About the artist
Isaac Chong Wai (b. 1990) is a Berlin-Hong Kong artist using performance, video, installation, photography, and drawing as mediators to investigate contemporary global phenomena. His work transforms the emotions, tensions, and memories from human interactions into performative materiality and immersive experiences. Treading the line between the individual and the collective, he examines the vulnerability of the body and the inherent violence within social systems and historical traumas and imagines alternative microcosms of human relationality.

Chong is a participating artist in the 60th Venice Biennale, “Foreigners Everywhere,” curated by Adriano Pedrosa. His works have gained recognition at prominent venues, including the Biennale of Videobrasil, São Paulo; Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; MMCA, Seoul; IFFR, Rotterdam; MOCA Taipei; and M+, Hong Kong. His works are featured in notable collections including Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin; Kadist, Paris and San Francisco; Sunpride Collection and Burger Collection, Hong Kong. He received the New York Désirée & Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council and is a fellow of the Kulturakademie Tarabya. In 2024, he was selected as one of the TOP 100 most important cultural figures in Berlin by Tagesspiegel.