CURRENT & UPCOMING NEWS
16 Jun 2023 until further notice
Museum Group Show
“The Nationalgalerie: The Collection of the 21st Century”
Curated by Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, and Catherine Nichols
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Museum, Berlin
25 Feb–21 May 2023
Solo Exhibition in dialogue with Joseph Beuys
“The End of Growth"
Museum Schloss Moyland, Moyland
18 Feb–28 May, 2023
Group Show
“Practice Till We Meet”
Curated by Hanlu Zhang
esea contemporary, Manchester
Artists: Asia-Art-Activism (AAA), Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR), Audrey Albert, Isaac Chong Wai, Koki Tanaka, Liu Weiwei and Mimian Hsu
2 Mar–6 Apr 2023
Group Show
“Bodily Reaction: Vitalizing the Bare Life”
Taikang Space, Beijing
Artists: Energy Waving Collective, Future Host (Tingying Ma/ Kang Kang), Guo Fengyi, Huang Songhao, Isaac Chong Wai, Li Xiaobin, Liu Wei, Ma Liuminng, Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO), Qiu Xiaofei, Shi Qing, Tehching Hsieh, Wang Huan, Wang Xiaoqu, Yu Ji, And Zhang Yibei
24 Dec 2022–10 Apr 2023
Museum Group Show
“Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III”
Curated by Inti Guerrero and Chantal Wong
with Sunpride Foundation
Tai Kwun Contemporary Museum, Hong Kong
Artists: Bunny Cadag, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Shu Lea Cheang, Christopher Cheung, Isaac Chong Wai, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder & Bhenji Ra), Roy Dib, Jes Fan, Chitra Ganesh, Sadao Hasegawa, Fan Chon Hoo, Hosoe Eikoh, Hou Chun-Ming, Yuen Hsieh, Andrew Thomas Huang, Bones Tan Jones, Siren Eun Young Jung, Bhupen Khakhar, Jiaming Liao, Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho, Zihan Loo, Ly Tran Quynh Giang, Zoë Marden & Sonia Wong Yuk Ying, Josef Ng, Patrick Ng Kah Onn, Alfonso Ossorio, Beatrix Pang, Ellen Pau, Sornchai Phongsa, Khairullah Rahim, Ren Hang, Anne Samat, Joshua Serafin, Tejal Shah, Shang Liang, Raqib Shaw, Sin Wai Kin, Sputniko!, Ho Tam, Hiram To, Kwong Chi Tseng, Virtue Village, Danh Vō, Wang Shui, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ka Ying Wong, Martin Wong, Wu Jiaru, Xiyadie, Maru Yacco, Yau Ching, Trevor Yeung, Alex Yiu & Kei Ying Wong, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Samson Young, Zheng Bo, Bruno Zhu
OTHER NEWS
8 Mar 2023 (5pm, UK Time)
Lecture
Slade Contemporary Art Lectures
Slade School of Fine Art
28 Aug, 2022–5 Feb 2023
Museum Group show
“Forming communities: Berliner Wege”
Curated by Thomas Eller and Li-Zhenhua
Kindl Museum, Berlin
Artists: aaajiao 徐文恺, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Cao Kefei 曹克 非, Isaac Chong Wai, Chun Shu 春树, Fan Popo 范坡坡, Han Feng 韩锋, He Xiangyu 何翔宇, Benno Hinkes, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Liao Wenfeng 廖文峰, Elizabeth Ravn, Tobias Spichtig, Young-jun Tak 탁영준 卓永俊, Bignia Wehrli 宾雅, Regina Weiss, Yi Ke 伊可, Yi Li 一子
11 Nov 2022 to 12 Feb 2023
Museum Group show
"MIT DER TÜR INS HAUS FALLEN Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung des Bundes,"
Neues Museum Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg, Nürnberg
30 Sept 2022–22 Jan 2023
Commission and Group show
“Chains of Interest*”
Curated by Inka Gressel and Susanne Weiß
ifa-Galerie, Berlin
Artists: Isaac Chong Wai, Carlfriedrich Claus, Lizza May David, Hannah Höch, Joe Jones, Wilhelm Klotzek, Käthe Kollwitz, Ofri Lapid, Adrien Missika, Elisa Tan, Endre Tót, Gitte Villesen
4–6 Nov 2022
Fair
Artissima, Turin
16–20 Nov 2022
Fair
Cologne Art Fair, Cologne
25 Jun–18 Sept 2022
Commission and Solo Presentation
“Post-Mythical Accidents”
Una Boccata d'Arte
Castiglione di Sicily
Fondazione Elpis, Galleria Continua and Threes Productions
7 May–3 Oct, 2022
Museum Group show
“Identity Not Proven: New Acquisitions for the Federal Art Collection”
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
24 Jun–18 Sept 2022
Commission and Group show
“Spheres of Interest*”
Curated by Inka Gressel and Susanne Weiß
ifa-Galerie, Berlin
Artists: Isaac Chong Wai, Lizza May David, Wilhelm Klotzek, Ofri Lapid, Adrien Missika and Gitte Villesen feature works from the ifa art collection by Joseph Beuys/ Nicolás García Uriburu, John Cage, Carlfriedrich Claus, Wieland Förster, Zille Homma Hamid, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Hannah Höch, Franz Klekawka, Käthe Kollwitz, Joseph Kosuth, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Simone Nieweg, Robert Rehfeldt, Takako Saito, Eran Schaerf, Endre Tót, Rosemarie Trockel, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt.
