Isaac Chong Wai
Isaac Chong Wai graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University with a BA in Visual Arts in 2012, and the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, Germany, with a MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies in 2016. Chong works with diverse media, including performance, site-specific installation, public art, video, photography and multimedia. He transforms the tensions, intervention and interactions of human bodies into a microcosm of human relationality in social systems.
Solo exhibitions include Chapter A : The Rehearsal of the Futures, Apartment der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2018; Chapter B: An Artistic Archive of Borders, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany, 2018; and What is the future in the past? And what is the past in the future?, Bauhaus Museum, Weimar, Germany, 2016. In 2018, Chong was commissioned by M+ to produce the performance work Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises. Chong lives and works in Berlin and Hong Kong.