. https://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/programme/programme/geo-design-budget-airlines/

*DAE graduation show, Dutch Design Week, Beursgebouw, Eindhoven (NL), showing: Pagan festival

2020 and before

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

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

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

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


OTHER

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

INTERNSHIP: 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