15, 16 Sept, 2022, 17:00 till 19:00
Commissioned Performance
Berlin Art Week x ifa-Galerie
“Die Mütter”
Klosterruine Berlin
4 Sept 2022
Commissioned Public Performance
“Sharing Movements: Difference/Indifference”
curated by Angelika Li
Kunsttage Basel, Basel
2–5 Sept 2022
Fair
KIAF and Frieze, Seoul
17 May–30 July 2022
Solo Exhibition
“If we keep crying, we will go blind.”
Zilberman Selected, Istanbul
9 Jun 2022
Performance Commission
Curated by Liberty Adrien & Bettina Freimann
Performance at Hamburger Kunsthalle, commissioned by Âme Nue, Hamburg
2021
Grant
Isaac Chong Wai has been awarded Research Stipends by the Berlin Senate.
Senate Department of Culture and Europe, Berlin
2021
Scholarship
Isaac Chong Wai has been awarded a Scholarship at AArtist in Residence by
German Federal Foreign Office and Galleries Association of Berlin (LVBG), Berlin
2020/2021
Fellowship Award
Isaac Chong Wai has been awarded Fellowship at Kulturakademie Tarabya by German Embassy and Goethe-Institut
Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul
24 Jan 2022
Talk
Moderated by Yongwoo Lee
Performance and the Editing of Representation
Chinese University of Hong Kong
3 Sept–31 Oct 2021
Group Exhibition
Studio Bosphorus
Kulturakademie Tarabya, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin
Nevzat Akpınar, Nevin Aladağ, Sinem Altan, Mark Andre, Sina Ataeian Dena, Rasta Baba, Patrizia Bach, Aysun Bademsoy, Mehtap Baydu, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar,
3–12 Sept 2021
Commission Work
Isaac Chong Wai was commissioned by the Federal Foreign Office to produce a video projected onto the wall of the Federal Foreign Office building in public space, responding to the issues of racism. The work was screened during the Berlin Festival of Lights.
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
12 Sept (19:30) 2021
Performance
pietas
curated by Keumhwa Kim
St. Matthäus Stiftung, Berlin
10 Sept 2021
Artist Talk
Conversation with Christine Nippe
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
3 Sept (18:00 and 21:30) and 4 Sept (16:00) 2021
Performance
Rehearsal of the Futures: Leaderless was selected to perform during the opening reception of Studio Bosphorus at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien in the framework of the 10th Anniversary of Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Studio Bosphorus, Kulturakademie Tarabya
23 May 2021
Screening
Art Basel Hong Kong
Videotage, Hong Kong
25–30 May 2021
Video Installation
Transeuropa [x], Hildesheim
29 Apr–5 Jun 2021
Group Exhibition
“Recurrence 2” curated by Lotte Laub
Zilberman, Berlin
8 May – 14 Mar 2021
Commissioned work “Falling Carefully”
Asia Society Hong Kong
Artists: Isaac Chong Wai, Christopher K. Ho, Leung Chi Wo, Andrew Luk, Vivian Qin, Sara Wong, Cici Wu, Samson Young and Zheng Mahler
Jan 2021
Podcast
Zilberman Podium with Ceren Ergenç
Spotify
6 Jan – 1 Feb 2021
Solo Exhibition
Leaderless
Bilsart, Istanbul
A collaboration between Kulturakademie Tarabya and Zilberman Istanbul
19, 20, 26 and 27 Jan 2021
A series of online conversations at "Leaderless," a solo exhibition of Isaac Chong Wai at Bilsart
PODIUMS: LEADERLESS
Supported by Tarabya Cultural Academy and Zilberman
Free admission; online registration required.
