Isaac Chong Wai uses installation, performance, video, photography, and drawing to explore social phenomena through the lens of the body, time and the traces they bear. His work transforms the emotions, tensions, and memories from human interactions into performative materiality. Treading the line between the individual and the collective, Chong examines the vulnerability and resilience of the body within social systems, reimagining alternative microcosms of human relations built on mutual support and understanding.
Chong was a participating artist in the 60th Venice Biennale, “Foreigners Everywhere”. He will participate in the 14th Taipei Biennial in November 2025. Chong’s recent solo exhibitions were shown at Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (2025) as part of being selected as Winner of the Art Award of the City of Nordhorn 2024, Liste Art Fair Basel (2023), Museum Schloss Moyland (2023), and Una Boccata d’Arte (Sicily, 2022). Chong’s recent group exhibitions took place at Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing, 2025), White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney, 2025), Jeonnam Museum of Art (Gwangyang, 2025), Kunsthalle Barmen (Wuppertal, 2024), Bangkok Art Biennale 2024, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2024), ifa-Galerie Stuttgart (2024), the 22nd Biennial of Videobrasil (São Paulo, 2023), Brücke-Museum and Schinkel Pavillon e.V. (Berlin, 2023), daadgalerie (Berlin, 2023), and Hamburger Bahnhof–Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Museum (Berlin, 2023), among others.
Chong currently lives and works between Berlin and Hong Kong.