The program includes speakers Evrim Altuğ, Isaac Chong Wai, Pia Entenmann, Ceren Ergenç, Banu Karaca, Zeyno Pekünlü, the Consul General of Germany Johannes Regenbrecht, Abhijan Toto and Gündüz Vassaf.
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6, 12, 13 and 19 Jan 2021
Performance, 3pm
Rehearsal of the Futures: Leaderless
Performed by: Meltem Gürlevik, Su Güzey, İsmet Köroğlu, Can Özmen and Verda Zincirkıran
RSVP required: zilberman@zilbermangallery.com
Bilsart, Istanbul
A collaboration between Kulturakademie Tarabya and Zilberman Istanbul
15 Dec 2020 – 27 Jan 2021
Group Exhibition
Unlock
Zilberman, Istanbul
2020
Museum Talent Award
Isaac Chong Wai has been awarded Talent Award at Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award by Kunstpalast Museum in Düsseldorf
Kunstpalast Museum
15 May – 20 Dec 2020
Museum show
“Viral Self-Portraits”
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova | +MSUM
Artists: Julian Togar Abraham, Mounira Al Solh, Maria Thereza Alves, Nika Autor, Gaain Baahc, Babi Badalov, Djordje Balmazović, Denilson Baniwa, Jože Barši, Marko Batista, Richard Bell, Mona Benyamin, Olivia Botha, Sergey Bratkov, Tony Chakar, Olga Chernysheva, Virginia Chihota, nora chipaumire and Ari Marcopoulos, Claudiu Cobilanschi, Eduard Constantin, Anna Daucikova, Državljanska akcija [Civic Action], Jimmie Durham, Germano Dushá, Goran Đorđević, Lenka Đorojević, Ali Eyal, Vadim Fishkin, Jule Flierl, Andreas Maria Fohr, Jošt Franko, Quinsy Gario, Noa Giniger, Igor Grubić, Jusuf Hadžifejzović, Nika Ham, Michal Heiman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Maja Hodošček, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Siniša Ilić, IRWIN, Iman Issa, Sanja Iveković, Janez Janša & Janez Janša & Janez Janša, Admire Kamudzengere, Mahmoud Khaled, Jure Kastelic, Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim, Kladnik&Neon, Staš Kleindienst, Meiro Koizumi, Jiří Kovanda, Nina Koželj, Andreja Kulunčić, Matts Leiderstam, Cristiano Lenhardt, Anna López Luna, Mikhail Maksimov, Tuan Mami, Agrippina R. Manhattan, Dalibor Martinis, Olivia Mihaltianu, Albina Mokhryakova, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tanja Muravskaja, Ekaterina Muromtseva, Sarah Naqvi, Toos Nijssen, Octora, Ahmet Öğüt, Dimitry Orlač, Ernesto Oroza, Pavel Otdelnov, Prabhakar Pachpute, Iza Pavlina, Vesna Pavlović & Vladimir Jerić Vlidi, Yan Pei-Ming, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Dan Perjovschi, Borut Peterlin, Raluca Popa, Tabita Rezaire, Sallisa Rosa, María Ruido, Jeffrey Shaw, Simona & Ramona (aka Claude & Dersch), Buhlebezwe Siwani, Maja Smrekar, Société Réaliste, Jonas Staal, Ayesha Sultana, Andrej Škufca, Igor Štromajer, Milica Tomić, Isola Tong, Isaac Chong Wai, Otty Widasari, Lin Yilin, Madalina Zaharia, Dion Zeqiri, Arseny Zhilyaev
22 Oct 2020
Screening
How can we we (each other)? curated by Popo Fan
bi’bak, Berlin
Artists/ Film Markers: Tao Hui, Wa Waila, Liang Ying, Sholeh Zahrael & Kamil Saldun, Aykan Safoğlu, Ming Wong, Ryuji Otsuka & Huang Ji, Halima Ouadiri, Isaac Chong Wai, Mohammad Shawky Hassan, Mukaddas Mijit & Leyla Toprak
31 Aug – 2 Sept
18:00-21:00
Commissioned performance “Where are the orders from above?” co-created with Krišjānis Elviks
HOMO NOVUS, Riga
Artists: Chiara Bersani, Krista Burāne, Rosana Cade, Isaac Chong Wai, Artūrs Čukurs, Ieva Džindža, Kirils Ēcis, Krišjānis Elviks, GoldClayderman, Francesca Grilli, Jana Jacuka, Anda Lāce, MIL M2, Clare Patey, Laura Stašāne, Guna Zariņa, Līga Zepa
22 May – 31 Aug 2020
Museum show
“Looking for Another Family” curated by Joowon Park
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Seoul, South Korea
Artists: Kang Seung Lee, Dew Kim, Jong YuGyong, Tandia Permadi, Eisa Jocson, Ni Hao, South Ho Siu Nam, RESBAK, Atsushi Watanabe, Wang Tuo, 98B COLLABoratory+HUB Make Lab+KANTINA, Yee I-Lann, Isaac Chong Wai, Jatiwangi Art Factory+Budnamugage, FDSC
Jun 26 – 29 Aug 2020
Group show
“Recurrence” curated by Lotte Laub
Zilberman | BERLIN
Artists: Isaac Chong Wai, Elmas Deniz and Simon Wachsmuth
7 Aug, 2020
Artist Talk
Asia Society Switzerland
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July 15 – 4 Aug 2020
Group show
“Minor Infelicities”
탈영역우정국 Ujeongguk
Seoul, Korea
1 Jun – 31 Jul 2020
Group show “RESET” curated by Rachael Vance
Arndt Art Agency on Artsy
Artists: Jumaldi Alfi, Stephan Balkenhol, Joseph Beuys, Sophie Calle, Carla Chan, Isaac Chong Wai, Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Uji “Hahan” Handoko, Paul Hutchinson, Julie Knifer, Jannis Kounellis, Alicja Kwade, Heinz Mack, Marin Majic, Patricia Piccinini, Sopheap Pich, Chiharu Shiota, Nedko Solakov and Maria Taniguchi
8 May 2020
Talk
Goethe Institut Hong Kong
5 May 2020
Group show
BerlinViews with Zilberman
7-22 Mar 2020
Biennial participation
“Human Capital”
Innsbruck Biennial
20 – 25 Mar 2020
Fair
Online Viewing Room
Hong Kong Art Basel
22 Jan – 2 Feb 2020
Film Festival
IFFR, Rotterdam
13 Dec 2019 – 12 Mar 2020
Award
Isaac Chong Wai is seleceted as the finalist of the Huayu Youth Award
Huayu Foundation, Sanya, China
Read more (Chinese)
15 Nov 2019
Award
Winner of Blooom Award: Isaac Chong Wai
Warsteiner, Düsseldorf
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14 – 17 Nov 2019
Fair
Art Düsseldorf
11 Sept – 8 Dec 2019
Solo show
“I Made a Boat in Prison–A Journey to the Shore”
Zilberman Projects, Istanbul
5 Sept – 9 Nov 2019
Solo Show
“WHAT IS THE FUTURE IN THE PAST? AND WHAT IS THE PAST IN THE FUTURE?”
Zilberman, Berlin
22 Jun – 18 Aug 2019
Museum show
“THE RACING WILL CONTINUE, THE DANCING WILL STAY” curated by Leo Chen Li
Guangdong Times Museum
27 Apr – 7 Jul 2019
Museum show
“Living Sound—Expanding the Extramusical” curated by Lai Yi-Hsin Nicole
MOCA, Taipei
3 Apr – 2 Jun 2019
Museum show
“Imaginary Bauhaus Museum”
Schiller Museum
29 Jan – 9 Mar 2019
Solo show
“Is the World Your Friend?”
Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
30 Nov 2018 – 13 Apr 2019
Group show
“The D-Tale:Video Art from the Pearl River Delta” curated by Hou Hanru, co-curated by Xi Bei
Times Art Center, Berlin
1 – 3 Jun 2018
Commissioned work “Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises”
“M+ Live Art: Audience as Performer”
M+ Museum